Ummmmm..... Every single recording on Ambisonia was available as a DTS-CD RIFF/WAV file of a 4.0 decode (that is, Center and LFE were silent). All one needed to do was burn them to a CD and play in a DVD player connected to a 5.1 home theater set up. See Richard Elen's article "Getting Ambisonics Around" for the technical details of the process. http://www.ambisonic.net/pdf/ambisonics_around.pdf
I know there were several hundred downloads of my recordings in that format -- Stravinsky, Beethoven, Brahms, Dvorak, recorded with my Soundfield MkIV for NPR's Performance Today. -- Aaron Heller <hel...@ai.sri.com> Menlo Park, CA US On Sun, Apr 1, 2012 at 4:28 PM, Neil Waterman <neil.water...@asti-usa.com> wrote: > I agree totally with Robert here. > > Most of my work mates have 5.1 set-ups at home, but would never be bothered > to have anything that required more thought, so bring on the 5.1 mixes of > ambisonic source material and at least let the masses get a listen. > > Cheers, Neil > > > On 4/1/2012 6:44 PM, Robert Greene wrote: >> >> >> I don't think anyone thinks that! What people do think >> is that Ambisonics needs some sort of commercial accesibility-- >> which it could get if discs were put out that provided not >> abstract Ambisonics as it were but Ambisonics as decoded >> to the 5.1 set up. The message was that no one (statistically speaking) >> in the "real world" wants anything that requires thought >> and effort. >> Given that Ambisonics can be decoded to any speaker setup >> (even if the result is not idea), why are there no >> 5.1 SACDs that show how Ambisonics works on a 5.1 setup? >> One cannot expect people to be interested in something they >> cannot hear in demo form >> Robert >> >> On Sun, 1 Apr 2012, Augustine Leudar wrote: >> >>> again to anyone who says things like "ambisonics cant compete with 5.1 >>> please bear in mind this is like saying "amplitude panning can't >>> compete with 5.1 - it doesnt make any sense at all. You mix your >>> tracks horizontally ,without elevation, using ambisonics plugins and >>> burn your ac3/dts file like any other surround mix. Ambisonics is an >>> approach to creating a soundfield it does not require any special >>> hardware it can be done with software. The new 22.4 (or something) >>> sound systems that cinemas are launching soon will allow height >>> information as well. You could mix a lot of films using ambisonics >>> when this happens. >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Sursound mailing list >>> Sursound@music.vt.edu >>> https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/listinfo/sursound >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> Sursound mailing list >> Sursound@music.vt.edu >> https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/listinfo/sursound >> >> > _______________________________________________ > Sursound mailing list > Sursound@music.vt.edu > https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/listinfo/sursound _______________________________________________ Sursound mailing list Sursound@music.vt.edu https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/listinfo/sursound
