Simple GUI application for decoding Ambisonic-format audio files to loudspeaker rig. Presently includes support for:
- Raw playback (no decoding)
- Stereo UHJ
- ACN/SN3D up to fourth-order
- Octagon / Cube 16-channel loudspeaker layout
Future versions will include support for Furse-Malham format and additonal loudspeaker layouts.
This project uses poetry for package management. Install this if you don't
have it, then poetry install to set up a virtual environment with all
dependencies. In the project's base directory, run poetry shell to activate
the venv, then python ambidectrous/main.py to run the GUI:
Opening an audio file will enable the various decoder menu options depending on what is available given the input audio channels. Note that, for testing, the decoder will output to any selected audio device, even if there are not enough channels available to match the loudspeaker mapping specification. The output will be truncated to the number of output channels available.
It is possible to add custom loudspeaker layouts by adding specifications to
the mappings/ directory, matching the data format of the existing json files.