Re: [Sursound] Exciting news anyone?

2011-04-01 Thread Marc Lavallée
Fri, 01 Apr 2011 22:50:46 +0200, Jörn Nettingsmeier wrote : > > Regarding the Linux version, what interfaces does it have ? > > Will it output to Jack ? To any of the 24..64 ch soundcards > > I use ? > > svein, will there be a linux version? > if so, i might have a customer for you. > my attempts

Re: [Sursound] Exciting news anyone?

2011-04-01 Thread Hector Centeno
Congratulations! I was looking forward to this release after trying the online conversion. Any chance there will be a non-commercial price (I'm a sound artist, not a commercial producer)? It feels a bit unfair to me that something like this gets focused only on main stream commercial production whe

Re: [Sursound] Exciting news anyone?

2011-04-01 Thread Jörn Nettingsmeier
On 04/01/2011 09:47 PM, Fons Adriaensen wrote: On Fri, Apr 01, 2011 at 03:22:18PM +0200, Jörn Nettingsmeier wrote: iiuc, it doesn't make sense to use harpex for sonification. harpex' strong point is to sharpen first-order natural recordings and thus increase the versatility of a tetrahedral mic

[Sursound] Harpex-B pricing

2011-04-01 Thread Gareth Evans
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Re: [Sursound] Exciting news anyone?

2011-04-01 Thread Richard G Elen
Hi guys, Congratulations on doing this, first of all. I probably have very much more "traditional" setups than most people here, so I doubt the sort of configurations I require are the same as most other people. I've only played with the player so far, and only briefly. So some quick notes:

Re: [Sursound] Exciting news anyone?

2011-04-01 Thread Fons Adriaensen
On Fri, Apr 01, 2011 at 03:22:18PM +0200, Jörn Nettingsmeier wrote: > iiuc, it doesn't make sense to use harpex for sonification. harpex' > strong point is to sharpen first-order natural recordings and thus > increase the versatility of a tetrahedral microphone. > > to get sharp localisation f

Re: [Sursound] Exciting news anyone?

2011-04-01 Thread Trond Lossius
On Apr 1, 2011, at 11:37 AM, Svein Berge wrote: > 5. counter-productively expensive (compared to Reaper or Plogue) > > As you all know, the marginal cost of software is close to zero, everything > is in the development. So, when you compare a specialized product to a > mass-market product, it m

Re: [Sursound] Exciting news anyone?

2011-04-01 Thread Danny McCarty
I was wondering why Digital Performer wasn't included in your Plug-in list? On Apr 1, 2011, at 8:29 AM, Svein Berge wrote: > http://harpex.net/download.html > > On 1. april. 2011, at 17:26, Danny McCarty wrote: > >> Could you post the link again please? >> > >

Re: [Sursound] Exciting news anyone?

2011-04-01 Thread Svein Berge
http://harpex.net/download.html On 1. april. 2011, at 17:26, Danny McCarty wrote: Could you post the link again please? ___ Sursound mailing list Sursound@music.vt.edu https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/listinfo/sursound

Re: [Sursound] Exciting news anyone?

2011-04-01 Thread Danny McCarty
Could you post the link again please? On Apr 1, 2011, at 2:37 AM, Svein Berge wrote: > Hello Dave, > > Thanks for the feedback! I'll answer each comment separately. As a general > comment, I should say that these products aim to be as useful as possible to > as many users as possible while li

Re: [Sursound] B format recording

2011-04-01 Thread Andrew Levine
Harpex-B is out! http://harpex.net/presskit20110331/ (Press release) http://harpex.net/download.html (plug-in trial version / free player app for Win, Mac & Linux) Regards, Andrew ___ Sursound mailing list Sursound@music.vt.edu https://mail.mus

Re: [Sursound] Exciting news anyone?

2011-04-01 Thread Richard Dobson
On 01/04/2011 14:22, Jörn Nettingsmeier wrote: On 04/01/2011 01:55 PM, Richard Dobson wrote: On 01/04/2011 10:37, Svein Berge wrote: ... of the development. Since this plugin in practice requires the use of a soundfield-type microphone, which is not really a mass-market product, I hope compos

Re: [Sursound] Exciting news anyone?

2011-04-01 Thread Dave Malham
On 01/04/2011 12:19, Svein Berge wrote: On 1. april. 2011, at 13:08, dave.mal...@york.ac.uk wrote: On the question of with-height - I presume that, at the very least, the binaural out produces height? Absolutely. Ahh - just noticed this is greyed out on the player. Dave

Re: [Sursound] Exciting news anyone?

2011-04-01 Thread Jörn Nettingsmeier
On 04/01/2011 01:55 PM, Richard Dobson wrote: On 01/04/2011 10:37, Svein Berge wrote: ... of the development. Since this plugin in practice requires the use of a soundfield-type microphone, which is not really a mass-market product, I hope composers are not entirely disregarded in this, which

Re: [Sursound] Exciting news anyone?

2011-04-01 Thread Dave Malham
Certainly does (speaking with academic hat on)! Maybe also student pricing at an even lower point but just for one year/duration of course, like Max/MSP? Dave On 01/04/2011 12:20, Svein Berge wrote: That makes sense. Svein On 1. april. 2011, at 12:45, John Leonard wrote: Perhaps one a

Re: [Sursound] Exciting news anyone?

2011-04-01 Thread Richard Dobson
On 01/04/2011 10:37, Svein Berge wrote: ... of the development. Since this plugin in practice requires the use of a soundfield-type microphone, which is not really a mass-market product, I hope composers are not entirely disregarded in this, which seems to me to be an unnecessarily limited ass

Re: [Sursound] Exciting news anyone?

2011-04-01 Thread Svein Berge
That makes sense. Svein On 1. april. 2011, at 12:45, John Leonard wrote: Perhaps one answer to this is to offer academic pricing? This is what Soundfield does with the main SurroundZone plug-in, as far as I remember. Best wishes, John On 1 Apr 2011, at 05:37, Svein Berge wrote: I thin

Re: [Sursound] Exciting news anyone?

2011-04-01 Thread Svein Berge
On 1. april. 2011, at 13:08, dave.mal...@york.ac.uk wrote: They priced the software based on a similar model to yours (and insisted on me developing a dongle which put up the costs even further) against the advice of those of us in the business (so to speak). The result - way lower sales

Re: [Sursound] Exciting news anyone?

2011-04-01 Thread dave . malham
Hi Svein, Thanks for the prompt response. I understand only too well the pricing problems for stuff like this, even though i am insulated from all that by being employed by the Uni (at least, till September next year). We had experience of this in the early days of the Composer's Desktop Proj

Re: [Sursound] Exciting news anyone?

2011-04-01 Thread John Leonard
Perhaps one answer to this is to offer academic pricing? This is what Soundfield does with the main SurroundZone plug-in, as far as I remember. Best wishes, John On 1 Apr 2011, at 05:37, Svein Berge wrote: > I think it's a good deal, but don't expect much sympathy from academia. _

Re: [Sursound] Exciting news anyone?

2011-04-01 Thread Svein Berge
Hello Dave, Thanks for the feedback! I'll answer each comment separately. As a general comment, I should say that these products aim to be as useful as possible to as many users as possible while limiting the feature set to something that is easy to document, understand and support. The f

Re: [Sursound] Exciting news anyone?

2011-04-01 Thread Dave Malham
Yep, I've downloaded it too and it does look nice - I am _very_ envious of that display! The following comments are on the free player. Aside from any worries I (and no doubt many of those who remember "active steering" quad decoders) have about any sort of active level/position dependent pro