MUS271A (Max w9) – ambisonics tools

Screen Shot 2018-03-06 at 6.39.52 PMHead on over to Zurich University of the Arts – Institute fo Computer Music and Sound Technology (aka ZHdK – ICST) to download some very usable tools for ambisonic encoding and decoding (the URL is https://www.zhdk.ch/en/5381). ambipanning~ can encode a signal and place it in a set speaker array. ambiencode~ will encode a number of signals at different positions into ambisonic format. ambidecode~ can take that ambisonic set of channels and decode it into a set speaker format. There are many details and sub patchers to look into and understand in each of the help files, but this is a fairly easy and powerful system to work with. To start, you need to know the location of each of your speakers, and learn the message format to specify that location.