Getting carried away is the good stuff: it is music after all ;-) Seriously with an irregular setup, one has to use imagination and invention. Very few tools deal with them ‘objectively’ (or I should say perceptually accurately)
p > On 27 Mar 2018, at 23:33, Steven Boardman <boardroomout...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Or treat them all as one ring of 16. Each inner and alternate outer > separated by the same angle, and compensated for distance. > Then its all one circle, and distance can be implied by filtering and > source size, and/or by vbap. > Maybe this has the added of advantage of one decode for all? > It may also help smudge the sweet spot larger too, but I'm probably getting > carried away. :) > > S > > > On Tue, 27 Mar 2018, 23:16 Dave McKevy, <david.mck...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Love the crossfade between spheres suggestion. I was thinking early in this >> awesome thread: if arduino for motion detection to cue a crossfade between >> spheres and binaural mix:) >> >> On Tue, Mar 27, 2018, 6:00 PM Pierre Alexandre Tremblay < >> tremb...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >>> This is a very interesting setup. Ambisonics expect your speakers to be >> on >>> an equidistant sphere (or circle). You have a few options with your >> setup. >>> Here are a few, in order of practicality for the composting process: >>> >>> 1) use the free SpatGris plugin, in free mode, and position your >>> loudspeakers on the grid where they will be, and pan along. Simple and >>> efficient, amplitude based panning. You can choose the radius for each >>> speaker. >>> >>> 2) set 2 ambisonic arrays (one of each circles) and crossfade between >> them >>> >>> 3) set the full setup in a fake sphere, using the first 8 as you 0 deg >>> elevation and the other at 45 deg: it won’t be perfect, but you could use >>> elevation to crossfade between rings… >>> >>> The trick is to try them: give each setup 2 h of play time, and see which >>> one inspires you the most. They will all have quirks and you will compose >>> around them. That is true for any setup, even stereo ;-) >>> >>> p >>> >>> >>> >>>> On 27 Mar 2018, at 22:49, Søren Bendixen <soerenbendi...@gmail.com> >>> wrote: >>>> >>>> allright >>>> my speaker setup (expected to be) 2 concentric circles with 8 speakers >>> in both circles, so I will have to concentric circles of speakers. >>>> then also an inner circle more but all sound in this in headphones. >>>> >>>>> Den 27. mar. 2018 kl. 23.43 skrev Pierre Alexandre Tremblay < >>> tremb...@gmail.com>: >>>>> >>>>>> If done correctly, there is no sweep spot issue. >>>>> >>>>> Sorry, to be accurate: there is no more sweet spot issue than vbap. It >>> is not better, nor worse. Both have a sound, strengths and weaknesses. >>>>> >>>>> If you use asymmetrical speaker layout, far from a regular setup, all >>> will fail. 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