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Thanks for replying so fast, and thinking along! I really appreciate it :) Thank you too, this is valuable input. Usually the puzzles/games are controlled using microprocessors, like RPi's or Arduino's. These are all connected (over internet) with the main control pc, that also controls for instanc...

For now I am using cheap PC speaker sets, but I am sure the exciters you mentioned will greatly improve the sound quality, and finish of the design! Thanks for the tip. Some of those also have an extra filter to compensate for different surface materials, like wood for example, enhancing the freque...

I can see the benefits of that. As you stated, multi-zone functionality means that Echotopia would have more than one Observers that could render in a way that each Observer could be transmitted to a different set of speakers. This is very useful in escape rooms or other installations that need more...

Hi, my name is Dion, I'm from the Netherlands. And I hope to use Echotopia to create soundscapes for art installations (i.e. miniature-scale village). Also I want to explore the possibilities to use it for multi-zone escape rooms :) Hi Dion, Both are very interesting application fields. Regarding t...

SoundFellas releases Echotopia; a new desktop audio editor specialized in producing soundscapes, also known as acoustic environments, ambient loops, or atmos. Echotopia is the combination of the experience gained from soundscape app development for over ten years (DMDJ mobile app) together with more...

Join SoundFellas and Pan Athen at the Chaniartoon 2022 International Comic and Animation Festival which takes place at Chania/Crete from 5 to 18 this September. Presenting a soundscape production workshop, a talk about the similarities between sound and image production, and a horror audio drama as ...

Thanks!

plush2 wrote: ↑31 May 2022 16:47I recall posting a comment to that effect for him but I don't think it's been fixed yet.

Websites of people from academia are always like that...

I should add that Bruce Wiggins has an excellent JSFX UHJ decoder that can convert to planar quad speakers, and FOA ambix or fuma. Nice! And it's also based on the original recommendations from Gerzon. I have 3 albums that I mixed in UHJ Stereo just for the fun of it, I would like to listen to them...

When it comes to media players, especially for exotic (for now) media formats, I believe that the more the merrier! With that philosophy in mind, let's try to keep a list of all available players of ambisonic audio files. Plush2 posted in a thread here: https://forum.soundfellas.com/viewtopic.php?p=...

Flo Angerer wrote: ↑21 May 2022 12:34Anyway, do you know of any good software UHJ encoders/decoders?

The Blue Ripple Audio 3OA Decoders pack has an excellent UHJ Stereo decoder. We used those to produce the 5 albums that we have as a music label on Spotify, YouTube Music, Amazon, and other streaming services.

Hector Centeno has made a player for Android that will play back UHJ (and other FOA B-format and AMBIX mixes) with phone tracking/panning available. It's called AmbiExplorer . This is good, we need as many players as possible on all platforms. A unified solution would work even better to promote tr...

I just came across someone publishing ambisonic (FOA, TOA and binaural) through extra downloads on bandcamp. That's cool. I was a music producer for many years when I was younger, alas, the Greek music industry is a black pit where decent people die like dogs. Some years ago I started a small music...

This seems somewhat feasible although a little disconnected form the end user experience. I had the worst weekend regarding workload. I’m gonna read everything here and on the chat tomorrow night when I get some time off. But until then, I wanted to say, how bad do we need an ambisonics player for ...

I create a different thread about HOA for massive consumption here: viewtopic.php?t=52

I think the idea deserves its own thread.

I finally managed to wade through all the excellent points and counterpoints you two have made. It seems we are all leaning toward HOA as a format. The best reason is because it reflects the reality of sound better than an object based model does. I totally agree with you on that. That's one of the...

After many of our discussions here and in Discord, I think it's time this topic that emerges in almost all talks should have its own forum thread. How about HOA for massive consumption? @plush2 pointed out that at least for FOA (First Order Ambisonics) we actually have a medium to broadcast on a lar...

I'm starting this thread as a way to gather collective knowledge for everyone that's using ambisonics in production. Music, games, radio dramas, immersive podcasts, NGA production, all those benefit from the use of ambisonics on secondary layers. Ambisonics is a great format for reverberation as eve...

Yes, I'm afraid my colleague is right. it's very difficult to keep track of all the exotic devices that seem to appear on the market every week. We're very sorry that you face this issue. In some phones with super-side ratios such as your in some operating systems, there is an option to simulate a c...

The thoughts on the post above are my thoughts exactly. This is why I use a workflow based on HOA and I would inject object-based audio only if the project needs it. It not only allows for much more creative freedom but also simplifies the production of 3D audio enough to make it easy for us at Soun...

After 30 years in creative audio design, engineering, and production, our founder Pan Athen is sharing the top 10 practices he considers the most valuable for a sustainable career in the creative audio sector. https://soundfellas.com/wp-content/uploads/Man-standing-in-front-of-two-paths-in-a-forest....

We currently have two major authoring toolkits to produce MPEG-H content. The EAR Production Suite (abbreviated EPS): https://ear-production-suite.ebu.io/ And the MPEG-H Authoring Suite (abbreviated: MAS): https://www.iis.fraunhofer.de/en/ff/amm/dl/software/mas.html Those two have their differences ...

It would be nice to have some kind of landing page where the general public could be informed about immersive audio in general. I believe that this could make it easier to translate the advantages of immersive audio into actionable decisions for the artist. In general, I think that this group could ...

Coming from the game development sector which is a sub-set of interactive audio practices in general, I think that we can find a lot of solutions if we look at how game audio middleware is handling any issues. Games have been in the frontier of interactive audio content that can be rendered in arbit...

That's a good idea.

Let us know if it works

Cheers!

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Our official public roadmap is now available, together with a form to vote on the features that are most important to you.

You can access the roadmap here: https://soundfellas.com/software/echotopia/roadmap/

There you will also find the link for the feature voting form.

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Setting up your game room is a great adventure by itself. By incorporating audio into the experience you can create a truly immersive play area. To help you choose which speakers to choose to playback your RPG music or any other material we classified their relevant properties and propose the types ...

Seems like you guys are aware of most of the things I found to be small hindrances! That might be the case, but we enjoy any feedback and welcome any discussion. We consider talking with our community to be brainstorming and we never know which is the next big idea that will spawn from those intera...