25 Feb
2010
25 Feb
'10
4:24 p.m.
On Thu, 2010-02-25 at 11:27 -0700, Bearcat M. Sandor wrote:
Couldn't one create the sound of a fly moving
through out a room simply
by adjusting the balance of 4 speakers?
Yes, of course, this has been in the computer music composer's toolbox
for quite a number of years. For a little bit of background see (for
example):
http://cec.concordia.ca/eContact/Multichannel/spatial_music_short.html
If so why do we need more than 4 speakers?
If you are using amplitude panning and any two speakers are more than 60
degrees apart in angle (or so) it becomes increasingly difficult to
create convincing virtual images between the speakers. The virtual image
tends to jump from one speaker to the other instead of smoothly panning
between them (this is an extreme simplification, of course).
-- Fernando