On Sun, Apr 03, 2016 at 12:20:05AM +0000, Albert Leusink wrote: > I'm sure you have all had this discussion many times over, but what, if any, > are the advantages of 1st order ACN over FuMa?
Consistency. There are two aspects to this: 1. The naming scheme, which implicitly defines the order in which components, matrix elements, etc. are stored. 2. Normalisation. ACN (for 1.) and N3D or SN3D (for 2.) both provide a simple and unambiguous way to handle arbitrary higher order. FuMa is inconsistent on both accounts. Which means that any software or format that is supposed to handle arbitrary higher orders has to include special cases in order to support the FuMa subset. Doing that is almost always a bad idea. Of course this leaves the question of how to handle 'legacy' material. The simple answer is: convert it to an ACN/(S)N3D format ASAP, put the original in the archives, and carry on. We do this all the time: when magnetic tapes are digitised, the digital version doesn't retain the pre-emphasis, Dolby noise reduction, etc. that were part of the original format. Same for vinyl records or any other legacy storage formats, including digital ones. Does anyone still create Amiga or IRCAM sound files ? Nobody questions this, so I really wonder why there is some much resistance against dropping legacy AMB formats. 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) _______________________________________________ Sursound mailing list [email protected] https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/listinfo/sursound - unsubscribe here, edit account or options, view archives and so on.
