I hope all of you will join BLaH in thanking Etienne for the immense efforts and huge amount of time money that resulted in Ambisonia. It must have seemed thankless at times.
I am certain it has been a major factor in the resurgence of interest and much new work on Ambisonics and surround sound in general. Certainly, the BLaH papers were inspired by and would not have taken place without the motherlode of high quality recordings in Ambisonia. Much remains to be done. The next stage is to 1) create a general AV player (probably based on VideoLAN) which can play B-format Ambisonic recordings. 2) In parallel with this, a good compressed format (probably based on Vorbis) and translating the Ambisonia treasure trove to this. I believe these will be the catalyst for widespread acceptance of Ambisonics as people with a good universal AV player will be able to play B-format and there will be pressure to apply BLaH4 and other new technologies to create the Ambisonic Surround Decoder which will finally allow arbitrary speaker layouts. Many thanks, Etienne. We are forever in your debt. _______________________________________________ Sursound mailing list Sursound@music.vt.edu https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/listinfo/sursound
