[ardour-users] 8-channels sections

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On 9/19/06, bbarros <bernardobarros2 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > In the the Panning Box of a stereo or a 8-channel track ....

> > I'm confused about what the squares are....

Am Dienstag, den 19.09.2006, 21:23 -0400 schrieb Jesse Chappell:
> Out of curiosity, what do your 8 channels represent in real space?  A 3d cube?
> Another possibility is making a custom LADSPA plugin that will take
> the 2 inputs and provide multiple controls (X,Y,Z or Angle,radius....
> etc) to allow you to pan using it (and bypass ardour's panner).   The
> code for such a plugin may not be too hard, but you'll have to talk
> someone into writing it for you.


Hello, 

maybe you want to have a look at ambisoncis or one of its derivatives,
this systems handle multiple channels in a systematic and in a certain
sense "optimal" way. There are LDSPA plugins to pan into ambisonics.

http://www.ambisonic.net/
http://www.york.ac.uk/inst/mustech/3d_audio/welcome.html

Hermann Vosseler