{"id":355,"date":"2017-02-27T15:15:20","date_gmt":"2017-02-27T15:15:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/digital.eca.ed.ac.uk\/soundandfixedmedia\/?p=355"},"modified":"2018-11-13T08:46:12","modified_gmt":"2018-11-13T08:46:12","slug":"lecture-05-ambisonics-and-reaper-a-quickish-tutorial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/digital.eca.ed.ac.uk\/soundandfixedmedia\/2017\/02\/lecture-05-ambisonics-and-reaper-a-quickish-tutorial\/","title":{"rendered":"Lecture 05 ambisonics and Reaper, a quickish tutorial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What follows are instructions on how to make use of Reaper and the very powerful Ambisonics tool Kit to help you to spatialize your sound. It does not advise on what might sound good in a spatial context, but gives you the building blocks to be able to construct spatial worlds and effectively bounce them to stereo, binaural, bFormat and surround.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s important to first setup your space so that you can monitor the effect of your work effectively.<\/p>\n<p>You all now know how to build a surround rig, if in doubt, here are the\u00a0 ITU guidelines on surround speakers placement and how to use your sub (though not position it) correctly.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.itu.int\/rec\/R-REC-BS.775-3-201208-I\/en\" class=\"autohyperlink\">www.itu.int\/rec\/R-REC-BS.775-3-201208-I\/en<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.itu.int\/dms_pubrec\/itu-r\/rec\/bs\/R-REC-BS.775-3-201208-I\" class=\"autohyperlink\">www.itu.int\/dms_pubrec\/itu-r\/rec\/bs\/R-REC-BS.775-3-201208-I<\/a>!!PDF-E.pdf<\/p>\n<h3>Reaper and the ATK<\/h3>\n<p>It is a good idea to watch the initial tutorial videos here led by the super-helpful and impeccably clear <a href=\"http:\/\/trondlossius.no\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Trond Lossius<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ambisonictoolkit.net\/documentation\/reaper\/tutorials\/\" class=\"autohyperlink\">www.ambisonictoolkit.net\/documentation\/reaper\/tutorials\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>certainly, check this one out;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Encoding Mono using ATK for Reaper\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/182434517?h=32bd82ba4a&amp;dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"605\" height=\"340\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>As we go on, we&#8217;ll also dip into some command line processing using SoX <a href=\"http:\/\/sox.sourceforge.net\/\" class=\"autohyperlink\">sox.sourceforge.net\/<\/a> and we&#8217;ll pull down some nice bformat IRs from the openairlib: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openairlib.net\" class=\"autohyperlink\">www.openairlib.net<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Watching the videos, use a pair of headphones to get the best effect, most of the signals coming from Reaper are binaurally decoded.<\/p>\n<h4>Intro video<\/h4>\n<p>A quick introduction. You&#8217;ll need to download and install the following if you want to follow along.<\/p>\n<p>REAPER:\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ambisonictoolkit.net\" class=\"autohyperlink\">www.ambisonictoolkit.net<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ambisonics Took Kit (ATK for Reaper): <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ambisonictoolkit.net\" class=\"autohyperlink\">www.ambisonictoolkit.net<\/a><\/p>\n<p>CREDITS: Flute playing in videos is from a session with <a href=\"http:\/\/thinkingaboutmusic.com\/?author=23\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Richard Worth<\/a>. We were in my studio in Alison House, rehearsing for a performance of <em>gruntCount.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/205899595?h=1654c1a489&amp;dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"605\" height=\"378\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h4>Ambsionics &#8211; encode Mono, decode Binaural<\/h4>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/205911040?h=bb0f96e3f9&amp;dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"605\" height=\"378\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h4>Ambisonics &#8211; encode Mono, decode surround<\/h4>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/205895272?h=68c69decd0&amp;dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"605\" height=\"378\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h4>Ambisonics &#8211; create a bFormat world that you can move around<\/h4>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/205895923?h=b1cf2cf609&amp;dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"605\" height=\"378\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h4>Ambisonics &#8211; create a bFormat reverb<\/h4>\n<p>You&#8217;ll need to download some bformat IRs from here:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.openairlib.net\/auralizationdb?keys=&#038;field_space_cat_value=All&#038;field_generation_value=All&#038;field_format_value_many_to_one=B-Format+%284+Channel+Files%29\" class=\"autohyperlink\">www.openairlib.net\/auralizationdb?keys=&#038;field_space_cat_value=All&#038;field_generation_value=All&#038;field_format_value_many_to_one=B-Format+%284+Channel+Files%29<\/a><\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;ll also need to paste at least this little bit of code into SoX on the command line, or to make use of your own tools for splitting and renaming soundfiles en-mass. First, open the terminal, type &#8220;cd &#8221; then drag and drop the folder where you placed all of your bformat IR files, then run this:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<pre>for i in *wav; do echo $i; sox $i ${i%%.wav}_WX.wav remix 1 2 ; done &amp;&amp; for i in *wav; do echo $i; sox $i ${i%%.wav}_YZ.wav remix 3 4 ; done<\/pre>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/205910511?h=cbe4b123f0&amp;dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"605\" height=\"378\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h4>Ambisonics &#8211; create a bFormat reverb to send to<\/h4>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/205917360?h=d2c20784a8&amp;dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"605\" height=\"378\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4>Ambsionics &#8211; rendering regions<\/h4>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/205918507?h=894d8a9a14&amp;dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"605\" height=\"378\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What follows are instructions on how to make use of Reaper and the very powerful Ambisonics tool Kit to help you to spatialize your sound. It does not advise on what might sound good in a spatial context, but gives &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/digital.eca.ed.ac.uk\/soundandfixedmedia\/2017\/02\/lecture-05-ambisonics-and-reaper-a-quickish-tutorial\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Lecture 05 ambisonics and Reaper, a quickish tutorial<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/digital.eca.ed.ac.uk\/soundandfixedmedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/digital.eca.ed.ac.uk\/soundandfixedmedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/digital.eca.ed.ac.uk\/soundandfixedmedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digital.eca.ed.ac.uk\/soundandfixedmedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digital.eca.ed.ac.uk\/soundandfixedmedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=355"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/digital.eca.ed.ac.uk\/soundandfixedmedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":377,"href":"https:\/\/digital.eca.ed.ac.uk\/soundandfixedmedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355\/revisions\/377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/digital.eca.ed.ac.uk\/soundandfixedmedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digital.eca.ed.ac.uk\/soundandfixedmedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digital.eca.ed.ac.uk\/soundandfixedmedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}