Ambisonics Externals for MaxMSP


Institute for Computer Music and Sound Technology / (ICST) Zurich University of the Arts
ICST Ambisonics Tools
A set of externals for MaxMSP for Ambisonics surround sound processing and source-control in three dimensions.
These externals are the result of research and practise using Ambisonics since 2000 and have been tested and used in numerous concerts, compositions and installations.

The package includes the following externals:
  • ambiencode~ Encode multiple audio sources to Ambisonics B-Format.
  • mc.ambiencode~ Encode multiple audio sources to Ambisonics B-Format – multichannel.
  • ambidecode~ Decode Ambisonics B-Format to multiple audio sinks.
  • mc.ambidecode~ Decode Ambisonics B-Format to multiple audio sinks – multichannel.
  • ambipanning~ Ambisonics equivalent panning.
  • mc.ambipanning~ Ambisonics equivalent panning - multichannel version.
  • ambimonitor GUI object for Ambisonic sound spatialisation.
  • ambicontrol Trajectory controller for ambimonitor.
  • ambipoint Swiss army knife for ambi-formatted points.
  • icst.map Remap value from curve, table, buffer or list.
  • icst.random Random values from distribution curves.
  • icst.spline Define and evaluate splines.
  • icst.button A graphical user interface as button or toggle-switch.
  • icst.floatui A graphical user interface for floating point values.
  • icst.intui A graphical user interface for integer values.
  • icst.listui A graphical user interface for lists.

The ICST Ambisonics Tools are distributed under the "Revised BSD License", see license file in this package.
Current Version
Version 3.0.1 – released May 2021
for Max 8.1 64bit – mac os and Windows 10
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