[Sursound] No more daily digest?

2014-10-24 Thread Daniel Courville
I subscribe to the daily digest, but it seems that it's now sent, well, now and then. I've just received one containing 34 messages. The one before that was on October 1st with 45 messages. And the one before that was on September 6. Am I the only one?

[Sursound] Brahma in Zoom H2n

2014-09-03 Thread Daniel Courville
How/where to buy a Brahma retrofitted into a Zoom H2n? Thanks, Daniel ___ Sursound mailing list Sursound@music.vt.edu https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/listinfo/sursound - unsubscribe here, edit account or options, view archives and so on.

Re: [Sursound] [OT] Unmixed multichannel spots

2014-08-21 Thread Daniel Courville
Le 2014-08-21 08:34, Michael Chapman a écrit: Does anyone know of any libraries of (say) four to eight-channel recordings of musical 'ensembles' (any style), that I could feed to a mixer desk and output as (e.g.) stereo ? (that is tracks from four or more spot mic's.)

[Sursound] Spheric Collection: The Largest Ambisonic Surround Sound Library

2014-08-01 Thread Daniel Courville
Well, here's the proof that B-Format is useful for TV and cinema post-production. http://spheric-collection.com ___ Sursound mailing list Sursound@music.vt.edu https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/listinfo/sursound - unsubscribe here, edit account or

Re: [Sursound] Spheric Collection: The Largest Ambisonic Surround Sound Library

2014-08-01 Thread Daniel Courville
Le 2014-08-01 10:03, David Pickett a écrit : Which are the B-Format samples? All I can find are descrubed as Binaural Virtual Surround Sound -- use headphones for best results. All of them: the binaural playback is for Internet preview only. - Daniel

[Sursound] www.michaelgerzonphotos.org.uk offline?

2014-07-31 Thread Daniel Courville
Seems that www.michaelgerzonphotos.org.uk is offline. Maybe the website could be hosted on the same server as Ambisonia? ___ Sursound mailing list Sursound@music.vt.edu https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/listinfo/sursound - unsubscribe here, edit

Re: [Sursound] Ambisonic workflow with mac and Nuendo

2014-07-11 Thread Daniel Courville
Emanuele, You can forget about the alpha version 2 of plug-ins, it seems they're broken and they won't load in any hosts, Nuendo included. As for the old version 1, I just got the intuition that if you tried to load my plug-ins into Nuendo, but without having installed the SonicBirth.framework

Re: [Sursound] Ambisonic workflow with mac and Nuendo

2014-07-09 Thread Daniel Courville
a Nuendo user. http://www.ambisonicstudio.com Cheers, Daniel Courville ___ Sursound mailing list Sursound@music.vt.edu https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/listinfo/sursound - unsubscribe here, edit account or options, view archives and so on.

Re: [Sursound] Soundfield 450 Mk2

2014-03-20 Thread Daniel Courville
Le 2014-03-20 08:57, Jon Honeyball a écrit : Pity this *still* doesn¹t have a 1K tone generator at say -20dB, allowing you to properly calibrate the input levels and replay of your recorder, which almost certainly doesn¹t have ganged controls. The Sounddevices 788T can do this, but others can¹t.

Re: [Sursound] New Ambisonic VST Plugins

2013-11-23 Thread Daniel Courville
Le 2013-11-22 12:12, Richard Furse a écrit : you should also be able to upsample to third order using Svein's excellent HARPEX-B plugin, although the public version of that currently generates only horizontal components at third order (for compatibility with channel count limits in other hosts).

[Sursound] New native B-Format microphone!

2013-11-13 Thread Daniel Courville
http://www.nu47.com/NU-880F.pdf ___ Sursound mailing list Sursound@music.vt.edu https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/listinfo/sursound

Re: [Sursound] brahma on kickstarter

2013-10-24 Thread Daniel Courville
Le 2013-10-24 10:16, umashankar manthravadi a écrit : the kickstarter project is now live http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1569945514/brahma-affordable-ambisonic s-microphone umashankar Hey! I can see my chin in the video! - Daniel

Re: [Sursound] ambi playback configution and calibration

2013-09-20 Thread Daniel Courville
Le 2013-09-19 15:50, David Worrall a écrit : Is there - on the market, or in other form - a setup system/tool that auto configures a decoder and calibrates an ambisonic playback rig according to the (actual) position of the loudspeakers? I would say the Harpex decoder.

Re: [Sursound] Ambdec

2013-05-16 Thread Daniel Courville
Le 2013-05-16 09:27, Paul Power a écrit : anyway thanks, will keep trying Well, there's this: http://www.matthiaskronlachner.com/?p=1496. - Daniel ___ Sursound mailing list Sursound@music.vt.edu https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/listinfo/sursound

Re: [Sursound] what mics do you use?

2013-05-03 Thread Daniel Courville
Le 2013-04-29 16:07, Eric Benjamin a écrit : Calibration of Soundfield Microphones using the Diffuse-Field Response http://www.aes.org/tmpFiles/elib/20130429/16453.pdf A second-order soundfield microphone with improved polar pattern shape http://www.aes.org/tmpFiles/elib/20130429/16470.pdf The

Re: [Sursound] DVD-A:Burn

2013-04-22 Thread Daniel Courville
Le 2013-04-21 19:29, Michael Dunn a écrit : I just discovered Burn (free), which purports to supports DVD-A burning! Woo. Anyone have experience with this, or other, free DVD-A Works well, makes DVD-Audio (no Blu-ray), so you need a player that supports it, like the various universal players

[Sursound] An April's Fool...

2013-04-02 Thread Daniel Courville
... that could be actually useful: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VCE5wTt_tjQ ___ Sursound mailing list Sursound@music.vt.edu https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/listinfo/sursound

Re: [Sursound] 64 Bit Ambisonic/B-Format AU plug-ins?

2013-03-20 Thread Daniel Courville
Le 2013-03-20 10:23, John Leonard a écrit: Are there any? (Aside form Harpex.) Looking for 1st order panners in particular. I will update my plug-ins as soon as SonicBirth 2 is released: this new version will make Mac AU/VST 32 and 64 bit plug-ins and Windows VST 32 bit plug-ins. We're looking

[Sursound] So, the SPS200 is inverting after all...

2012-12-10 Thread Daniel Courville
I thought that, since the SPS200 was not going through a SoundField controller box, the mic signal would not be inverting, like what we have with the B-Format output on vintage SF mics or even more recent models like the ST350. Well, the SPS 200 is inverting after all...

[Sursound] First Pure Audio Blu-ray with 9.1 Auro-3D surround stream

2012-10-18 Thread Daniel Courville
http://msm-productions.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=64a6d1ff5d0d7eb49 fdde712cid=a1f9440c97e=bc2faa3998 ___ Sursound mailing list Sursound@music.vt.edu https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/listinfo/sursound

Re: [Sursound] higher order ambisonics over 8 to 10 loudspeakers

2012-07-14 Thread Daniel Courville
On Jul 10, 2012, at 6:26 AM, Daniel Courville wrote: Le 2012-07-09 09:17, GP a écrit : I did wonder about using Daniel Courville's plugins to do decoding for the height info separate to HARPEX. The HARPEX decoding does sound good ( how can I confirm it is 3rd order over 8 speakers?) and so if I

Re: [Sursound] higher order ambisonics over 8 to 10 loudspeakers

2012-07-09 Thread Daniel Courville
Le 2012-07-09 09:17, GP a écrit : I did wonder about using Daniel Courville's plugins to do decoding for the height info separate to HARPEX. The HARPEX decoding does sound good ( how can I confirm it is 3rd order over 8 speakers?) and so if I could add height using another approach that would be

[Sursound] Ambisonia?

2012-06-03 Thread Daniel Courville
What's the official state of Ambisonia? I added a torrent yesterday and it seems to be working, but I don't recall an official announcement beside the one that Dave made in York stating that it would be online soon. Thanks, Daniel ___ Sursound

Re: [Sursound] multichannel audio over HDMI

2012-05-26 Thread Daniel Courville
Le 12-05-25 20:49, Aaron Heller a écrit : Same question for MacOS, if I plug the HDMI output of my MacMini into a home theater amp, do I see an 8 channel audio device in Plogue Bidule (for example)? Yes, it works. And it's the way we have equipped a few classroom over here at UQAM's Media

Re: [Sursound] ORTF, Blumlein, and HRTF files for download

2012-04-06 Thread Daniel Courville
Le 12-04-05 14:28, Eric Carmichel a écrit : With the Blumlein setting and listening under headphones, voices that originated from the back left appear to come from the right. Similarly, voices from the back right appear to the left. For sounds originating from the front, everything is natural and

[Sursound] New Schoeps/Illusonic decoder plug-in

2012-04-04 Thread Daniel Courville
There's a new Schoeps/Illusonic decoder plug-in for Double-MS that incorporates some Illusonic processes. It could be used to decode B-Format if the B-format is transcoded beforehand to Double-MS. http://www.schoeps.de/en/products/dms_plugin_bf The plug-in is free. - Daniel

Re: [Sursound] New Schoeps/Illusonic decoder plug-in

2012-04-04 Thread Daniel Courville
Le 12-04-04 07:54, Daniel Courville a écrit : It could be used to decode B-Format if the B-format is transcoded beforehand to Double-MS. Here's a little B-Format to Double-MS transcoder: http://www.radio.uqam.ca/ambisonic/b2dms_transcoder.zip. VST and AU, Mac OS only. If you never installed

Re: [Sursound] ST450 capsule assembly

2012-02-28 Thread Daniel Courville
Le 12-02-28 04:44, Richard Lee a écrit: Would any of you who have used or have a ST450 Soundfield know if it uses the new stronger capsule assembly introduced in the ST350 Without having actually used one, I have manipulated a 450 and I am pretty sure that the inside is similar to the 350.

Re: [Sursound] ST450 - any user comments?

2012-02-17 Thread Daniel Courville
Le 12-02-16 08:24, John Leonard a écrit: Seriously considering trading up to an ST450. I'd appreciate comments from users. There is an account on the ST450, in French, here: http://afsi.eu/technique/essais-st-450-soundfield - Daniel ___ Sursound

Re: [Sursound] Soundfield-type mics: inverting or not?

2011-10-08 Thread Daniel Courville
Le 11-10-07 17:40, Sampo Syreeni a écrit : On 2011-09-30, Daniel Courville wrote: I think we should try to establish some sort of official database of what SoundField (and TetraMic) models are polarity inverting at the B-Format output. In that case we first need a datal model. Based on what

[Sursound] Soundfield-type mics: inverting or not?

2011-09-30 Thread Daniel Courville
I think we should try to establish some sort of official database of what SoundField (and TetraMic) models are polarity inverting at the B-Format output. While maybe this characteristic is trivial when the mic is used alone, it becomes important, for example, when combined with spot mics.

Re: [Sursound] SoundField: from Calrec to MBHO, what year?

2011-09-27 Thread Daniel Courville
Le 11-09-26 04:33, Dave Malham a écrit : We've just bought an ST450 (...) The capsules, though, do seem to have had a makeover, at least as far as I can see through the grill with the aid of my trusty LED keyring torch. The front edges of these are now bevelled, unlike those in the earlier

Re: [Sursound] SoundField: from Calrec to MBHO, what year?

2011-09-25 Thread Daniel Courville
Le 11-09-25 02:36, Richard Lee a écrit : Why do you ask, Daniel? Well, it's related to this discussion over at Sounddesigners.org http://www.sounddesigners.org/modules.php?op=modloadname=PNphpBB2file=vi ewtopicp=104025 about the SoundField. I was really convinced that the SoundField/MBHO

[Sursound] SoundField: from Calrec to MBHO, what year?

2011-09-24 Thread Daniel Courville
From the Calrec web site http://www.calrec.com/uk/support/pages/technicalassistance.aspx, we learn that they stopped mic production in 1989. Does somebody know in what year SoundField caps production started at MBHO? Thanks, Daniel ___ Sursound

[Sursound] Dr Jonathan Halliday, Born 3rd August 1950, Died 2nd June 2011

2011-06-05 Thread Daniel Courville
http://www.wyastone.co.uk/ bottom of page ___ Sursound mailing list Sursound@music.vt.edu https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/listinfo/sursound

[Sursound] 3rd International Symposium on Ambisonics Spherical Acoustics

2011-01-18 Thread Daniel Courville
http://www.vis.uky.edu/ambisonics2011/ ___ Sursound mailing list Sursound@music.vt.edu https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/listinfo/sursound

[Sursound] Line Audio QM12i

2011-01-17 Thread Daniel Courville
People interested in the QM12i microphone can take a look at this page: http://www.radio.uqam.ca/ambisonic/comparative_recording_2008.html. The files from the recording session are available here, 24/48, wavpacked: http://www.radio.uqam.ca/ambisonic/2008/. The files are from a SoundField ST350

Re: [Sursound] Malfunctioning ST350 control unit

2010-11-23 Thread Daniel Courville
Le 10-11-21 16:20, Daniel Courville a écrit : the test revealed the the W output is going bad: at least 20 dB down in output compared to what it should be. So I decided the use the stereo output for the W by setting it to omni pattern and 0 degree width in L/R mode. Connecting to the Left/Mid

Re: [Sursound] Audition goes Mac. And fully multi-channel!

2010-11-14 Thread Daniel Courville
Le 10-11-13 22:26, Danny McCarty a écrit : When you guys are posting samples what format are you using?? I would use FLAC or WavPack. - Daniel ___ Sursound mailing list Sursound@music.vt.edu https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/listinfo/sursound