thanks for your kind words Richard. Ambisonia.com only became what it was due to the generousity of those sharing their great work ... Paul Hodges, John Leonard, Jean-Hugues Roy, Henry, AJH ...
I'm disappointed that I can not continue the effort. It has made me realise the importance of business. If you cant earn a bob doing something then it is not sustainable. That's why I now believe that the best thing anyone can do for ambisonics is create viable businesses ... which is why we should all get behind efforts like Richard Furse's Rapture3D, Svein's Harpex decoder, Len's Tetramic and ofcourse any labels recording ambisonically. Actually, it would be good to create a list of businesses that employ ambisonics ... so that supporters can prioritise spending their dollar to those businesses. Etienne On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 8:58 PM, Richard Lee <[email protected]> wrote: > I hope all of you will join BLaH in thanking Etienne for the immense efforts > and huge amount of time money that resulted in Ambisonia. It must have > seemed thankless at times. > > I am certain it has been a major factor in the resurgence of interest and > much new work on Ambisonics and surround sound in general. Certainly, the > BLaH papers were inspired by and would not have taken place without the > motherlode of high quality recordings in Ambisonia. > > Much remains to be done. The next stage is to > > 1) create a general AV player (probably based on VideoLAN) which can > play B-format Ambisonic recordings. > > 2) In parallel with this, a good compressed format (probably based on > Vorbis) and translating the Ambisonia treasure trove to this. > > I believe these will be the catalyst for widespread acceptance of Ambisonics > as people with a good universal AV player will be able to play B-format and > there will be pressure to apply BLaH4 and other new technologies to create > the Ambisonic Surround Decoder which will finally allow arbitrary speaker > layouts. > > Many thanks, Etienne. > We are forever in your debt. > _______________________________________________ > Sursound mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/listinfo/sursound > _______________________________________________ Sursound mailing list [email protected] https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/listinfo/sursound
