Re: [Sursound] Making a standalone 8ch player

2013-05-27 Thread Jörn Nettingsmeier
On 05/23/2013 01:25 PM, Augustine Leudar wrote: Hello all, I want to start making a standalone 8 channel player (maybe more) - something that can be used in museums, festivals etc for sound installations that can just be turned on and will instantly start looping a multichannel composition on an

Re: [Sursound] Making a standalone 8ch player

2013-05-27 Thread Augustine Leudar
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Re: [Sursound] Making a standalone 8ch player

2013-05-27 Thread Dave Malham
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Re: [Sursound] Making a standalone 8ch player

2013-05-27 Thread Dave Malham
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Re: [Sursound] Making a standalone 8ch player

2013-05-27 Thread Sampo Syreeni
On 2013-05-27, Dave Malham wrote: I should have pointed out that the output boards were connected via the O2's PCi bus and were only 16 bit/48k - but then the processor's clock was only 180 MHz (iirc) in the machines we had. If I'm not wrong, the O2 had a pretty decent I/O architecture apart

Re: [Sursound] Making a standalone 8ch player

2013-05-27 Thread Augustine Leudar
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Re: [Sursound] Making a standalone 8ch player

2013-05-27 Thread Sampo Syreeni
On 2013-05-27, Augustine Leudar wrote: That would be fine - there seems to be considerable debate amongst engineers as to whether higher sampling rates than 48k are worth using anyway In that debate, I'd take a look at the Acoustical Reneissance for Audio position paper, aimed at influencing

Re: [Sursound] Making a standalone 8ch player

2013-05-27 Thread David Pickett
At 16:19 27/5/2013, Sampo Syreeni wrote: In that debate, I'd take a look at the Acoustical Reneissance for Audio position paper, aimed at influencing the rates and bitdepths of DVD-A, at the time. (http://www.meridian.co.uk/ara/araconta.htm) The limits it sets out says 48k is mostly enough, 56

Re: [Sursound] Making a standalone 8ch player

2013-05-27 Thread Len Moskowitz
Are you familiar with the JoeCo Blackbox Player? http://www.joeco.co.uk/main/BBP_models.html Len Moskowitz (mosko...@core-sound.com) Core Sound LLC www.core-sound.com Home of TetraMic ___ Sursound mailing list Sursound@music.vt.edu https://mail.music

Re: [Sursound] Making a standalone 8ch player

2013-05-27 Thread Sampo Syreeni
On 2013-05-27, David Pickett wrote: Correct me if I am wrong, but it seems to me that the reference in this documents to "12 bits" concerns an already packed signal, which needs to start off at a higher bit rate. That's right. What they talk about is the final distribution format, where you

Re: [Sursound] Making a standalone 8ch player

2013-05-27 Thread Ronald C.F. Antony
On 27 May 2013, at 21:23, Sampo Syreeni wrote: > 24/96 is already twice as much even as a non-shaped format, but perhaps has > to be chosen evenso if we want to be sure it's transparent; as the next > common format which includes both sufficient sampling rate and sufficiently > low self-noise

[Sursound] Brahma2 recordings

2013-05-27 Thread umashankar manthravadi
this is for people to know that I have posted a recording made with my modified ZoomH2N. The A format recording was processed with Angelo's Brahmavolver (with filters designed for another 14 mm microphone array) and David McGriffy's VVMic to convert to stereo. The file is on soundcloud, in my na

Re: [Sursound] Making a standalone 8ch player

2013-05-27 Thread Dave Malham
My two penny worth... On 15ips tape - yes, this is fairly limited in one way, that 20 k or less was often the cut-off frequency, that was the 3dB point, but the roll off was very slow, often only 6dB per Octave at first until near the first extinction point caused by the head gap so it doesn't hav