Re: [Sursound] Linux ambdec b-format channel order

2013-11-16 Thread Marc Lavallée
Hi Fons I would be happy to use a patched version of mplayer *and* a patched version of jackd; is the patch for jackd still available (and compatible with jackd2)? -- Marc Fons Adriaensen a écrit : > On Sat, Nov 16, 2013 at 11:38:09AM -0800, Aaron Heller wrote: > > > I encountered this a while

Re: [Sursound] Linux ambdec b-format channel order

2013-11-16 Thread Marc Lavallée
I meant a patched ambdec... Also, A patched mplayer would be better, as you prescribe. Another limitation of mplayer is the number of output channels, which I think is limited to 8 (to be verified). -- Marc Fons Adriaensen a écrit : > On Sat, Nov 16, 2013 at 05:35:31PM -0500, Marc Laval

Re: [Sursound] VR and cheap headtracking in 2013...

2013-12-03 Thread Marc Lavallée
It looks like Miro is just a specification. The data is in standard .mat files that Octave can open; the Miro dataclass is not required to access the data. -- Marc Tue, 03 Dec 2013 21:12:46 +0100, Julian Rabius a écrit : > Am Dienstag, den 03.12.2013, 19:17 + schrieb dw: > > > I came across

Re: [Sursound] Upcoming Android apps ambisonic related

2013-12-12 Thread Marc Lavallée
Hi Étienne. etienne deleflie a écrit : > ... and then ambisonics is suddenly available to > masses of people, for very cheap, and with a consistent and quality > spatial experience (assuming the HRTF decoding can be done right). > > Etienne HRTF decoding is the problem here. Finding a proper HR

Re: [Sursound] Upcoming Android apps ambisonic related

2013-12-14 Thread Marc Lavallée
Hi Stefan. Stefan Schreiber a écrit : > For "us" means in this context: A club of enthusiasts and some > academics. That "us", in the context of mass distribution, statistically means a lot of people unable to enjoy Ambisonics using generic HRTFs; there's also a whole lot of "them" who will ref

Re: [Sursound] Upcoming Android apps ambisonic related

2013-12-15 Thread Marc Lavallée
Hi Dave. I never tried head tracking while listening to stereo or Ambisonics (I'm not that much of an "insider"). I'm optimistic about it, even with virtual microphones; but I suspect that the contribution of head tracking would then be limited to the interpretation of level differences and trans

Re: [Sursound] Ambisonic depending Aural recognition,

2013-12-15 Thread Marc Lavallée
Sun, 15 Dec 2013 22:23:57 +0100, Jörn Nettingsmeier a écrit : > > this smells like a bogus journal. i'd accuse the author of link > > farming, if there was any link at all :) > > > should have mentioned this: > https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ambisonics&oldid=217537702 > > the edit

Re: [Sursound] Ambisonic depending Aural recognition,

2013-12-15 Thread Marc Lavallée
Sun, 15 Dec 2013 23:40:01 +0100, Jörn Nettingsmeier a écrit : > > The article is mentionned in the Linkedin profile of the co-author: > > http://www.linkedin.com/pub/kiarash-alimi/40/2b7/117 > > yes, and precisely nowhere else. also, the excerpt than aaron posts > seems like gibberish to me...

Re: [Sursound] status of ambisonia.com?

2013-12-16 Thread Marc Lavallée
Hi Jörn (and all) I'm in charge of Ambisonia (to some extent). Oliver Larkin is the contact at York. There's a seeder on the server, but it's not answering. I restarted the seeder, without success. I suspect that ports are being blocked from inside York; it happens from time to time... I'll send

Re: [Sursound] status of ambisonia.com?

2013-12-16 Thread Marc Lavallée
I can provide links to all torrents. Mirroring files for direct downloads is an option, but I have to check with Oliver. -- Marc Le Mon, 16 Dec 2013 18:06:19 +0100, Jörn Nettingsmeier a écrit : > On 12/16/2013 04:48 PM, Marc Lavallée wrote: > > Hi Jörn (and all) > > >

Re: [Sursound] status of ambisonia.com?

2013-12-20 Thread Marc Lavallée
The bittorent seeder on Ambisonia.com is back online; some port was blocked. Thanks to Oliver Larkin for his help. -- Marc Mon, 16 Dec 2013 10:48:04 -0500, I wrote: > Hi Jörn (and all) > > I'm in charge of Ambisonia (to some extent). > Oliver Larkin is the contact at York. > > There's a seeder

Re: [Sursound] Upcoming Android apps ambisonic related

2013-12-21 Thread Marc Lavallée
Fri, 20 Dec 2013 22:02:26 -0800, Aaron Heller a écrit : > On Fri, Dec 20, 2013 at 7:40 PM, David Worrall > wrote: > > > I remember reading that, with exposure, human's audio-processing > > "hardware" can adapt to/learn how to use a non-optimal HRTF, given > > a bit of time. > > Does anyone have a

Re: [Sursound] Upcoming Android apps ambisonic related

2013-12-21 Thread Marc Lavallée
Sat, 21 Dec 2013 18:40:19 +, Fons Adriaensen a écrit : > On Sat, Dec 21, 2013 at 11:24:45AM -0500, Marc Lavallée wrote: > > > My comprehension of Ambisonics is that the listener's head (in the > > "sweetest spot") is exposed to one coherent approximation of

Re: [Sursound] Motion-Tracked Binaural

2013-12-22 Thread Marc Lavallée
Sun, 22 Dec 2013 15:17:27 -0500, Len Moskowitz a écrit : > The capture array of microphones pictured in their Rondo video seems > rudimentary. They're soliciting developers. More links: http://www.ece.ucdavis.edu/binaural/motion_tracked_binaural_sound.html http://dateline.ucdavis.edu/dl_detail.

Re: [Sursound] Motion-Tracked Binaural

2013-12-22 Thread Marc Lavallée
Mon, 23 Dec 2013 11:25:36 +1100, etienne deleflie a écrit : > where did you see the price advertised? (Cant see it on that page) > > Etienne http://www.rondomotion.com/ http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/261641446/bring-your-headphones-to-life -- Marc > > On Mon, Dec 23, 2013 at 7:17 AM, Len

Re: [Sursound] Ambisonia.com no work

2014-01-25 Thread Marc Lavallée
Fixed! -- Marc Sat, 25 Jan 2014 13:23:27 -0700, Martin Leese a écrit : > Hi, > > When I try to access Ambisonia.com, I get > a 502 Proxy Error: > > The proxy server received an invalid > response from an upstream server. > The proxy server could not handle the > reques

Re: [Sursound] BBC Radio Three Surround Streaming Trial (15. to 31. March)

2014-03-16 Thread Marc Lavallée
Augustine Leudar a écrit : > There not streaming at the moment so I cant test it - I would guess > that either the browser automatically routes the 4 channels to > 1,2,3,4 on the soundcard or there is some way of telling it which > outputs to route the 4 channels to. I have an RME too , As long

Re: [Sursound] BBC Radio Three Surround Streaming Trial (15. to 31. March)

2014-03-16 Thread Marc Lavallée
quot; and "side-right". So, it works on Linux! What's required is Chromium with the FFMpeg extension, Pulseaudio (with the optional jack sink, when using the jackd sound server) and a 5.1 sound module. -- Marc > On 16 March 2014 20:36, Marc Lavallée wrote: > > > Augustin

Re: [Sursound] BBC Streaming trial

2014-03-17 Thread Marc Lavallée
Mon, 17 Mar 2014 09:43:13 -0600, John Abram wrote : > I love this idea, and hope to tune in from Canada for some of the > broadcasts. I'm also in Canada, and I can't listen to the concerts while at work... Are the 4 channels streams available after the concert? -- Marc _

Re: [Sursound] Periphonic Irregular HO Ambisonics Decoder

2014-03-17 Thread Marc Lavallée
Fons, here's my little code review: The "bug" is harmless, because the WbinVec variable is used only if WBIN is considered True, and WBIN is actually a constant set to 0. -- Marc Le Tue, 18 Mar 2014 01:01:25 +, Fons Adriaensen a écrit : > On Mon, Mar 17, 2014 at 05:06:32PM -0700, Aaron He

Re: [Sursound] Inexpensive USB multichannel sound card

2014-03-23 Thread Marc Lavallée
On the cheap side (less than 30 dollars), I tried the Sabrant USB-SND8 and the ST-Lab "USB Sound Box"; they have four stereo mini-jacks, an optical input, and works on Linux. -- Marc Sun, 23 Mar 2014 15:29:01 +0530, umashankar manthravadi wrote : > how inexpensive? for less than 200 usd ESI has

Re: [Sursound] Call For Participation - Online Survey

2014-03-29 Thread Marc Lavallée
Sat, 29 Mar 2014 11:49:14 -0500, Kan Kaban a écrit : > I can´t see why all art forms have to derive into this kind of > technology (gesture/body tracking): music, media, image, etc. 200 > years more of this technology, and we´ll end looking as an amoebic > organism. Confort can´t be pushed forwa

Re: [Sursound] Inexpensive USB multichannel sound card

2014-03-29 Thread Marc Lavallée
Augustine Leudar a écrit : > anyone know of a UK/Ireland supplier of the Sabrant USB-SND8 ? Ebay? Also look for the ST-Lab "USB Sound Box"; it is similar, if not identical. -- Marc ___ Sursound mailing list Sursound@music.vt.edu https://mail.music.vt.

Re: [Sursound] Inexpensive USB multichannel sound card

2014-03-31 Thread Marc Lavallée
sound] Inexpensive USB multichannel sound card > > Date: 30 March 2014 21:22:26 GMT+1 > > > > no uk suppliers on ebay - all from the States. I eventually found > > it on some obscure website - but at 3 times the price as US - still > > cheap though. That ST-Lab &

Re: [Sursound] Inexpensive USB multichannel sound card

2014-04-05 Thread Marc Lavallée
014 00:41:54 +0100, Augustine Leudar wrote: > Can you do this with any 7.1 usb card ? Wich did you use ? > > On 1 April 2014 01:18, Marc Lavallée wrote: > > > "a...@andynic.eclipse.co.uk" a écrit : > > > The Sabrant USB-SND8 is listed on Amazon in the UK f

Re: [Sursound] Inexpensive USB multichannel sound card

2014-04-06 Thread Marc Lavallée
Sun, 6 Apr 2014 06:23:37 +0100, Dave Malham wrote : > Lets not worry too much about silicon - it's ridiculously cheap these > days, so long as you are not going for the top end. If we are to use > cheap, ready built, USB units and not our own purpose built kit (and > that's not unthinkable, this

Re: [Sursound] Inexpensive USB multichannel sound card

2014-04-07 Thread Marc Lavallée
2MB 1MB > TDP 25 W25 W25 > W 25 W Platform AM1 > AM1 AM1 AM1 > > > > -Original Message- > From: Sursound [mailto:sursound-boun...@music.vt.edu] On Behalf Of > Marc Lavall

Re: [Sursound] MS output to 3 loudspeakers

2014-04-08 Thread Marc Lavallée
I made a Trifield decoder a few months ago (with the help of Aaron Heller, to understand how to use Faust), and it works surprisingly well! The distances can be adjusted, so it would work with 3 speakers on a plane. The only problem is the patent... So I'm not sure I can distribute it. -- Marc T

Re: [Sursound] old Ambisonia links -

2014-05-10 Thread Marc Lavallée
Hi Jim. I'm the maintainer for Ambisonia. Please contact me in person to fix the problems with your old submissions. The problem with the link you sent is caused by an obsolete torrent file, created on Ambisonicbootlegs (before Ambisonia). I fixed most of them, but a few are still wrong. About

Re: [Sursound] old Ambisonia links -

2014-05-10 Thread Marc Lavallée
m, I must fix the torrents manually (until I find a way to fix all automatically, hopefully when I'll migrate the web site). Thanks for your help. -- Marc > On Sat, May 10, 2014 at 9:33 AM, Marc Lavallée > wrote: > > > > > Hi Jim. > > > > I'm the ma

Re: [Sursound] parallella board

2014-05-13 Thread Marc Lavallée
That's an interesting board. On one of the expansion port there's one SPDIF link. And it looks like the other ports are interconnections to other boards for building a larger parallel computer. So I guess that one board would be required per 8 channels audio link, and that linking boards together

Re: [Sursound] old Ambisonia links -

2014-05-14 Thread Marc Lavallée
Le Tue, 13 May 2014 16:51:49 +0200, Jörn Nettingsmeier a écrit : > marc, i'd rather mirror the .amb files directly on my server than > invest the time to maintain a permanent tracking seeder (which i used > to do many years ago, but it kept breaking). let me know if you need > the space and/or ban

Re: [Sursound] old Ambisonia links -

2014-05-14 Thread Marc Lavallée
Hi Michael. Thanks for your help. I don't want to flood the list about this topic, but here's what I would use: http://mirrorbrain.org/ -- Marc Le Wed, 14 May 2014 08:11:15 - (GMT), "Michael Chapman" a écrit : > > > > > Jörn, > > > > Thanks a lot for your generous offer. Last December,

Re: [Sursound] An Atmos binaural album

2019-05-29 Thread Marc Lavallée
Oops! I meant Henry Brant (not Harry Brant)... Le 29/05/2019 à 11:11, Marc Lavallée a écrit : As an example, Dolby Atmos technology was used to master and render a recording of Ice Field by Harry Brant, a spatial orchestral composition: https://www.sfsymphony.org/brant Unfortunately I can&#

Re: [Sursound] wifi audio (was Re: Deconstructing soundbar marketing B.S.)

2019-05-30 Thread Marc Lavallée
Le 30/05/2019 à 00:47, David Pickett a écrit : At 22:52 29-05-19, you wrote: Distribution to speakers using UDP multicast of a multichannel stream could possibly make the only time difference between channels be eventual receiver buffering. Just speculation... Bo-Erik UDP would basically

Re: [Sursound] Deconstructing soundbar marketing B.S.

2019-06-02 Thread Marc Lavallée
Just a thought: assuming that all multi-channel "audio nodes" (loudspeaker + amplifier + IP audio) are powered from a common AC circuit, you could try powerline networking. Marc Le 01/06/2019 à 17:25, Augustine Leudar a écrit : by line of sght - I mean we do installations that have walls , de

Re: [Sursound] Ambisonic Hand Controller

2019-07-26 Thread Marc Lavallée
Hi Justin, There's many DIY solutions, but you can try this fine Android app: https://sensors2.org/osc/ or the Bitalino R-IoT : http://ismm.ircam.fr/riot/ Marc Le 19-07-26 à 15 h 01, Justin Kuhn a écrit : Hi Everyone, I am looking into making a controller in which I harness roll, pitch, and

Re: [Sursound] Ambisonic Hand Controller

2019-08-02 Thread Marc Lavallée
Hi Richard. Without reading access to the (paywalled) article and (unpublished) code, it's difficult to understand all the effects of this problem. So I wondered: are the events send via AJAX or WebSockets? Marc Le 19-08-02 à 09 h 53, Richard Foss a écrit : Bo-Erik, we have always been able

Re: [Sursound] Ambisonic Hand Controller

2019-08-02 Thread Marc Lavallée
Richard. On 2019/08/02 4:38 PM, Marc Lavallée wrote: Hi Richard. Without reading access to the (paywalled) article and (unpublished) code, it's difficult to understand all the effects of this problem. So I wondered: are the events send via AJAX or WebSockets? Marc Le 19-08-02 à 09

Re: [Sursound] Zoom H3-VR: new Facebook users' group

2019-08-21 Thread Marc Lavallée
Le 19-08-21 à 18 h 01, Jack Reynolds a écrit : > Where else? For non-FB users, there's http://zoomforum.us/ (thanks to Daniel for the link). Marc >> On 21 Aug 2019, at 22:31, Ralf R Radermacher wrote: >> >>> Am 21.08.19 um 23:15 schrieb Courville, Daniel: >>> >>> I've started a new Facebook u

Re: [Sursound] Ambisonic Audio - Interactive Installation

2019-09-29 Thread Marc Lavallée
Hi Michelle, A master computer could remotely control portable computers (probably phones) to render the sounds using either a customized embedded version of the SSR software (http://spatialaudio.net/ssr/), or to play personalized binaural streams rendered in real time from the master computer usi

Re: [Sursound] FOA/HOA Impulse Responses

2019-10-10 Thread Marc Lavallée
Le 19-10-10 à 04 h 48, Trond Lossius a écrit : > There also exists a set of impulser respoonses from the MUMUTH hall in Graz, > but I’m not sure where to get them. https://irdb.kug.ac.at/index.php?id=16703 Marc ___ Sursound mailing list Sursound@mus

Re: [Sursound] Merry Christmas

2019-12-25 Thread Marc Lavallée
Merry Christmas Mr. Hodges! Thanks for your gift. Marc Le 19-12-25 à 06 h 45, Paul Hodges a écrit : > Merry Christmas to you all! > > Here is a short Christmas motet by Mendelssohn, sung last week by the > Cherwell Singers in the chapel of Exeter College, Oxford: > > Stereo:

Re: [Sursound] Analogue 3D / surround sound panners?

2020-02-15 Thread Marc Lavallée
Le 20-02-15 à 07 h 36, Augustine Leudar a écrit : > What was/is around in terms of analogue physical 3D or horizontal only > panners? I've seen the little joystick things on desks. Was wondering what > else? Do you mean panners using analog electronics and physical controls to pan the sound throu

Re: [Sursound] Analogue 3D / surround sound panners?

2020-02-16 Thread Marc Lavallée
Le 20-02-16 à 08 h 47, Dave Malham a écrit : > The "3d panner with inductance coils" was designed by Jacques Poullin for > Pierre Schaeffer in 1951. It's well described in "Poullin, Jacques (1957) > The application of recording techniques to the production of new musical > materials and forms. Appl

Re: [Sursound] Analogue 3D / surround sound panners?

2020-02-16 Thread Marc Lavallée
https://reverb.com/item/2011345-polyfusion-qp-1-sound-a-round-quad-panner >>> On Sat, Feb 15, 2020, 8:16 AM Augustine Leudar < >> augustineleu...@gmail.com> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> Hi Marc >>>> I mean completely analogue. I use things lik

Re: [Sursound] Analogue 3D / surround sound panners?

2020-02-16 Thread Marc Lavallée
I am not anti digital or anything like that just >> curious. >> >> On Sunday, 16 February 2020, Marc Lavallée wrote: >> >>> Le 20-02-15 à 12 h 20, Augustine Leudar a écrit : >>> >>>> Thanks , >>>> Conan that modular thing looks gr

Re: [Sursound] analog planner

2020-02-20 Thread Marc Lavallée
Le 20-02-20 à 13 h 05, dan2...@yotz.org a écrit : > 3) Or that Siri’s AI is advanced enough to pun by auto-correcting panner to > planner - as these weren’t made for 3-D... One spatial audio will be used by management classes, we'll see "3D audio" panning vocabulary inserted everywhere... So le

Re: [Sursound] OctaThingy .stl Files

2020-03-19 Thread Marc Lavallée
Le 20-03-19 à 17 h 32, John Leonard Main a écrit : > Here, I think, but I have no real idea what I’m looking at. > > https://cm-gitlab.stanford.edu/ambisonics/SpHEAR/ Hello John, What you're looking at is a git repository (hosted using the gitlab software on a server at stanford, using a private

Re: [Sursound] Mach1 Spatial SDK for Multichannel & Spatial Audio Tooling

2020-06-17 Thread Marc Lavallée
Hi Dylan, I'm not a copyright specialist, but at first glance the license is not "open": https://github.com/Mach1Studios/m1-sdk/blob/master/LICENSE.txt The libraries are provided in binary format (no source code); only headers are provided. Marc Le 20-06-17 à 12 h 05, Dylan Marcus a écrit : >

[Sursound] Mixage Fou

2020-10-13 Thread Marc Lavallée
F.Y.I., The "Mixage Fou 2020" event is starting now: http://www.mixagefou.com/spip.php?article289 This eleventh edition is focused on spatial audio, using sound bites from Ambisonia and others. Marc ___ Sursound mailing list Sursound@music.vt.edu htt

[Sursound] binaural to FOA?

2021-03-04 Thread Marc Lavallée
I have a "back to the basics" question. For a simple project I planned to record in FOA or HOA, but the final render would be in simple quad (horizontal). So I don't need a lot of resolution. I enjoy recording with binaural microphones (the kind that looks like cheap earbuds), so I can record

Re: [Sursound] binaural to FOA?

2021-03-04 Thread Marc Lavallée
nal HRTFs on it ? I cant see how - unless theres some super software that has your personal HRTF , can get that data from the recording (which sounds very difficult) and convert to ambisonics/whatever - would love to be wrong though! On Thu, 4 Mar 2021 at 13:55, Marc Lavallée wrote: I have a &q

Re: [Sursound] binaural to FOA?

2021-03-04 Thread Marc Lavallée
FOA to achieve this. Note that this is not the same as “super stereo” effect you may find reference to online (relating to listening to UHJ without a decoder). Jo Anderson authored the encoding kernels and may have more details on what’s happening under the hood. My best, Mike On 4. Mar 202

Re: [Sursound] binaural to FOA?

2021-03-04 Thread Marc Lavallée
stereo and do that for two pairs - quad will always be better than binaural for an installation or just build up a quad soundscape from scratch .And yes I did try what you are describing years ago . On Thu, 4 Mar 2021 at 14:39, Marc Lavallée wrote: Humans heads may be different from th

Re: [Sursound] binaural to FOA?

2021-03-05 Thread Marc Lavallée
ker layout, possibly with extra speakers. The University of Southampton had something like that, but references might take some finding. Ciao, Dave Hunt On 4 Mar 2021, at 17:00, sursound-requ...@music.vt.edu wrote: From: Marc Lavallée Subject: [Sursound] binaural to FOA? Date: 4 March 2021 at

Re: [Sursound] binaural to FOA?

2021-03-05 Thread Marc Lavallée
I'll give zita-bls1 a try with a quad rig, and compare with ATK Super Stereo. I used zita-bls1 to enhance stereo recordings, an the resultst were impressive... It's often more fun to play with low-tech audio than HOA! :-) Thanks Marc Le 21-03-05 à 05 h 41, Fons Adriaensen a écrit : On Thu

Re: [Sursound] binaural to FOA?

2021-03-05 Thread Marc Lavallée
iltering and a kind "weakening " of the sound - I've never liked any of my binaural recordings over speakers (I used those little soundman things) Good luck! On Fri, 5 Mar 2021 at 13:01, Marc Lavallée wrote: That's what I'm looking for: a simple bodge, to be able to u

Re: [Sursound] binaural to FOA?

2021-03-05 Thread Marc Lavallée
Ciao, Dave Hunt On 4 Mar 2021, at 17:00, sursound-requ...@music.vt.edu wrote: From: Marc Lavallée Subject: [Sursound] binaural to FOA? Date: 4 March 2021 at 13:55:42 GMT To: Surround Sound discussion group I have a "back to the basics" question. For a simple project I planned t

[Sursound] WavPack (was: Re: Ambix files)

2021-05-22 Thread Marc Lavallée
Le 21-05-22 à 06 h 21, Fons Adriaensen a écrit : > So all you need is a library to read/write .wav and/or .caf files, > e.g. libsndfile. Maybe WavPack could be promoted for Ambisonics (and Ambix)? There's preliminary support for (lossless) WavPack in libsndfile, not yet merged in the official repo;

[Sursound] ALAC (was Re: WavPack (was: Re: Ambix files))

2021-05-23 Thread Marc Lavallée
choice. Marc Le 2021-05-23 à 06 h 37, Fons Adriaensen a écrit : On Sat, May 22, 2021 at 06:15:48PM -0400, Marc Lavallée wrote: In the document, "Universal Ambisonic" is described to work with WavPack. "Universal Ambisonic" is as dead as can be, and that's probable

Re: [Sursound] ALAC (was Re: WavPack (was: Re: Ambix files))

2021-05-23 Thread Marc Lavallée
n Sun, May 23, 2021 at 09:15:55AM -0400, Marc Lavallée wrote: I assumed that ALAC compression is for Apple-only devices, but it works on other platforms as well, and a quick test shows that ALAC can be a bit more efficient than WavPack (for file size, no idea about CPU usage). So using the Ambix f

[Sursound] Matroska (was: ALAC (was Re: WavPack (was: Re: Ambix files)))

2021-05-23 Thread Marc Lavallée
Le 2021-05-23 à 10 h 22, Stefan Schreiber a écrit : > “So using the Ambix format in a CAF container with ALAC compression is a good choice.” > Seriously: Is a good choice for what? Good for production, because Ambix is a recognized format, and maybe a de-facto standard (without ALAC because i

Re: [Sursound] Matroska (was: ALAC (was Re: WavPack (was: Re: Ambix files)))

2021-05-23 Thread Marc Lavallée
Le 2021-05-23 à 11 h 57, Stefan Schreiber a écrit : > In this sense independent from the actual source format. (Which does not have to be .caf, as Fons already wrote.) Fons also wrote about the several advantages of CAF. > - In my estimation you need standardization rather for the distributi

[Sursound] distribution codecs (was Re: Matroska)

2021-05-23 Thread Marc Lavallée
Le 2021-05-23 à 13 h 36, Stefan Schreiber a écrit : I know for sure that some companies would not like to spend 1 Mbit/s bitrate (or even more) on some HOA track at 3rd or 4th order. (I am not making this up.) An interesting option (to me) is to stream in lossless FOA and add optional resolu

Re: [Sursound] WavPack (was: Re: Ambix files)

2021-05-23 Thread Marc Lavallée
The Mp4 container should work just fine with multiple audio streams (even in FLAC). 8 channels for 2nd order HOA (with one vertical component missing) is good enough, and that could be why it's a format used for VR audio. But some audio enthousiasts could enjoy streams in 3rd order (and more).

Re: [Sursound] Matroska (was: ALAC (was Re: WavPack (was: Re: Ambix files)))

2021-05-23 Thread Marc Lavallée
Le 2021-05-23 à 16 h 50, Fons Adriaensen a écrit : Atmos can use any mix of (fixed position) channels and (moving) objects. So it can be as simple as 5.0 or even stereo with a few objects for effects. In terms of required channel count (for distribution) it's actually a very effective format, fo

Re: [Sursound] WavPack (was: Re: Ambix files)

2021-05-23 Thread Marc Lavallée
Le 2021-05-23 à 16 h 58, Martin Leese a écrit : Extending FLAC to more than eight channels has been discussed in the past.For example, look in the sursound archives for this long post by me: Subject: Re: [Sursound] octofile release Date: Mon Jul 30 22:30:42 EDT 2018 Here is a link

Re: [Sursound] WavPack (was: Re: Ambix files)

2021-05-23 Thread Marc Lavallée
Le 2021-05-23 à 18 h 30, Marc Lavallée a écrit : In include/FLAC/format.h, I changed  FLAC__MAX_CHANNELS from 8u to 128u In src/libFLAC/format.c, I changed FLAC__STREAM_METADATA_STREAMINFO_CHANNELS_LEN from 3 to 8. The code compiles, but encoding more than 8 channels fails (I tried with 19

Re: [Sursound] A 7th-order array with 16 microphones

2021-12-01 Thread Marc Lavallée
Le 2021-12-01 à 09 h 20, Jens Ahrens a écrit : I’m not sure if I understand your question correctly. I’ll do my best to be comprehensive so that my response covers what you are interested in: For this type of array, the spatial aliasing frequency f_a is dependent on order N and radius R of the

Re: [Sursound] the facebook group

2022-01-02 Thread Marc Lavallée
A sursound FB group would be sad news. I'm against social medias since 2004; reading their fine prints before registration should enough to scare away any decent soul. Marc Le 2022-01-01 à 23 h 19, Sampo Syreeni a écrit : Hi. How about if you all also join the Facebook-group, corresponding to t

Re: [Sursound] the facebook group

2022-01-02 Thread Marc Lavallée
. Discussion forums are much better if they they have a good search function. Bo-Erik On Sun, 2 Jan 2022, 15:46 Marc Lavallée, wrote: A sursound FB group would be sad news. I'm against social medias since 2004; reading their fine prints before registration should enough to scare away any decent

Re: [Sursound] Ambisonics with self-contained headphones head tracking

2022-01-05 Thread Marc Lavallée
Le 2022-01-05 à 20 h 58, byungjun kwon a écrit : Can anyone guide me how to develop FOA decoder in Teensy Audio environment to achieve self-contained headphones with head tracking? Hi Jun, The method I used on https://ambisonic.xyz/ could work on the teensy 4.0, if : - convolution is support

Re: [Sursound] Ambisonics with self-contained headphones head tracking

2022-01-05 Thread Marc Lavallée
Le 2022-01-05 à 21 h 23, Marc Lavallée a écrit : The method I used on https://ambisonic.xyz/ could work on the teensy 4.0, if : - convolution is supported: https://github.com/bmillier/FFT-Convolution-Filter-Uniformly-partitioned Convolution would be to use HTRF profiles, but it's not req

Re: [Sursound] Ambisonic UHJ Stereo decoder to speaker feeds

2022-02-25 Thread Marc Lavallée
Le 2022-02-24 à 18 h 16, surround surround a écrit : I could be I simply missed something in the ATK as maybe a signal chain that could provide the decoding I need to convert my old CD's and LP'sbut thought why not see if the knowledge base here might be aware of a solution For those who don'

Re: [Sursound] Ambisonic UHJ Stereo decoder to speaker feeds

2022-02-26 Thread Marc Lavallée
Le 2022-02-26 à 08 h 30, Eero Aro a écrit : And by the way, the majority of UHJ encoded music releases _was_ recorded with a Soundfield type microphone, because the largest number of them were made by Nimbus Records. Nimbus didn't use the Soundfield-made microphone, they used their own setup ma

Re: [Sursound] about principled rendering of ambisonic to binaural

2022-09-23 Thread Marc Lavallée
Le 2022-09-23 à 17 h 26, Ralph Jones a écrit : Any further suggestions would be gratefully accepted. Explore the SPARTA suite, specifically the AmbiENC plugin to encode virtual sources to ambisonics (up to 7th order), then render the resulting ambisonics stream with the AmbiBIN plugin. AmbiEN

Re: [Sursound] Immersive Installation Kew

2022-10-18 Thread Marc Lavallée
Le 2022-10-18 à 16 h 46, eric benjamin a écrit : Unfortunately, your attachment didn't arrive. Perhaps you could post it somewhere and send a link. I received the link as part of the message sent to the list (authentication is required): https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/private/sursound/attac

Re: [Sursound] Requst - regarding Brahma mic useage

2022-11-25 Thread Marc Lavallée
Another option to try is the Array2SH plugin (from the SPARTA suite). Marc Le 2022-11-25 à 12 h 33, Emanuele Costantini a écrit : Hello Jim, I've abandoned the filter matrix of my Brahma-in-mic for quite a while now, as it didn't gave what was supposed to do. Long story short, I scrapped it

Re: [Sursound] 3 point XY - Anyone ever heard about this?

2022-12-04 Thread Marc Lavallée
Le 2022-12-04 à 14 h 30, David Stalling a écrit : PS I don't think the 3 point XY technique is mentioned in the article but just to give you a starting point for digging further. Official web site of Michael Williams: https://www.mmad.info/ (Content of the "soundsscot.com" web site was migrate

Re: [Sursound] So long CIPIC HRTF?

2022-12-30 Thread Marc Lavallée
Le 2022-12-30 à 13 h 33, brian.k...@sorbonne-universite.fr a écrit : The main issue in my experience has been the acoustics within any type of headphone cavity which make creating directional wavefronts almost impossible. For example, the prototype of Greff used an open grid with speakers, pro

Re: [Sursound] [off-topic] Spirals

2023-03-08 Thread Marc Lavallée
The article is freely available here: https://ntrs.nasa.gov/citations/20080042307 Marc Le 2023-03-08 à 11 h 15, Picinali, Lorenzo a écrit : Hello Chris, this might be interesting for you! https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/154193120805200103?casa_token=CptzIp9vOaQA:fG10j5X-vgVL

Re: [Sursound] FLAC and max number of channels

2023-04-30 Thread Marc Lavallée
Hi Panos, The Ogg FLAC  documentation does not mention that more than 8 channels can be encoded. I tried using ffmpeg; this is working for 8 channels: ffmpeg -f lavfi -i "anoisesrc=d=1:c=pink:a=0.5" -c:a flac -f ogg -ac 8 -y noise-8c.ogg But this is not working for 16 channels: ffmpeg -f

Re: [Sursound] FLAC and max number of channels

2023-04-30 Thread Marc Lavallée
nsupported number of channels. I don't really know how this can be done :-( If you have any news please let me know. Cheers! *Pan Athen* SoundFellas <https://soundfellas.com/>, *MediaFlake Ltd <http://mediaflake.com/>** * Digital Media Services, Content, and Tools On Sun, A

Re: [Sursound] FLAC and max number of channels

2023-04-30 Thread Marc Lavallée
Hi Gabriel, Le 2023-04-30 à 19 h 04, Gabriel Wolf a écrit : Hi Panos, Hi Marc, just a side note... some years ago read of the *.caf format. Its no smaller than wav, but aside of this fact - wouldn't it be a perfect choice for (long) ambiX content? Back then it wasn't possible to use it outs

Re: [Sursound] FLAC and max number of channels

2023-05-01 Thread Marc Lavallée
Le 2023-05-01 à 06 h 58, Paul Hodges a écrit : WavPack is used internally by some Zylia software for the 19-channel output from the microphone.  I am impressed at how well that works. Correct. On Linux the 19-channel stream of the ZM-1 can be recorded by many software and saved to a WavPack

Re: [Sursound] FLAC and max number of channels

2023-05-01 Thread Marc Lavallée
To my knowledge browsers don't support more than 8 channels, and configuring them for outputting more than 2 channels is probably a challenge for most users. One solution is to use MPEG-DASH and reassemble parts and decode them. But as with anything "Hi-Fi", the reproduction system is key, so u

Re: [Sursound] [Proposal] for HOA web-streaming-format

2023-05-01 Thread Marc Lavallée
Hi Thorsten, Your proposed mapping could be considered a subset of https://www.itu.int/rec/R-REC-BS.2051-3-202205-I/ Favored loudspeaker layouts for Ambisonics reproduction use the same angular increment (in each horizontal ring), but it's also possible to decode to all loudspeakers of an ir

Re: [Sursound] FLAC and max number of channels

2023-05-02 Thread Marc Lavallée
Back to the original question, here's my comprehension. WAVEFORMATEXTENSIBLE is a structure defined by Microsoft: https://github.com/MicrosoftDocs/windows-driver-docs-ddi/blob/staging/wdk-ddi-src/content/ksmedia/ns-ksmedia-waveformatextensible.md The channel mask define 18 speaker positions (re

Re: [Sursound] Link to Ambio Newspaper article

2011-01-03 Thread Marc Lavallée
Le 3 janvier 2011, sursound-requ...@music.vt.edu a écrit : > Today's Topics: > >1. Link to Ambio Newspaper article (Ralph Glasgal) >2. Re: Link to Ambio Newspaper article (Andrew Levine) I want to share my humble experience with ambiophonics. I tried a few plugins based on the RACE algor

[Sursound] www.kokkinizita.net ?

2011-02-20 Thread Marc Lavallée
Since a few weeks, Fons Adriaensen's web site and email @ kokkinizita.net are not responding... Is there a known reason why? -- Marc ___ Sursound mailing list Sursound@music.vt.edu https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/listinfo/sursound

Re: [Sursound] cross-talk cancellation used in binaural sound reproduction

2011-02-24 Thread Marc Lavallée
It is similar: The Carver C-9 is cancelling one occurence of cross-talk by mixing in to each channel a delayed inverted copy of the other channel, while the RACE algorithm cancels the following cross-talk occurences recursively because the mixed delayed inverted signals must also be cancelled..

Re: [Sursound] cross-talk cancellation used in binaural sound reproduction

2011-02-24 Thread Marc Lavallée
Le Vend. 25 Fév 2011 à 11:29:26 +0800, Junfeng Li a écrit : > I am starting to research on 3D audio reproduction using two/three > loudspeakers. > therefore, I began with build up a real-time 3D sound reproduction > system with two loudspeakers, based on binaural technique (HRTF, > BRIR, etc.). B

Re: [Sursound] cross-talk cancellation used in binaural sound reproduction

2011-02-25 Thread Marc Lavallée
Le 25 février 2011 12:23:08, Edgar Choueiri a écrit : > p.s. Regarding the original question in this thread by Mr. Junfeng, I > should point out that BACCH filters (like other XTC IR filters) are > applied to the audio through VST or AU plugins that can do 2x2 (also > called "True Stereo") IR conv

Re: [Sursound] Death of Ambisonia.com

2011-03-08 Thread Marc Lavallée
Le 8 mars 2011, Peter Lennox a écrit : > Now that Ambisonic Technologies have been > officially recognised (if not fully understood), it seems a good move to > locate the Ambisonic resource in such a historic location Hello list and Mr. Lennox. Location of the web server doesn't matter much. A r

Re: [Sursound] Death of Ambisonia.com

2011-03-08 Thread Marc Lavallée
Le 8 mars 2011 11:43:26, Stefan Schreiber a écrit : > >Location of the web server doesn't matter much. > >A revived Ambisonia web site could be hosted "in the cloud" using recent > >web technologies, and maintained by the community. > >I'm a web programmer, and I would be happy to help. > > How w

Re: [Sursound] Death of Ambisonia.com

2011-03-08 Thread Marc Lavallée
Le 9 mars 2011 10:42:42 +1100, Etienne Deleflie a écrit : > I also believe that the uni of York is the right place for > Ambisonia.com to be hosted. If York uni can take up the project then > I'll hand over the whole shabang, including the domain name. > > The only catch is that Python (and mor

Re: [Sursound] Death of Ambisonia.com

2011-03-09 Thread Marc Lavallée
Le 9 mars 2011, e deleflie a écrit : > > My day job is programming web sites in Python (specifically with > > the Django framework). I also have two years of experience with Plone. > > aha! ... then you are the man. > > I created ambisonia on top of Plone. What version? > I agree Django would be

Re: [Sursound] Death of Ambisonia.com

2011-03-09 Thread Marc Lavallée
I believe it is be possible to script and batch the conversion from B to G (or other formats) on a Linux server using the command line version of ambdec. Scripts could be integrated in the workflow of the (yet to be revived) Ambisonia web site; Plone have all the bell and whistles to handle s

Re: [Sursound] Death of Ambisonia.com

2011-03-10 Thread Marc Lavallée
Le 11 Mar 2011 09:36:28 +1100, e deleflie a écrit : > > I believe it is be possible to script and batch the conversion from > > B to G > > the Ambisonia server comes complete with automated scripts to resample > content, decode to square (using Fons' LADSPA plugins), etc. Great! > Only the cre

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