there is nothing so powerful as an idea whose time is right.... it was ahead of the technology.
I don't even think it has failed - it just took off in a 'slow burn' way Actually, there is more being done on spherical harmonics and ambisonics than ever before - more experimental setups, more free tools ( look at Wigware, for example) - it's now easy peasy to make and use ambisonics, to convert to and from 5.1 - even stereo(UHJ) Ultimately, "speaker formats" are dead, to eventually be replaced by "speaker layout agnostic" - whether ambisonic, 'scene description' (for use in ambisonic, 5.1, 7.1, wavefield synthesis, etc) - in fact, in future, hybrids are likely to be the norm regards ppl Dr Peter Lennox School of Technology, Faculty of Arts, Design and Technology University of Derby, UK e: p.len...@derby.ac.uk t: 01332 593155 ________________________________________ From: sursound-boun...@music.vt.edu [sursound-boun...@music.vt.edu] On Behalf Of Martin Leese [martin.le...@stanfordalumni.org] Sent: 30 March 2012 18:54 To: sursound@music.vt.edu Subject: Re: [Sursound] Can anyone help with my dissertation please? Cara Gleeson <coarsean...@gmail.com> wrote: ... > *Outline of dissertation question*: *Why did ambisonics not take off > between the 1970's-90's?* Hi Cara, You will probably already have found the FAQ's spin on this. If not, visit: http://members.tripod.com/martin_leese/Ambisonic/faq_latest.html#SECTION19 The FAQ is not a scholarly work, so I didn't bother with sources and no longer remember where all this came from. Interviewing people who were involved sounds like a good idea. Just be aware that their opinions will differ, and there will not be a consensus. (This is the sursound list; there is never a consensus on anything.) At the end of the day, nobody knows why it failed. Regards, Martin -- Martin J Leese E-mail: martin.leese stanfordalumni.org Web: http://members.tripod.com/martin_leese/ _______________________________________________ Sursound mailing list Sursound@music.vt.edu https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/listinfo/sursound _____________________________________________________________________ The University of Derby has a published policy regarding email and reserves the right to monitor email traffic. If you believe this email was sent to you in error, please notify the sender and delete this email. Please direct any concerns to info...@derby.ac.uk. _______________________________________________ Sursound mailing list Sursound@music.vt.edu https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/listinfo/sursound
