Links
ICST Ambisonics
- The ICST Ambisonics Tools
- The ICST Ambisonics Plugins Overview
- Specification:
- Downloads:
- Video Tutorials
- ICST Ambisonics Listening Sessions
- ICST Ambisonics UDO’s
ICST Website
Michael Gerzon, Father of Ambisonics
- Gerzon Archive
- Michael Gerzon Audio Pioneer
- The Michael Gerzon Story | Into The Soundfield
- michaelgerzonphotos.org.uk/articles/Ambisonics 1.pdf
- michaelgerzonphotos.org.uk/articles/Ambisonics 2.pdf
- audiosignal.co.uk/Resources/What_is_wrong_with_quadraphonics_A4.pdf
- audiosignal.co.uk/Resources/Surround_sound_psychoacoustics_A4.pdf
- audiosignal.co.uk/Resources/Surround_sound_from_2-channel_stereo_A4.pdf
‘Into The Soundfield’ — Michael Gerzon & Ambisonics at Oxford (Documentary 2018)
3rd-party tools:
- Ambisonic Toolkit (ATK) for REAPER — JSFX plugins for REAPER and SuperCollider; strong signal-processing foundation, research-oriented
- IEM Plugin suite — free HOA plugin suite up to 7th order; VST3/AU/LV2 for all platforms
- Sparta Plugins — research-grade spatial audio processing plugins up to 10th order by Leo McCormack
- Wigware
- aXPlugin Suite
- DearVR Ambi Micro
- Grapes 3D Audio Control
- Audio Brewers
- Envelop
- Blue Ripple Sound Core Suite
- Kronlachner Ambix
- Noisemaker
- VVAudio
- Harpex
- TripinLab
- SoundParticles
- Rode
- Dear Reality
- Zylia
Ambisonics Studios & Institutes
- Into The Soundfield
- IEM
- IRCAM
- ICST
- Positive Ambisonics — immersive audio artist residency in Tayvallich, Scotland; focus on field recording and 3D sound in natural environments
- CCRMA
- NOTAM
- Derby.ac.uk
- Future Sounding
- tamlab.kunstuni-linz
Ambisonics Links:
- Ambisonics (Wikipedia)
- ambisonic.net
- Ambisonic data exchange formats
- Springer: Ambisonics Reference Entry
- Waves: Ambisonics Explained
- Reaper Ambisonics Forum
Literature: Books & Papers
Books
- Ambisonics: A Practical 3D Audio Theory (Zotter, Frank, 2019, Open Access)
- Parametric Time-Frequency Domain Spatial Audio (Pulkki, Delikaris-Manias, Politis, 2017)
- Immersive Sound: The Art and Science of Binaural and Multi-Channel Audio (Rumsey, 2012)
- Kompositionen für hörbaren Raum / Compositions for Audible Space bei transcript Verlag
Key Papers
- Periphony: With-Height Sound Reproduction (Gerzon, JAES, 1973)
- Ambisonics in Multichannel Broadcasting and Video (Gerzon, JAES, 1985 issue reference)
- Sector-Based Parametric Sound Field Reproduction in the Spherical Harmonic Domain (Politis, Vilkamo, Pulkki, 2015)
- Parametric Spatial Audio Reproduction with Higher-Order B-Format Microphone Input (Pulkki et al., AES 134th Convention, 2013)
- (PDF) Producing 3D Audio in Ambisonics
- zhdk.ch/file/live/99/9990e912b1f7d2e6f41a88967702df3e4ba5fbdb/aep_icmc.pdf
- (PDF) Introduction to Ambisonics
- ambisonics.iem.at/proceedings-of-the-ambisonics-symposium-2011/ambix-a-suggested-ambisonics-format
Further Ambisonics Resources
- Ambisonics Symposium / Xchange
- ambiX Format Specification (ACN/SN3D)
- Spatial Audio Framework (SAF)
- OpenAIR Library
- RØDE SoundField Library
- AES Technical Committee: Spatial Audio
- Omnitone (Web Ambisonics Renderer)
- Envelop for Live
No guarantee of completeness