Re: [Sursound] New Spatial Music: Ambisonic Music Library

2022-10-07 Thread richard ford
Many thanks for clearing that up, UHJ all the way (can't wear headphones after years of ear abuse playing in a band) Will add a link  Richard Hi Richard, Thanks for your email. The options are the following: £5.00 - Stereo (binaural) files only.£10.00 - Spatial bundle (digital), including

Re: [Sursound] New Spatial Music: Ambisonic Music Library

2022-10-07 Thread richard ford
Hi A quick question, if i may. There appears to be no mention of which version of the album (ambisonic or binaural) your paying for when goung for the £5+ option.Could you please advise. Also, would you be adverse to me providing a link to your pahe from my website? Richard Dear Sursounders

Re: [Sursound] format convention of Ambisonic Sound Library Files

2022-05-25 Thread Richard Dobson
can't just be written,they have to be implemented and tested, e.g. on vast tiered speaker layouts which very few people have access to. And of course it will need to use a 64bit-friendly file format too... A reminder, for anyone feeling nostalgic: http://www.rwdobson.com/bformat.html Richard D

Re: [Sursound] Ambisonic UHJ Stereo decoder to speaker feeds

2022-03-05 Thread richard ford
Bruce Firstly, thank you for the new plug-in, looking forward to trying it out, once i het it working. And a special thanks for the information about the level of 'W' being a little 'hot' I did some quick tests of a couple of albums and after reducing 'W' by 3db before feeding into your earlier

Re: [Sursound] Nimbus promo video

2021-12-13 Thread Richard G Elen
Well, that's rather a neat find. Never saw that before! Richard E On 13/12/2021 19:45, Eero Aro wrote: Hi All I uploaded a Nimbus Records Ambisonics promotion video into YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DrGJxlrv08M All audio in the video is UHJ encoded Ambisonics. The video includes

Re: [Sursound] Playback systems for surround installation

2021-05-17 Thread Richard Foss
information. Richard. --- Richard Foss (PhD) Software engineer/director ImmersiveDSP 46 Silver Ranch Estate Keurbooms River Road Plettenberg Bay 6600 South Africa Email: rich...@immersivedsp.com Web: www.immersivedsp.com Cell: +27832889354 > On 16 May 2021, at 17:40, Cape Wrath wr

Re: [Sursound] DBADP

2020-11-17 Thread Richard Foss
your questions. Regards, Richard. --- Richard Foss (PhD) Software engineer/director ImmersiveDSP 46 Silver Ranch Estate Keurbooms River Road Plettenberg Bay 6600 South Africa Email: rich...@immersivedsp.com Web: www.immersivedsp.com Cell: +27832889354 > On 17 Nov 2020, at 14:39, Dave H

Re: [Sursound] DBADP

2020-11-15 Thread Richard Foss
nt wrote: > > Hi Richard, > > I’ve changed the title of this topic to something more relevant. > > I still prefer the term Delta Stereophony to describe this. It seems to date > back to the mid 1980’s, and was described by Gerhard Steinke and Wolfgang > Ahnert. They we

Re: [Sursound] Was: Recorder for ORTF-3D OUTDOOR SET

2020-11-14 Thread Richard Foss
as the sound sources are spatialized. I have found that the MOTU devices are very responsive in this regard. Anyway, good to have a fellow DBADP enthusiast . Regards, Richard. — Richard Foss (PhD) Software engineer/director ImmersiveDSP 46 Silver Ranch Estate Keurbooms River Road Plettenberg Bay 6600

Re: [Sursound] Funding opportunity for small business

2020-10-28 Thread Richard Dobson
Sounds like you need a web-based clone of Sonic Visualiser (https://www.sonicvisualiser.org/). I see the grant is limited to USA small businesses. Richard Dobson On 28/10/2020 00:47, Anne Simonis wrote: Hi All, I'm an acoustic ecologist with NOAA, and my research uses underwater acoustic

[Sursound] The birth of Ambisonics & the Soundfield Mike

2020-05-23 Thread Richard Lee
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X23hZNoSkUs The Calrec Soundfield mike, the practical implementation of Michael Gerzon & Peter Craven's invention, was how I got involved in microphone design. It was incredible just being with Michael .. a guy with a brain truly the size of a planet. The Mk4

Re: [Sursound] analog planner

2020-02-17 Thread Richard Elen
The Audio & Design Recording boxes that Geoff Barton designed were intended as (analogue) outboard units that could be patched into a conventional mixing console to generate (mainly) first-order (all there was) Ambisonic B-Format. The Pan-Rotate unit included eight 360-degree controls, each

Re: [Sursound] FOA/HOA Impulse Responses

2019-10-10 Thread Richard Dobson
For fun, you can try the "Darkside" responses recorded a few years ago by illustrious members of this list: http://www.rwdobson.com/sspaces/sciencespaces.html Richard Dobson On 09/10/2019 17:24, Mads Kjeldgaard wrote: Hello everyone I was wondering if there were some freely

Re: [Sursound] Pan Law Irregular Speaker Array

2019-08-26 Thread Richard Foss
sounds, but would be great to have frequency manipulation at the cross points, and experiment with a Doppler effect. Hope that clarifies :) > On 26 Aug 2019, at 18:36, Jonathan Kawchuk wrote: > > Hi Richard, > > Very interesting. So there would be a delay consideration per

Re: [Sursound] Pan Law Irregular Speaker Array

2019-08-23 Thread Richard Foss
implemented. On 2019/08/22 10:18 PM, Ralph Jones wrote: Richard Foss, I still don’t get it, sorry. Perhaps I’m being obtuse. But to clarify, you said: for a particular real source channel, delay its play out from a speaker FAR from the virtual source LONGER than from a speaker CLOSE to the virtual

Re: [Sursound] Pan Law Irregular Speaker Array

2019-08-20 Thread Richard Foss
, the *closer* speaker should be delayed if you want its output to arrive at the same time as that from a farther speaker. Richard Foss wrote: Just catching up on your comment about time alignment with DBAP, Gus. I do think its useful to use delays - so for a particular real source channel, delay its

Re: [Sursound] Pan Law Irregular Speaker Array

2019-08-19 Thread Richard Foss
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Re: [Sursound] Ambisonic Hand Controller

2019-08-03 Thread Richard Foss
Hi Marc, I use the node.js socket.io <http://socket.io/> module for the transmission of the 3D data to the server - its a library that uses WebSockets. Richard. > On 02 Aug 2019, at 19:13, Marc Lavallée wrote: > > Hi Richard, > > My question was not directly related t

Re: [Sursound] Ambisonic Hand Controller

2019-08-02 Thread Richard Foss
Hi Marc, The following will give you a better idea of the Web API capabilities that I am using: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Detecting_device_orientation Richard. On 2019/08/02 4:38 PM, Marc Lavallée wrote: Hi Richard. Without reading access to the (paywalled) article

Re: [Sursound] Ambisonic Hand Controller

2019-08-02 Thread Richard Foss
is a node.js server and a browser is used to run client code. This means I can use the Web API device orientation capabilities. One frustrating issue is that Chrome has recently stopped allowing device orientation access unless the server is secure. Richard Foss. On 2019/07/26 9:01 PM, Justin Kuhn

Re: [Sursound] Ambisonic Hand Controller

2019-08-02 Thread Richard Foss
use the Web API device orientation capabilities. One frustrating issue is that Chrome has recently stopped allowing device orientation access unless the server is secure. Richard Foss. On 2019/07/26 9:01 PM, Justin Kuhn wrote: Hi Everyone, I am looking into making a controller in which I

Re: [Sursound] Interatcive visuals with interaactive spatial audio

2019-07-10 Thread Richard Foss
Thanks Gus, looks great! How are the movements being tracked? Richard. Professor Richard Foss Computer Science Department Rhodes University Grahamstown 6140 South Africa Tel: +27 46 622 8294 Cell: +27 83 288 9354 > On 10 Jul 2019, at 16:12, Augustine Leudar wrote: > > Should of c

[Sursound] practical HOA encoding

2019-06-11 Thread Richard Lee
.. a reply to stuff on the "Anyone had experience with AllRAD decoding to physical loudspeakers?" thread where Aaron brought up the topic of NFC. " A practical problem is that forward NFC filters have infinite gain at DC. Jerome Daniel's solution is to have a reference decoding distance for

Re: [Sursound] Deconstructing soundbar marketing B.S.

2019-05-28 Thread Richard Dobson
2000 "Millennium" article in JAES, Andy Moorer proposed "In 20 years, loudspeakers and microphones will know where they are". How are we doing with that, with one year to go? Richard Dobson ___ Sursound mailing list Sursoun

Re: [Sursound] Enquiry on upmixing from 1st order ambisonics to 3rd order ambisonics.

2019-02-22 Thread richard ford
Interesting question David. At 02:37 22-02-19, Wilson Lim wrote: >ot sure if I have missed a discussion about upmixing with ambisonics on >Sursound. > >Just wondering if anyone is willing to share some information on how to >implement upmixing algorithms from 1st Order Ambisonics A to 3rd

Re: [Sursound] Hardest wearing outdoor speakers

2019-01-25 Thread Richard Lee
> Behringer ms10s that withstood months of tropical storms in the Amazon - so Have you got that model number right? I still think the cheapo solution is the way to go .. but it would be good to know what has worked for you .. even if it isn't 35 yrs. I get MS20 and loads of other stuff but

Re: [Sursound] Passive small speaker advice

2019-01-13 Thread Richard Foss
an attached SPK4. You could have a configuration with up to 120 speakers. Professor Richard Foss Computer Science Department Rhodes University Grahamstown 6140 South Africa Tel: +27 46 622 8294 Cell: +27 83 288 9354 > On 11 Jan 2019, at 1:35 PM, Bruce Wiggins wrote: > > Than

Re: [Sursound] Looking for mic advice

2018-08-12 Thread richard ford
Are there any recordings available made using these 14mm electrets, and is a complete tree setup commercially available? R Sent from Yahoo Mail on Android On Sun, 12 Aug 2018 at 11:21, Chris Woolf wrote: On 11/08/2018 18:16, jack reynolds wrote: > I use 14mm electrets, so you can still

Re: [Sursound] Upcoming update to AmbiExplorer

2018-04-20 Thread richard ford
It's good to see the continut'growth in Ambisonics, but looking at your play store page for this app the general public needs to be made more aware of what Ambisonics is and its benefits fot the future of 'surround sound' And on that point, sort of, i do have a question for Hector. You state on

Re: [Sursound] New book: Parametric time-frequency-domain spatial audio

2017-12-15 Thread Richard
is capable of doing a professional job of recording Ambisonically here in the UK. Fingers crossed Richard -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/private/sursound/attachments/20171215/990507eb/attachment.h

Re: [Sursound] Simple Software to Play a 6-channel WAV File

2017-10-26 Thread Richard Dobson
g. Part of the old mctoolkit, now resident here: http://www.rwdobson.com/mctools.html and also included in of the even older CDP system :-). I am toying with doing a GUI counterpart, but not for a little while yet. Richard Dobson On 25/10/2017 23:14, len moskowitz wrote: I wrote: I'd appreciate

Re: [Sursound] Multichannel players for permanent installations

2017-06-30 Thread Richard Foss
. > On 30 Jun 2017, at 11:29 AM, Augustine Leudar <augustineleu...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > Hi Richard - Ive also being using the leap a lot - its great but a bit > buggy sometimes when you get outside the infrared area , you can see it > used in a big neolithic site here

Re: [Sursound] Multichannel players for permanent installations

2017-06-30 Thread Richard Foss
? > This is a pretty crappy video of very early prototype I did a few years ago > - but things have moved on a lot since this : > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7cmodvSM5jE > > On 30 June 2017 at 09:33, Richard Foss <r.f...@ru.ac.za> wrote: > >> That sounds gr

Re: [Sursound] Multichannel players for permanent installations

2017-06-30 Thread Richard Foss
!! A long overdue and pleasurable task is to use Max with Immergo. Currently using the Reaper DAW. I will keep you updated. > On 29 Jun 2017, at 11:38 PM, Augustine Leudar <augustineleu...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > Thats pretty impressive Richard - I would definately co

Re: [Sursound] Multichannel players for permanent installations

2017-06-29 Thread Richard Foss
incorporated (guess you would use the terminology ‘bed channels’) or channels that can be moved via the mixer matrices (object audio style), where metadata containing time stamped 3D coords is recorded. Richard. > On 29 Jun 2017, at 10:52 PM, Richard Foss <r.f...@ru.ac.za> wrote: > >

Re: [Sursound] Multichannel players for permanent installations

2017-06-29 Thread Richard Foss
PM, Augustine Leudar <augustineleu...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > Hi Richard - > So if I have this right no interface is required - just the ethernet out of > the mac ? > > On 29 June 2017 at 20:49, Richard Foss <r.f...@ru.ac.za > <mailto:r.f...@ru.ac.za>> wrote

Re: [Sursound] Multichannel players for permanent installations

2017-06-28 Thread Richard Foss
. Richard. On 2017-06-28 07:39 PM, Guillaume Le Nost wrote: Aside from dante, AVB is another option for multichannel audio over ethernet. It is now available as standard (and for free) in any Mac running a recent os, and several options for avb enabled amplifiers are available: biamp, crown, l

Re: [Sursound] Ambisonic Mic Comparison

2017-06-26 Thread Richard Lee
There's a number of issues brought up in this thread which Core Sound have been aware of for some time and have been attempting to address. But its difficult for a small company to make major changes on the small turnover. For what its worth, the 'new' PPAc will give around 1dB improvement in

Re: [Sursound] DIY 4d soundsystem

2017-05-17 Thread Richard Foss
of the immersive sound system. -- Professor Richard Foss Computer Science Department Rhodes University Grahamstown 6140 South Africa Tel: +27 46 603 8294 Cell: +27 83 288 9354 email: r.f...@ru.ac.za > On 17 May 2017, at 1:41 PM, Augustine Leudar <augustineleu...@gmail.com>

Re: [Sursound] The BBC & Quadrophony in 1973

2017-01-10 Thread Richard
Very interesting > I think I am correct in saying the BBC (H) and NRDC (45j) decided to > co-operate rather than have yet another two competing systems on > the 4-channel scene which at the time already had CD-4, UD-4, SQ and > QS in the arena. BBC/NRDC each modified their encoding "towards" >

Re: [Sursound] The BBC & Quadrophony in 1973

2017-01-07 Thread Richard Lee
If anyone has recordings of any of this Matrix H, HJ, UHJ stuff, please post a copy on http://ambisonia.com/ with a good description of what it is and the circumstances. I don't think UHJ is dead yet as the biggest present market for music is 2 channel stuff for headphones and UHJ gives

Re: [Sursound] Blue Ripple Sound & SN3D?

2017-01-02 Thread Richard Furse
fusing) screenshots here: http://www.blueripplesound.com/story/view-screenshots-2017 Best wishes, --Richard > -Original Message- > From: Sursound [mailto:sursound-boun...@music.vt.edu] On Behalf Of > Richard Furse > Sent: 10 August 2016 11:54 > To: 'Surround Sound discussion group' <s

[Sursound] New home for m/c toolkit, etc

2016-11-08 Thread Richard
ulti-channel toolkit and the impulse responses from the Darkside 50 detector: http://www.rwdobson.com/mctools.html http://www.rwdobson.com/sspaces/sciencespaces.html Please update any links and other references you may have for these. Richard Dobson ___ S

Re: [Sursound] Blue Ripple Sound & SN3D?

2016-08-11 Thread Richard Furse
toy emerges using something different... Thanks, --Richard > -Original Message- > From: Sursound [mailto:sursound-boun...@music.vt.edu] On Behalf Of > Dave Malham > Sent: 10 August 2016 22:47 > To: Surround Sound discussion group > Subject: Re: [Sursound] Blue R

Re: [Sursound] External phantom battery source for TetraMic PPAc

2016-07-24 Thread Richard Lee
> Most days I would agree with you: but there is always Murphy's Law to contend with, and the specific case of this states that a PP3-powered recording device will fail only when a unique event is to be recorded. Ha! In my limited experience, Murphy is MUCH more likely to strike at

Re: [Sursound] Sursound Digest, Vol 96, Issue 3

2016-07-04 Thread Richard Lee
Can you give us more detail about these tests and perhaps put some of these natural recordings on ambisonia.com? The type of soundfield microphone used .. and particularly the accuracy of its calibration ... makes a HUGE difference to the 'naturalness' of a soundfield recording. Some good

Re: [Sursound] Using Ambisonic for a live streaming VR project

2016-06-13 Thread Richard Lee
> The main mechanisms for disambiguating 'cones of confusion' (and this includes front-back reversals) are: pinnae effects (Batteau) and head-movements (Wallach) - so, without either of these mechanisms at play, one would expect directional ambiguity. You can test the relative importance of

[Sursound] Coefficients for Octagonal Decoder with CF

2016-05-26 Thread Richard Graham
Hi list! Can anyone point me to a set of coefficients for an octagonal decoder with CF similar to the coefficients on Blue Ripple Sound? http://www.blueripplesound.com/decoding All the best, Ricky -- next part -- An HTML

Re: [Sursound] Facebook spatial workstation

2016-05-24 Thread Richard
Limited as there’s no Windows support yet Apparently Facebook is now getting in on ambisonic audio! https://facebook360.fb.com/spatial-workstation/ I’m just downloading now. Any thoughts? Steve -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL:

Re: [Sursound] YouTube now supports Ambisonics (warning....part advertisement..)

2016-05-10 Thread Richard
Don't forget the programs 'copysfx' and 'chxformat' in the CDP MultiChannel Toolkit enable users to tinker with channel masks, including setting to zero (if that helps), or of course to write a plain old multichannel WAVE file. Richard Dobson http://people.bath.ac.uk/masrwd/mctools.html

[Sursound] OT Stereo stage width - Was: Static stereo source in rotating soundfield, possible?

2016-04-01 Thread Richard Lee
Aaron Heller wrote > Marc Lavall, Eric Benjamin, and I put together a Trifield (three speaker > stereo) plugin and demo'ed it a Burning Amp last fall. It is hosted at https://bitbucket.org/ajheller/trifield/overview > There are also some plots that use Gerzon velocity and energy localization

Re: [Sursound] OT Stereo stage width - Was: Static stereo source in rotating soundfield, possible?

2016-03-30 Thread Richard
The interesting case here is panned sources between the speakers; where 'equal power" implies the sound follows an arc of a circle centred on the listener (constant distance = constant power etc). However, the intuitive/vernacular understanding of panning is a linear path between the speakers

Re: [Sursound] Soundfield MK IV Disassembly

2016-03-29 Thread Richard Lee
> I have a question for the keepers of ancient wisdom: how does one remove the capsule assembly from a Soundfield MK IV microphone? I have one on which the 1 kilohm "capsule heater" resistor has gone open circuit. The cone on the MK V and newer is split and comes apart pretty readily, but the

Re: [Sursound] Furse-Malham to ACN conversion

2016-03-24 Thread Richard Furse
N3D/ACN http://mpeg.chiariglione.org/standards/mpeg-h/3d-audio/dis-mpeg-h-3d-audio Best wishes, --Richard > -Original Message- > From: Sursound [mailto:sursound-boun...@music.vt.edu] On Behalf Of > Sönke Pelzer > Sent: 24 March 2016 11:55 > To: Surround Sound d

[Sursound] Rapture3D Universal SDK

2016-03-24 Thread Richard Furse
o, 5.1 etc.). Best wishes, --Richard -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/private/sursound/attachments/20160324/99cfc62f/attachment.html> ___ Sursound maili

Re: [Sursound] grambilib~ for Pd

2016-03-11 Thread Richard Graham
> 189: (*APout4++) = sample1 * (2 * cosf(sample2)) * cosf(sample3) * > cosf(sample3); //U > > whereas the correct expression (found on Richard Furse's webpage, for > example) is > > U:cos(2A) cos(E) cos(E) > > Please note that cos(2x) does not equal 2cos(x).

[Sursound] grambilib~ for Pd

2016-03-09 Thread Richard Graham
Hi all, I’ve been working on a simple ambisonics library for Pd. Here’s v1: https://github.com/rickygraham/grambilib I would love to hear your thoughts! Ricky -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL:

Re: [Sursound] Ambisonic Decoder Design Resources

2016-02-23 Thread Richard Graham
Folks, many thanks for all these incredibly helpful resources. ___ 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] Ambisonic Decoder Design Resources

2016-02-20 Thread Richard Graham
programming language. Shortly, I will have access to a 16-channel ring on the horizontal plane and a b-format cube. This system will be modular and configurable into irregular setups, too. Many thanks, Ricky > On Feb 20, 2016, at 12:00 PM, sursound-requ...@music.vt.edu wrote:

[Sursound] Ambisonic Decoder Design Resources

2016-02-20 Thread Richard Graham
Hi all, Can anyone recommend literature on designing ambisonic decoders (in C)? Specifically, articles that speak to the calculation of coefficients for low-order decoders. All the best, Ricky ___ Sursound mailing list Sursound@music.vt.edu

[Sursound] Servicing a Soundfield ST250

2016-02-15 Thread Richard Furse
, --Richard ___ 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] Never do math in public, or my take on explaining B-format to binaural

2016-01-29 Thread Richard Furse
engine. The new Rapture3D VR/game engine will not support AES69 import initially, for simplicity during deployment - although temporarily the beta is including my personal HRTF, which was imported from AES69, and we've included some hooks for the future... Best wishes, --Richard [*] More serious

Re: [Sursound] Never do math in public, or my take on explaining B-format to binaural

2016-01-29 Thread Richard Lee
Just to bring everyone down to earth .. There are two easily reproduced experiments first carried out by prominent members of this group which put these effects into perspective. They are the Greene/Lee Neckbrace and Malham/Van Gogh Experiment The first shows 'real life' Fixed Head

Re: [Sursound] ambilib~ in C

2016-01-21 Thread Richard Graham
Dave wrote: > -KPi/2 to +KPi/2 for elevation since we generally > regard horizontal as 0 degrees (or radians) with downward angles negative > and upward angles as positive. Hi Dave, Thanks, this does make sense. For anyone else interested: Elevation for ambipan~ is defined as: x->APdELeft =

[Sursound] ambilib~ in C

2016-01-18 Thread Richard Graham
Hi all, I have some quick questions; I’m writing my own audio-rate control version of the ambilib~ library for Pd / Max and I wanted to clarify the following: The elevation param has an offset of -0.5: (x->APfElevationRight - 0.5) * kPI. 1) Why is that? 2) The unit for elevation is

Re: [Sursound] The Mike Skeet Collection

2015-12-22 Thread Richard G Elen
Hello all... Regarding Mike Skeet's collection... Courtesy of Tony Flynn, who says: "here is a complete list of Mike's things, excluding the home made kit, of which there is loads, and I don't know what's there." If you are interested in any of these items, or you have any proposals on the

[Sursound] The Mike Skeet Collection

2015-12-20 Thread Richard G Elen
is on this list. Many thanks, --Richard Elen ___ 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] The Mike Skeet Collection

2015-12-20 Thread Richard G Elen
Hi, John... Yes, I am in touch with Heather on this topic. Thanks for the offer, which I've passed on and I expect someone will be in touch. -_R On 12/20/2015 4:31 PM, John Leonard wrote: Is it worth contacting the AES about his archive? Heather Lane knew Mike quite well until they lost

Re: [Sursound] WFS in a small box?

2015-11-29 Thread Richard Lee
This is likely an implementation of Ambiodipole / Stereo Dipole / Transaural http://ambisonia.com/Members/ricardo/StereDpl.htm/ There's pretty pictures on the ISVR website that show 'some' measure of wavefield (soundfield?) synthesis takes place .. certainly more than with the usual +/-30

Re: [Sursound] Is this a questionable statement?

2015-11-23 Thread Richard
No, Ambisonics existed well before they came onto the scene, the word describing the process was used on the LP released which contained an Ambisonic recording (actually 45j) from 1974. I don't believe the N.R.D.C was in existance then. Richard I’ve just looked at the Wikipedia entry

Re: [Sursound] OT: Opportunities for Study and Funding at the University of Birmingham / BEAST

2015-11-21 Thread Richard Dobson
cing sound libraries n'stuff. I have no idea if anyone is on there who is a film sound "A-list" person. Richard Dobson On 21/11/2015 08:09, Michael Chapman wrote: ... Think I may have already told this one: Quite some years ago I had insisted that the children watch videos in the ori

Re: [Sursound] OT: Opportunities for Study and Funding at the University of Birmingham / BEAST

2015-11-21 Thread Richard Dobson
And yet another reason - with dialogue in glorious mono on one channel, dubbing for other languages is super-easy. Richard Dobson On 21/11/2015 10:52, Eero Aro wrote: .. Ever since, 99% of all dialogue has been placed in the center channel for the reasons Dave is describing. There are even

Re: [Sursound] Binaural broadcast

2015-10-28 Thread Richard
Many thanks for the heads up. I think i'd best warn folks hear in the K this will be best heard on the FM service, as the broadcasts via DAB, Freeview and Satellite use Jstereo to help reduce bandwidth usage. Apart from the damage it does to standard stereo material, it will seriously damage

Re: [Sursound] SQ QUAD

2015-10-21 Thread Richard
Thank you for proving my point --On 21 October 2015 18:16 +0200 Jörn Nettingsmeier wrote: > I have a marvellous algorithm that will restore old shellacs to their > original 10-octaves full surround beauty, but since the world is what > it is, I'm

Re: [Sursound] SQ QUAD

2015-10-21 Thread Richard
I've done it, along with the QS one. Pretty awful really, he was spot on when he said that SQ was compatible with Ambisonics. Of course i'd imagine that when he said it was better than SQ hardware decoders he was comparing it with a basic 10/40 non-logic decoder and certainly not against a

Re: [Sursound] SQ QUAD

2015-10-21 Thread Richard
That is very true, and there never will be. Spent to long on it to get it where they are now, and having had nothing but negativity from certain areas regarding my work i fail to see why i should share it with them. I did once share my work, in fact you and i have talked in the past, and if

Re: [Sursound] SQ QUAD

2015-10-21 Thread Richard
s QS) was that technology wasn't up to the job at the time, which gace them the bad names they aquired. But, we're in the 21st century now... Richard wrote: > The basis for their work appears to be the many inacurate sites > filling the web with 'oh-so' wrong, ill informed

Re: [Sursound] SQ QUAD

2015-10-21 Thread Richard
little world watching as the world goes slowly mad. Richard, You say "the two software programs you've been provided links for don't decode it" Just out of curiosity, in what way do the two software decoders fail to properly decode SQ? My interest is purely academic,

Re: [Sursound] SQ QUAD

2015-10-20 Thread Richard
Alas it's far more complex than that, a quick look at the equation will tell you that: Lt = Lf + (- j0.707Lb + 0.707Rb) Rt = Rf + (- 0.707Lb + j0.707 Rb ) Many thanks, Eero! (I dont know why my search didnt turn these up...) I see that the transformation used in the first one is

Re: [Sursound] Modified SoundField Mk IV

2015-10-19 Thread Richard Lee
ield Mk IV What's the difference between #641 and #650?? Dave On 19 October 2015 at 06:38, Richard Lee <rica...@justnet.com.au> wrote: > > Interesting: https://www.gearslutz.com/board/11410162-post650.html > > I endorse Rudy's mods described in #641 and #650 > > Ken

Re: [Sursound] Modified SoundField Mk IV

2015-10-18 Thread Richard Lee
> Interesting: https://www.gearslutz.com/board/11410162-post650.html I endorse Rudy's mods described in #641 and #650 Ken Farrar did something similar to his #641 mods in the Mk5 ... but I think his post should be titled "Where Beach Bums & Angels fear to Tread" :)

Re: [Sursound] Google Files Trademark for ‘360-Degree Spherical Audio’ Software

2015-09-09 Thread Richard Dobson
It doesn't sound quite the most robust title, really - either tautologous or self-contradictory? Richard Dobson On 09/09/2015 18:01, mgra...@mstvp.com wrote: From yesterday's tech news headlines: Google Files Trademark for '360-Degree Spherical Audio' Software http://www.omgchrome.com

Re: [Sursound] ambisonics audio for 360 film (VR)

2015-08-20 Thread Richard Furse
the user's head position into account. Best wishes, --Richard ___ 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] ambisonics audio for 360 film (VR)

2015-07-22 Thread richard
/mctools.html Richard Dobson ___ 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 rental in Spain

2015-06-26 Thread Richard Lee
A known floor noise of the dr-680 in high gain is from the phantom power, and the?Busman mod changes some components on the preamps, like some condensers and the opamps, and those condensers could be the solution on that kind of noise, but not all. The biggest noise on dr-680 mk1 is poor

Re: [Sursound] Directional confusion between different B-format players

2015-06-17 Thread Richard Lee
How is the Oktava Tetrahedral mike calibrated? In what form are the calibration files? Can you post a copy of the User Manual for it? http://www.oktavausa.com/ProductsPages/Ambient4DMic.html has no info at all. ___ Sursound mailing list

[Sursound] another tasty lookingmulti-channel dsp kit

2015-06-17 Thread Richard Dobson
come to mind... Richard Dobson ___ 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] another tasty lookingmulti-channel dsp kit

2015-06-17 Thread Richard Dobson
, probably not needed in most cases. Richard Dobson ___ 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] Converting 16 mic array recording to B format

2015-05-19 Thread Richard Lee
Mathias, can you please post these recordings on ambisonia.com The Furse-Malham *.AMB format allows up to 3rd order These would be the first publically available live HOA recordings of music from a HOA mike and may re-surrect the discussion of HOA decoders Which Soundfield did you use? What

Re: [Sursound] Converting 16 mic array recording to B format

2015-05-17 Thread Richard Lee
Fons, have you heard any music recordings with EigenMike? No one seems to have tried. Elko has a standing invitation to bring EM to any venue that Aaron Eric are recording world class orchestras in good halls ... I mean obscure Mid West bands in non-descript halls :) They can reliably

Re: [Sursound] Converting 16 mic array recording to B format

2015-05-14 Thread Richard Lee
Duu.uuh!! http://parole.loria.fr/DEMAND/DEMAND.pdf states the microphones of the array ... are not calibrated with respect to each other, and so gain variations are to be expected: we found that the energy in some channels is consistently higher than in other channels. Algorithms working on

Re: [Sursound] Sursound Digest, Vol 82, Issue 2

2015-05-12 Thread Richard Lee
The strict answer to your question is in Gerzon's The Design of Precisely Coincident Microphone Arrays for Stereo and Surround Sound http://www.aes.org/e-lib/browse.cfm?elib=2466 There's a corrected copy at https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/SoundfieldMic/files/Ricardo/. You might have to

Re: [Sursound] Infra sound Sub bass

2015-04-24 Thread Richard Lee
The question isn't whether 'music' has frequencies below 1/zillion Hz. It's whether such content adds to the MUSIC. This is the case ONLY with organs reproduced properly. You can check this with DBLTs. The speaker that has come out top in every single DBLT it has been in nearly 2 decades

Re: [Sursound] ENVELOP - 3D Sound, on Kickstarter.com - SUB frequency range

2015-04-23 Thread Richard Lee
There is an important reason to maintain full Ambisonic capability to below 20Hz. It is a MUSICAL one. Go to a service at a large cathedral with good organ. At the end of the service, the organist will play something to show off while everyone is leaving. You can walk around and listen at

Re: [Sursound] Ambisonics for children's Museum

2014-11-04 Thread Richard Furse
of as a listener perspective transform). There's a new third order compressor too. Best wishes, --Richard -Original Message- From: Sursound [mailto:sursound-boun...@music.vt.edu] On Behalf Of Jörn Nettingsmeier Sent: 03 November 2014 16:21 To: sursound@music.vt.edu Subject: Re

Re: [Sursound] Ambisonics for children's Museum

2014-11-04 Thread Richard Furse
I'm quite embarrassed now! Of course, the Blue Ripple stuff mostly isn't free... -Original Message- From: Sursound [mailto:sursound-boun...@music.vt.edu] On Behalf Of Matthias Kronlachner Sent: 04 November 2014 19:52 To: sursound@music.vt.edu Subject: Re: [Sursound] Ambisonics for

Re: [Sursound] Splitting a 10.2 file

2014-09-05 Thread Richard Dobson
3 4 5 6 gives files called hexsplit_c1.wav ... hexsplit_c6.wav (the -o flag option allows you to specify a custom base outfile name to which the '_cN' suffix will be added as needed). see: http://people.bath.ac.uk/masrwd/mctools.html Last updated March 2014 Richard Dobson On 04/09/2014

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

2014-08-01 Thread Richard
Hmm, i'm sure we've been down this road before, but... I guess they have a good way of converting B-Format to Binaural, anyone got a really good way of doing the reverse? Richard Le 2014-08-01 10:03, David Pickett a écrit : Which are the B-Format samples? All I can find are descrubed

Re: [Sursound] BBC Proms in 4.0

2014-07-18 Thread Richard
Firstly, i must say a thank you for letting us know. But, after the last test it is obvious that a large majority of us were unable to enjoy these broadcasts due to the limited requirements. May i ask a question as a BBC licence payer. Why is this not available via the standard broadcast

Re: [Sursound] And now for something different...

2014-06-23 Thread Richard Dobson
I think the AES already has a project to define a file format for htrfs; when I get home I can find the project code. Richard Dobson Sent from my iPhone On 23 Jun 2014, at 17:43, Martin Leese martin.le...@stanfordalumni.org wrote: Bo-Erik Sandholm wrote: Is there a way to get

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