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Hi,<br>
<br>
Linuxaudio has some strong and special points. One of them is
Ambisonics. Would be nice if people can use Debian to work and/or
experiment with Ambisonics. The good point: most of the packages
needed for Ambisonics are in Debian already! Great job! <br>
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Two are missing afaik:<br>
- Drc <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://drc-fir.sourceforge.net/">http://drc-fir.sourceforge.net/</a><br>
- TetraCal (Tetraproc is in Debian, not sure about TetraCal)<br>
<br>
By the way; most packages of Fons Adriaensen are often useful and
powerful: quality software. Most packages of him are in Debian, but
today he recommended an package on the LAU mailinglist which is not
in Debian yet: jnoisemeter
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://kokkinizita.linuxaudio.org/linuxaudio/index.html">http://kokkinizita.linuxaudio.org/linuxaudio/index.html</a><br>
<br>
See also message below about Ambisonics.<br>
<br>
Best regards,<br>
<br>
\r<br>
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<td>Jörn Nettingsmeier <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:nettings@folkwang-hochschule.de"><nettings@folkwang-hochschule.de></a></td>
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<pre>On 07/31/2011 01:05 PM, rosea grammostola wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Which packages are needed for ambisonics? In other words, which packages
> should be in a distro, to provide people the right tools for working
> with ambisonics?
>
> I did a little research and found:
> ambdec
absolutely essential.
> amb-plugins
> ardour
essential for production, but not for listening.
> japa
not related to ambisonics. but dead useful.
> jconvolver
not essential either. but very much recommended, as it contains
configurations to encode ambi into uhj stereo and back. for ambi use,
you want to include fons' separate "reverbs" package, which contains
some very nice b-format IR reverbs.
> drc
unrelated. it only does room and speaker correction.
it's probably my fault it got included in the list, since i once
described how to set up a diy ambi rig that includes drc. but that's
optional.
> aliki
not strictly related, although helpful if you want to create your own IR
reverbs for jconvolver (or any other convolver), or if you want to
measure your room and/or speakers to perform DRC.
> zita-rev1
very helpful.
> probably: non-mixer
or any other lightweight alternative to ardour, if it's just about
signal routing.
if the question is "what do i include in my distro", then by all means
add all the software you mentioned. if the question is "what is the
minimum software stack i need to play around with ambisonics, then keep
it simple. in any case, you may want to include mplayer, as it's one of
the few players that does multichannel correctly (at least up to 8
channels) and will let you enjoy those soundfield recordings out on the
web without having to import them into an ardour session.
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