Hello Jörn, Thanks for your response. I use Max/MSP and Abelton Live running on a mac.
I figured I would decode on a separate machine because I thought it might be CPU intensive. The laptop I am running the performance on, will already be working pretty hard doing other signal/video processing tasks. There are ambisonic encode/decode externals for Max... http://www.grahamwakefield.net/soft/ambi~/index.htm That might be the easiest thing to try first. Ideally I would like to have 8 (maybe more) speakers that I could configure in various different ways. -ap On Wed, Jun 6, 2012 at 1:26 PM, Jörn Nettingsmeier < netti...@stackingdwarves.net> wrote: > On 06/06/2012 07:33 PM, Anthony Palomba wrote: > > The general idea is to have multiple audio tracks encoded in Max/MSP and >> then >> send that to a decoder which would then send the audio to speakers. >> >> Some questions: >> 1. what kind of decoder should I use: hardware or software? >> I assume is using a software decoder it will be running on another >> computer. >> > > software. but why would you want to use a separate computer for that? > either find something that works in max/msp, or use jack to patch the > generated b-format into ambdec or another decoder of your choice. what > platform are you on? > > > 2. What would be a good scalable and portable strategy to get the audio to >> the speakers? >> Running a bunch of cables all over the place would be a nightmare. Are >> there >> wireless options? >> > > since you seem to have a problem with nightmares (i can relate to that!), > wireless is definitely _not_ an option. running cables isn't too hard. if > you must minimize the amount of cabling, go for passive speakers with a > centralized amp rack - that way, there is only one wire per speaker. > > how many channels are we talking about? > > -- > Jörn Nettingsmeier > Lortzingstr. 11, 45128 Essen, Tel. +49 177 7937487 > > Meister für Veranstaltungstechnik (Bühne/Studio) > Tonmeister VDT > > http://stackingdwarves.net > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/private/sursound/attachments/20120606/9fe17e57/attachment.html> _______________________________________________ Sursound mailing list Sursound@music.vt.edu https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/listinfo/sursound
