I’ve used Waves NX quite a bit and I found it rather good. It’s a pity the head tracker protocol is not public domain, but that’s not a deal breaker for me. The bluetooth tracker is at least inexpensive.
Kind Regards, Paul > On 17 Jan 2019, at 09:07, Bo-Erik Sandholm <bosses...@gmail.com> wrote: > > 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. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/private/sursound/attachments/20190117/c35aa96c/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.
