[Sursound] ambisonic motherlode (redux)

2011-09-19 Thread Sampo Syreeni
Hi again. The ambisonic motherlode still resides in its original adress, as an edititing intermediary. Do you use it to your fullest extent. But I'd still like some help in categorizing/organizing the stuff. Earlier I tried to allocate ten pieces of it to each person. Now I think it'd be bette

Re: [Sursound] Blumlein Shuffler - beta testers wanted

2011-09-19 Thread Sampo Syreeni
On 2011-09-19, Fons Adriaensen wrote: Though perhaps more surround than most would think. Come with me, here: if you take a look at the compensation circuitry which turns A-format into B-format within the conventional SoundField microphone, isn't it pretty much *exactly* a 3D Blumlein shuffler

[Sursound] [ot] another patent

2011-09-19 Thread Sampo Syreeni
On 2011-09-19, Stefan Schreiber wrote: Our economy is really based on IP, in some areas. Think of the pharmaceutical industry in Britain. Personally I'm a political pirate, and an economically minded classical liberal/libertarian minarchist, at the same time. I'd be labelled a federalist in

Re: [Sursound] Blumlein Shuffler - beta testers wanted

2011-09-19 Thread Paul Hodges
--On 19 September 2011 21:37 + Fons Adriaensen wrote: It's not the same. The shuffler is designed to process signals that have no significant level differences in the frequency range it handles, just the phase differences. But Blumlein also considered shuffling might be desirable with cr

Re: [Sursound] Blumlein Shuffler - beta testers wanted

2011-09-19 Thread Fons Adriaensen
On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 12:26:54AM +0300, Sampo Syreeni wrote: > Though perhaps more surround than most would think. Come with me, here: > if you take a look at the compensation circuitry which turns A-format > into B-format within the conventional SoundField microphone, isn't it > pretty mu

Re: [Sursound] Blumlein Shuffler - beta testers wanted

2011-09-19 Thread Sampo Syreeni
On 2011-09-19, Fons Adriaensen wrote: Not exactly surround, but maybe of interest to some: Zita-bls1 is digital implementation of the 'Blumlein Shuffler' (Linux only). [...] Though perhaps more surround than most would think. Come with me, here: if you take a look at the compensation circui

[Sursound] Blumlein Shuffler - beta testers wanted

2011-09-19 Thread Fons Adriaensen
Not exactly surround, but maybe of interest to some: Zita-bls1 is digital implementation of the 'Blumlein Shuffler' (Linux only). More info at I've not yet put the source code on-line. If you want to be a beta tester pl

Re: [Sursound] another patent

2011-09-19 Thread Stefan Schreiber
est, Stefan P.S.: The next question is why you should not copy big parts of your thesis, if copying is sooo effective and efficient. I mean, you can save a lot of time, efforts... -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/private/sursoun

Re: [Sursound] another patent

2011-09-19 Thread Richard Dobson
On 19/09/2011 15:21, Stefan Schreiber wrote: .. The "20 minutes per application" might refer to a specific step, Probably the pre-filtering to eliminate the umpteen patents for free energy machines, teleportation devices, anti-gravity drives, kitchen-table fusion reactors and $2 solutions to

Re: [Sursound] another patent

2011-09-19 Thread Stefan Schreiber
1-2 orders more time. And actually, there is always more than one examiner. (Two at the USPTO. Three in Europe.) Best, Stefan -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/pri

[Sursound] Flux Pure Analyser

2011-09-19 Thread Dave Malham
This looks like it might be a useful product (http://www.fluxhome.com/products/analyzer_modules/pas_surround) _if_ it supported Ambisonics, which it doesn't appear to, despite saying "Supports any type of surround configuration". Seems to be similar to the display used in Harpex-B, which I wish

[Sursound] Proceedings: 3rd International Symposium on Ambisonics & Spherical Acoustics

2011-09-19 Thread Joseph Anderson
Hello All, Any hints on when the proceedings for Kentucky will be published? A visit to http://www.vis.uky.edu/ambisonics2011/proceedings.php returns: > To Be Determined My best, Joseph Anderson ___ Sursound mailing list Sursound@music.vt.edu https:

Re: [Sursound] another patent

2011-09-19 Thread Dave Malham
On 19/09/2011 00:44, Stefan Schreiber wrote: Fair enough. The fact that the different patent systems are not perfect doesn't justify to insult anyone involved. Well, like I said, I do apologise - it was an unfortunate attempt at a humorous dig at the system and the fact that patent examiner

Re: [Sursound] another patent

2011-09-19 Thread Dave Malham
Opps, my mistake :-[ apologies... Dave On 18/09/2011 16:43, Mathieu Guillaume wrote: More important, you can check the legal status by clicking "INPADOC legal status". Doing this, you will learn that the demand is "deemed to be withdrawn", namely, the applicant gave up to obtain a pat