[linux-audio-dev] High-order Ambisonic coder/decoder in JACK/LDASPA?

Georg Holzmann georg.holzmann at student.kug.ac.at
Thu Dec 15 20:04:28 UTC 2005


Hallo!

> Regardless of the JACK / LADSPA question, seventh order Ambisonics using
> 16 speakers is just ridiculous. Either it's horizontal only, and in that
> case using 7th order is just a waste of resources and effort (3th order
> will do all you want), or it's 3-D, and it that case 7th order requires
> *much* more than 16 speakers.
yes, but you can use higher order ambisonics and virtual speakers ...

> AFAIK, nobody ever even worked out the equations for 4th order or above.
that's not true - at our university here is a 4th order ambisonic 
implementation ...

LG
Georg



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