[Stk] SLAB v5.6.0 supports STK

[Joel Miller]

Hi All,

I just added STK instrument support to SLAB, a free virtual acoustic 
environment (VAE) rendering system I'm developing at NASA 
Ames.  Unfortunately, it only runs on Windows...  (apologies to Linux and 
Mac)  This is a beta release.  The SLAB Generator Plug-In (SPIG) interface 
is new.  The STK instruments are integrated into SLAB as a SPIG (gstk.dll).

To try out the STK instruments in the VAE, you'll have to install SLAB, run 
SLABScape, hit the [S] button to start rendering, hit the [SRC] button to 
open the Sources dialog, hit the [GEN] button to open the Generator dialog, 
and select the "stk" plug-in.  Adjust parameters by selecting them, moving 
the slider, and hitting "Apply" (unless continuous, e.g., setFreq).  See 
the "Plug-In Information" box for the instrument number definitions.  The 
instrument parameters behave as documented in the STK docs.  The source 
code is in <install dir>\src\gstk.  Back on the Sources dialog you can move 
the source around or set it in motion (channel strip droplist), etc....
Note:  You need to wear headphones to hear the spatial effect (SLAB 
performs HRTF processing).

For more info:

http://human-factors.arc.nasa.gov/SLAB/

http://human-factors.arc.nasa.gov/SLAB/sur.html#Announcements

Regards,
--joel



Joel D. Miller
Audio DSP Engineer
Spatial Auditory Displays Lab
NASA Ames Research Center
http://human-factors.arc.nasa.gov/ihh/spatial/