I'm also a big fan of cooledit/ audition - this just confirms my positive impression
On 22 March 2014 17:02, umashankar manthravadi <[email protected]>wrote: > b-format and waveformat extensible support has been available on adobe > CS-5's version of audition. in earlier versions, audition would open a > multichannel file as that many mono files. it now opens as a single > multichannel file, and ambisonics files get identified as w,x,y and z. > this makes using plug ins like vv mic and wigambi decoder very easy to > use. there are a few kinks still. if you use vvmic and create a stereo > file, it will save as a four channel file with two silent channels possibly > I am making a mistake somewhere. I have used cool edit and its successors > for almost 20 years now. > > umashankar > > > Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2014 10:33:51 +0000 > > From: [email protected] > > To: [email protected] > > Subject: [Sursound] AMB support in Audition CC > > > > I have had a nice email from a couple of Adobe developers to mention > > that they added support for AMB files in Audition CC. Specifically: > > > > " > > Here's basically what we support > > * Ambisonic B Format (W,X,Y,Z) in WAVE and WAVEFORMATEXTENSIBLE files > > per the guidelines on your website. Both import and export. Including > > the .amb file extension > > * Import and Export of the same through libsndfile (we include that as > > one of the options now) > > * Import and Export of the same through AIFF/AIFF-C through the > > undocumented CHAN chunk (same as what is in CAF files) > > * When on Mac, Import and Export of the same through Apple's > > AudioToolbox API and the formats that support it (e.g. CAF files). > > " > > > > A screendump they sent shows that the WXYZ channel idents are displayed > > for each channel in the main waveform editor display. They also provide > > a couple of presets in the channel mixer, for decoding to quad and ITU > > 5.1 (remains to be seen how well that one works), and a further one to > > convert from A format to B format, which may be of interest to > > microphone users here. > > > > They told me that despite the stated tech requirements of OS X 10.7 > > onwards I will be able to install it on my 10.6 Mac; only the video > > codec components won't load, which for me is no loss at all. So I should > > be able to get at least the trial version running. > > > > It goes without saying that this does not make Audition a super-duper > > HOA workstation, and of course it is far from being free software, but > > it does hopefully bring basic B-Format processing to a(n even) wider > > public. They were kind enough to thank me for my AMB web page, which > > they said made adding the support "rather easy" :-). > > > > Richard Dobson > > _______________________________________________ > > Sursound mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/listinfo/sursound > > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: < > https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/private/sursound/attachments/20140322/785394b5/attachment.html > > > _______________________________________________ > Sursound mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/listinfo/sursound > -- 07580951119 augustine.leudar.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/private/sursound/attachments/20140325/aa41a415/attachment.html> _______________________________________________ Sursound mailing list [email protected] https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/listinfo/sursound
