Furthermore the composition process can be monitored on a different and usually substantially smaller speaker-setup than that available at the performance-venue. This series of examples was produced when exploring the possibilities of a Ambisonics to Binaural 3D spatial audio system I designed with MaxMSP and a flocking algorithm. So the finished piece will remain independent of any specific speaker set-up. In theory the number of speakers and their position can be freely configured, but practical experience shows that symmetrical setups using at least as many speakers as there are components in the B-format are preferable. It contains one channel of omni-directional signal the monophonic signal or the zeroth order , three channels for the "figure-of-eight pressure responses" along the three Cartesian axes, encoding a full sphere, using only three directional components.
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