Re: [Sursound] TetraMic and Jaunt VR in Time, Gizmodo and Engadget (Virtual Reality Recording System)

2014-05-16 Thread David McGriffy
On May 16, 2014, at 7:54 AM, Stefan Schreiber wrote: > > Different people keep telling me that anechoic HRIR/HRTF sets don't sound > very well (if applied to deliver virtual surround delivered via headphones), > preferably you should use BRIRs (reverbant, or < non-anechoic > O:-) ). This >

Re: [Sursound] TetraMic and Jaunt VR in Time, Gizmodo and Engadget (Virtual Reality Recording System)

2014-05-17 Thread David McGriffy
> > I don't want to appear overly pedantic, but wasn't it me who wrote this? ;-) > Oh dear, I seem to have gotten my indention levels mixed up. Quite a sin for a C++ programmer. But I am reminded of what someone said in a C++ forum once, ‘… aren’t all C++ programmers pedantic?’ No relati

Re: [Sursound] Oculus Rift Visual Demo + Ambisonic Audio Available?

2014-11-12 Thread David McGriffy
time working with them to provide custom ambisonics code, including binaural conversion. I expect that I will also have some level of binaural conversion out in general purpose plugins eventually. David McGriffy VVAudio.com On Nov 12, 2014, at 5:10 PM, Stefan Schreiber wrote: > Sampo Syre

Re: [Sursound] [allowed] Re: Directional confusion between different B-format players

2015-06-16 Thread David McGriffy
iasing point, though with an array that large this will be pretty low (~2kHz?). I might also suggest, as a point of comparison, to test against a simple mix of the inputs. Ignoring fine points like shelf filters and NFC, a figure-8 decode is simply L=X+Y, R=X-Y. David McGriffy VVAudio.com On Mon,

Re: [Sursound] ambisonics audio for 360 film (VR)

2015-07-22 Thread David McGriffy
osing license types, upgrading websites, etc., but I am ready to talk about individual projects such as yours immediately. David McGriffy vvaudio.com On Wed, Jul 22, 2015 at 9:30 AM, Marc Lavallée wrote: > Hello Henk. > > On Wed, 22 Jul 2015 12:38:53 +0200, "Henk | Spook.fm" wr

[Sursound] Release of VVEncode

2015-10-06 Thread David McGriffy
I'm sure you will let me know if I've made any silly errors or how it might be improved. Thanks, David McGriffy VVAudio -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/private/sursound/attachments/20151006/4fca6b0

Re: [Sursound] Release of VVEncode

2015-10-07 Thread David McGriffy
uch support or whose feedback is worth it. David On Tue, Oct 6, 2015 at 4:28 PM, Ronald C.F. Antony wrote: > > > Sent from a crippled mobile device > > > On 6 Oct 2015, at 17:08, David McGriffy wrote: > > > > (and AU if there is demand) > > Conside

Re: [Sursound] Release of VVEncode

2015-10-07 Thread David McGriffy
l the decoder support arbitrary playback systems? > > thanks, > Charles > > On Wed, Oct 7, 2015 at 8:49 AM, Paul Hodges > wrote: > > > --On 06 October 2015 16:08 -0500 David McGriffy > > wrote: > > > > > I'm sure you will let me > > > k

Re: [Sursound] Release of VVEncode

2015-10-07 Thread David McGriffy
TetraVst and VVMicVst. > > best, > John > > On Oct 7, 2015, at 7:21 AM, David McGriffy wrote: > > > So my not so subtle plea for an AU beta tester has worked! > > > > Seriously, it's easy for me to produce an AU binary. I'm working in the > > wonder

Re: [Sursound] Advice on new loudspeaker array... Genelec 8010 speakers?

2015-10-16 Thread David McGriffy
I've been thinking about how this discussion might apply to a couple of things I'm working on and it seems to me there are two different problems here. First, there is the issue of higher order mics often not really being higher order at low frequencies. But isn't this really a problem of encodin

Re: [Sursound] Advice on new loudspeaker array... Genelec 8010 speakers?

2015-10-16 Thread David McGriffy
e there will be a bump in power > response as the higher frequency driver is practically omnidirectional at > its low end while the lower frequency driver gets directive in its upper > end. > > Ilpo > > > On 16 Oct 2015, at 19:27, David McGriffy wrote: > > > > I&#x

Re: [Sursound] Release of VVEncode

2015-10-23 Thread David McGriffy
27 -0500, > David McGriffy wrote : > > > To all who requested AU support, I have a beta ready. See: > > http://www.vvaudio.com/downloads > > Can we expect Linux and Android versions? > > -- > Marc > ___ > Sursou

Re: [Sursound] "Spatial Workstation" for 360? (VR) audio mixing/edition

2015-10-27 Thread David McGriffy
I've downloaded Unity and 3Dception's existing stuff to play with and my first comments are: Unity is fun! Everyone I know that has tried it thinks it's a great environment to work in. And 3Dception is well integrated into the Unity world. This new VR audio workflow looks to me to be about monit

Re: [Sursound] Ambisonic on Matlab

2015-11-09 Thread David McGriffy
Seba, I have ported my first order ambisonic code to MatLab before but nothing higher order yet. David VVAudio On Mon, Nov 9, 2015 at 1:55 AM, Ausili, S.A. wrote: > Dear all, > > We would like to include an Ambisonic lab in our facilities and we don't > have experience in applying it so far. >

Re: [Sursound] Ambisonic on Matlab

2015-11-09 Thread David McGriffy
tlab to do this - but only > because > > I dont know the program very well. > > > > On 9 November 2015 at 14:22, David McGriffy wrote: > > > > > Seba, > > > > > > I have ported my first order ambisonic code to MatLab before but > no

Re: [Sursound] Brahma first experience

2015-12-07 Thread David McGriffy
Emanuele, As you may be aware, I have recently released VVEncode with Brahma support that will run in ProTools. This is hardly makes even a minimal suite, though. I know of no rotate unit for ProTools, for example. It's my goal to produce encode, decode, pan, and rotate for VST/AAX/OSX/WIN, but

Re: [Sursound] vertical precendence and summing localisation (wallis and lee 2015)

2015-12-13 Thread David McGriffy
y google cardboard demo when I manage to get it up to the app store, but here's an .apk file for those of you who can get that to your phone on your own. http://www.vvaudio.com/synthbinaural http://www.vvaudio.com/sites/vvaudio7/files/VVUnityDemo.apk_.zip David McGriffy VVAudio On Sun,

Re: [Sursound] YouTube adds ambisonics support

2016-01-15 Thread David McGriffy
ormat clip player, but you can switch it to a second ambisonic bus that is not rotated for things like background music that shouldn't track with head movements. If I remember right, MPEG-H supports two ambisonic streams for just such reasons. David McGriffy VVAudio On Fri, Jan 15, 201

Re: [Sursound] Never do electronic in public.

2016-02-01 Thread David McGriffy
ar in the VR world is 20ms "motion to photons". Minimum frame rate of 60Hz, preferably 90-120Hz. These faster rates do not allow convolution with the full block size of the listen database, though careful truncation should be OK. David McGriffy VVAudio On Mon, Feb 1, 2016 at 5:52 AM,

Re: [Sursound] Never do electronic in public.

2016-02-01 Thread David McGriffy
my everyday bluetooth headset, built for music, is useless for VR because of latency. And if you headphones are going to be wired, then running that extra USB might not be too bad. David McGriffy On Mon, Feb 1, 2016 at 12:49 PM, Bo-Erik Sandholm wrote: > Apperently there exists a head tr

Re: [Sursound] B format and atoms

2016-06-15 Thread David McGriffy
Certainly the easiest workflow would be to simply decode your B-format to your bed format, 9.1 or 7.1.4, and mix into the bed directly. I don't know of any (released) decoder that does these layouts in a ProTools world, but you can always just use 7.1 and ignore height to get things working. Anoth

Re: [Sursound] New FOA recorder

2016-09-06 Thread David McGriffy
then looking for a smooth or step-wise response in the recording. David McGriffy VVAudio On Tue, Sep 6, 2016 at 10:37 AM, umashankar manthravadi < umasha...@hotmail.com> wrote: > My eight channel microphone is meant to be 2nd order with height. I know > that needs nine channels but

Re: [Sursound] leftover xmas ornaments?

2016-09-17 Thread David McGriffy
I have a friend that has contributed to the OpenSCAD project, so I know a bit about that. It's a 3D modeling program/language that works by writing lines of code instead of pushing things around with a mouse. Because of this, you can have parameters for things like size or number of teeth on a gear

Re: [Sursound] [allowed] brahma

2017-01-05 Thread David McGriffy
I recently developed a MatLab script to create calibrations based on Angelo's method. Set up equations for each measurement's expected results, find the LMS solution in each frequency bin, then build the resulting filter matrix. A little engineering around the low and high frequencies and it seem

[Sursound] Mac/Win support for OctoMic

2018-03-29 Thread David McGriffy
matching higher order decoder ready too, but only if I get back to programming ... David McGriffy -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/private/sursound/attachments/20180329/1d4b2306/attachment.h

Re: [Sursound] [allowed] Re: Strange 'buzz' in Ambisonic recording

2018-05-11 Thread David McGriffy
Given that this is a Brahma, it uses FFT based processing. My suspicion is that the artifact is actually something in the FFTs like a windowing problem or a bug handling the first FFT bins. At 48kHz, 1K block boundaries would be about 48Hz. Does using Xvolver give the same artifact? IIRC I read

Re: [Sursound] tetrahedral mic record

2018-09-11 Thread David McGriffy
re extreme results in the direction of one capsule. David McGriffy VVAudio On Tue, Sep 11, 2018 at 8:21 AM James Mastracco wrote: > I've love to see pictures of the chapel and the mic placement. > > JM > > > Hi Folks > > > Is it better to align performers to c

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

2013-07-03 Thread David McGriffy
"as i can see now, adding a second instance of vvmic or harpex might not be suitable as it would generate two separate soundfields. (not sure if i am right here...)" I can't speak for Harpex (and I can imagine reasons why it might not work), but it should be no problem to use two copies of VVM

Re: [Sursound] A-format panner.

2013-09-26 Thread David McGriffy
If you have any kind of calibration involved, rotating before running the A to B process makes that calibration meaningless. In fact, I'd say that one of the main reasons B-format exists is precisely that it makes processing like rotations a reasonable and general thing to do.

Re: [Sursound] Questions about support of .amb file (Wave based)

2013-10-02 Thread David McGriffy
uded or include it if the user names the file with the .amb extension. Might also need logic to only include it for multi-channel files. Question 2: Yes there are some VST's that do B-Format panning and work in Nuendo, in particular I have used Bruce's and the Swiss Center B-Pan. D

Re: [Sursound] Tetramic Question

2013-11-15 Thread David McGriffy
cameras. Then there are the ways to track a sound once you know its source as Fons discussed. The best way to go depends a lot on what your goals are. David McGriffy vvaudio.com On 11/14/2013 6:12 PM, David Cindric wrote: Well... It's not published yet :D I'm testing it. That'

Re: [Sursound] VR and cheap headtracking in 2013...

2013-12-02 Thread David McGriffy
n the Ambisonic Toolkit does, and I recently coded one up myself for a project that can do it either way. I'm not sure about B-Proc, anyone? David McGriffy VVAudio On 12/2/2013 2:47 AM, Bo-Erik Sandholm wrote: Can you assist by pointing to a VST or standalone decoder that will accept for ex

Re: [Sursound] Funding opportunity for small business

2020-10-28 Thread David McGriffy
al process works and how I can best help your program. Thanks, David McGriffy On Tue, Oct 27, 2020 at 7:50 PM Anne Simonis wrote: > Hi All, > > I'm an acoustic ecologist with NOAA, and my research uses underwater > acoustic recordings to study marine mammal ecology, behavior, a

Re: [Sursound] Funding opportunity for small business

2020-10-28 Thread David McGriffy
Oops, pardon to the list I meant to send that privately, of course. Well, there's a little more about me if anyone is interested. Thanks, David McGriffy On Wed, Oct 28, 2020 at 11:05 AM David McGriffy wrote: > Anne, > > To see a John Muir quote on a SurSound post defini

Re: [Sursound] Ambisonics with self-contained headphones head tracking

2022-01-06 Thread David McGriffy
Jun, Sounds like a great project. I have long been playing with Teensy's and ambisonics including porting both encoding and decoding there. My code won't directly help you since one of the first things I did was convert the whole audio chain in the Teensy Audio Library to use floats instead of i

[Sursound] Nuendo compatibility for VVMicVST

2010-11-05 Thread David McGriffy
raVST, the encoder for TetraMic to b-format, is available to all TetraMic users. Both plugins, as well as a couple of Nuendo template projects, are downloadable from: http://vvaudio.com/downloads David McGriffy P.S. for any coders out there who are curious about what it took, it was simple o

Re: [Sursound] HARPEX-B Plus First Order Mic vs. Third Order

2011-04-08 Thread David McGriffy
f these options working or continue to work with you on some other option, though debugging platforms I don't have is going to go a little slower. David McGriffy On 4/7/2011 10:01 AM, Brian C. Peters wrote: Yes if i had Bidule or Nuendo or a compiled version! Neither of which I have.