friscotch

Spat is great but also a dsp burner. I'm looking for a simpler patch to "surroundize" mono or stereo inputs inside max with some sort of vector pad. Ideas?

surround

great for all kinds of speaker configurations

have a look at the ambisonics externals
http://www.icst.net/downloads/

The Icst externals are great for work on ambisonics. If you check out Jamoma, a few additional techniques willbe available, including vbap, dbap snd vimic. Cgeck the paper session of jamoma.org for publications on vimic, dbap and spatialisarion.

Do you have your max implementation of dbap available for download anywhere? Been looking, but no luck. andré sier's a-objects are a good source, just wondering if that's the implementation de jure.

Yes, if you download and install Jamoma (www.jamoma.org) there's an external named jcom.dbap that can be used with matrix~. Additionally there's a Jamoma module named jmod.sur.dbap~ that provides a module wrapper for dbap.

Surround