Ah, but my objection is that those are proprietary systems, and I would much rather not use any. Part of the appeal of Ambisonics for me is that it's freely usable by all and no licensing is necessary.
That's actually really very important to me, I'm afraid. I have no issue in principle using commercial software that decodes something that is an open format; I do have issue being locked into a format or protocol that is not in the hands of the public. - martin On 9 February 2016 at 23:04, Augustine Leudar <augustineleu...@gmail.com> wrote: > I understand - most of my stuff is site specific so thus my views. If > scalability and portability are important to you - you might also want to > check out Dolby and DTS's competing new object based 3D audio software - > no idea how easy it is to get your hands on Dolbys - but DTS should be > approachable. DTS say their system lets you put in the speaker array map > and then the file adjusts to the array - so one file is compatable with > multiple arrays., not sure about Dolbys. > > On 9 February 2016 at 22:59, Martin Dupras <martindup...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> I have found amplitude planning effective in some circumstances, but I >> find that it's not portable, e.g. I can't deploy the same to a >> different speaker arrangement, and I can't scale it down to a smaller >> array while composing, among other issues. >> >> I did funnily enough do some basic experiments with Distance-Based >> Amplitude Panning with reasonably good results, I just haven't gone >> much further. I've used it in some site-specific installation work to >> good effect, but again it didn't strike me as being particularly >> scalable or portable, hence why Ambisonics is still my first choice. >> >> - martin >> >> >> On 9 February 2016 at 22:47, Augustine Leudar <augustineleu...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> > I have found amplitude panning to be more effective for some >> applications. >> > >> > On 9 February 2016 at 22:42, Martin Dupras <martindup...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> > >> >> > Out of curiosity - can I ask why you want to use ambisonics as >> opposed to >> >> > other spatial audio techniques ? >> >> >> >> I'm not sure how to answer. What other techniques did you have in >> >> mind? The reasons are several: I understand at least to some extent >> >> Ambisonics, and I have some (but limited) experience doing it in a >> >> planer array; Ambisonics are flexible and scalable; compatible with >> >> some B-format that my colleagues and I have realised already and will >> >> create in the near future; and can be implemented in the software that >> >> I use (largely PureData and SuperCollider.) >> >> >> >> I don't really see which techniques seriously compete with Ambisonics, >> >> but I'll very happily check them out if you point me to them. >> >> >> >> - martin >> >> _______________________________________________ >> >> 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. >> >> >> > >> > >> > >> > -- >> > www.augustineleudar.com >> > -------------- next part -------------- >> > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... >> > URL: < >> https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/private/sursound/attachments/20160209/1b5482ff/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. >> _______________________________________________ >> 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. >> > > > > -- > www.augustineleudar.com > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: > <https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/private/sursound/attachments/20160209/71d2682f/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. _______________________________________________ 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.
