[Sursound] Ambisonics at the BBC

2010-11-24 Thread Martin Leese
Hi, There was a short segment about auralisation research at the BBC which uses an Ambisonic array on BBC Radio 4. It was in the programme Click On, Series 7, Episode 5. Visit: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006tht9 and listen between 14:50 and 21:07 of the 30 minute programme. Regards,

Re: [Sursound] Oh while I am asking

2010-11-25 Thread Martin Leese
George Kierstein flawless.gate...@gmail.com wrote: I have found a variety of plugins to manipulate the soundfield as well as localize a mono/stereo source, but I haven't been able to find a plugin that will just play a B-Format .amb file Does one exist and how can I get one please ?!

Re: [Sursound] Early tetrahedral experiments

2010-12-08 Thread Martin Leese
Dave Malham d...@york.ac.uk wrote: ... There was a small enclave of Ambisonics enthusiasts down there at one time (early 90's I think) - they even published a User Group magazine (If I remember correctly it was called the AmbUG newsletter - think I may even have a copy buried somewhere in my

Re: [Sursound] 3DAA | Audio Alliance

2010-12-23 Thread Martin Leese
Stefan Schreiber st...@mail.telepac.pt wrote: Martin Leese wrote: As the results will be royalty-free, I can't see Dolby having much involvement. Speculation: Only the transmission will be royalty-free, not the standards... :-) From their FAQ: All standards and protocols developed

Re: [Sursound] Why do you need to decode ambisonic/b format signals

2011-01-26 Thread Martin Leese
Steven Dive stevend...@mac.com wrote: One interesting, if odd sounding, effect I found was using superstereo on a test track for channel identity for stereo that had someone (Alan Wiltshire) speaking from positions full left, half left, centre, half right and full right. On my usual setting

[Sursound] Calrec Ambisonic Mark IV mic on eBay

2011-01-27 Thread Martin Leese
A Calrec Ambisonic Mark IV mic is on eBay for US$5,000 or offer. The mic in in the USA and is 1989 vintage: http://cgi.ebay.ca/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemitem=330523955630fromMakeTrack=truessPageName=VIP:watchlink:top:en I have no connection with the seller. Regards, Martin -- Martin J Leese

Re: [Sursound] Wikipedia and stereo

2011-02-07 Thread Martin Leese
dave.mal...@york.ac.uk wrote: Unbelievably, I have just seen that Wikipedia gives no mention to Alan Blumlein in its article on sound recording and reproduction at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sound_recording_and_reproduction#Stereo_and_hi-fi if I have time I'll correct this, but..if

Re: [Sursound] distance perception in virtual environments

2011-04-18 Thread Martin Leese
Richard Lee rica...@justnet.com.au wrote: You must simulate at least 2 things. ... You have to simulate early reflections and a reverb pattern appropriate to source distance. MAG has a paper on this under Distance Panners from an idea by Peter Craven. MAG's paper is: M.A. Gerzon, The Design

Re: [Sursound] distance perception in virtual environments

2011-04-28 Thread Martin Leese
Helmut Oellers oell...@syntheticwave.de wrote: 2011/4/26 Dave Malham d...@york.ac.uk On 24/04/2011 19:11, Helmut Oellers wrote: ...modern computers are also clever. Today nothing is unaccountable if we know the formula and all variables. That's a BIG assumption - and given the

Re: [Sursound] Minim AD7 for sale

2011-04-30 Thread Martin Leese
Richard zoanne...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: I think Eero wrote: The AD-7 was designed to use a small number of components, it has just three phase shifters. The AD-7 is not a precision reference decoder, but at least for me, it did it's job for music listening. Hmmm, out of interest, how

Re: [Sursound] Minim AD7 for sale

2011-05-01 Thread Martin Leese
Gerard Lardner glard...@iol.ie ... I read in a review that the AD10 was intended to be sold at a realistic price of about $600 and the AD7 sold at a bargain $200. That review also mentioned that the AD10 used closer-tolerance components that would additionally be hand-selected for closer

Re: [Sursound] Minim AD7 for sale

2011-05-03 Thread Martin Leese
Martin Leese martin.le...@stanfordalumni.org wrote: ... I have collected information about the Minim decoders, and made it available at: https://sites.google.com/site/minimdecoders/ ... If you know of more information then please pass it on to me so that I can add it to the site. Geoffrey

Re: [Sursound] Question regarding UHJ Encoding - Decoding

2011-05-06 Thread Martin Leese
Richard zoanne...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: Phew!!! Firstly, many thanks for the detailed response. I'll admit I find the math's related to UHJ Ambisonics somewhat confusing at times, but 'm persevering. Ignore Wikipedia. Instead, stick with the Gerzon 1985 paper (which yoiu now have). Regards,

Re: [Sursound] Question regarding UHJ Encoding - Decoding

2011-05-07 Thread Martin Leese
Dave Hunt davehuntau...@btinternet.com wrote: One of these complexities is presumably indicated by the phrase Note that two-channel UHJ requires the player to use different shelf filters than for three- and four-channel UHJ (and B-Format) at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambisonic_UHJ_format.

Re: [Sursound] Fwd: Bass Problem in crosstalk cancellation

2011-06-08 Thread Martin Leese
Marc Lavall?e m...@hacklava.net wrote: ... Ambisonics can supposedly reproduce bass from all directions; is it true? Yes, assuming: 1. The source contains bass from all directions 2. The standing waves in the room don't screw up localisation of bass frequencies. But this is also

Re: [Sursound] Fwd: Bass Problem in crosstalk cancellation

2011-06-11 Thread Martin Leese
Marc Lavall?e m...@hacklava.net wrote: ... In an article I mentioned earlier (Spatial auditory display using multiple sub-woofers in two different reverberant reproduction environments), tests were made in an anechoic chamber where the detection was much better than in a small room. The test

Re: [Sursound] Portable ambisonics setup, or how do you mount speakers on tubes?

2011-06-30 Thread Martin Leese
Franck M. mushroomac...@gmail.com wrote: I'm designing a mid-size (8 to 12-ch) ambisonics setup, using small active near-field studio monitors such as Fostex PM04, Focal CMS40, BM-5A...(the exact model will depend on the funding I'll get for this project). ... For example, the 12 speakers

[Sursound] Ambisonics meeting in San Francisco

2011-08-26 Thread Martin Leese
Sound Research Meetup: Ambisonics Date: Wednesday, September 21st Times: 7pm – 8:30pm Cost: $5 – $20 suggested donation (no one turned away for lack of funds) Location: GAFFTA, 998 Market Street, San Francisco, CA 94102 Agenda 7:00pm – 7:30pm : Presentations 7:30pm – 8:00pm : Demos / Listening

Re: [Sursound] Ambisonics meeting in San Francisco

2011-08-26 Thread Martin Leese
On 8/26/11, Martin Leese martin.le...@stanfordalumni.org wrote: Sound Research Meetup: Ambisonics Sorry, I forgot to include the link: http://www.gaffta.org/2011/08/25/sound-research-meetup-ambisonics/ Regards, Martin -- Martin J Leese E-mail: martin.leese stanfordalumni.org Web: http

[Sursound] Scheiber fundamental paper on matrix quad

2011-09-12 Thread Martin Leese
Hi, I am trying to update the Wikipedia page on Quadraphonic sound, and am looking for the Peter Scheiber paper which formed the basis for all the quad matrix systems. What I am trying to do is discussed here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Quadraphonic_sound#Benjamin_Bauer I have found two

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

2011-09-26 Thread Martin Leese
Dave Malham dave.mal...@york.ac.uk wrote: ... PS A little bit more historical stuff from the manual Early SoundField prototype models were developed using Gerzon?s theory in conjunction with the National Research Development Corporation of Great Britain and Calrec Audio. Chief Designer at

Re: [Sursound] A question regarding Matrix HJ

2011-10-29 Thread Martin Leese
Richard zoanne...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: ... Now, i was wondering if anyone here knows the difference between the BBC's Matrix H and the (short lived) replacement Matrix HJ, and of course, it's decoding equation? The reason for asking is because Nimbus actually released a couple of LP's using

[Sursound] More from the BBC

2011-11-13 Thread Martin Leese
Hi All, Here is the latest post on the BBC Research and Development Blog about their experiments with Ambisonics: http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/researchanddevelopment/2011/11/elbow-in-3d-sound.shtml Regards, Martin -- Martin J Leese E-mail: martin.leese stanfordalumni.org Web:

Re: [Sursound] online multichannel release

2011-11-25 Thread Martin Leese
Michael Chapman s...@mchapman.com At 05:52 25/11/2011, Marinos Koutsomichalis wrote: Hello list, I was asked a 4-channel work for an online-release - I' m now trying to figure out what the best way to release it would be.. ... are there any other ideas/observations/advices ?? ... It would

Re: [Sursound] Greetings (and a newcomer's first submission)

2011-11-28 Thread Martin Leese
Fons Adriaensen f...@linuxaudio.org wrote: ... As Michael points out, you can have 3-D first order with 8 speakers, either a cube or one of the bi-rectangle layouts. If you are going to reproduce only 1st order material I'd certainly recommend one of those over using 8 speakers for horizontal

Re: [Sursound] online multichannel release: HTML5 test

2011-12-01 Thread Martin Leese
mick ritchie m...@superorg.com wrote: Etienne - I can play back stereo from your player in firefox3 and Safari but not 5.1 - my 5.1 box doesnt see dolby digital just stereo. Is there any way of telling which feed my browser accesses? You could try using your own HTML5 page to offer one

[Sursound] Stereo mix (was online multichannel release: HTML5 test)

2011-12-02 Thread Martin Leese
Sampo Syreeni de...@iki.fi wrote: On 2011-12-01, Martin Leese wrote: You could try using your own HTML5 page to offer one option at a time. If two of the three don't work then you will know. But in a sense it's a valid question at another level. Does HTML5 (in its various forms, mostly H

Re: [Sursound] Motivation for authors(Robert's off topic rant!)

2012-01-13 Thread Martin Leese
Peter Lennox p.len...@derby.ac.uk wrote: ... On the question of publishing but not preaching to the converted, one could see that some kind of peer review might help. I'm thinking that specialised publishing from leaders in the field, but pitching at the early-undergrad /bright-and-interested

Re: [Sursound] Me again - on the H/HJ hunt

2012-01-25 Thread Martin Leese
Richard zoanne...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: ... So, here's the issue i now have. I've been sent 4 tapes of BBC quad broadcasts, and the person who sent them says they are in HJ. Does anyone know when the BBC switched from H to HJ? An announcement of the shift was published in New Scientist on 5

Re: [Sursound] Me again - on the H/HJ hunt

2012-01-26 Thread Martin Leese
Paul Hodges pwh-surro...@cassland.org wrote: --On 25 January 2012 20:04 + Richard zoanne...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: But was BBC ever using either of the formats officially? And given that HJ was defined to include within its tolerance zones both H and 45J, they could by definition have simply

Re: [Sursound] Me again - on the H/HJ hunt

2012-01-27 Thread Martin Leese
Richard zoanne...@yahoo.co.uk The thing is that Matrix HJ isn't UHJ, nor compatible with it. That much, I've discovered. It's only 45J that's compatible Why do you think that? The ENcoding zones for HJ are described in Figure 1 (Page 4) of the paper at:

Re: [Sursound] blindly identifying matrix encodings

2012-03-08 Thread Martin Leese
Richard Lee rica...@justnet.com.au ... If there is an obvious CF source, a goniometer (phase meter/display) will tell us if it is 45J or UHJ (35J). Apart from the 2 questions 1 Is it Ambisonic? ie 45J or UHJ (35J) 2 Is it 45J or is it UHJ(35J)? I'm not sure any other questions are

Re: [Sursound] Can anyone help with my dissertation please?

2012-03-30 Thread Martin Leese
Cara Gleeson coarsean...@gmail.com wrote: ... *Outline of dissertation question*: *Why did ambisonics not take off between the 1970's-90's?* Hi Cara, You will probably already have found the FAQ's spin on this. If not, visit:

Re: [Sursound] OT: Spatial music

2012-04-12 Thread Martin Leese
seva s...@soundcurrent.com wrote: ... but for me, i'd really like some tools to use in film mixing (even with the distributed Ls and Rs speakers). anyone on the list care to tell me what tools might be best, or why it just won't work? the idea is to simply improve location and immersive

Re: [Sursound] Can anyone help with my dissertation please? New Title and questions...

2012-04-12 Thread Martin Leese
seva s...@soundcurrent.com was it not true that the UK did not, or would not, help to support the ambisonic fledgling business due to some frustrating legal restriction? this was a major point in the killing of the launch. I assume by the UK you mean the UK Government. The UK Government,

Re: [Sursound] Can anyone help with my dissertation please? New Title and questions...

2012-04-14 Thread Martin Leese
Ronald C.F. Antony r...@cubiculum.com wrote: On 12 Apr 2012, at 19:57, Martin Leese martin.le...@stanfordalumni.org wrote: ... The UK Government, through the National Research Development Corporation, strongly supported the development of Ambisonics; they paid for it. While the NRDC had

Re: [Sursound] audio point / audio plenum

2012-04-15 Thread Martin Leese
Gregorio Garcia Karman ggkar...@musicologia.com wrote: I found a reference in a musical text of the 1960s originated in the UK that mentions the terms audio point and audio plenum perhaps in reference to a technique that would be able to control the spread of a single source in the

Re: [Sursound] audio point / audio plenum

2012-04-19 Thread Martin Leese
umashankar mantravadi umasha...@hotmail.com ... apart from clean reproduction of reverberation, i note the speakers do not have to put out much power - compared to the same recording converted to stereo and played from a conventional pair of speakers. is this a dataset that could sell

Re: [Sursound] Waveplayer - 16 chnl SD-card audio device

2012-04-24 Thread Martin Leese
Dave Malham dave.mal...@york.ac.uk wrote: The Raspberry PI is really cheap and runs Linux, so it does provide some real possibilities, though it is, in some ways, quite limited - max 256m ram at present, for instance - ... it seems that the SPI pins are available on a standard header so

Re: [Sursound] Viola d'amore, Ambisonia, bittorrent files

2012-06-05 Thread Martin Leese
Eric Carmichel e...@elcaudio.com wrote: ... I feel confident that anything coming from Ambisonia (and its users) is safe, but does anyone have an opinion regarding the requisite software for downloading/converting bittorrent files? uTorrent (pronounced mu-torrent). This can be configured to

[Sursound] Upping the Auntie

2012-06-23 Thread Martin Leese
The BBC White Paper Upping the Auntie describes their recent work with Ambisonics. It is available from: http://www.inavateonthenet.net/article/51196/BBC-inches-closer-to-3D-audio-broadcast.aspx Note that the conclusions are scattered throughout the paper. It says that the paper was published at

[Sursound] Analogue Ambisonic Decoders

2012-07-09 Thread Martin Leese
Gerald Wilson g...@stonehill.org.uk Just checking: I assume no-one is manufacturing such devices anymore? Meridian currently include Ambisonic decoding in their surround sound boxes. (Although whether these are analogue comes down to definitions.) I am not familiar with Meridian's current

Re: [Sursound] any idea's on the background of the stereo equations in the WW1977 article?

2012-07-20 Thread Martin Leese
Johan Haspeslagh johan.haspesl...@pandora.be wrote: Hello, I have a question concerning the conversion of a stereo recording to ambisonics. In the Wireless World of 1977 articles there are equations for the conversion of stereo to W,X,Y equivalent signals. The use of j*Diff term doesn't

Re: [Sursound] 4 channel Nipper

2012-07-22 Thread Martin Leese
On 7/21/09, Martin Leese martin.le...@stanfordalumni.org wrote: ... On the cover of the 29 January 1976 issue (Vol 69, No 985) are four dogs. A normal dog (mono), one looking in two directions (stereo), one looking in four directions (quad), and one looking every which way (Ambisonics

Re: [Sursound] 4 channel Nipper

2012-07-23 Thread Martin Leese
Marc Lavall?e m...@hacklava.net ... The article on page 222 is worth reading; Will ambi-sound shatter the peace and quiet of the stereo market? by Adrian Hope. Also worth reading is the set of three articles which argued the rights and wrongs of SQ versus Ambisonics. The references are: The

Re: [Sursound] Super Stereo emulation (UHJ)

2012-07-24 Thread Martin Leese
Richard zoanne...@yahoo.co.uk wrote ... OK, so, i've been using software to decode UHJ, but can anyone tell me what i need to do to re-create the 'super-stereo' mode on the hardware decoders? I know it's a mixture of two of the three signal, possibly W X, but at what values, etc. I have

Re: [Sursound] Super Stereo emulation (UHJ)

2012-07-24 Thread Martin Leese
Sampo Syreeni de...@iki.fi wrote: Isn't that supposed to be just that you BHJ decode a stereo recording which wasn't originally BHJ encoded, for two frontal speakers instead of the minimum of four speakers needed for full BHJ pantophony? I.e. the dual of listening to a BHJ encoded recording

Re: [Sursound] Question about plane waves, and the precedence effect

2012-09-23 Thread Martin Leese
Augustine Leudar wrote: by the way have any of you seen this :

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

2012-10-04 Thread Martin Leese
Dave Malham wrote: In the early days, Audio Design Reading had a decoder which went to a regular array of 5 speakers (i.e. not ITU) which, iirc worked really quite well. I'm not at all sure if they actually sold any and the design was,as far as I'm aware, sold on to Cepiar when ADR pulled out

[Sursound] Trans-Dimensional Portal

2012-10-06 Thread Martin Leese
Hi All, At present, no more details on this are available, but it looks like one to watch: http://mur.mu.rs/?p=560 Regards, Martin -- Martin J Leese E-mail: martin.leese stanfordalumni.org Web: http://members.tripod.com/martin_leese/ ___ Sursound

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

2012-10-06 Thread Martin Leese
Martin Leese wrote: The Ambi-5 Auditorium Decoder. I have a PDF of an Audio + Design leaflet which somebody sent me. If people want it I can place it on my Google Site for download. I have placed the 1.3 MByte file: Audio_Design_Multi-speaker_Auditorium_Decoders.pdf in the Ambisonic stuff

Re: [Sursound] Trans-Dimensional Portal

2012-10-08 Thread Martin Leese
John Leonard wrote: Hmm, I'm strictly non-Facebook and I'm afraid I'm not going to change my views, even for Ambisonics. Ditto. In my case, the reason was elegantly explained by Douglas Adams: I've [Douglas Adams has] come up with a set of rules that describe our reactions to technology:

Re: [Sursound] Trans-Dimensional Portal

2012-10-09 Thread Martin Leese
Augustine Leudar wrote: so ... what's all this about a portal ? It has sort of got lost in the melee. Try: http://mur.mu.rs/?p=560 https://www.facebook.com/TransDimensionalPortal Regards, Martin -- Martin J Leese E-mail: martin.leese stanfordalumni.org Web:

Re: [Sursound] Trans-Dimensional Portal

2012-10-10 Thread Martin Leese
Carsten Bohn wrote: It has sort of got lost in the melee. ... This list has an amazing side-effect, which is : getting to know new words things that I haven't heard as off now, f.e. M?l?e : which Google translates in german to something like fray in naval warfare? !? My English dictionary

[Sursound] A different portal

2012-10-10 Thread Martin Leese
Here is a different portal, this one in the UK and made from rubber: http://www.jay-harris.co.uk/tag/ambisonics/ Maybe two sound portals so close together was a fluke, or maybe this the the killer app for Ambisonics. Regards, Martin -- Martin J Leese E-mail: martin.leese stanfordalumni.org

Re: [Sursound] Patent application: Data structure for HOA

2012-10-24 Thread Martin Leese
Richard Dobson wrote: ... So is this, in fact, the ultimate file format that folk on this list have been arguing for (and over) for so long? No, absolutely not. The fact that it has been patented means that it should not be used. The situation is similar the the GIF image file format. When

Re: [Sursound] Patent application: Data structure for HOA

2012-10-31 Thread Martin Leese
Peter Lennox wrote: Yes but...why not simply release stuff for mobiles in a generic binaural - skip the uhj altogether? Please, what is this generic binaural? Everyone has an individual HRTF. If you release binaural recording using a generic HRTF then it will work for some and not for

Re: [Sursound] Sweet spot precise measurement

2012-11-07 Thread Martin Leese
Tommaso Perego wrote: Dear all, I was wondering how, knowing the diameter of a speaker octagon, using 1st or 3rd Order ambisonics, to calculate precisely the dimensions of the sweet spot area. Any ideas? If you want to make calculations of area then your first problem will be defining

Re: [Sursound] Jason and the Argon-nots

2013-02-10 Thread Martin Leese
Eric Carmichel wrote: Greetings to All, Just a few thoughts regarding recent posts and the argon-filled sphere. Martin, I definitely boo-booed by suggesting the recording would be made in an all-argon atmosphere. But comparing the *sound* one might experience between the two conditions (air

Re: [Sursound] Gran Sasso - first impressions

2013-02-19 Thread Martin Leese
Gerard Lardner wrote: Here's a suggestion: a place that is publicly-accessible, but is under threat of being demolished. It's Achill Henge, a modern copy of much of Stonehenge but built on Achill Island, off the west coast of Ireland. There are a number of Stonehenge replicas dotted around

Re: [Sursound] Ambisonic hydrophone?

2013-02-19 Thread Martin Leese
Fons Adriaensen wrote: Don't know what Len will think of it, but putting a Tetramic (or any such mic) in a plastic bag isn't likely to produce anything usable. Basic problem is that the acoustic impedance of water is around 3400 times higher than that of air, so the water/air interface will

Re: [Sursound] Bi-Amping the B-format

2013-02-21 Thread Martin Leese
Eric Carmichel wrote: ... Eight speakers is probably overkill and doesn?t leave me the four channels needed for a square array of subs. If you have four subs then you might want to consider arranging them in a tetrahedron. Note that subs are heavy, so there is a practical problem with mounting

Re: [Sursound] the power of doppler shift illusion

2013-02-27 Thread Martin Leese
Augustine Leudar wrote: ... The sounds and settings have to be convincing enough, believable enough, for cognitive effects to work - then you can get away with all sorts of acoustic inaccuracies - thats why I think so many sound installations in galleries leave me cold - you can see all the

Re: [Sursound] SuperStereo and ITU Formats: What are they like on an Ambisonic system?

2013-03-09 Thread Martin Leese
Bearcat M. ??ndor wrote: Let's say i set up a full sphere Ambisonic system. I scour the web looking for b-format files to play over Fons' awesome ambdec app. After i've listened to the few b-format files and my collection of Nimbus Records UHJ discs, i'm sitting there staring at my

Re: [Sursound] Surround formats and lossy compression

2013-04-06 Thread Martin Leese
Eric Carmichel wrote: ... Are all lossless formats more-or-less equal in terms of 'purity'. Eric B has already addressed this; lossless means lossless. ... Unlike kilohertz (kHz), the K is capitalized when referencing kilobytes (KB) or kilobits (Kb). In SI unit prefixes there is only a

Re: [Sursound] Surround formats and lossy compression

2013-04-07 Thread Martin Leese
umashankar manthravadi wrote: always thought only m has both cases. m - millliwatt, and M - megawatt, for example. According to my pocket diary, there are a few more: yocto, Yotta, zepto, Zetta, pico, Peta. There is also deci (d) and deca (da). Regards, Martin -- Martin J Leese E-mail:

Re: [Sursound] Meandering a bit (not a byte, but perhaps a nibble)

2013-04-10 Thread Martin Leese
Eric Carmichel wrote: ... While I was enjoying the scent of roses and honeysuckle blossoms during my visit, the thought of electronically ?recording? scents and odors came to mind (not exactly a new idea). After all, we have multiple methods of electronically recording images and sounds. It

Re: [Sursound] reinvention of the wheel??

2013-04-20 Thread Martin Leese
Dave Malham wrote: Just received an email which - seems someone else is reinventing the Soundfield again - see http://www.quaud.io/ This time it's based on mems microphones and is very small so it ends up using blind source separation in order to get good source-interference ratios. There's

Re: [Sursound] Eigenmike

2013-06-17 Thread Martin Leese
Stefan Schreiber wrote: For clarification: Could the eigenmike also do some 4th order recording (in a real sense, not giving some 4th order output), or is it a 3rd order microphone? When the em32 Eigenmike was in prototype form, mh acoustics promoted it as up to fourth-order (although the

Re: [Sursound] Testing left, center, right...

2013-06-23 Thread Martin Leese
Eric Carmichel wrote: Over the months, I?ve read a couple of posts asking whether it is possible to extract or synthesize surround channels from binaural stereo or non-Ambisonic surround formats. I am now attempting to do something that would appear to be simpler and more straightforward:

[Sursound] How to play Dolby Atmos using full-sphere Ambisonics

2013-06-24 Thread Martin Leese
This is an article on Dolby Atmos. It looks like this technology is up and away, what with Star Trek Into Darkness and the Empire Cinema in Leicester Square, UK.

Re: [Sursound] Giving Precedence to Ambisonics

2013-06-26 Thread Martin Leese
Eric Carmichel wrote: ... Two-channel playback (both convention and binaural) is here to stay for a while, so optimizing Ambisonics for stereo is desirable to me. In fact, one of my favorite recordings from the late 80s was made with the band (The Cowboy Junkies) circled around a Calrec

Re: [Sursound] Ambisonics - Decoding 16 channels in DAW

2013-07-03 Thread Martin Leese
Moritz Fehr wrote: ... i am going to record a space with a soundfield mic and i would like to then make a simulation of it by setting up an array of 16 speakers. one speaker circle is on ear level, the other one above. i would like to use the second circle above to add height information to

Re: [Sursound] Suggestions spherical loudspeaker installation observatory

2013-07-10 Thread Martin Leese
Michael Chapman wrote: Martin Leese wrote: In general, for Ambisonics, you should distribute the speakers as evenly as possible. Aim for the faces of a platonic solid; visit: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Platonic_solid Problem is ... despite many claims to be on the verge

Re: [Sursound] Two new approaches for the distribution of surround sound/3D audio

2013-08-02 Thread Martin Leese
Stefan Schreiber wrote: ... To offer a backward-compatible extension of a UHJ extended AAC stereo file, you would have to include the T and Q audio channels as 3rd or 4th audio stream, somewhere. (Probably you could label such a file as stereo, the first 2 channels being L and R. Include

[Sursound] IMF Electronics Decoders page

2013-09-18 Thread Martin Leese
Hi All, I have created a Google Site dedicated to the IMF Electronics Ambisionic decoder, the D20B. Visit: https://sites.google.com/site/imfelectronicsdecoders/ This is a sibling page to my page for Minim decoders at: https://sites.google.com/site/minimdecoders/ Regards, Martin -- Martin J

Re: [Sursound] Sense of direction (whole new idea)

2013-10-08 Thread Martin Leese
Dave Malham wrote: ... Might be better to develop a smartphone app that took a photo of the mic, geo-tagged it and associated that with the recorded file, Rather than take a photo of the mic (bit repetitive), take a photo in the direction the mic is facing. Years ago (around 2000) I read a

Re: [Sursound] two new BBC Research white papers on Ambisonics

2013-10-09 Thread Martin Leese
Peter Lennox wrote: Aaron Heller wrote: The second one uses basic decoding (aka velocity, matching, rV=1) decoding over the entire frequency range, which means, among other things, that the ILDs are not as large as they would be with rE_max decoding. Yes, but that's the point - for

Re: [Sursound] New native B-Format microphone!

2013-11-15 Thread Martin Leese
J?rn Nettingsmeier wrote: On 11/14/2013 03:31 PM, Eero Aro wrote: ... Just by the accident, I visited an Audio-Visual Fair in the Helsinki Fair Centre this afternoon and had a chat with Martin, who has designed the microphone. I actually held the microphone in my hand. There was no

Re: [Sursound] how to read common loudspeaker format (CLF) file

2013-11-21 Thread Martin Leese
Junfeng Li junfeng.li.1...@gmail.com wrote: I am now trying to develop a program to read and view the loudspeaker directivity. I came across to know the common loudspeaker format (CLF) which is detailed at http://www.clfgroup.org/index.htm. Though some CLF files are provided in binary format,

Re: [Sursound] [Bulk] Re: 45J recordings - did they / do they exist?

2013-11-29 Thread Martin Leese
Richard zoanne1uk... wrote: Thanks for the reply. I believe there is one, and i've mentioned it before. Calrec released it in 1974, and i guess the closest method of decoding is going to be 45j. I'm planning on decoding it soon. In case others want to read the sursound thread about this

Re: [Sursound] DeWolfe Library Music - Ambisonics confusion

2013-12-05 Thread Martin Leese
Espen Braathen wrote: To: John Leonard j...@johnleonard.co.uk, The ambisonics trademark was registered in the US by Nimbus Records, but was abandoned i 1992 and have thus been dead for the last 20 years. The ambisonic trademark was registered and abandoned in 2009 by an individual. The

Re: [Sursound] Cowboy Junkies - Whites Off Earth Now UHJ Encoding

2013-12-21 Thread Martin Leese
Mark Anderson wrote: The recording engineer for Whites Off Earth Now has confirmed that the recording is UHJ encoded. I saw this at the following site http://www.quadraphonicquad.com/forums/showthread.php?8022-Cowboy-Junkies-WHITES-OFF-THE-EARTH-NOW!!-SACDp=197549viewfull=1#post197549

[Sursound] Surprise, Surprise

2013-12-30 Thread Martin Leese
Hi All, I am trying to track down a CD in the UHJ Discography. It listed as: o M. Cang, E. Chin - Surprise, Surprise, KPM/Nimbus, KN101. (England) Does anybody have this CD? If so, could they please confirm the details (catalogue number, title, etc) and, if possible, e-mail me a list of

Re: [Sursound] Surprise, Surprise

2013-12-31 Thread Martin Leese
Richard G Elen wrote: Well, this is one of mine Many thanks to Richard for the wealth of information. I will remain alert for a used copy to come up on eBay. Regards, Martin -- Martin J Leese E-mail: martin.leese stanfordalumni.org Web: http://members.tripod.com/martin_leese/

[Sursound] Ambisonia.com no work

2014-01-25 Thread Martin Leese
Hi, When I try to access Ambisonia.com, I get a 502 Proxy Error: The proxy server received an invalid response from an upstream server. The proxy server could not handle the request GET /. Other times I get nothing. Is this just me, or are other seeing the same? Many

Re: [Sursound] 4 D sound (!)

2014-03-06 Thread Martin Leese
Michael Chapman wrote: ... I always remember one teacher commenting on speech, that you can apply* any standard effect and it is still intelligible, except playing it backwards. Not saying that it couldn't be learnt ... Indeed it can. When I was in high school, many moons ago, there was a

Re: [Sursound] Question about UHJ

2014-03-16 Thread Martin Leese
Schumacher Marlon wrote: Hi, Thanks everybody for your well-considered comments. The reason for going for a 2-channel format is compatibility with distribution media formats (CD) - and I suppose it will mostly be listened to without a decoder. The possibility of recovering (2D) B-Format can

Re: [Sursound] Question about UHJ

2014-03-17 Thread Martin Leese
Stefan Schreiber wrote: ... Or distribute 3-4 channel UHJ, which is the stereo-compatible form of FOA. Of course this proposal didn't catch on, even if this should work. (I see this doesn't work for a CD distribution, but this is the only case by now. But if you chose physical distribution,

Re: [Sursound] MS output to 3 loudspeakers

2014-04-11 Thread Martin Leese
Oliver Thuns wrote: In the EU the patent has expired http://www.google.com/patents/EP0643899B1?cl=en#legal-events don't know about the US and Canada. Still valid in the US, visit:

[Sursound] Ambisonia.com is down

2014-05-23 Thread Martin Leese
Marc Lavall?e m...@hacklava.net wrote: Hi Jim. I'm the maintainer for Ambisonia. Hi Marc, As requested, I am contacting you off-list. Ambisonia.com appears to be down. I get the following error when accessing http://www.ambisonia.com/: Proxy Error The proxy server received an

Re: [Sursound] HELP: Any methods on producing 3D audio in stereo?

2014-06-10 Thread Martin Leese
YL wrote: Hi, there, I'm radio program producer and recently my boss asked me to think about how to produce 3D audio in stereo. It is not clear to me what you hope to achieve; more information would be helpful. By produce 3D audio do you mean full-sphere surround sound, or horizontal-only

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

2014-06-21 Thread Martin Leese
Dave Malham wrote: Oh, for cryin' out loud. Makes you want to weep - Microsoft reinventing again what's already been done and (most of) the rest of the world believing they're the originators... I am no fan of Microsoft, but this seems a little harsh. Quickly producing an approximate

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

2014-06-23 Thread Martin Leese
Bo-Erik Sandholm wrote: Is there a way to get a personalized HRTF (or even one near mine) with out spending many hundreds of the coins of your choice or travelling to a distant destination? No but, if the Microsoft stuff works out, there might be. Is there a standard format for HRTFS that

Re: [Sursound] Ambisonics rig - loudspeakers directivity

2014-07-02 Thread Martin Leese
Sero wrote: ... What is the best loudspeaker directivity (polar pattern) for an ambisonics listening rig? I am very confused about this because I cannot find any reference on this on any pubblication or discussion on the net. The only work I know on this is a study by Dermot Furlong using a

Re: [Sursound] Ambisonics rig - loudspeakers directivity

2014-07-04 Thread Martin Leese
Dave Malham wrote: We had a rig in our original Music Technology room consisting of four Quad electrostatics (the original ones!) suspended about a metre and a half below the sloping wooden ceiling so they were above head height but angled so they were directed at a central head height point.

Re: [Sursound] BBC Proms in 4.0

2014-07-19 Thread Martin Leese
David Pickett wrote: ... Regarding the lack of browser choice, I agree that it would be nice if all adhered to the HTML5 standard; but they dont. (What's the point of useful standards -- i.e. the HTML5 media tag -- if not everbody uses them?) I am sure it doesn't help that there is no actual

Re: [Sursound] Splitting a 10.2 file

2014-09-03 Thread Martin Leese
Eero Aro wrote: ... It's a command line program. Very fast. Needs lotsa careful typing. Or sloppy typing into a text editor to create a BAT file. Then execute the BAT file. Regards, Martin -- Martin J Leese E-mail: martin.leese stanfordalumni.org Web: http://members.tripod.com/martin_leese/

[Sursound] £100,000 for 3D sound development

2014-10-21 Thread Martin Leese
Hi All, Spotted this in the Engineering Technology magazine: £100,000 for 3D sound development A University of Huddersfield researcher aims to bring sound reproduction into the 3D age with a new system that would allow not only horizontal but also vertical distribution of

Re: [Sursound] £100,000 for 3D sound development

2014-10-21 Thread Martin Leese
On 10/21/14, Martin Leese martin.le...@stanfordalumni.org wrote: ... Here is a link to the entire (brief) article: http://eandt.theiet.org/news/2014/oct/3d-sound-development.cfm Here are a couple more links: http://www.hud.ac.uk/news/2014/october

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