Re: [Sursound] XCore system

We've been playing with xmos quite a bit. It's pretty incredible and extremely cheap! Ben On Sat, Jun 21, 2014 at 1:26 AM, Dave Malham wrote: > Has anyone come across this - http://www.xmos.com/applications/audio - > looks lke it might provide a very interesting (and cheap) platform for > futu

[Sursound] 3rd Order Listening Rooms in London

Hi Everyone, Is there anyone who might be willing to host a distinguished guest for a listening session in London? I would send some encoded files which you would play for her. Apologies for the vagueness... Ben -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL:

Re: [Sursound] Ambisonics for children's Museum

We have been experimenting with Richard's product and it's been very useful and well put-together. It is probably one of the easiest to configure systems out there at the moment. Ben On Tue, Nov 4, 2014 at 6:14 AM, Richard Furse wrote: > At the risk of marketing (I'm never sure how much is appr

Re: [Sursound] Oculus Rift Visual Demo + Ambisonic Audio Available?

Jake, check out Richard's Blue Ripple Sound plugins. They do a pretty awesome amb->binaural. Ben On Tue Nov 18 2014 at 1:40:24 PM Jake Williams wrote: > I have recently been involved in a 3d realtime fulldome show. We are > looking into making an oculus version. The soundtrack is ambisonic and w

Re: [Sursound] 8+ channel players ?

Hi Mick, The RPI tends to have poor performance on it's USB bus and that makes it hard to do interesting audio things. Playback may be fine, any other kind of DSP starts to cause issues. If you can, use the Beaglebone instead. It's a much improved version of the pi.

Re: [Sursound] ambisonics audio for 360 film (VR)

It's also worth checking out Richard Furse's libraries. There are quite a lot of interesting manipulators, along with various renderers for many different platforms. We have been very happy. http://www.blueripplesound.com/ Ben On Wed, Jul 22, 2015 at 10:50 AM, David McGriffy wrote: > Henk, >

Re: [Sursound] ADAT vs. MADI

Jörn is absolutely spot on here. If you are interested in a box with AES, ADAT, MADI and AVB, check out MOTU's 112D. It's a great unit. Ben On Fri, Oct 16, 2015 at 7:32 AM, Jörn Nettingsmeier < netti...@stackingdwarves.net> wrote: > On 10/16/2015 01:02 PM, Augustine Leudar wrote: > > I am curious

Re: [Sursound] Advice on new loudspeaker array... Genelec 8010 speakers?

We have one with the stage box for a total of 32 outs. ~$3k We took it apart to check out the analog stage- even replaced a few components. It's a really good value. The whole thing is OSC controllable too. Ben On Thursday, October 22, 2015, Jörn Nettingsmeier < netti...@stackingdwarves.net> wrot

Re: [Sursound] Dolby Atmos audio recording on sale...

I think the default configuration is 118 objects and two 9.1 beds. :/ not ideal. Ben On Mon, Dec 7, 2015 at 12:55 PM, Spencer Russell wrote: > Is there any technical info available about how Atmos content is > encoded? I've seen reference to "128 channels" so does that mean things > are encode

[Sursound] YouTube adds ambisonics support

Check it out! https://github.com/google/spatial-media/blob/master/docs/spatial-audio-rfc.md Ben -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: __

Re: [Sursound] Storage - how do you do yours?

An HP Microserver with FreeNAS is a great way to get a ZFS cluster running. ZFS is a great filesystem for archiving media. I have machines running pools ranging from 500GB to 144TB. They can scale and grow really easily. You can run pretty nicely with a cheap i3 CPU and a decent LSI HBA. A 16 TB

Re: [Sursound] Storage - how do you do yours?

I would argue that ZFS is superior to RAID in almost all situations these days. Ben On Fri, Apr 15, 2016 at 2:01 PM, Jörn Nettingsmeier < netti...@stackingdwarves.net> wrote: > On 04/15/2016 07:09 PM, John Leonard wrote: > >> A question: >> >> Most of my recording is now 4 four or six channel 96/

Re: [Sursound] Storage - how do you do yours?

On Friday, April 15, 2016, Steven Boardman wrote: > Ah i forgot about ZFS RAID Z. > Has anyone had success using it on random enclosures with mac osx? > > Steve > > On 15 Apr 2016 7:03 pm, "Ben Bloomberg" > > wrote: > > > > I would argue that ZFS is

Re: [Sursound] YouTube now supports Ambisonics (warning....part advertisement..)

My understanding is that you can use aftereffects to place video on a sphere which can then be delivered to Youtube. http://www.mettle.com/skybox-tutorials/ There are some tutorials at the link above. If you package one of these videos with ACN/SN3D audio, then when you upload to Youtube, it wou

Re: [Sursound] YouTube now supports Ambisonics (warning....part advertisement..)

* rotate, not pan. On Fri, Apr 22, 2016 at 11:53 AM, Ben Bloomberg wrote: > My understanding is that you can use aftereffects to place video on a > sphere which can then be delivered to Youtube. > > http://www.mettle.com/skybox-tutorials/ > > There are some tutorials at the

Re: [Sursound] Big Pre-amps?

They use these at MCO 2 and 3 in the Netherlands. Many of the Metropole Orkest albums that you hear are through them after a Neve VR legend. Ben :) ben On Jun 5, 2018, 8:09 AM -0400, Len Moskowitz , wrote: > We found Antelope Audio's (https://en.antelopeaudio.com) MP32 32-channel > mic pre-amp,

[Sursound] Ambisonics not on the cheap

Hi Everyone, Well, now that Sarang has spoken up, he's given me the courage as well. I've been lurking on this list for several months now. Just to be clear, I think you're all high-priestesses!! It's been incredible to read the discussion (most of which has been way over my head, but I try to sl

Re: [Sursound] Ambisonics not on the cheap

ri, Jul 29, 2011 at 12:05 PM, Ben Bloomberg wrote: > Hi Everyone, > > Well, now that Sarang has spoken up, he's given me the courage as well. > I've been lurking on this list for several months now. Just to be clear, I > think you're all high-priestesses!! It's been

Re: [Sursound] Ambisonics on the cheap?

Has anyone tried anything from ESI audio? It looks too good to be true. http://www.esi-audio.com/products/gigaporthd/ It seems like they can be had for around $100. ben On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 9:41 AM, Dave Malham wrote: > > > On 29/07/2011 11:30, Michael Chapman wrote: > >> Now I would like t

Re: [Sursound] Internet communication

as a young person, I am aware of this It blows my mind that my younger sister and her friends use facebook rather than email to communicate. What will be interesting to see is whether this whole "facebook" thing will evolve like AOL, compuserve, etc... Already, many people are working on dist

Re: [Sursound] Any experience with dome acoustics?

We did the American Museum of Natural History planetarium. It's a perforated, painted 70ft aluminum dome with 24 Meyer boxes behind it and a cluster of CQ2's and subs at the top splayed out pointing in 360 degrees audience (sort of like a front fill). The reflections made it really difficult to ha

Re: [Sursound] Any experience with dome acoustics?

In our case we were unfortunately unable to put subs on the floor or under the audience (this was not ideal). However, there were several seat-rumble channels that we were able to use to fake some of the super LF feeling from below. Ben On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 1:43 PM, David Worrall wrote: > On

Re: [Sursound] theatrical ambisonics

There are large ambisonic and WFS systems in Tod Machover's opera Death and the Powers. The systems together are about 60 inputs and 140 outputs. 40-60 of those outputs (depending on the venue because the show tours) are 3rd order ambisonic (64 WFS). Much of the content is synthetically encoded ba

Re: [Sursound] Making a standalone 8ch player

I have some FPGA code to drive 4 and 8 channel Burr Brown DACs (PCM3168a, PCM1608) I could pass along. It's quite messy and I haven't worked on it in a while (4 years) but it also implements a 3rd order ambisonic encoder/decoder and streaming input via USB. The coefficients are all stored in a LUT

Re: [Sursound] Making a standalone 8ch player

how popular this would be or how much time it will take, > however there > Is a huge amount that can be done here. > > On Thursday, May 23, 2013, Ben Bloomberg wrote: > > > I have some FPGA code to drive 4 and 8 channel Burr Brown DACs (PCM3168a, > > PCM1608) I could pass alon

Re: [Sursound] Making a standalone 8ch player

player with simple interface to a FPGA based > ambisonic decoder with loadbale speaker configurations would be a very neat > thing. > > Best Regards > Bo-Erik Sandholm > > > -Original Message- > From: sursound-boun...@music.vt.edu [mailto:sursound-boun...@music.v

Re: [Sursound] Making a standalone 8ch PLayer

Sampo, the problem with ASIC is you have to spend millions to get a working chip. FPGA is much, much more flexible and basically the stepping stone to designing ASIC (i.e. a lot of the tools are the same, but if you screw up you can just reflash instead of having to order a new chip). So its worth

Re: [Sursound] AKG does Ambisonics?

First post! https://www.facebook.com/AKG Ben On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 5:43 PM, Jörn Nettingsmeier < netti...@stackingdwarves.net> wrote: > On 07/22/2013 08:39 PM, Luiz Gonçalo de Moraes Prado wrote: > >> Hello there! >> >> >> AKG has posted some pictures on its facebook feed of what appears to be

Re: [Sursound] Third Order Ambisonic (TOA) VST Plugins - Beta Testers?

I would be very I interested as well. We have Macs with 10.5 - 10.8 and win7 pcs with motu PCIe and FW, RME, SSL PCIe MADI. We can also try 'em out in Linux for you in wine. Ben On Monday, August 5, 2013, Dan Andrews wrote: > I would be very interested in testing these plugs out. Osx 10.8, bidul

Re: [Sursound] Questions about support of .amb file (Wave based)

Richard Furse's plugins would be a great place to start if Nuendo can have 16 channel tracks. I am happy to post our 3rd order audio units, but they are in varying states of sketchiness (i.e. knobs that don't do anything, odd coordinate system, etc...) Ben On Wed, Oct 2, 2013 at 10:41 AM, Jörn Ne

Re: [Sursound] status of ambisonia.com?

I am happy to host all the files for free here at MIT as direct downloads. If someone can pass along a directory to mirror, it takes 10 seconds to set up. Ben On Mon, Dec 16, 2013 at 11:18 AM, Andy Furniss wrote: > Paul Hodges wrote: > >> --On 16 December 2013 16:14 +0100 Jörn Nettingsmeier >>