Take another look at the VBAP paper - it explains the panning energy issue well.
Also, Ambisonics doesn't do Doppler, room models, distance delays and suchlike on its own (unless you make a real recording or put a virtual Ambisonic mike into my VSpace virtual acoustic space model). Most of these auditory cues can be reproduced over VBAP too. --Richard [...] > It isn't so bad if you don't want to take relative phase and doppler into > account. It's a moving source, right? So its apparent frequency changes. > Panning doesn't begin to model even the simplest moving source, > and the only > real way to do that is to try to reconstruct the sound field at > the listener's > head (i.e. do ambisonics, sorry :) [...]
