Re: [Sursound] Setting up my first ambisonic system

2012-06-10 Thread Aaron Heller
On Fri, Jun 8, 2012 at 7:59 AM, Dave Malham dave.mal...@york.ac.uk wrote: The BLaH papers are available from http://www.ai.sri.com/ajh/ambisonics/ though currently there seems to be problems streaming the actual papers from Scribd. Thanks for the heads up, Dave. Not sure what's going on with

Re: [Sursound] Setting up my first ambisonic system

2012-06-08 Thread Jörn Nettingsmeier
On 06/06/2012 08:52 PM, Anthony Palomba wrote: I figured I would decode on a separate machine because I thought it might be CPU intensive. The laptop I am running the performance on, will already be working pretty hard doing other signal/video processing tasks. decoding is not cpu intensive at

Re: [Sursound] Setting up my first ambisonic system (Anthony Palomba)

2012-06-08 Thread Augustine Leudar
People will always tell you you need more speakers, but you could do some great stuff with 12 speakers. Im just building my own portable setup myself . If your using max you could easily combine ambsonics with VBAP for spacialisation. For software that works with max I would recommend ICST, Spat

Re: [Sursound] Setting up my first ambisonic system

2012-06-08 Thread Marc Lavallée
Max/Msp is a dataflow programming software; many decoder objects can maybe work together to create one valid decoder. The author would know. Jörn Nettingsmeier netti...@stackingdwarves.net a écrit: There are ambisonic encode/decode externals for Max...

Re: [Sursound] Setting up my first ambisonic system

2012-06-08 Thread Dave Malham
On 08/06/2012 09:49, Jörn Nettingsmeier wrote: On 06/06/2012 08:52 PM, Anthony Palomba wrote: There are ambisonic encode/decode externals for Max... http://www.grahamwakefield.net/soft/ambi~/index.htm That might be the easiest thing to try first. possibly. there is one thing on the

Re: [Sursound] Setting up my first ambisonic system

2012-06-08 Thread Dave Malham
The BLaH papers are available from http://www.ai.sri.com/ajh/ambisonics/ though currently there seems to be problems streaming the actual papers from Scribd. Dave On 08/06/2012 15:22, Anthony Palomba wrote: Thank you all for your insightful replies. I know I could spend years

Re: [Sursound] Setting up my first ambisonic system

2012-06-07 Thread Peter Lennox
Sent: 06 June 2012 18:33 To: Surround Sound discussion group Subject: [Sursound] Setting up my first ambisonic system Hey folks, I am looking to setup an ambisonic sounds system for use in music performance. I apologize if this subject has come up already, but I tried searching the email archive

Re: [Sursound] Setting up my first ambisonic system

2012-06-07 Thread Anthony Palomba
- From: sursound-boun...@music.vt.edu [mailto:sursound-boun...@music.vt.edu] On Behalf Of Anthony Palomba Sent: 06 June 2012 18:33 To: Surround Sound discussion group Subject: [Sursound] Setting up my first ambisonic system Hey folks, I am looking to setup an ambisonic sounds system

[Sursound] Setting up my first ambisonic system

2012-06-06 Thread Anthony Palomba
Hey folks, I am looking to setup an ambisonic sounds system for use in music performance. I apologize if this subject has come up already, but I tried searching the email archive, the search feature does not work! The general idea is to have multiple audio tracks encoded in Max/MSP and then

Re: [Sursound] Setting up my first ambisonic system

2012-06-06 Thread Jörn Nettingsmeier
On 06/06/2012 07:33 PM, Anthony Palomba wrote: The general idea is to have multiple audio tracks encoded in Max/MSP and then send that to a decoder which would then send the audio to speakers. Some questions: 1. what kind of decoder should I use: hardware or software? I assume is using a

Re: [Sursound] Setting up my first ambisonic system

2012-06-06 Thread Anthony Palomba
Hello Jörn, Thanks for your response. I use Max/MSP and Abelton Live running on a mac. I figured I would decode on a separate machine because I thought it might be CPU intensive. The laptop I am running the performance on, will already be working pretty hard doing other signal/video processing