Quadrophonic / Surround Sound
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1969 - Pink Floyd

Azimuth Co-Ordinator  (1969)
From Victoria & Albert Museum

1984 - Starlight Express

Sound designer Martin Levan used a rotary controller to move the sound around the roller skate tracks in the Apollo Victoria theatre

Starlight Express Doughnut  (1984)
From Autograph Sound

Cadac
Starlight Express Cadac Console  (1984)
Custom CADAC mixing console from Starlight Express (1984)
From Autograph Sound

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2021 - Back to the Future The Musical

Sound Designer Gareth Owen uses Unreal Engine to move audio around the auditorium and to change the audio depending on which way the car on stage is facing.

2025 - Qlab

August 2025: Qlab version 5.5 released, with Object Audio, where a sound could be automatically 'moved' around a multi-speaker system.

• See also Binaural Sound