Of course, you're quite right as usual! In crude terms, a speaker array with a small number of speakers only has a few degrees of freedom with which to reconstruct spherical harmonics. (Rapture3D will manage this for you.)
However, the higher order harmonics also have a range of other uses in frequency bands where soundfield reconstruction is not being used, so it's good to have them! Best wishes, --Richard > -----Original Message----- > From: Sursound [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of > Fons Adriaensen > Sent: 26 November 2013 00:47 > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [Sursound] New Ambisonic VST Plugins - follow up Question to > Fons > [...] > But for regular or almost regular rigs the only result of using > higher order components that the rig can't reproduce without > aliasing into lower ones would be to create 'detents' at the > speaker locations. > [...] _______________________________________________ Sursound mailing list [email protected] https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/listinfo/sursound
