Hiho,
On Saturday 08 March 2008 09:36:43 Brian Willkie wrote:
> > * In terms of the audio outcome, is the only difference between the
> > different "orders" of Ambisonics the sound quality?
>
> Not so much sound quality as "localization quality." Higher order
> Ambisonics gives a more accurate image of the location of a sound.
> It also uses more speakers. If you decode a B-format signal to a
> smaller set of speakers, then you simply throw out the extra
> localization information.
note that SuperCollider does not yet have a higher order decoder. There is an
encoder though ;)
Unless there is one in the AmbIEM package of course.
> > * For projecting the ring down to headphones, what is needed? In the
> > archive there's discussion of downloading the Kemar HRTFs from MIT -
> > fine. But is there a specific UGen that would take my 8 channels and
> > apply the HRTFs? Or otherwise how would it work?
>
> I think for this you want Christopher Frauenberger's ambiem package
>
http://sonenvir.at/downloads/sc3/ambiem/Alternately, you could build something with the StereoConvolution2L.
sincerely,
Marije
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