Re: [Sursound] Can anyone help with my dissertation please? (Robert Greene)

2012-04-04 Thread Scott Wilson
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[Sursound] B-Format to Binaural

2012-04-04 Thread Moritz Fehr
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Re: [Sursound] B-Format to Binaural

2012-04-04 Thread Jon Honeyball
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Re: [Sursound] B-Format to Binaural

2012-04-04 Thread Michael Chapman
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Re: [Sursound] OT: Spatial music

2012-04-04 Thread Michael Chapman
>> >>> Unless of course they publish a file format for it >> >> Want a minimal and purposely highly (even overtly) extensible one? That >> I can design. In fact I've meant to do something like this from teenage >> up. :) > > Please do! > A group of us proposed a CAF based file format at Graz

Re: [Sursound] Can anyone help with my dissertation please? (Robert Greene)

2012-04-04 Thread etienne deleflie
rmingham.ac.uk/music > BEAST: http://www. birmingham.ac.uk/beast > BEASTmulch: > http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/facilities/BEAST/research/mulch.aspx > COMPASS: http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/compass > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- next par

Re: [Sursound] Can anyone help with my dissertation please? (Robert Greene)

2012-04-04 Thread Joseph Anderson
On 4 Apr 2012, at 6:29 am, Jörn Nettingsmeier wrote: > that is a phenomenon i haven't been able to figure out either :) > why do people still fall for the BEAST? > > jörn (with apologies to the birmingham crew ;) Doh! Not sure I really want to enter the melee here! For me, I came to Ambisonic

Re: [Sursound] B-Format to Binaural

2012-04-04 Thread Joseph Anderson
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[Sursound] New Schoeps/Illusonic decoder plug-in

2012-04-04 Thread Daniel Courville
There's a new Schoeps/Illusonic decoder plug-in for Double-MS that incorporates some Illusonic processes. It could be used to decode B-Format if the B-format is transcoded beforehand to Double-MS. The plug-in is free. - Daniel ___

Re: [Sursound] OT: Spatial music

2012-04-04 Thread Aaron Heller
The 2011 paper by Nachbar, et al, "ambiX - A Suggested Ambisonics Format", specifies SN3D as the normalization scheme. (see eqn 3 in section 2.1, "The normalization that seems most agreeable is SN3D...") The papers are here http://ambisonics.iem.at/proceedings-of-the-ambisonics-symposium-2011

Re: [Sursound] OT: Spatial music

2012-04-04 Thread Michael Chapman
Thanks the correction. Yes, the move was N3D _to_ SN3D. Three years on from the original proposal and one on from the improvements, hopefully this is stable ( ... unless there any seismic improvemnts at York ???). Michael > The 2011 paper by Nachbar, et al, "ambiX - A Suggested Ambisonics > F

Re: [Sursound] Blumlein versus ORTF

2012-04-04 Thread Aaron Heller
Last night I coded up a quick experiment in using the Kemar mannequin HRTFs published by Algazi, et al. at UC Davis. http://interface.cipic.ucdavis.edu/sound/hrtf.html It is very simple... simulate Blumlein pickup and playback though speakers at +/- 45 degrees, low-pass at 800 Hz, and use cross

Re: [Sursound] B-Format to Binaural

2012-04-04 Thread Moritz Fehr
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Re: [Sursound] B-Format to Binaural

2012-04-04 Thread Michael Chapman
g >>> B-Format recordings to a binaural format for reproducing the spatial >>> impression of my recordings on headphones. >>> Mostly, I am recording with a Tetramic. I am looking for useful tools >>> for doing this conversion on a mac. >>&g

[Sursound] DTS files (was Re: Can anyone ...)

2012-04-04 Thread Aaron Heller
Hi David, Thanks for listening and writing. All these recordings were made at the Troy Savings Bank Music Hall in upstate NY and broadcast on NPR's Performance Today about 8-10 years ago. As for the distortion, frankly I have not listened to the DTS versions that carefully. Last night, I decoded

Re: [Sursound] Can anyone help with my dissertation please? (Robert Greene)

2012-04-04 Thread Bruce Wiggins
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Re: [Sursound] OT: Spatial music

2012-04-04 Thread Richard Dobson
At some point of course, the new file format needs to be ratified (at least as "version 1") so people can develop for it independently, safe in the knowledge it won't change for a while. Are there any representative downloadable examples anywhere? Richard Dobson On 04/04/2012 17:19, Michael

Re: [Sursound] B-Format to Binaural

2012-04-04 Thread Fons Adriaensen
On Wed, Apr 04, 2012 at 05:26:35PM -, Michael Chapman wrote: > There were instructions on ambisonia.com. > (For installation, running is easy ...) > > Not sure if anyone has them elsewhere? > Or you could try archive.org > > If you get stuck, do get in touch off list ... but it is years > s

Re: [Sursound] Blumlein versus ORTF

2012-04-04 Thread Fons Adriaensen
On Wed, Apr 04, 2012 at 09:59:45AM -0700, Aaron Heller wrote: > It is very simple... simulate Blumlein pickup and playback though > speakers at +/- 45 degrees, low-pass at 800 Hz, and use > cross-correlation to estimate the ITDs, and compare to the natural > hearing case. The result is here >

Re: [Sursound] B-Format to Binaural

2012-04-04 Thread Hector Centeno
; Moritz > > > -- next part -- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: > <https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/private/sursound/attachments/20120404/e0770986/attachment.html> > ___ > Sursound mailing li

Re: [Sursound] New Schoeps/Illusonic decoder plug-in

2012-04-04 Thread Daniel Courville
Le 12-04-04 07:54, Daniel Courville a écrit : >It could be used to decode B-Format if the B-format is transcoded >beforehand to Double-MS. Here's a little B-Format to Double-MS transcoder: . VST and AU, Mac OS only. If you never installed

Re: [Sursound] DTS files (was Re: Can anyone ...)

2012-04-04 Thread David Pickett
Thanks for all this, Aaron. I get the message: "You don't have permission to access /AMB/LvB-Sym4-Mvt1.amb on this server. Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request." But only with the Beethoven files. My normal method of p

Re: [Sursound] B-Format to Binaural

2012-04-04 Thread Dave Malham
On 04/04/2012, Michael Chapman wrote: >> Hi All, >> >> thanks a lot for your replies. Harpex-B is quite expensive - I like to try >> Tetraproc, but I am not sure how to run it on my mac without Linux... Do >> you have an advice? > > There were instructions on ambisonia.com. > (For installation, r

Re: [Sursound] B-Format to Binaural

2012-04-04 Thread Dave Malham
y, I am recording with a Tetramic. I am looking for useful tools for >> doing this conversion on a mac. >> >> Thank you very much, >> Moritz >> >> >> -- next part -- >> An HTML attachment was scrubbed... >> URL: >> &l

Re: [Sursound] DTS files (was Re: Can anyone ...)

2012-04-04 Thread Dave Malham
On 5 April 2012 02:22, David Pickett wrote: > > My normal method of playing first order is to load B format WXY .wav files > into Samplitude, matrix them and add shelf filters, but I have not yet > successfully discovered how to convert the .amb files to .wav files.  I > should be grateful for a