Akustik-Blog

For my internship I joined the “Social Systems and Circuits Group” which is part of the MPI for Brain Research, located in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. It focuses on identifying neural mechanisms for the processing and production of socially meaningful communication, with a particular emphasis on vocal communication. The research is carried out by studying […]

Working with 3D audio formats, especially Ambisonics, is not as straight-forward as traditional channel-based formats like stereo or 5.1. This gets even more complex with irregular loudspeaker arrays like SCaLAr: it is unlike any conventional speaker configuration, and therefore requires combinations of tools to achieve a relatively easy “drag and drop and play” situation.  I […]