Yep, I've downloaded it too and it does look nice - I am _very_ envious of that
display!
The following comments are on the free player. Aside from any worries I (and no doubt many of those
who remember "active steering" quad decoders) have about any sort of active level/position
dependent processing, the current version has, as far as I am concerned, some limitations which rule
out its use at present. The most serious of these is a lack of with-height surround playback
(except, presumably, over phones). I mean, come on guys - this is the 21st century! The player also
does not have any means (as far as I can see) to route outputs to audio channels (Windows version,
not checked the OSX one yet). This is one of the big limitations of VLC which has stopped us
pursuing that as the optimum cross platform player. There's no option to play UHJ...which is still
important. No loop or playlist mode on the player.
Anyway, more next week when I have had a chance to get into our studio and try it out (if I can
figure a way to route the signals)
Dave Malham
PS - I think the full plugin is counter-productively expensive! I mean, come on - a plugin that
costs more than many hosts that it might be used in like Reaper or Plogue and almost as much as the
full Max/MSP/Jitter package, all of which have far more functionality and represent much higher
investments in development time and resources. Fair enough (I suppose) for people who can afford to
shell out for Protools - but for anyone else???
On 31/03/2011 17:15, Richard Dobson wrote:
On 31/03/2011 11:59, Svein Berge wrote:
.
In addition, there is a free B-format player application, which is
intended for playing back b-format material. Hopefully, this can make
some modest contribution on the popularity of b-format as a surround
sound format. The player is available for windows, osx and linux.
Hi, just downloaded it; plays very nicely, and looks great. One thing though - it looks like it
is exclusively a decoder, i.e. treats any generic multi-channel file (.wav) as if it is BFormat,
so it seems it can't double up as a general multi-channel soundfile player - which would be quite
handy. Of course one reason for the AMB format was specifically to disambiguate plain m/c files
from bformat ones, to make such operation easier.
Richard Dobson
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