"All you need to do is..," is the end of the line here.
Commercially, you might as well try to sell a car
where all you need to do to start it is to type
in a ten digit code, sing Mary had a little lamb three times,
and notify the post office.
No one is going to go through this sort of thing in
the statistical sense of no one.
Most people do not even know what these words mean
"RIFF/WAV file ,4.0 decode etc"
Why would they want to find out?
Robert
On Sun, 1 Apr 2012, Aaron Heller wrote:
Ummmmm..... Every single recording on Ambisonia was available as a
DTS-CD RIFF/WAV file of a 4.0 decode (that is, Center and LFE were
silent). All one needed to do was burn them to a CD and play in a DVD
player connected to a 5.1 home theater set up. See Richard Elen's
article "Getting Ambisonics Around" for the technical details of the
process. http://www.ambisonic.net/pdf/ambisonics_around.pdf
I know there were several hundred downloads of my recordings in that
format -- Stravinsky, Beethoven, Brahms, Dvorak, recorded with my
Soundfield MkIV for NPR's Performance Today.
--
Aaron Heller <hel...@ai.sri.com>
Menlo Park, CA US
On Sun, Apr 1, 2012 at 4:28 PM, Neil Waterman
<neil.water...@asti-usa.com> wrote:
I agree totally with Robert here.
Most of my work mates have 5.1 set-ups at home, but would never be bothered
to have anything that required more thought, so bring on the 5.1 mixes of
ambisonic source material and at least let the masses get a listen.
Cheers, Neil
On 4/1/2012 6:44 PM, Robert Greene wrote:
I don't think anyone thinks that! What people do think
is that Ambisonics needs some sort of commercial accesibility--
which it could get if discs were put out that provided not
abstract Ambisonics as it were but Ambisonics as decoded
to the 5.1 set up. The message was that no one (statistically speaking)
in the "real world" wants anything that requires thought
and effort.
Given that Ambisonics can be decoded to any speaker setup
(even if the result is not idea), why are there no
5.1 SACDs that show how Ambisonics works on a 5.1 setup?
One cannot expect people to be interested in something they
cannot hear in demo form
Robert
On Sun, 1 Apr 2012, Augustine Leudar wrote:
again to anyone who says things like "ambisonics cant compete with 5.1
please bear in mind this is like saying "amplitude panning can't
compete with 5.1 - it doesnt make any sense at all. You mix your
tracks horizontally ,without elevation, using ambisonics plugins and
burn your ac3/dts file like any other surround mix. Ambisonics is an
approach to creating a soundfield it does not require any special
hardware it can be done with software. The new 22.4 (or something)
sound systems that cinemas are launching soon will allow height
information as well. You could mix a lot of films using ambisonics
when this happens.
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