[LAC-19] Thank you all for a great LAC19

[Fernando Lopez-Lezcano]

On 8/14/19 2:55 PM, Constantin Basica wrote:
> Awesome, great job, Carlos!

Yup, great it is out! They look fantastic, thanks to all involved! 
(Carlos, Dave, the staff at Dink, etc)

> I’d like to also add the links for the audio recordings from the concerts. Fernando, should we still upload any Ambisonics encoder next to the files?

There are a couple of options for this...

The easiest would be to encode the recordings to (2nd order) B format 
and distribute that. Potential listeners would have to find a plugin or 
system to play them (that can play B format Ambisonics). We could also 
render some stereo or binaural version as well - but what to use or what 
to do in that case is less clear.

I'm working on a better encoder, of course, always doing that... (not 
very successfully :-)

Which bring us to another option, which would, as you state, to post the 
A format files (capsule feeds) and a "current encoder". It would seem to 
me that is unnecessarily complicated, only a few geeks would go to that 
much trouble. The only advantage being then when I have a better encoder 
I could post that.

Even geekier: I could also post a full measurement set, so that even 
geekier individuals would actually create their own better A to B 
encoders... And then use those to encode the files, and then listen to a 
glorius individual rendering of the pieces. But that would be probably 0 
geeks...

B format plus some stereo rendering (suggestions welcome[*]) seems best.
-- Fernando

[*] easiest would be just a pair of front facing cardioids, or perhaps a 
pair of figure of eight to get the back as well - many pieces were 3d. 
Binaural is trickier, which renderer, which preset, all compromises.


>> On Aug 14, 2019, at 1:47 PM, carlos at ccrma.Stanford.EDU wrote:
>>
>> Hello dear all,
>>
>> On 2019-04-25 08:04, Romain Michon wrote:
>>> Hey Nando,
>>> I've uploaded the picture on the lac website and I slightly modified its
>>> content to "make it look like the conference happened." We obviously still
>>> have a lot of work to do in terms of writing a short financial report of
>>> the event and also editing the videos and making them available on the
>>> website.
>>
>> LAC19 videos have been finally uploaded and linked in the program for every talk or event that was streamed:
>>
>> https://lac.linuxaudio.org/2019/#program
>>
>>
>> Our apologies for some technical difficulties in some of the videos (some cuts in the audio or video), but the majority of them should be fine and with a high quality.
>> Please, let us know any issue.
>>
>>
>> Thanks you all for this great event.
>>
>> -- Carlos
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