| You could also usefully join the sursound discussion list - information
is on Dave Malham's Ambisonics front page at York university:
http://www.york.ac.uk/inst/mustech/3d_audio/ambison.htm
I also have a small links page devoted to multi-channel and surround
sound from my home page (below).
Re Ambisonics - I ~can~ use a quad output (either for B-Format signals,
or a first-order horizontal decode - there is a Csound Score and
instrument available to demonsrate this somewhere (Bath server?).
However, it can also use many more, e.g a cube of eight speaker for full
3D periphony including height. Strictly speaking, audio presented on the
horizontal plane is 2D, "3D" should be reserved for representations
including height. However, most manufactures and developers are tending
to use the term 3D for just horizontal presentation!
Richard Dobson
> Josh Whiting wrote:
>
> Does anyone know of a good source for an introduction to 3d sound
> programming with stereo headphones? (not necessarily restricted to
> csound, although I will eventually be using csound as a primary tool)
> I am exploring 3d spatialization as a research and programming project
> assignment.
> I followed the discussion a while back about 3d surround sound and
> ambisonics. However, do I understand correctly that ambisonics
> utilizes 4 channel output?
> Is anyone aware of the software "3d-Audio" produced by Climax
> Software Solutions? Essentially you give the program sound samples
> and specify head location and sample playback location, as well as
> animation, and room properties. It then calculates a stereo output
> file to be listened to in headphones with a somewhat realistic 3d
> spacial feel to the sounds as they move through the virtual space.
> This is the type of direction I am going, however I want to program
> the sound localization manually instead of specifying the sound
> positioning an movement to a third party software.
> Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
> thanks all
> josh whiting
> jwhiting@hampshire.edu
>
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