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Problems with spatial audio system

Hi, we are working in a research project involving field recordings and spatial audio at Universidad Austral in Chile (see link below). As part of the project activities, we are planning to carry out an audiovisual installation by the end of the year in a museum using Ambisonics and a 16-channel loudspeaker setup (see figure below). We therefore implemented a patch in Max using the Spat Ambisonics objects to test positioning monophonic sound sources in the horizontal and vertical plane. We have been carrying out some informal listening tests with monophonic short bird audio samples in a semi-anechoic lab using a 16-loudspeaker setup (4 below, 8 at ear height and 4 on top) (setup figure link below and details in the patch enclosed. Do not consider the extra stereo pair also in the room!).

We have mainly tested sound source positioning accuracy and we have experienced the following problems when using the mentioned patch:

  • Acute front-back confusion when positioning sound sources in front (0 degrees) or back of the listener (180 degrees). This is also appreciated in the sound levels of channels 1 and 5, which are both very high compared to the other speakers when locating sound sources in front or back of the speaker (see figure below with output channel levels when positioning a source in front of the listener).

  • Sonic variations in the vertical axis are poorly perceived (especially for sounds coming from the bottom speakers)

  • Sound trajectories are perceived well, but become diffuse/blurred when passing through frontal (0 degrees) and rear speakers (180 degrees). (front-back confusion?).

We carried out the same listening tests with the setup using with the SPARTA plugins and the performance was much better and we did not experience the problems described above.

We finally tested again the Max patch decoding for a binaural headset instead of a 16-speaker system and experienced similar problems to the ones mentioned above. We therefore assume that the decoding section of the patch algorithm is working fine but there might be some problems with the encoding process.

We would be very grateful if you could check the enclosed patch for us and let us know if you spot any errors that might be generating the problems mentioned above.

Many thanks!

MartĂ­n and Felipe

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ARTS AND TECHONOLOGY LAB 16-CHANNEL SETUP (with speaker numbers):

1-8 horizontal speakers with speaker # 1 at 0 degrees, 9-12 top speakers with speaker # 9 at 0 degrees horizontally and 13-16 top speakers with speaker # 13 at 0 degrees horizontally.

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VISUAL REPRESENTATION OF SOUND LEVELS FOR EACH CHANNEL WHEN LOCATING A SOUND SOURCE IN FRONT OF THE LISTENER (CHANNEL 1 (FRONTAL) AND CHANNEL 5 (REAR) ARE HIGHLIGHTED).

SOUNDLAPSE PROJECT: www. soundlapse .net


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Hi,

Thanks for sharing your info and the nice picture of the setup !
I think there is one critical issue in the patch : the spat5.viewer object is configured with 8 speakers (instead of 16). Therefore the decoder does not receive all the necessary data (and you could have noticed tons of error messages in the Max console).
Instead, you should use [spat5.viewer @initwith "/speaker/number 16, /source/number 1"].
Let me know if that changes something in the perceived sound scene.

I believe your loudspeaker setup should behave OK for HOA order 1 or 2. (I dont think that order 3 would work, but it doesn’t hurt to try it)

All the best,
T.

Dear T,

many thanks for your swift reply.

Regarding the error that you mention in your message. Yes, my apologies, it was a mistake when sharing the code.

The issue that you mention about the order is very interesting, we will take it into account.

Would you be so kind to confirm that there are no other errors other than the one mentioned that may eventually cause the problems described in my previous message?

Many thanks,

MartĂ­n

Hello Martin,

No, I dont see any other obvious error in the patch.
Although one mc.live.gain~ seems to behave erratically, maybe because of its number of channels forced to 9 (?)
Just in case, I’m sending here a slightly simplified version of the patcher that I used for testing (and that further allows to compare order 1, 2, and 3).

Also, just to note that signals coming from the opposite (rear) loudspeaker is not necessarily an issue in Ambisonics. Yet, if you prefer to minimise it, you can use the so-called “in-phase” optimization.

Best,
T.


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Dear Thibaut,

Many thanks for your comments and advice and also for sending the patch you used for the tests. Is is very interesting to see how you made minor adjustments to the original algorithm.

We have carried out pilot listening tests in the lab over the past week and we are rather satisfied with how the system works after making some minor adjustments to the patch. We will still be running some extra pilot tests before carrying out the definitive listening tests that we hope to document in a research article later.

I have a small question for you regarding the use of the LFE sub bass unit as part of the mentioned improved patch. I do not really know how to deal with issue. What we are doing currently is to send the omnidirectional component of the encoded audio (W channel in Ambisonic b format) directly to the output of the sub bass considering a low pass filter. I really don’t know if this is the most optimal way of dealing with this issue.

I would be very grateful if you could suggest some alternatives because we are pretty lost regarding this issue :slight_smile:

Thanks a lot, we really appreciate your help.

Kind regards,

Martin.

Dear Martin,

This approach to LFE is absolutely fine.

Best,
T.