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On Sun, Jun 14, 2009 at 10:50:00PM +0200, Jörn Nettingsmeier wrote:
> real men use ambisonics ;)

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> for the unwashed masses, they pre-render to 5.1.

Right.
> ardour can do the former today, and ambdec will take care of the latter.

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> i'd be willing to join the effort - if somebody else produces the

> content itself, i can help with mastering to surround. it would be 5.0,

> though. imnsho, the .1 is one of the stupidest ideas ever...

The .1 or LFE channel is for Low Frequency Effects such as

bombs going off at a distance that implies you won't hear

them (or anything else afterwards). It is supposed to have

10 dB more gain than the other channels at the reproduction

side.
It's *not* supposed to contain the LF part of the 5.0 signals.

If the 5.0 speakers are too small to reproduce any LF and need

the subwoofer to do that then this is taken care of at the

receiver end. 
So indeed you don't need the .1 except for a type of effect

that is unlikely to be required in this case.
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FA
Io lo dico sempre: l'Italia è troppo stretta e lunga.
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