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] Ambisonic UHJ Stereo decoder to speaker feeds

2022-03-04 Thread Bruce Wiggins
I've released a classic UHJ to square/rectangle decoder which can be found at: https://www.brucewiggins.co.uk/?p=1836 It can also pass out B-format with or without shelf filtering applied. It's a JS effect, so Reaper is the ideal platform (there is a JSFX VST that should work on other DAWs, too).

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

2022-03-02 Thread Martin Leese
Sampo Syreeni wrote: ... > Nota bene, we've talked about this dependency on rig diameter on-list > before. Under the topic of Martin Leese's "Big Geese". Not mine; try: From: Peter Lennox Subject: [Sursound] Distance & Ambisonics Date: Tue Jul 10 16:25:27 EDT 2007 The Sursound Archive

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

2022-03-01 Thread Fons Adriaensen
On Wed, Mar 02, 2022 at 04:18:26AM +0200, Sampo Syreeni wrote: > ...unless you're trying something new, like fully general time variant HOA > reverberation. We were talking about rendering historical UHJ recordings. > ... which already at m=3 leaves you with 16 independent input and output > sig

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

2022-03-01 Thread Sampo Syreeni
On 2022-02-28, Fons Adriaensen wrote: General purpose libraries doing efficient zero delay convolution using multiple partition sizes (as suggested by Gardner) do exists. But they are complete overkill for the simple problem at hand (decoding UHJ). In a sense they are overkill, but in another

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

2022-02-28 Thread Fons Adriaensen
On Mon, Feb 28, 2022 at 10:05:53PM +0200, Sampo Syreeni wrote: A lot of jargon without much real meaning, at least not as far as my limited brain powers are able to detect. > In particular, nobody's been bold enough yet to implement zero delay > provably constant effort convolutions of the Gardne

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

2022-02-28 Thread Sampo Syreeni
On 2022-02-26, Eero Aro wrote: The way I understood Mark Anderson's question, that he is looking for a _practical_ way to decode his existing UHJ recordings into surround loudspeaker playback with a software solution, ie. a software replacement for using UHJ decoding in a tuner amplifier, such

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

2022-02-26 Thread Marc Lavallée
Le 2022-02-26 à 08 h 30, Eero Aro a écrit : And by the way, the majority of UHJ encoded music releases _was_ recorded with a Soundfield type microphone, because the largest number of them were made by Nimbus Records. Nimbus didn't use the Soundfield-made microphone, they used their own setup ma

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

2022-02-26 Thread Eero Aro
Daniel Courville wrote: > Maybe it's a question of terminology Yes. It's a question of terminology. When using impulse response files from Angelo's site, he has named the UHJ to "B-Format" conversion files , as _decoding_ (dec). _Encoding_ (enc) files are used for conversion from B-format to UH

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

2022-02-25 Thread Sampo Syreeni
On 2022-02-25, Eero Aro wrote: On Angelo's site, although he says there that this procedure is outdated: http://pcfarina.eng.unipr.it/Aurora/conversion_between_uhj_and_b.htm While I appreciate Angelo's work beyond pretty much all others, right here I'd argue there *is* no conversion from UH

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

2022-02-25 Thread Marc Lavallée
Le 2022-02-24 à 18 h 16, surround surround a écrit : I could be I simply missed something in the ATK as maybe a signal chain that could provide the decoding I need to convert my old CD's and LP'sbut thought why not see if the knowledge base here might be aware of a solution For those who don'

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

2022-02-25 Thread Paul Hodges
From: surround surround To: Sent: 24/02/2022 23:16 Subject: [Sursound] Ambisonic UHJ Stereo decoder to speaker feeds I have retired my Onkyo SV-909 receiver with a UHJ decoder after many years of service. Over the years I have transferred my LP and CD surround recordings decoded

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

2022-02-25 Thread Joseph Anderson
r 1st order FuMa B-Format); > followed a B-Format decoder. > > > Le 2022-02-25 12:00, Sursound au nom de sursound-requ...@music.vt.edu a > écrit: > > Message: 1 > Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2022 18:16:33 -0500 (EST) > From: surround surround > To: Sursound@music

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

2022-02-25 Thread Courville, Daniel
(EST) From: surround surround To: Sursound@music.vt.edu Subject: [Sursound] Ambisonic UHJ Stereo decoder to speaker feeds Message-ID: <967529165.138166.1645744593...@myemail.cox.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" I have retired my Onkyo SV-90

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

2022-02-25 Thread David Stalling
Good morning, The procedure that Eero describes is a good way to go. I've been using some of Farina's FIR filters in a matrix convolution plugin to perform similar conversions within Reaper. It works rather well for me and is fairly low latency. There is a UHJ to Ambix filter here: http://pcfari

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

2022-02-25 Thread Eero Aro
On Angelo's site, although he says there that this procedure is outdated: http://pcfarina.eng.unipr.it/Aurora/conversion_between_uhj_and_b.htm You first do a UHJ to B-format conversion by using the convolvers, then use a B-format to speakers decoder VST plugin, of which there are several to di

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

2022-02-25 Thread Eero Aro
Mark wrote I am currently using Reaper as my DAW. I did a search for Ambsonic VST plug-ins and found The Ambisonic Toolkit for Reaper. I played with that but found that that The UHJ decoding it could do was from UHJ W,X,Y,Z to stereo and what I am looking for is UHJ stereo to a speaker feed.

[Sursound] Ambisonic UHJ Stereo decoder to speaker feeds

2022-02-24 Thread surround surround
I have retired my Onkyo SV-909 receiver with a UHJ decoder after many years of service. Over the years I have transferred my LP and CD surround recordings decoded into multichannel flac files for playback on a computer based system. I did manage to do a couple UHJ recordings using the Onkyo a wh