I am curious about this concept of revival of Ambisonics in the past ten
years.
Is there really any commercially available Ambisonic material?
Is anyone actually selling higher order Ambisonic products?
I realize that of course anything at all can be implemented
on computers.
But suppose I wanted to hear say a decoded
version of UHJ recordings of the past?
(I can do this--I have a processor--but I mean for a person
outside the field). Could you do this by just pushing a few
buttons?
Is anyone out in the real world actually hearing any
Ambisonic material at all, people outside the group
of people interested in it in a serious quasi professional
(or really professional) way?
My impression is that the general public, even the audio public,
has never heard of it, even now. I think the revivial of interest
is mostly just among people like the people here.
Am I missing something?
Robert
On Fri, 30 Mar 2012, Fons Adriaensen wrote:
On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 12:52:22PM -0700, Robert Greene wrote:
Surround in music has never been a hit in any form and it still
is not. Moreover most music is not really enhanced by it in the minds of
most people. Orchestral music benefits enormously--most of what you hear
in an orchestra concert is all around you--but most people do not listen
to that kind of music. And canned artificial music , well, surround of
any kind hardly matters.
Correct. And if you want to use Ambisonics for anything beyond
listening to classical music, e.g. to compete with 5.1 for movie
sound, you need higher order. Which was near impossible or at least
horribly complicated and expensive with analog technology.
The revival of the past ten years or so is largely the result of
higher order becoming possible in practice, along with an interest
from telecom companies rather than music producers.
Ciao,
--
FA
A world of exhaustive, reliable metadata would be an utopia.
It's also a pipe-dream, founded on self-delusion, nerd hubris
and hysterically inflated market opportunities. (Cory Doctorow)
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