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Creating generic soundscapes in multichannel panning in Csound synthesis software

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 August 1998

VILLE PULKKI
Affiliation:
Helsinki University of Technology, Laboratory of Acoustics and Audio Signal Processing, PO Box 3000, FIN 02105, Espoo, Finland Sibelius Academy Computer Music Studio, PO Box 86, FIN 00251, Helsinki, Finland. E-mail: Ville. [email protected]://acoustics.hut.fi/

Abstract

Vector base amplitude panning (VBAP) is a new method for soundscape creation. It generalises the pair-wise panning paradigm to the triplet-wise panning paradigm, which can be used in three-dimensional loudspeaker setups. Similar soundscapes can be created with differing numbers of loudspeakers in different positions. The VBAP implementation in Csound synthesis software presented in this paper is a powerful tool for producing generic soundscapes. Virtual sources are positioned by defining the virtual source directions as (azimuth, elevation) pairs; the loudspeaker setup is defined in the initial settings. Virtual sources can be moved in three different ways: they can be moved along a polyline between specified directions, angular velocities can be applied to them, or their directions can be controlled arbitrarily.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
© 1998 Cambridge University Press

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