[Sursound] horizontal-only decoder design for line sources

2011-03-20 Thread Richard Lee
When I was R&D tea-boy at Wharfedale, I spent time trailing around the country with Barry Fox our Promotions Manager, putting on lectures/demos & shows. Part of the stuff we carted around was the Wharfedale Ambi rig which was - 12 x TSR110 speakers http://www.gramophone.net/Issue/Page/October%2

Re: [Sursound] Masters /PHDs related to surround sound / Sound art in Europe

2011-03-20 Thread Jörn Nettingsmeier
On 03/19/2011 06:19 PM, Augustine Leudar wrote: anyone know of any Masters /PHDs related to surround sound / Sound art in Europe (but not the UK or Ireland - I am already aware of those) marije baalman (wfs implementation and shapes of virtual sources) frank melchior (wfs) googling the followi

Re: [Sursound] horizontal-only decoder design for line sources

2011-03-20 Thread Jörn Nettingsmeier
On 03/19/2011 10:13 PM, Fons Adriaensen wrote: Again, the extended cover is the result of carefully shaping the vertical polar pattern of the array over the range where it intersects with the the part of the horizontal plane where the listeners are. It is possible because 'close' listeners are i

Re: [Sursound] Masters /PHDs related to surround sound / Sound art in Europe

2011-03-20 Thread Frank Melchior
marije baalman (wfs implementation and shapes of virtual sources) frank melchior (wfs) frank melchior (spatial sound design based on measured room impulse responses) to be published in July this year Best regards, Frank. -- Director Research and Development __

Re: [Sursound] horizontal-only decoder design for line sources

2011-03-20 Thread Fons Adriaensen
On Sun, Mar 20, 2011 at 11:21:41AM +0100, Jörn Nettingsmeier wrote: > my question was if this affects the ratio of W vs. the rest, and if > circular harmonics might be a more suitable model for decoder design in > this case. The answer to that IMHO is no, for the reasons stated earlier. > bu

[Sursound] Ambisonics max/MSP 8 speakers - ICST Ambisonic Externals

2011-03-20 Thread Darren - Bradley
Darren here, thanks for all your help, much appreciated. I have consulted my friends and we think maybe a 8 speaker setup is best for our audience we are going to perform from 40 to 300 people We are looking at now using max/MSP with 8 speakers and using routing of 4 sends in different pan

Re: [Sursound] Masters /PHDs related to surround sound / Sound art in Europe

2011-03-20 Thread Augustine Leudar
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Re: [Sursound] horizontal-only decoder design for line sources

2011-03-20 Thread Jörn Nettingsmeier
On 03/20/2011 04:52 PM, Fons Adriaensen wrote: On Sun, Mar 20, 2011 at 11:21:41AM +0100, Jörn Nettingsmeier wrote: What is this 'coupling' ? just a frequently used technical term used by p.a. systems engineers to describe the plain simple fact that a reasonably high number of point sources r

Re: [Sursound] Ambisonics max/MSP 8 speakers - ICST Ambisonic Externals

2011-03-20 Thread Jörn Nettingsmeier
On 03/20/2011 06:03 PM, Darren - Bradley wrote: Darren here, thanks for all your help, much appreciated. I have consulted my friends and we think maybe a 8 speaker setup is best for our audience we are going to perform from 40 to 300 people We are looking at now using max/MSP with 8 speakers a

Re: [Sursound] horizontal-only decoder design for line sources

2011-03-20 Thread Dave Hunt
Hi, Date: Sun, 20 Mar 2011 15:52:55 + From: Fons Adriaensen On Sun, Mar 20, 2011 at 11:21:41AM +0100, J?rn Nettingsmeier wrote: and the superposition principle does not invalidate the concept of "coupling". What is this 'coupling' ? You mean one driver's response being modified by th

Re: [Sursound] Ambisonics max/MSP 8 speakers - ICST Ambisonic Externals

2011-03-20 Thread Hector Centeno
Hello Darren, I second jörn, ambdec is the way to go. I've just recently tested it against ambidecode~ and IRCAM's spat.decoder~ object and I found ambdec to produce a much better result overall. I've compiled it under Mac OSX 10.6.6 but I remember having to tweak something in the make file for am

Re: [Sursound] horizontal-only decoder design for line sources

2011-03-20 Thread Jörn Nettingsmeier
On 03/20/2011 07:25 PM, Dave Hunt wrote: The whole PA world has gone rather line-array mad since the idea was re-introduced and re-engineered by L'Acoustique and Intellivox (Duran Audio) some 10-12 years ago. mostly for two reasons: * they are cheaper than designs with delay towers * with their

Re: [Sursound] Ambisonics max/MSP 8 speakers - ICST Ambisonic Externals

2011-03-20 Thread umashankar mantravadi
has anyone packaged fons ambdec (and even his tetraproc) so i can install it easily on ubuntu studio? umashankar i have published my poems. read (or buy) at http://stores.lulu.com/umashankar > Date: Sun, 20 Mar 2011 19:11:03 +0100 > From: netti...@stackingdwarves.net > To: sursound@music.v

Re: [Sursound] Ambisonics max/MSP 8 speakers - ICST Ambisonic Externals

2011-03-20 Thread Marc Lavallée
umashankar, You can install ambdec from the Main KXStudio PPA repository : https://launchpad.net/~kxstudio-team -- Marc Le 20 mars 2011, umashankar mantravadi a écrit : > has anyone packaged fons ambdec (and even his tetraproc) so i can install > it easily on ubuntu studio? > > umashankar > > i

Re: [Sursound] Ambisonics max/MSP 8 speakers - ICST Ambisonic Externals

2011-03-20 Thread Hector Centeno
OK. I made an installer for ambdec for Mac OS X. Please feel free to contact me off-list if anyone needs it. It's not tested but I think it should work. The only problem might be that I missed a shared library, which I can fix. JackOSX is required. Best, Hector Note to Fons: I took care of addin

Re: [Sursound] Ambisonics max/MSP 8 speakers - ICST Ambisonic Externals

2011-03-20 Thread umashankar mantravadi
thank you. i will try it tonight umashankar i have published my poems. read (or buy) at http://stores.lulu.com/umashankar > From: m...@hacklava.net > To: sursound@music.vt.edu > Date: Sun, 20 Mar 2011 22:36:37 -0400 > Subject: Re: [Sursound] Ambisonics max/MSP 8 speakers - ICST Ambisonic > E