I would definitely recommend Aaron's decoder toolkit and, in fact, the
whole oeuvre from the Benjamin-Lee-Heller group (BLaH). This can be found
at http://www.ai.sri.com/ajh/ambisonics/
Dave
On 20 February 2016 at 17:58, Jörn Nettingsmeier <
netti...@stackingdwarves.net> wrote:
> On 02/20/2016 06:22 PM, Richard Graham wrote:
>
>> Hi Archontis,
>>
>> I would like to design decoders for 2d and 3d arrays, 1st through
>> 3rd order (at least), both regular and irregular arrays. C code
>> examples would be incredibly helpful as I plan to develop decoders
>> for Pd and Max.
>>
>
> Fons' ambdec is GPL, and it comes with a nice set of example setups.
> It's C++, but the way Fons uses it, it reads pretty much like plain C.
> After all, a dsp loop is a dsp loop...
>
> Most importantly, I’d like to figure out how to calculate these
>> coefficients myself and I am having trouble finding literature on
>> how to do that. I have reached out to a few folks who used their own
>> programs to calculate coefficients. Essentially, I’d like to build
>> my own program in the C programming language.
>>
>
> Aaron Heller has a Matlab/Octave toolkit out that will generate matrices
> for you, and it's completely open. But it relies on quite complex
> functions of the framework... His solutions are used at CCRMA, to
> great effect. Probably your best starting point.
>
> Richard has one but keeps it proprietary, Fons has one but also doesn't
> like to part with it (although he has been very generous about
> generating custom Ambdec setups for people, me included).
>
> For the nitty-gritty, check out the papers from recent Ambisonics
> symposia and the ICSA conferences. Talk to Thomas Musil from Graz for
> the old-school, lovingly hand-optimized matrix approach, or to Zotter et
> al. for the All-Rad approach that works for arbitrary setups but is
> quite complex and kind of brute-forceish. I can dig them up for you if you
> can't find them.
>
> Shortly, I will have access to a 16-channel ring on the horizontal
>> plane and a b-format cube. This system will be modular and
>> configurable into irregular setups, too.
>>
>
> nice! but unless you really need extremely high horizontal resolution for
> research purposes or a truly humongous listening area, a better use for all
> those speakers would be to make a more or less uniform 3D rig.
> gets you a nice dodecahedron for full third-order all around.
>
>
> best,
>
>
> jörn
>
>
>
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