Fourier Audio has announced that it has been honoured with the 2024 PLASA Award for Innovation for its transform.engine.
The 2024 PLASA Innovation Awards saw 44 products vying for recognition, with only eight being selected by the esteemed panel of judges. The judges commended the Fourier Audio transform.engine for being “an elegant solution for the integration of studio technologies in live events with reliability and functionality at its core.”
During the recent three-day PLASA Show London, the winners were revealed, and Fourier Audio’s Co-Founders, Pete Bridgman, Henry Harrod, and Gareth Owen, accepted the award on behalf of the company. Speaking about the achievement, Owen expressed his gratitude, “We’re honoured to receive a PLASA Innovation Award for the transform.engine. We’ve been blown away by the response from the industry, and it’s wonderful that the hard work and talent of the Fourier R&D team has been recognised in this way.”
Housed in a 2U touring-grade chassis with dual redundant power supplies, the transform.engine is a Dante-connected server designed to run VST3-native software plugins in a live environment, bringing studio software to live sound and broadcast applications. Fourier Audio’s patent-pending audio software engine provides a robust sandbox with plugins ring-fenced from each other. Should a plugin crash, the rest of the system will not only be unaffected, but the transform.engine will restart that plugin, quickly restoring the original integrity of the mix.
The Fourier Audio device is fully capable of operating in conjunction with virtually any professional digital console on the market via Dante, using the Windows/macOS application to control the engine. The transform.engine can also process audio standalone with no computer required. Controlled remotely by a Windows/macOS application, with plugin user interfaces “teleported” and controlled in ultra-low-latency over the network, the product has been tuned to deliver the lowest-latency solution on the market for hosting VST3 plugins, while preserving the reliability and performance of the server.
