Re: Immersive sound

[Henry Heine <henry@bagend.com>]

Stefan,

Your VBAP software is very interesting to me.

How many "inputs" can you process simultaneously?

Are you aware of this (much more expensive) solution? 
http://outboard.co.uk/pages/timax.htm

Timax has many more features than I need, but it does sound great. Price 
and proprietary hardware has kept me away.

I'd get yours at once if it worked on Windows.

Henry Heine

Stefan Smulovitz wrote:
> Once you start using multi speaker setups you never want to go back to 
> stereo. There are a lot of ways to treat multi speaker setups in a live 
> performance. One is to setup spins and spirals - with different loops 
> having different movement around the room. Another is to play with 
> filters and delays with each speaker being slightly different.
> 
> If you want to try playing with this you might want to try my software - 
> Kenaxis VBAP. (http://www.kenaxis.com/) You can set it up for anywhere 
> from 3 to 8 speakers. There are a couple of 8 channel effects that 
> really quickly immerse the audience - the main one being an 8 channel 
> delay. Instead of independently setting the delay time for each speaker 
> you choose a range of delay times for all of the speakers so that each 
> one is slightly different and allows the sound to break up and immerse 
> you. You stop hearing the du du du du of a typical delay since there are 
> too many separate delays coming at you. They all blend into one 
> beautiful sound.
> 
> If you have any questions let me know. I hope to have the system up and 
> running in some sort of a configuration for the Boise Experimental Music 
> Festival.
> 
> Stefan