On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 05:41:19AM -0500, Monty Montgomery wrote: > Forgive me, I'm a newb to practical Ambisonics myself (just starting > to play with it, had mostly been just familiar with the theory in the > past)... > > > Nothing magical will happen if you pan the 5.0 signals into > > a 3rd or higher order AMB system. The results is just five > > virtual speakers reproducing 5.0. > > Do you really mean third order ambisonics, or do you mean > three-channel first-order ambisonics? I had been under the impression > that it was unusual to run across actual high-er order > recordings/playback systems and that most of the installed base was > first order. I mean a 3rd order playback system which is easy to build. For horizontal only it means 8 speakers/amps and a software decoder such as Ambdec. Feeding it 5.1 would require a 5.1 to AMB encoder, which is a rather simple piece of software (just combining the input signals in the right ratios). Ciao, -- FA O tu, che porte, correndo si ? E guerra e morte ! _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
