yeah - I read the binaural to Bformat section. But the problem is with what
they describe there that I don't think it would be any different from
converting a normal stereo signal to b format - in fact it could even be a
little bit worse. Its nothing to do with Kemar heads - just the fact if you
have a piece of software like Dearvr you can pan a sound in a circle and
output it as Binaural or FOA or whatever. The problem you'll have with
panning binaural on to speaker like they described panned left and right
etc is you will get the binaural cues for the left ear hitting both ears
and the binaural cues that are just for the right ear hitting both ears
thus rendering any "binaural" cues in the recording ineffective - even
worse with quad - thats why crosstalk cancellation is built in to
transaural systems - but Ive not hear dthat work very well either.
I think you're best bet would be to convert binaural to normal stereo and
do that for two pairs - quad will always be better than binaural for an
installation or just build up a quad soundscape from scratch .And yes I did
try what you are describing years ago .

On Thu, 4 Mar 2021 at 14:39, Marc Lavallée <m...@hacklava.net> wrote:

> Humans heads may be different from the mythic KEMAR dummy head, but for
> my use case I don't think it matters...
>
> I don't expect this "conversion" to be precise, or as a mean to archive
> binaural recordings using ambisonics; my intention is simply to use
> binaural recordings for an art installation with small speakers close to
> the user; I suspect it would feel better with a quad setup than a stereo
> setup, because the user would move (turning its head and/body).
>
> See the "Binaural to B-Format" section of
> https://www.ambisonic.net/quaduhj.html, then the Pan-Rotate section of
> "http://www.ambisonic.net/ambimix.html";; How to do something similar
> with software methods?
>
> I'll try a few things, but maybe someone in the large Sursound community
> did something similar?
>
> (All we see now on this mailing list are academic/commercial
> announcements, so please excuse my naïve question...)
>
> Marc
>
> Le 21-03-04 à 09 h 21, Augustine Leudar a écrit :
> > There might be something that uses crosstalk cancellation that might work
> > for a normal two speaker (transaural) approach? Although I can't see how
> it
> > would work for quad though - or why youd need to use ambisonics fo it. I
> > know Spat has a binaural transaural converter - which can also convert to
> > quad - but I dont know if you can use your own recordings - I think it's
> > just for stuff panned in the software....
> >
> > On Thu, 4 Mar 2021 at 14:15, Augustine Leudar <augustineleu...@gmail.com
> >
> > wrote:
> >
> >> I'm, not sure there would be Marc - I can see how it easy enough to
> >> convert in software ambisonics to binaural by convolving with HRTFs and
> >> potentially the other way round too if you used the same software that
> was
> >> convolving HRTFS to output Ambisonics (or even plain old quad) but a
> >> recording with your own personal HRTFs on it ? I cant see how  - unless
> >> theres some super software that has your personal HRTF , can get that
> data
> >> from the recording (which sounds very difficult) and convert to
> >> ambisonics/whatever - would love to be wrong though!
> >>
> >> On Thu, 4 Mar 2021 at 13:55, Marc Lavallée <m...@hacklava.net> wrote:
> >>
> >>> I have a "back to the basics" question.
> >>>
> >>> For a simple project I planned to record in FOA or HOA, but the final
> >>> render would be in simple quad (horizontal). So I don't need a lot of
> >>> resolution. I enjoy recording with binaural microphones (the kind that
> >>> looks like cheap earbuds), so I can record continuously without being
> >>> noticed.
> >>>
> >>> So I wondered; is there a method to "convert" binaural to
> >>> horizontal-only FOA? Apparently there is:
> >>>
> >>> https://www.ambisonic.net/quaduhj.html
> >>>
> >>> http://www.ambisonic.net/ambimix.html
> >>>
> >>> I guess my question is: what would be the software equivalent of a
> >>> pan-rotate device?
> >>>
> >>> Marc
> >>>
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