I have bought the waves head tracker and software, I am unable to install the software on my most powerful pc, support was not helpful.
The headtracker protocol is secret so headtracker is useless for other software. So I have not used it... Not recommended 😎 Bosse On Wed, 16 Jan 2019 19:09 Eero Aro <eero....@dlc.fi wrote: > Hi All > > I haven't noticed if there has been discussion in Sursound about the > Waves NX5 > virtual room plugin. > > I happened to bump up with the NX 5 last week when I was teaching a > group of artists > to use surround sound in their works. They were all using laptops and > headphones. > We could provide 5.1 loudspeaker monitoring just for a few people at the > same time. > > https://www.waves.com/plugins/nx#introducing-nx-virtual-mix-room > > I had never tried NX 5 before. I downloaded and installed it and used it > for the five days > trial period. I have always been pretty sceptical about virtual room > listening through > headphones, but the NX 5 kinda works for me. It worked so well, that I > actually made > a three minutes test mix with it in 5.1 surround sound for video. > > I always have difficulties in localizing any phantom images in the front > sector, the same > happened with the NX 5. Having said that, the sound image does localize > outside the > head and on the sides and behind the directional localization is quite > good. > > NX 5 has head tracking, and surprisingly it works quite well even with a > built-in laptop > camera or a simple USB camera. Waves is also selling a Bluetooth head > tracker, > which costs as much as the software. > > You cannot use your personal HRTF curve set, but you can feed in two > strategic head > measurements. You can also select a headphone EQ from a short list of > some studio > class headphones. It is possible to tailor the virtual speaker layout. > > The head tracking is a bit slow, but if you accept that, it works quite > well. > > I noticed that I had more use of the virtual listening for 5.1 than for > a two channel > stereo. In both of these I think that it is better to have the head > tracking on than to have > it disabled. > > I didn't have time to try NX 5 with Ambisonics. There is software for > that also. > > Anyone else have experience about this plugin? > > Eero > _______________________________________________ > 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. > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/private/sursound/attachments/20190116/2b4c0407/attachment.html> _______________________________________________ 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.
