[Sursound] Ambix to FuMa conversion

2018-04-14 Thread David Pickett
In https://www.waves.com/ambisonics-explained-guide-for-sound-engineers it says: "...there are two conventions within the Ambisonics B-format standard: AmbiX and FuMa. They are quite similar, but not interchangeable: they differ by the sequence in which the four channels are arranged..." Co

Re: [Sursound] Ambix to FuMa conversion

2018-04-14 Thread Jack Reynolds
FuMa is WXYZ and ambiX is WYZX with SN3D normalisation. I forget the gains off the top of my head, but will have a look and get back if no one else has chipped in. J ___ Sursound mailing list Sursound@music.vt.edu https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/list

Re: [Sursound] Ambix to FuMa conversion

2018-04-14 Thread Paul Hodges
--On 14 April 2018 10:17 +0200 David Pickett wrote: > (I am working with separate B-format wavfiles -- not multichannel > wavfiles -- and as far as I can find there are no plugins for this > situation.) There are many reasons not to use Steinberg's WaveLab for ambisonics (though it works fine fo

Re: [Sursound] Rode Soundfield NT-SF1

2018-04-14 Thread Chris Woolf
I'd be very interested to know the argument behind that. Although bass response is affected by size in speakers I don't know of any reason for that in microphones. Chris Woolf On 13/04/2018 18:58, Fernando Lopez-Lezcano wrote: On 04/13/2018 10:23 AM, Jack Reynolds wrote: That’s what I thou

Re: [Sursound] Ambix to FuMa conversion

2018-04-14 Thread Fons Adriaensen
On Sat, Apr 14, 2018 at 09:55:25AM +0100, Jack Reynolds wrote: > FuMa is WXYZ and ambiX is WYZX with SN3D normalisation. > I forget the gains off the top of my head, but will have > a look and get back if no one else has chipped in. Convert FuMa to Ambix - ACN-0 = 1.4142

Re: [Sursound] Rode Soundfield NT-SF1

2018-04-14 Thread Fons Adriaensen
On Sat, Apr 14, 2018 at 11:49:07AM +0100, Chris Woolf wrote: > I'd be very interested to know the argument behind that. > > Although bass response is affected by size in speakers I don't know of any > reason for that in microphones. This has little to do with response, and all with directivity.

[Sursound] Curious

2018-04-14 Thread Augustine Leudar
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Re: [Sursound] Curious

2018-04-14 Thread Fons Adriaensen
On Sat, Apr 14, 2018 at 01:20:17PM +0100, Augustine Leudar wrote: > I don't know if anyone else will get the same effect - but playing this > album on my laptop speakers : > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_8wUKUBAXMk > > The sound seems to be hovering about several inches to the left of my > l

Re: [Sursound] Curious

2018-04-14 Thread Marc Lavallée
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[Sursound] Steinberg and Multichannel files

2018-04-14 Thread David Pickett
I have never used Steinberg's Wavelab for anything. :) But it sounds like it has similar drawbacks to the otherwise excellent Samplitude, which I DO use. Incidentally, one of the drawbacks of multichannel wavfiles for HOA is their large size for any reasonable length of musical composition. A

Re: [Sursound] Ambix to FuMa conversion

2018-04-14 Thread David Pickett
Thanks, Fons. I was hoping it was something as simple as this. I failed to find anything on the internet that expresses the relationships so simply. Did I actually miss a page? David At 12:55 14-04-18, Fons Adriaensen wrote: >On Sat, Apr 14, 2018 at 09:55:25AM +0100, Jack Reynolds wrote: > >>

Re: [Sursound] Steinberg and Multichannel files

2018-04-14 Thread Fons Adriaensen
On Sat, Apr 14, 2018 at 05:42:11PM +0200, David Pickett wrote: > Incidentally, one of the drawbacks of multichannel wavfiles for HOA is their > large size for any reasonable length of musical composition. At 48kHz, a > 9-channel 2nd order file takes c. 74MB for 1 minute of music. Alternatively, >

Re: [Sursound] Ambix to FuMa conversion

2018-04-14 Thread Fons Adriaensen
On Sat, Apr 14, 2018 at 05:28:57PM +0200, David Pickett wrote: > Thanks, Fons. I was hoping it was something as simple as this. I failed to > find anything on the internet that expresses the relationships so simply. > Did I actually miss a page? Not one I know of. Some of my programs (e.g. Ambdec

Re: [Sursound] Ambix to FuMa conversion

2018-04-14 Thread Andres Pérez López
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Re: [Sursound] Steinberg and Multichannel files

2018-04-14 Thread David Pickett
At 17:51 14-04-18, Fons Adriaensen wrote: >On Sat, Apr 14, 2018 at 05:42:11PM +0200, David Pickett wrote: > >> Incidentally, one of the drawbacks of multichannel wavfiles for HOA is their >> large size for any reasonable length of musical composition. At 48kHz, a >> 9-channel 2nd order file ta

Re: [Sursound] Steinberg and Multichannel files

2018-04-14 Thread Marc Lavallée
Le 2018-04-14 à 01:22 PM, David Pickett a écrit : At 17:51 14-04-18, Fons Adriaensen wrote: >On Sat, Apr 14, 2018 at 05:42:11PM +0200, David Pickett wrote: > >> Incidentally, one of the drawbacks of multichannel wavfiles for HOA is their >> large size for any reasonable length of musical compo

Re: [Sursound] Steinberg and Multichannel files

2018-04-14 Thread Jack Reynolds
RF64 is also an option for 64bit WAV files via libsndfile. I am attempting to add BW64 to the library for ADM purposes, but it’s taking a while. J ___ Sursound mailing list Sursound@music.vt.edu https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/listinfo/sursound - uns

Re: [Sursound] Steinberg and Multichannel files

2018-04-14 Thread David Pickett
I can handle those. :) At 20:08 14-04-18, Jack Reynolds wrote: > >RF64 is also an option for 64bit WAV files via libsndfile. >I am attempting to add BW64 to the library for ADM purposes, but >it’s taking a while. > >___ >Sursound mailing list >Sursoun

Re: [Sursound] Curious

2018-04-14 Thread Augustine Leudar
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[Sursound] Blackmagic Fairlight

2018-04-14 Thread Gary Gallagher
Buried in the release notes of the the latest DaVinci Resolve beta release is mention of a 3d audio panner for working with "advanced surround formats such as Auro 3d and NHK 22.2 (more information about specific support for these and other formats will come later)." It doesn't appear to be impleme