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Old 03-07-2023, 10:28 AM   #4
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Originally Posted by Jae.Thomas View Post
Hello,

I don't know if this is the right place to ask this
This is a good place to ask. You can use ambisonics in the way you describe. A good panner like the stereo encoder from the free IEM plugin suite will allow you to position mono or stereo sources in the ambisonic sphere. Distance is not really a function of the panners so you would add that effect with volume, wetness of the reverberation and maybe a gentle high frequency rolloff. The most important thing to realize when working with ambisonics is that once a signal (mono, stereo, whatever) is encoded into an order of ambisonics (1st, 2nd, 3rd, ...) thereafter the channel count for that source and any subsequent ones needs to stay at the required amount for that order (ie. 4 channels for 1st, 16 channels for 3rd). Once processed and mixed that ambisonic encoded mix can be decoded to speaker feeds that represent the part of the sound field coming from that speaker location.

There are a number of us on this sub who do all manner of mixes using ambisonics, including stereo. I don't know of any modern, Reaper based tutorials but maybe someone else here does. In the meantime please keep asking questions and maybe we can make something like that in this thread.
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