Cartopol basic question

    Patrick Keenan
    Feb 05 2010 | 1:37 pm
    Hi,
    In the cartopol help patch when you click on the LCD at what would be North on a compass, the angle you get output is 90 degrees and what would be East on a compass is 0 degrees, South is -90 degrees and West is - 180. I'm sure it is just a bit of simple maths but unfortunately my maths skills are lacking! I want it to output 0 degrees when i click North, 90 degrees when i click East, 180/-180 when i click South and -90 when i click West, any ideas?
    It is so that i can control Vbap~ in order to move sounds around a multichannel setup.
    Thanks in advance,
    Patrick M. Keenan
    • mudang
      Feb 05 2010 | 8:58 pm
      try this one:
      [cartopol] [/ 3.141593] [scale -1. 1. 0. 1.] ; scale to 0..1 [!- 1.] ; invert [+ 0.25] ; add offset [% 1.0] ; wrap around [scale 0. 1. -180. 180.] ; scale back to -180..180
      this maybe seems a bit complicated, but this way you can follow every single step. Of course you could merge this into a single [expr] object.
    • Patrick Keenan
      Feb 05 2010 | 9:21 pm
      Thanks so much Mudang,
      Thats ingenious, i wish i had maths chops!
      I actually got the patch to work by setting the azimuths of the speakers in vbap~ to the 'wrong' angles, so that the list of angles for speakers 1, 2, 3, 4 etc were rotated. I appreciate your method though as that is exactly what i wanted.
      Cheers, Patrick