Thank you all who responded to my inquiry regarding a method to encode a 5.1.4 channel stream to binaural. Some responses made clear that I didn’t provide enough information in my initial post. Specifically:
1) I am using Reaper on a Mac Mini. I own Logic, but while I tried at first to use it for 2D surround work, I rapidly became frustrated by its limitations when venturing beyond stereo. And I’m interested primarily in 3D surround (including height channels), which means I really need the much greater flexibility and channel counts that you get with Reaper. 2) My interest in encoding my channels to binaural is not for personal monitoring. My studio is based around a physical 5.1.4 loudspeaker system, which I’ll probably expand to 7.1.4 relatively soon. And it’s all Meyer, so I pretty much have monitoring nailed down. 3) The reason I asked about encoding to binaural is that it’s the only way I can see to make my work available for more people. AFAIK, pretty much everyone now experiences music through earbuds. And basically no one can be expected to have a full-blown surround speaker system like mine, anyway, so I think it’s to my advantage that folks are using earbuds: at least there’s a possibility to give them an approximation of 3D surround using binaural. I hope. So, that said, I really appreciate all the great information and I’m eagerly looking forward to experimenting with 3D Tune-In Toolkit, Anaglyph and the IEM plugin suite. Any further suggestions would be gratefully accepted. Ralph Jones _______________________________________________ Sursound mailing list [email protected] https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/listinfo/sursound - unsubscribe here, edit account or options, view archives and so on.
