24 Feb
2011
24 Feb
'11
6:59 p.m.
On 02/24/2011 06:39 PM, Paul Davis wrote:
well, panners in a3 are now plugins, of a fashion
(they are a bit
different from normal plugin APIs for a variety of reasons, primarily
the fact that they never do in-place processing). its quite likely
that at least the simplest of your ambi LADSPA plugins will show up in
that fashion in the not too distant future, with a GUI very similar to
the one in that screen shot.
nice :)
when i was in berlin attending "serious"
concerts of electro-acoustic
music, there seemed to be quite a range of opinion about ambisonics
versus VBAP. although i tend to take your word for it on such matters,
there were quite several smart people with years of experience in
multi-speaker setups who had real issues with ambisonics and felt that
VBAP was generally preferable. i don't want to make people choose.
actually, i didn't like what i heard of vbap so far, but it does work as
advertised, even under very adverse conditions. unless we have franz
zotter's partial sphere magic firmly in place for all workflows, *and*
there are kick-ass, fool-proof automatic ambisonic decoder generators
for even the most pathological speaker layouts, vbap sure has its place.