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You can do a quality control check of the final audio export using a Fraunhofer MHAPI tool which can open up the exported content. This includes compliancy tests, and visualization of the contained metadata. It can also render and monitor the content, but this aspect of the tool is basic, and only works with external audio that’s linked to the metadata. In other words, you must manually link the components back to the source audio files.
Quality control using the Fraunhofer MHAPI tool
B-Chain Support for
Audio Monitoring (Studio Version Only)
Choosing Fairlight > Immersive > B-Chain Control opens the B-Chain Control window. Using traditional cinema audio postproduction terminology, the “A-Chain” is all of the busing and signal processing
that happens within the mix (in our case using the Fairlight page) and the “B-Chain” is the signal processing, amplification and speaker system that takes the sound from your workstation’s output and gets it “into your ears.” This typically includes all necessary signal decoding or pre-processing hardware, amplification systems, and speaker setups for most professional and commercial listening environments, especially for immersive audio or surround sound formats. These options are complex and have many variables in terms of speaker configuration, selection, and placement, output channel timing, attenuation, and phase, and a host of other considerations.
In DaVinci Resolve, these B-Chain controls affect how the channels of audio being output by the Main you’re mixing is mapped to the actual audio signals being output from your workstation into the amplification and speaker system of the current viewing environment. The extensive level of control