Nick, "Universal" means "can be understood in any environment". One of the big design challenges in using metadata (in file formats) is that DSP routing ...
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dkurvyl
Sep 19, 2009 2:20 pm
... Maybe that's the culprit... Lossless compression performs way better on "natural" sounds. A heavy metal song with distorted guitars won't compress as much...
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Nick Mariette
nickmariette
Sep 21, 2009 3:00 pm
Ok, for completeness, the .zip (using the archive option in Mac OSX Finder) gave me: 74.3% compression on the same file that produced the other compression ...
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e deleflie
etienne_dele...
Sep 25, 2009 12:18 am
All, I'm researching the possible ways to integrate with Amazon S3. There are 2 ways: 1. I become an Amazon S3 reseller, and add a small percentage commission...
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e deleflie
etienne_dele...
Sep 25, 2009 12:22 am
All, With the integration with Amazon S3 accounts, this might be the kind of account structure that would suit: 1. Free = last 3 uploads are visible 2. LITE,...
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e deleflie
etienne_dele...
Sep 25, 2009 12:25 am
BTW ... I'm also going to add a feature to the PRO account which is "PRIVATE UPLOADS" That way, you can use SoundOfSpace.com just as a means to store, ...
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e deleflie
etienne_dele...
Oct 15, 2009 2:17 pm
All, I have changed the account structures. I have removed the concept of a "visibility quota" ... which I dont think works very well because once you have...
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e deleflie
etienne_dele...
Oct 16, 2009 2:16 am
All, I've blogged about the new free-account structure here: http://blog.ambisonia.com/2009/10/16/can-i-still-think-like-a-user/ It may not be of interest to...
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Bruce Wiggins
bruce.wiggins@...
Oct 16, 2009 10:49 am
I think this structure is a sensible one. Much better than the recordings dropping off the end. I'll hopefully be uploading a first and second order example...
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e deleflie
etienne_dele...
Oct 16, 2009 10:47 pm
... great, thanks for the confirmation. ... I dont believe the current transcoding code will work with 2nd order. It should be relatively easy to lose the 2nd...
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Bruce Wiggins
bruce.wiggins@...
Oct 19, 2009 3:28 pm
ok, I'll see if I can knock together a 3rd order file. My panners kick out furse-malham sets at the moment, so I'll need to do some tweaking...... cheers Dr...
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Bruce Wiggins
bruce.wiggins@...
Oct 19, 2009 3:31 pm
might be an opportunity for me to build a UA 3rd order panner to...... cheers Dr Bruce Wiggins Signal Processing Applications Research Group ...
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e deleflie
etienne_dele...
Oct 19, 2009 9:00 pm
Bruce, the UA spec in its current form is here: ...
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Bruce Wiggins
bruce.wiggins@...
Oct 19, 2009 9:44 pm
okey dokey. One quick question. The bit that mentions all UA plug-ins must implement the full spec. But this implies all 20 channels. A panner shouldn't...
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e deleflie
etienne_dele...
Oct 20, 2009 8:13 am
... Yes, good point. I'm trying to think (out loud) if it is 'valid' (or useful, or 'within the philosophy') for UA to generate synthetic material in 1st...
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Aaron Heller
ajh94002
Oct 20, 2009 6:54 pm
I made a 5th order UA file a while back (this was before the change to 1 and 3 only). You could lop off the 4th and 5th order channels to get 3rd. and add 4...
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Bruce Wiggins
bruce.wiggins@...
Oct 20, 2009 7:02 pm
... you're in a 3rd+1st-order context, channels 1-4 of the output of the panner should be routed to channels 16-20 of the 3rd+1st-order signal. If you're using...
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Aaron Heller
ajh94002
Oct 20, 2009 7:18 pm
... Sorry, I mangled that badly. I was thinking about was the notion that one could use a 3rd-order panner as a 1st-order panner by taking channels 1-4 of the...
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Bruce Wiggins
bruce.wiggins@...
Oct 21, 2009 9:42 am
got ya ;-) Dr Bruce Wiggins Signal Processing Applications Research Group http://sparg.derby.ac.uk Lecturer in Electronics and Sound http://www.derby.ac.uk/eee...
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e deleflie
etienne_dele...
Oct 21, 2009 9:49 am
Aaron, A 3rd order sample file would be extremely useful. We need a sample file, not just for testing the upload and transcoding on soundOfSpace, but also for...
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e deleflie
etienne_dele...
Oct 21, 2009 10:04 am
... ah, ok, so it is catering for the use-case where someone would be panning content explicitely for the 1st order part of a combined 3+1. You are right. Its...
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e deleflie
etienne_dele...
Oct 21, 2009 10:31 am
Here's that other combo drawn up properly in a table: http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=df4dtw69_85hs2hvsdx This would make down-mixing easier ... but has other...
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e deleflie
etienne_dele...
Oct 22, 2009 3:32 am
The more I think about this, the more I think the best way is to say "just implement everything as 3rd order". Then, as Aaron suggests, those 16 outputs can be...
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e deleflie
etienne_dele...
Oct 22, 2009 4:38 am
The file robo-jo.ua can be accessed here: http://ambiboots.audio.s3.amazonaws.com/etienne/robo-jo.ua It is Aaron's walkaround in 3rd order, compressed with...
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e deleflie
etienne_dele...
Oct 22, 2009 4:51 am
here's how I'm covering it in the spec: (http://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=0ASR5ajtUjzNQZGY0ZHR3NjlfODFkc2dtZ3FjMw&hl=en) Software Implementation Implementation...
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Bruce Wiggins
bruce.wiggins@...
Oct 22, 2009 11:33 am
This seems sensible, (if I'm following this correctly, of course!) and is how I'm making a 20 channel file from my 3rd order panned + 1st order reverb system....
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Bruce Wiggins
bruce.wiggins@...
Oct 22, 2009 1:39 pm
Nearly ready to rock and roll with a 20 channel 3+1 (+1 is with-height reverb) file so (thinking out loud so others can follow, or let me know if I slip-up!): ...
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Bruce Wiggins
bruce.wiggins@...
Oct 22, 2009 2:01 pm
To continue my thinking out loud: My 3rd order horizontal contains W, X, Y, U, V, P, Q which correspond to W = K0 = channel 1 X = K1 = channel 2 Y = K2 =...
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Bruce Wiggins
bruce.wiggins@...
Oct 22, 2009 2:17 pm
how can the response pattern be 180, according to the spec, it goes from 0 - 100? cheers Dr Bruce Wiggins Signal Processing Applications Research Group ...
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Nicholas Mariette
nickmariette
Oct 22, 2009 5:45 pm
hi, As an innocent (but curious) outsider to the UA discussions, I have a couple of comments / observations / queries: - first, is the UA discussion better...
