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after a night of late night hacking it looks like all is going well...

mbazzy: your test file was very welcome! I used to to fix the engine (had to write a small piece of C++ code to handle the multiple channels).

One thing:
how do you guys see the handling of the preview? Do I just use the "first two"channels of the audio? There's no way to have surround previews obviously, as surround mp3 isn't an option.

- bram

Bram, Thanks for your tests with multichannel files!
Next week I will post an embedded multichannel wav file, to see if it works like the AIF file. I intend to create a series of multichannel chord pad sounds suitable for ambient if all works out.
About your preview problem with multichannel files, I know that Cubase & Wavelab offer the possibility to create a 2 channel mixdown version of a multi-channel file... I do not know whether other programs offer the same possibility... I think if you only offer the first two channels as a preview, there would be to much content lost, so I would prefer a kind of mixdown... But of course, it would have to be possible....

How about offering a preview of the front LR and a preview for the rear LR. Center and LFC wouldn't need a preview.

I think the idea of Sonic is a good one if a mixdown is not possible.

I just added 10 drones as surround wav files.... let's see how they get in the database....

looks like more C++ hacking is needed
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- Bram

Have had good and very interesting fun with surround in general and Kinetic (http://www.kineticsoundsystem.com/ ) in particular so far ... an interesting field at the least .

Personnally I have no access to one of the higher end DAW's or encoders for surround (DTS etc) , however I wondered if there are any encoders (for Mac OsX) that are available for surround for more marginal pricetags (or free) ...

Does max/Msp or Pd allow for embedded surround encoding ? I know Max isn't for free , but if it supports this natively, the price tag becomes far more attractive ...

Anyone that can enlighten this surround grasshopper .

Hi, I too am interested in this. I record multichannel patches in pd with writesf~. the resulting sound file is interleaved and I follow the ITU standard

1 - L
2 - R
3 - Center
4 - sub
5 - L side
6 - R side
7 - L back
8 - R back

I have yet to upload anything. Is there anything I should be aware of that hasn't been addressed?