Re: [Sursound] Uniformity of hemispherical LS layout

2012-10-13 Thread Dave Malham
Hi Fabio, Did you actually mean that there are only hemispherical ambisonics systems out there or am I misinterpreting what you said? 'Cos that suggests that there are no full sphere systems Dave On 12 October 2012 16:02, Fabio Kaiser fabio.kai...@student.tugraz.at wrote: In

Re: [Sursound] [ot] new and interesting words

2012-10-13 Thread Michael Chapman
as an aside (and without looking it up) ossuary clearly means some official receptacle for bones, I would guess? Dr Peter Lennox What I find fascinating is words that are either absent, or if present rarely used but replaced by compounds. Things like 'foot-fingers' (French) and 'hand-shoes'

Re: [Sursound] Something for the Weekend - Commerical 3D sound

2012-10-13 Thread Stefan Schreiber
Bo-Erik Sandholm wrote: As this was in a session on next gen MPEG format, and header specification in MPEG among other things... If I remembers correctly there was a possibility to specify that the audio format was - WFS - 5.1 - 7.1 - 22.1 No possibility to carry pure ambisonics using our

Re: [Sursound] [ot] new and interesting words

2012-10-13 Thread Fons Adriaensen
On Sat, Oct 13, 2012 at 01:56:04PM -, Michael Chapman wrote: What I find fascinating is words that are either absent, or if present rarely used but replaced by compounds. Things like 'foot-fingers' (French) and 'hand-shoes' (German) and by comparison 'sibling' (English) which is rare*

Re: [Sursound] Auro 3D

2012-10-13 Thread Fons Adriaensen
On Sat, Oct 13, 2012 at 05:26:57PM -, Michael Chapman wrote: Because the knobs on the amp's are at the other end of the room (or if not there, it would mean bending one's back). Modern PA gear is remote-controlled and monitored. And even if not, that's no excuse :-) Ciao, -- FA A

Re: [Sursound] [ot] new and interesting words

2012-10-13 Thread Ralf R. Radermacher
Michael Chapman s...@mchapman.com wrote: *I remember being told there was no direct English translation, when I first learnt German ;-( For 'sibling'? This is indeed true, if used as a singular. You may have 'siblings' (Geschwister) in German but if it's just one then it's either a brother or

Re: [Sursound] Auro 3D

2012-10-13 Thread John Leonard
Most commonly, I've come across this in PA systems hired in by performers: the most heinous being that of a concert for a friend of mine, where the balance engineer (a studio engineer, not a live sound one, which didn't help) could barely lift the faders without the system going into feedback.

Re: [Sursound] Auro 3D

2012-10-13 Thread John Leonard
Non-existent on the systems I'm talking about. John On 13 Oct 2012, at 20:16, Dan d...@db-av.co.uk wrote: Level control will be done on the DSP managing the speakers. ___ Sursound mailing list Sursound@music.vt.edu

Re: [Sursound] [ot] new and interesting words

2012-10-13 Thread Michael Chapman
On Sat, Oct 13, 2012 at 01:56:04PM -, Michael Chapman wrote: What I find fascinating is words that are either absent, or if present rarely used but replaced by compounds. Things like 'foot-fingers' (French) and 'hand-shoes' (German) and by comparison 'sibling' (English) which is rare*

Re: [Sursound] Somting for the Weekend - Commerisal 3D sound

2012-10-13 Thread Richard Lee
well, depends. iirc, theile's argument is that a two-speaker phantom source should be a mess in terms of spectrum, but isn't (as two-speaker stereophony demonstrates). so for some reason, the brain is able to sort it out. more than two correlated sources, and things go awry, e.g. L/C/R

Re: [Sursound] Auro 3D

2012-10-13 Thread Michael Chapman
On Sat, Oct 13, 2012 at 05:26:57PM -, Michael Chapman wrote: Because the knobs on the amp's are at the other end of the room (or if not there, it would mean bending one's back). Modern PA gear is remote-controlled and monitored. And even if not, that's no excuse :-) No, no, no

Re: [Sursound] Hybrid Hi-Fi (HyFi?), IRs, etc.

2012-10-13 Thread Sampo Syreeni
On 2012-10-05, Richard Furse wrote: To be honest, low order hasn't been a massive priority for gaming/VR - on most modern boxes we're rendering and decoding at fourth order, so all the cool new stuff is enabled. Tell me... In games most of the individual sound sources, apart from general

Re: [Sursound] Take a Load off Intel (and put the Load on IC)

2012-10-13 Thread Sampo Syreeni
On 2012-10-05, Eric Carmichel wrote: (Ville, once again the reason why I linked you in is to be found lower down the post.) Surround controllers, on the other hand, are generally limited in their number of channels or become expensive. One solution to my 'dilemma' was to use a DAW surface