5.1 surround sound in MSP?

Gary Lee Nelson's icon

It seems I saw lots about this when I didn't yet need it. I even had some
on my computer at one time I think. Nothing came up in the new archives. I
need a max abstraction or external that lets me move a sound around a 5.1
space and outputs 6 channels to send to sfrecord~.

Cheers,
Gary Lee Nelson
TIMARA Department
Oberlin College
www.timara.oberlin.edu/GaryLeeNelson

Roman Thilenius's icon

so are we talking about 6 channels, or about
"dolby 5.1 prologic" encoded audio ?

for simple moving between 6 speakers try this .. it
is not exactly what you want though, it could
only be a start.

[110.distribution~]

Max Patch
Copy patch and select New From Clipboard in Max.

[110.distribution~.help]

Max Patch
Copy patch and select New From Clipboard in Max.

other places to look are spat~, the spat stuff
from the jimmies, and also the basic equal power
panning stuff from the examples folder, which of
course only supports 2 and 4 channels.

hans w. koch's icon

you are not looking for:
/Applications/MaxMSP 4.5/examples/spatialization/5-point-1-fun
by any chance?

hth
hans

Gary Lee Nelson's icon

Danke, Hans!

Was in einem Wort ist. In this case "-point-" instead of "."

Reminds me of the American basketball players who say they "are going for
the 'W' (three syllables)" instead of just saying the want to win.

Thanks to the others who responded - Casey, Roman.

Cheers,
Gary

Ignotus's icon

You might also find ambipan~ or vbapan~ externals useful. The
documentation is somewhat sparse, but once you figure things out, you
can set up spatialization for specific configurations of speakers in
arbitrary 3D arrangements by entering angle and distance from the
listener's position for each speaker.

-- Paul

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