A complete DSP.
A much wider capability.

The creative scene describes sources, relationships, motion and behavior independently of a particular output number. The installation contributes its own geometry, loudspeakers, processing resources and acoustic characteristics.

That separation supports portable authoring, staged commissioning, revised layouts and equipment replacement. A design can retain its identity while the physical realization changes. Each destination still needs qualification; preserving the scene does not make different rooms acoustically identical.

A further development option prepares a fixed rendering for a declared playback arrangement, allowing an ordinary player to reproduce that particular result. Live adaptation, changing geometry and personal tracking require an active system.

Hatter's soundscape scope includes continuous beds, individual effects, selected groups and multiple independent layers. Repetition, variation, density and transitions between different soundscapes can be authored, with recorded choices that allow an event to be understood or reproduced later. Event tails can finish naturally, and transitions can change the population of sounds as well as their level.

Spatial scenes can relate sound to objects, paths, material assumptions and the behavior of a virtual environment. A moving machine can have separate motion and operating states. Groups can move together, divide or rejoin. Recorded events, pre-rendered material and live interaction can contribute to the same scene.

Mono, stereo, multichannel, ambisonic and binaural material can take their appropriate roles. Narration, bass and tactile effects need not receive the same treatment as every spatial source. The virtual scene and the real room remain distinct, so an intended acoustic character is assessed against what the installation can reproduce.

Groups can use weighted, random, shuffle or sequential selection. Authors can set how often something may happen, how long it may be absent, whether it may overlap itself and how the population changes through the day. Independent scene instances retain their own variation and timing.

The wider spatial architecture provides for paths with separate speed and operating-state tracks, formations, moving reference points, distance cues, Doppler, occlusion, reverberation and propagation time. A flock can separate and rejoin; a vehicle can work while stationary; a distant event can arrive later than a nearby one. Captured, prepared and live material can contribute according to the scene's design.

Virtual weather, geometry and material assumptions describe the authored world. The real room, its equipment and its measurements determine how that world can be delivered. Complex arrangements are developed and qualified against that physical result.

Hatter's architecture accommodates conversational authoring, generative media, operational assistance and proposed corrections. An instruction can refer to an intended result or a place in the scene. The proposed action is still checked against the installation's capabilities, permissions and protection limits.

Manual controls and deterministic execution remain available. AI can contribute to a design or a diagnosis without becoming the authority that decides what an audience should experience.

The broader listener-aware architecture relates an intended sound to the people present and the resources that can serve them. A suitable array, a shared loudspeaker presentation, a qualified loudspeaker pair or a personal device can have different strengths for the same brief.

Its specified allocation and handoff functions address changing listener positions, competing requirements and transition between resources. Each listener's achievable result and any remaining shortfall stay explicit. Future room-scale and multiple-listener arrangements require their own geometry, capacity and acoustic validation.

Mad Nulling™ is Mad's ongoing work to reduce the effect of one exhibit's sound on adjacent exhibits. The design begins with the listening experience on both sides: what each exhibit needs its own visitors to hear, and how much competing sound is acceptable at neighboring positions.

The developing architecture considers the available loudspeakers and processing, acoustics, exhibit geometry, room reflections, program material and personal delivery alternatives. Its aim is to reduce unwanted interference while preserving the intended experience and the room's comfort limits. A layout change, acoustic treatment or personal endpoint may be an appropriate part of the solution.

Measurements at the affected positions establish the achieved reduction across the relevant frequencies and operating conditions. They also show where layout, treatment or a different delivery method would improve the result.

The measurement-led optimization architecture can compare candidate arrangements and settings against declared listening positions, neighboring conditions and protection limits. Its scope includes setup instruments that establish their location, calibration against known conditions, and an explicit record of the chosen result.

The same retained evidence can help identify where a physical change is needed, forecast a developing shortfall, or direct the next useful measurement. A model or a simulated test retains its own evidence class until the corresponding physical observation exists.

The intended result can include a comfortable listening level, cumulative exposure, privacy between areas, a quieter sensory profile or a limit at a neighboring space or property boundary. Requirements can change with opening hours, occupancy and the purpose of a presentation.

The architecture considers those objectives together. More level cannot be the automatic answer to every shortfall. A different delivery method, a physical adjustment or an engineering recommendation may be the appropriate response when the room cannot satisfy the brief.

Developing measurement functions extend this work toward self-locating setup instruments, environmental compensation and acoustic estimates of conditions along a sound path. Each result keeps its measurement basis and uncertainty visible.

Hatter's consumer-device measurement work allows a phone or tablet to contribute acoustic observations with an explicit level of trust. A calibrated device and an unknown device can support different conclusions. An unsupported absolute measurement is not presented as reliable simply because it came from a phone.

Indoor navigation starts with a position accurate enough for the next decision. Hatter's developing approach uses participating visitors' phones or tablets and known sound from the installation to establish location or proximity for guidance, interaction and personal media. A visitor chooses to participate. Position confidence stays with the result, so a guidance cue or content trigger can wait when the available position is too uncertain.

Consumer-device measurement software is implemented and awaiting physical validation. The first integrated location and delivery demonstrations are being developed; venue accuracy is established by testing the intended devices, loudspeaker arrangement and operating conditions.

Hatter's scope includes language-aware processing and separately evaluated outcomes for concurrent languages. A listening preference, a measurable acoustic result and a person's understanding are different things, so the requirement and the evidence must stay connected.

Companion content can use another language, audio description or a different depth of explanation while remaining aligned with the shared presentation. Acoustic and network timing options belong to the delivery architecture, with the actual receiver's capabilities and conditions kept visible.

An Alice® avatar can become a continuing guide: welcome a visitor, introduce the next exhibit, answer a question and build on what the person has already explored. It can guide, educate and entertain in the chosen language, voice and level of detail, through the venue's displays or a suitable personal device.

Hatter contributes the sound and its relationship to the shared presentation. Alice provides the conversational and content role; recognition and permitted preferences can carry continuity across encounters. The installation defines where the companion appears and how the transition works.

CaterPillar™ is a patent-pending guidance system for visitors who are blind or have low vision. Its purpose is to help a visitor navigate, make choices and engage with the venue. Hatter's developing guidance architecture extends that experience through suitable existing loudspeakers or a personal audio device.

Coupling CaterPillar with Alice® allows the guidance architecture to support multilingual guests with different interests. The specified approach supports distinguishable guidance for concurrent visitors, transition between shared loudspeakers and personal delivery, and a clear response when the intended guidance cannot be delivered. Group experiences can share a route while each visitor receives an appropriate presentation.

These newer guidance combinations are under development and require integrated demonstration. They provide wayfinding assistance; emergency evacuation remains the responsibility of the venue's life-safety arrangements.

The experience architecture rests on audio processing, mixing, routing, equalization, delay, dynamics, convolution, crossover and protection. Qualified third-party processing can extend that foundation, with actual host capacity and processor behavior included in admission. A failed processor has a defined response and remains visible to the operator.

AES67 network audio, show control, MIDI, OSC, physical inputs and outputs, schedules, licensed program sources and telephone inputs can be integrated through the supported interfaces. External services and optional functions retain their actual dependencies. Hatter can operate as a focused audio system and can participate in the wider QuickSilver and TeaParty environment.

A proposed change can be checked against the running design, applied under the relevant authority and evaluated in a bounded trial. Operators retain manual control, and different users do not silently overwrite one another's work.

The same approach covers announcement priorities, master mute, schedules, reusable templates, stored state and recovery after restart. Media and configuration retain their provenance. A replacement device or restored installation is checked against its present conditions rather than inheriting an old success report.

Resource limits also matter. Hatter's architecture evaluates processing demand, overlapping sound events and declared headroom. Fault response can use available redundancy, reallocate remaining resources, preserve higher-priority objectives or recommend a physical remedy when software alone cannot restore the result.

Content is enrolled with its interpretation, playability, measured properties and source information. Rights, versions and approvals remain relevant when material is selected, generated, replaced or reused. Asset availability alone does not authorize playback.

The operating record connects the intended event, the control action, the applied state and any observed result. It can support diagnosis, commissioning follow-up and fleet comparison while keeping unverified delivery distinct from a measured outcome.

Reusable block groups, templates and macros keep large designs manageable. Versioned packages carry the design, media relationships, scenes and schedules, while machine-specific devices, addresses and permissions are resolved for the destination. Snapshots can recall the intended portion of a design, and a proposed template change can show the instances it will affect.

That fits the wider QuickSilver® approach: build on standard computer architecture so software, processing resources and suitable new technologies can continue to be integrated. An equipment refresh can support the next capability while retaining the purpose and reusable work already invested in the experience.

Across several installations, the wider architecture can compare recurring shortfalls, investigate a shared cause and qualify a proposed improvement at each venue. New resources still have to demonstrate that they can deliver their part of the design.