Dear marc I have seen the website and it is very nice. I had not responded earlier because I am in the process of settling into a retired life, in a south indian city Bangalore. Very pleasant weather, and I own a small and convenient flat in the middle of the older Bangalore.
I want to send you a small ambisonics file of a sarus crane calling and I will when you tell me how. Has anything come of brahma with eric Benjamin and co ? One copy of Brahma (standalone) is now with Richard Lee in Australia. He has made some suggestions to improve the quality of the microphone it is quite simple to do and Nakul will implement and measure a microphone with it. Basically it involves expanding the four holes in the tetrahedral array. They are three sided and they can be expanded with an 8 mm drill very carefully ( I do it by hand). There a sharp peak at about 3.5 k. it is flattened by the calibration system, but richard thinks it would be a far better microphone if the peak is reduced before calibration. This will apply to both the standalone microphone and Brahma in Zoom. If you want to do it, it will need recalibration after the surgery. I post you a photo of what needs to be done. Sold quite a few mics recently. Oculus guys are buying a few. umashankar Sent from Mail for Windows 10 From: Marc Lavallée Sent: Sunday, August 23, 2015 8:29 PM To: Surround Sound discussion group Subject: [Sursound] A new home for Ambisonia Dear sursounders. TL;DR There a new Ambisonia.com. It's a static version, without login. I can add new contributions manually. Here are the details: The Ambisonia.com collaborative web site was just retired from University of York, where it was hosted for a bit more than 3 years, thanks to the joint efforts of Etienne Deleflie who accepted my request to put Ambisonia back online, Dave Malham who accepted to host the web site at York, and Oliver Larkin who setup and maintained a server to connect the hard drive sent by Etienne. At the time, my original plan was to fix the resurrected site, and migrate it to add new features. I did fix the torrent download system, but I did not add new features; the main reason was that the Plone content management system used to build and run Ambisonia was obsolete, and I was unable to migrate it to a newer version. Recurring problems made it necessary to disconnect the wiki, later followed by the registration system, then the database started to show signs of corruption. Ambisonia needed a new home... So I exported all relational data to JSON files, and built a static version as a starting point, without a content management system, minus the wiki. In the process, I discovered the rich collection of contributions, and I decided to put an emphasis on the content. I hope that you will appreciate the new fluid layout, the overall simplicity, and the direct download links (!!). But please don't mirror the web site to create a personal archive; the total size is 36GB and the monthly allowed bandwidth is 600.00 GB. If the bandwidth requirement exceeds this limit, I may ask for help ($$). Most of the urls were kept as in the original web site, to avoid broken urls on other web sites. Ambisonic contributions are still geolocalized (if the location was provided), but I favoured OpenStreetMap over GooleMaps. The images provided and the copyright info are easier to see. Although I could stop developing Ambisonia and leave it as an archive, I'd like it to be a starting point for the next version of Ambisonia, still as a collaborative web site, to respect the original intent. Here's the agenda, opened for (private) discussion: - Add a preview player (the one I developed on http://ambisonic.xyz) - Add a download mirroring system (so bandwidth could be shared). - Choose a new framework to build a new dynamic web site, in order to reactivate collaborative mechanisms. Some people asked me how they can contribute new content. I can accept new content, but I'd have to publish it "manually". That's fine for now, because it could help me find a simple contribution mechanism that would not require the entire site to be dynamic, hence reducing complexity and risks of system corruption. Ok, I better stop now... -- Marc _______________________________________________ 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. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/private/sursound/attachments/20150903/8b4c6c16/attachment.html> -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: WP_20150902_11_05_11_Pro.jpg Type: image/jpeg Size: 1063381 bytes Desc: not available URL: <https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/private/sursound/attachments/20150903/8b4c6c16/attachment.jpg> _______________________________________________ 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.
