Thank you all for the very helpful tips. I will try those things tomorrow. - martin
On 22 March 2016 at 18:49, Martin Dupras <martindup...@gmail.com> wrote: > Today I tried playback sources in third order Ambisonics on a 8+6+1 > hemispheric speaker array using Reaper. It didn't quite work as > intended so I'm trying to figure out where I've gone wrong. > > I was using the Blue Ripple TOA-Core panner plugin to position the > sound. I understand that Blue Rippler plugins use the Furse-Malham > convention. > > The only decoders that I could find to decode to my specific array > (using coefficients that I calculated using the Ambisonics Decoder > Toolkit) were the Ambix Plug-ins and AmbDec. > > I tried Ambix first, which I understand uses the ACN ordering > convention. I tried re-ordering the channels based on information that > I found here: > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambisonic_data_exchange_formats#ACN. > But that didn't really work. > > I then tried to run 16 outputs out of Reaper into Jack, and from Jack > into AmbDec, again using my ADT-calculated coefficients. I understand > that AmbDec uses the Furse-Malham convention, so I would have thought > it was compatible with the output of the Blue Rippler plugins. But > again, that didn't really work well at all. > > In both cases the sound was coming from seemingly random places, and a > number of positions went practically silent. > > Any advice on where to go next? > > Many thanks, > > - martin _______________________________________________ Sursound mailing list Sursound@music.vt.edu https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/listinfo/sursound - unsubscribe here, edit account or options, view archives and so on.
