On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 04:17:08PM +0200, Lars Luthman wrote: > On Sun, 2008-05-11 at 00:04 +0200, Fons Adriaensen wrote: > > Is there any good reason why the B-format port groups refer > > to the 2nd order horizontal components as R and S ? > > Good question. I got the component names from an article that I can't > find now, but according to Wikipedia they are not the normal ones. It is > of course possible that I made a typo, but I'm pretty sure I got the > names right from that article (and since I can't find it no one will > ever prove me wrong!). > > I am not aware of any host or plugin that is using the port semantics of > the Ambisonic B port groups yet, so it should be safe to fix that bug. > Are the component names in this table correct? > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambisonic#Possible_combinations
They look OK. One other point: I wouldn't name the groups by the number of channels, but use something indicating the order(s), e.g. ****-h2v1 or ****-2,1 for second order horizontal, first order vertical. Ciao, -- FA Laboratorio di Acustica ed Elettroacustica Parma, Italia Lascia la spina, cogli la rosa. _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-dev
