About Us

Rapt Audio is a research and development company, which has developed combinations of hardware and software for audio processing and for innovative physical user interfaces, including touch detection.

With a long history of developing digital signal processes, Rapt has devised audio processing hardware and associated audio algorithms for large-scale broadcast mixing desks used for the most prestigious television programmes on air today.

This experience has also been brought to bear on other audio processing realms, such as consumer audio and audio test equipment. For example, Rapt has developed innovative audio spatialisation algorithms, which create an immersive soundfield from traditional stereo or even mono source material.

Also, the company has designed test equipment used in the development and production testing of the highest quality headphones on the market.

For the last eight years, Rapt has also been very active in developing mechanisms to provide more effective ways of controlling devices from the handheld to the wall-sized.

In particular, Rapt has filed a number of patents relating to touch detection, where a number of simultaneous touch points can be pinpointed using a low-cost approach which permits the touch sensitive area to be completely transparent. Physical controls such as buttons and control knobs can also avail of this sensing method and can be placed on a display to give an intuitive but powerful way of controlling any electronic device.