This facility's marvelous physical spaces and sophisticated array of top-flight equipment have placed Ball State's music technology program in the national spotlight, not only in the educational world but also in the professional world of audio recording. These new studios will allow this program to fully realize its educational goals, focusing on digital audio recording, music technology research, computer music, and composition.

Two large recording studios with control rooms equipped with Digidesign's new ICON integrated mixing console control surface allow students to work with the most advanced technology available. Smaller workstation rooms surrounding the recording studios give students a setting for introductory work in recording plus private work areas for computer music composition.

Two computer labs with a total of 17 computers offer space to students working in the computer music classes and provide a welcome expansion of access as an increasing amount of audio technology work takes place within software domains.

Other features of the new facility include a high-definition audio authoring studio for DVD-A and SACD work, plus a critical-listening room to allow students to audition their work outside of typical recording studio environments.

• Studio 1: Tracking, editing, and mixing environment featuring a 64 fader Digidesign ICON system.
• Studio 2: Tracking, editing, and mixing environment featuring the world's first Digidesign ICON system.
• Studio 3: Super Audio CD authoring environment.
• Studios 4-8: Small control rooms for computer music and beginning recording sequence.
• Studio 9: Eleven workstations for computer music applications.
• Studio 10: Six workstations for multimedia applications.
• Studio 11: Critical listening environment with stereo and surround monitors.