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just wondering what people think of the idea of surround sound music outside of movies. is there much out there? what sort of file format would be best for distributing this kind of music on the net? AC3? multichannel ogg? i've wanted to start making some myself, but as i'm about to start travelling, i'll only have a laptop and headphones, if anything, so making it is really out of the question without a decent desktop setup i guess. are there enough people out there with surround sound systems yet, to merit doing music in surround? |
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buzz has eax 3d audio machines that, when sound is fed through it, the signal comes out the rear speakers on the sblive.. but i'm not quite sure if there are any multichannel wav/mp3 formats out there.. so its pretty much impossible to export.. |
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haven't messed around with it personally, but i've been to a studio with it, and it would be simply sweet to position the sound in 3-d with a joystick, instead of just right/left with a fader.. |
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sounds pretty lush to me. my amp's just had a stroke, so its mono for me at the moment .. |
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Great idea! I've been trying to live mix using two mixerboards at the same time, nice to see somebody going to the same direction... =:-) The format should defenately be AC3 as it's the multichannel sound standard and can be played back in home DVD players when written to audio-DVD disc. |
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a surround sound autechre album would just be awesomahj |
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But the bad side is that you can't hear it with normal soundcard in surround until you encode it to AC3 and listen to it with AC3 compatible equipment. You should have AC3 compatible soundcard and AC3 compatible sequencer to really "create" surround music... I don't know if there are any available - can somebody give me a hint? |
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you might not have to have an ac3 compatible sequencer, you could just export the rear channels as a separate stereo wav file, then combine them when encoding to ac3 format.. of course you won't be able to hear it until you encode it but it'll still be as good.. |
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i can see the future sound of electronic music being infinitely influenced by the inclusion of multichannel sound devices to everyone's essential-music-listening-device-arsenal.. |
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just remembered now, the 'orbital - the altogether' DVD has some of their music redone into surround. i haven't heard it yet, but definately want to some time. |
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In AC3 there is not just the rear channel, it contains also the front center channel and a subwoofer channel (5.1). So exporting the rear channel as a separate wave file would sound differently after encoding (some of it would be from the center probably - I don't exactly know how the AC3 algorithm works). |
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Nuendo, Protools 6 (i think) .. actually Cubase SX i think as well .. are all 5.1 compatible .. this is all going from memory: re: soundcars i think Audigy is 5.1 compatible, erm .. i'm guessing if the Audigy is 5.1 compatible there have got to be a few 5.1 compatible cards : never heard of AC3 tho .. ah well .. for the mean time i'll have to do with one speaker :| |
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