Re: [Sursound] Surprise, Surprise

2013-12-31 Thread Jon Honeyball
Richard You have sparked a memory in the deep recesses of my headŠ Back in 1983 (might have been early 84) you visited us at the Tonmeister course at University of Surrey, to talk about ambisonics and surround, and the sound field mic (which we had at the department ‹ it was my favourite mic then

Re: [Sursound] New Ambisonic VST Plugins

2013-12-31 Thread Richard Furse
Hi there! As mentioned here as a possibility, we (Blue Ripple Sound) have got around to packaging up a set of POA (Plain Old Ambisonic) VST decoder plugins that parallel the higher resolution TOA ones. Never let it be said that we don't listen to our users ;-) Any volunteers for beta testing? If

Re: [Sursound] Surprise, Surprise

2013-12-31 Thread Richard G Elen
Hi, Jon... It's more likely to have been the experimental mixes Peter and I created for the Boots Ambisonic Microsystem. "Another Surprise" and "Surprise, Surprise" were both made in 1984. There would have been a track reminiscent of Popcorn, some orchestral tracks and other material; perhaps

Re: [Sursound] Surprise, Surprise

2013-12-31 Thread Jon Honeyball
Such fun! I’m about to build a cube in my office in huntingdon — the little Adam A3X speaker is excellent for this. Going to use exhibition stand framework stuff to build a cube onto which I can mount arbitrary arrangements of speakers. Will be fun to decode all my B format stuff into a real cube

Re: [Sursound] Surprise, Surprise

2013-12-31 Thread Martin Leese
Richard G Elen wrote: > Well, this is one of mine Many thanks to Richard for the wealth of information. I will remain alert for a used copy to come up on eBay. Regards, Martin -- Martin J Leese E-mail: martin.leese stanfordalumni.org Web: http://members.tripod.com/martin_leese/ __

Re: [Sursound] Surprise, Surprise

2013-12-31 Thread Eero Aro
Jon Honeyball wrote: You set up a 4 (or maybe more?) speaker horizontal surround array, and then played some music I attended an APRS Studio Engineers Course in the same place in Guildford in 1986. Richard had a similar demo at that course, too. That was the first time when I heard Ambisonics.

Re: [Sursound] Surprise, Surprise

2013-12-31 Thread Richard G Elen
On 31/12/2013 19:32, Eero Aro wrote: I think Richard used a VCR and a PCM F1 for playback, so it was digital, but it was UHJ, not B-Format. And still the surround playback was impressive. The speakers would have been Keesonic Kubs driven by a pair of H|H FET power amps (the latter I still hav