Hello everyone! I thought after the obligatory period of lurking and digging I'd raise my head and say hello - and hopefully canvas some opinions from your wealth of experience here. I met a few of you earlier in the year at the iX Symposium in Montreal (I was doing the music for the live, improvised full-dome / Ambisonic AV show Fragments).
Though I have worked on multi-channel pieces before, Fragments was my first foray into Ambisonics and since then I have been rather obsessed (although my grasp of the science is still a little shaky). Anyways, to cut to the chase - I am now working on designing some effects for a nightclub install - the idea being that there will be a subtle spatialisation of the DJ FX over the 8 speakers using, hopefully, Ambisonics. Basically I am researching the best way to do this. For Fragments I used Ableton going into the ICST externals in MaxMSP, but I can't get the latency low enough for a realtime, live signal without glitching and instability (the audio was all inside Ableton for the show, so a high buffer size was possible). The producers of the project are keen not to use standard home computers, so I am looking for a rock-solid, very low latency solution. What are your guys thoughts? From digging in the archives (admittedly only as far back as 2011) I have identified some different possibilities - 1. Ambdec on something running Linux 2. HOA on something running PureData (maybe Linux again?) 3. Ambi-X on Reaper (though this is only PC or Mac?) 3. Some sort of bespoke microprocessor solution, maybe based on Ambisonic Equivalent Panning? 4. Some sort of control over VCA faders in a quasi-analogue solution (though I have seen posts about this where you guys are not keen :-) 5. Has anyone run Ambisonics on a Kyma system?? We will be feeding live FX sends into the system to be spatialised in some preset patterns in it's basic operational mode.. it will of course be customisable for bespoke shows. Anyways if any of you have any input I would be very grateful :-) Cheers Jake Jake Williams +44 7932 645145 http://www.jakeone.co.uk http://www.fragmentsav.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/private/sursound/attachments/20140916/d4347151/attachment.html> _______________________________________________ Sursound mailing list Sursound@music.vt.edu https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/listinfo/sursound - unsubscribe here, edit account or options, view archives and so on.
