There is very well written and researched feature in January's Sound on Sound issue on immersive audio, FYI. It's behind a paywall, but it's very worth it as a primer in all things 3d audio.
https://www.soundonsound.com/techniques ... sive-audio
Dolby Atmos for the rest of us...
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- KVRist
- Topic Starter
- 259 posts since 31 Oct, 2021
Cheers... can't argue at £0.83 for an article 
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- KVRist
- Topic Starter
- 259 posts since 31 Oct, 2021
Very happy to have discovered today that the latest version of Reaper (v.6.43) has support for up to 9.1.4 in the ReaSurroundPan plugin
Happy New Year !!
Happy New Year !!
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- Banned
- 2524 posts since 4 Jul, 2019
I think the 9.1.4 is just a new present, which is handy. But Reaper has been fine for very large arbitrary speaker numbers for ages. Reaper is widely used in spatial audio, has been for a long time
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- KVRAF
- 9573 posts since 6 Jan, 2017 from Outer Space
Interesting thread!
I am involved in academic contemporary electronic music since ages. A very common set also for live music has usually 8 speakers. My solution to prepare my sets in my bedroom studio, was to get 2 Hifi 5.1 speaker sets from Teufel. Which gives me 2 subs and 10 of the same satellites. I place 8 around, 1 speaker at the ceiling and one on the floor. I have a MotU Ultralight to distribute the 10 channels to the speakers. This is not at all a reference setup, but all I need to immerse myself into my sounds. In addition I made my own way of distributing the sounds to the speakers with my own panner in Max and all my granular sound sources would spread out to all speakers which is much fun. I got recently the Waves NX system for a laughable low price which does work for me better than I anticipated…
In terms of composing, I look at my speakers as part of my instrument. I adapt in a live situation to what is given and do not do any spat like virtual sound source movements rather than panning between distributions of sounds. That approach helps a lot for different listener positions in a concert or installations space which is always a given. The spat approach requires to be in a sweetspot as a listener, which never happens in reality…
All in all my set is extremely affordable and would still allow to produce multichannel music in my bedroom…
The biggest live set I ever had live was a theater in Paris that had 13 speakers distributed around.
The concept of Atmos is mainly to deliver not just many audio channels, but audio objects with additional meta data information of how to mix it to many speakers.
I could probably do Atmos mixes with my set which would translate also well to bigger installations…
I am involved in academic contemporary electronic music since ages. A very common set also for live music has usually 8 speakers. My solution to prepare my sets in my bedroom studio, was to get 2 Hifi 5.1 speaker sets from Teufel. Which gives me 2 subs and 10 of the same satellites. I place 8 around, 1 speaker at the ceiling and one on the floor. I have a MotU Ultralight to distribute the 10 channels to the speakers. This is not at all a reference setup, but all I need to immerse myself into my sounds. In addition I made my own way of distributing the sounds to the speakers with my own panner in Max and all my granular sound sources would spread out to all speakers which is much fun. I got recently the Waves NX system for a laughable low price which does work for me better than I anticipated…
In terms of composing, I look at my speakers as part of my instrument. I adapt in a live situation to what is given and do not do any spat like virtual sound source movements rather than panning between distributions of sounds. That approach helps a lot for different listener positions in a concert or installations space which is always a given. The spat approach requires to be in a sweetspot as a listener, which never happens in reality…
All in all my set is extremely affordable and would still allow to produce multichannel music in my bedroom…
The biggest live set I ever had live was a theater in Paris that had 13 speakers distributed around.
The concept of Atmos is mainly to deliver not just many audio channels, but audio objects with additional meta data information of how to mix it to many speakers.
I could probably do Atmos mixes with my set which would translate also well to bigger installations…
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- Banned
- 2524 posts since 4 Jul, 2019
I have a some academic experience plus working with artists and galleries. The home system does not have to be great because one can tune in the concert hall. Galleries not so much so I make a couple of different mixes and provide.the playback system, 8 channel max or we work out a system and I mix to that.
For galleries I use these, they are very very reliable http://www.waveplayer-systems.com/
For galleries I use these, they are very very reliable http://www.waveplayer-systems.com/