[QLab] Surround Effects

[Charlie Richmond]

On Tue, 10 Jul 2007, Christopher Ashworth wrote:

> Er, although I see you were specifically referring to joystick
> controls, which would not be in the cards for the first few iterations
> at least.

It wasn't so much my reference to joystick controls (since that's not really the 
best analog for a tracking interface IMHO) but just a reference to the many 
types of flexible control interfaces possible, using the capabilities and 
features of SM-S.  I foresee a wide variety of methods of controlling and 
programming 3D spatialization being employed.  The best input control for such 
motion could well be a custom interface which I have seen used occasionally:  a 
stylus which can be moved in real time 3D space and is currently embodied in 
only one commercial product, The Bat from A&G Solutioni:

http://thebat.aegweb.com/

A&G actually adapted this device to control the earlier AudioBox models, but 
have not done it for the AB64 or for SoundMan-Server (yet).  A&G also have a 
variety of other spatialization products available which you can explore on 
their web site.  We are currently evaluating several of them and A&G are 
extremely helpful in communicating with any developer who wants to support their 
products.  I recommend looking carefully at The Bat since it very closely 
matches my opinion of a perfect input device (unless you can actually track 
actors using RFID tags, but then that won't work if there's imaging to do 
without something to track!)

> Once again I blame posting before coffee.  That and the fact that at
> 6am it  was already 83 F / 23 C in Baltimore,  and this poor little
> window a/c is just no match.

Ugh!!  glad it's cool here....

Charlie