kassian_sheppard

Hi. I am a novice Max user and I am currently working on a four speaker installation. I am using an object called 'msg surround' to facilitate this. My problem is when I pan sound around the four speakers I get a crackling noise along with it. I have tried solving this with the use of a line object to try and smooth it out but had no luck.

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there is a great and easy to use 4 channel panner in the "UBC Toolbox". Just google it and have a look. I use it all the time and never had crackling problems.

try using line~ instead of line, it uses signal-rate to ramp the values which is much smoother. if you use regular [line] often you'll get crackles because of the "stepping" of the floating-point values.

Brilliant! Thank you very much for your responses, I will get to work tomorrow and try them out. I will let you know how I get on. Then there is just the small task of finding a wireless device to control the panning hmmm....

iPhone/iPod Touch and TouchOSC work great for the wireless control. you just need a wireless network to get them connected. Lots of posts on the forums about those, I've gotten them up and running pretty easily.

The "basic" layout of TouchOSC would work fine, if you don't mind using vertical sliders for panning levels. Then there are the other three screens of controls... FX?? :)

The "basic" layout of TouchOSC would work fine, if you don't mind using vertical sliders for panning levels. Then there are the other three screens of controls... FX??  :)


Thanks again for the responses. I can't work out how to use the UBC Toolbox multipan unfortunately (my Max knowledge is extremely limited).I will continue to experiment though and see if I have any luck!

I have recently used Vbap in combination with the 'fingerpinger' external for multichannel panning. They are both worth checking out.

Fingerpinger uses the macbook trackpad, and if you hook it up to some vbap objects you have a lovely way of panning around a given amount of speakers using just your fingers on the trackpad.

I have recently used Vbap in combination with the 'fingerpinger' external for multichannel panning.  They are both worth checking out.

4 channel panning