On 01/04/2011 14:22, Jörn Nettingsmeier wrote:
On 04/01/2011 01:55 PM, Richard Dobson wrote:
On 01/04/2011 10:37, Svein Berge wrote:
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of the development. Since this plugin in practice requires the use of a
soundfield-type microphone, which is not really a mass-market product,
I hope composers are not entirely disregarded in this, which seems to me
to be an unnecessarily limited assumption. They will likely be producing
(DAW-permitting!) a B-Format stream synthetically; i.e. the stream comes
directly from the host, not from a microphone. Indeed I will likely be
doing this soon myself, as one obvious thing to do with LHC collision
data is to sonify in surround.
iiuc, it doesn't make sense to use harpex for sonification. harpex'
strong point is to sharpen first-order natural recordings and thus
increase the versatility of a tetrahedral microphone.
to get sharp localisation for panned monophonic events, just use higher
order ambisonics.
Well, yes, fair enough; but that rather highlights the feeling that one
would be paying rather a lot for what is "only" a first-order decoder,
notwithstanding all the refinements. As Dave says elsewhere, the display
is really what sells it, and from my point of view it rather
successfully evokes a 2D view of (say) the ATLAS particle detector, e.g.
along the beam axis. As our current project is focussed on outreach into
schools (and the wider community where we can), such display tools would
clearly contribute greatly to the impact of the exercise, even if we end
up rendering mostly to stereo or headphones. Having a multi-speaker
periphonic rig is unlikely to be a priority for schools any time soon,
sadly! But if it can be justified under the science budget, who knows?
So I am likely to be more than happy to stick to first-order for the
time being. Many other prospective users may feel the same.
But my point was in any case more general than that; there are many
composers out there using plain 1st-order (as evidenced by so many of
the tracks on Ambisonia, etc), and the plugin has an obvious relevance
to them, even though they neither own nor feel the need for a tetra
microphone.
As for income etc, take a look at the new iPad 2 (dual core). It only
has the single mic input, but can pass Dolby digital surround out via
Apple's AV adapter (HDMI output). So the possibility to record a sound
and spin it around the user, with that cool display, even if only as a
glorified toy, might garner enough purchases (NB low price, high volume)
to pay for all the R&D!
Richard Dobson
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