> can you tell me how I write this if I were to use the 9 speaker set up I > described earlier? > Would I need a soundcard with 5 (or 9) outs to be able to achieve this 360 > degree effect ?
Use 2 4-channel locsigs, one for the floor, the other for the ceiling; write the locsig output to a frame, rather than directly to the output file, so that you can divvy it up to arbitrary output channels. I don't know about the other question -- I think to get a good sound placement illusion you need more speakers than you can imagine -- someone in SF has a listening space with hundreds of speakers -- a sign that this problem needs more thought... (It is odd, to me anyway, that the sound placement illusion is the only audio illusion I've ever heard that can be as compelling as the visual illusions -- shepard tones never work unless you're willing to go along, but a cricket in a box can be incredibly hard to locate -- as you (unwittingly) move around the box, it seems to be moving around with you, but to find it, you have to willfully ignore your ears. And yet, in computers, nothing in this regard has ever struck me as convincing.) _______________________________________________ Cmdist mailing list [email protected] http://ccrma-mail.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/cmdist
