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Name | Version: Vbap Doppler Panner 1.1.5
Author: alkman
Device Type: Audio Effect
Description: 2D Surround doppler panner based on Ville Pulkki's vBap(vector base amplitude panning) spatialisation algorithm. It shares many ideas with ableton's Surround Panner and E4L's Source Panner(ambisonics). This one though uses much less CPU and in contrast with the other two allows for custom speaker arrangments and doppler shift simulation.
You can use the predefined speaker arrangments or define your own coordinates in degrees(-180,180 or 0, 360) in the text editor. Supports up to 12 channels with per-channel routing and shared output routing when using multiple instances of the device.
There is also a cheap highpass filter and a variable delay for simulating distance placement outside the surround field (0 value = filter off) and doppler shift.

Paper on Vbap: http://lib.tkk.fi/Diss/2001/isbn9512255324/article1.pdf

original Vbap object by Ville Pulkki 1999-2003 / updated by Christophe Baratay

Requires Ableton 10.xx and max for live 8.xx

BECAUSE IN MOST CASES YOU DON'T WANT TO SEND THE DRY SIGNAL TO THE MASTER TRACK, THE DEVICE AUTOMATICALLY ROUTES THE OUTPUT OF THE TRACK TO "SENDS ONLY"(YOU CAN SWITCH IT BACK TO "MASTER" MANUALLY). AFTER DROPPING THE DEVICE TO A TRACK CLICK THE TOP-RIGHT ARROW TO OPEN THE SETUP WINDOW AND ROUTE THE OUTPUT OF THE DEVICE TO ANY OTHER TRACK.

*Update 1.1.5 *
--- New RMS meters on the output section for monitoring stereo pairs
--- GUI elements are not rendered blurry on non-retina monitors.

*Update 1.1.4 *
--- Updated Vbap external which solves the issues with macOs Catalina or later

*Update 1.1.3 *
--- Fixed the "wrong id" error that was popping up in console on initialisation
--- In order to have less graphical elements updating on each circle, angle position is removed

*Update 1.1.2 *
---minor performance improvements
---new graphics for the surround field

*Update 1.1.1*
---Fixed a bug where the undo buffer was filling up when XY parameters were controlled by a live.object or live.remote.
--- Doppler processing is turned off when the effect is deactivated
---Minor graphics improvements. Live colors are updated according to ableton's skin

*Update 1.1*
---Using new 64-bit Vbap external by Christophe Baratay which fixes a memory corruption.
---Added doppler effect and doppler window with pitch and volume parameters.
---Distance parameter can now record its automation but will also fill up the undo buffer(enable this only when needed)
---Added description of parameters for the info view.
---Should be more stable on windows(not tested, please give feedback)
---Extended smooth(ramp) millisecond range
---General cleaning up

*Update 1.0.1*
---Custom speaker values can now be shared between different instances of the device
---Fixed an issue where the filter was not turning off

Details

Live Version Used: 10.0.5
Max Version Used: 8.0.3
Date Added: Jan 07 2019 12:59:45
Date Last Updated: Nov 18 2021 09:46:56
Downloads: 4834
ⓘ License: AttributionNonCommercial
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Files

Device File: Vbap Doppler Panner.amxd
 


Comments

it crashes Ableton all the time
Posted on January 14 2019 by nicokaniak | Report Issue
Are you on mac or windows? what version of Ableton and M4L are you using?
Posted on January 15 2019 by alkman | Report Issue
very well done and works without issues (pc/a10beta/max8.0.2)
Posted on January 21 2019 by hatyn | Report Issue
you have to setup the audio out tracks yourself after putting this device onto a source audio track.
Posted on September 07 2019 by hatyn | Report Issue
Amazing tool, thank you very much!
Posted on September 16 2019 by tajnost | Report Issue
I'm not getting any panning applied to my signal, only the Doppler shift.
Am I missing something?
Posted on October 13 2019 by Crampe | Report Issue
@Crampe. Did you route the output channels?
Posted on November 08 2019 by alkman | Report Issue
WARNING: Total piece of shit device that does NOT work on Ableton 10. Waste of time, M4L should delete this posting.
Posted on April 15 2022 by Symboria | Report Issue
So good works perfect in A11 too - as it did in A10. Route the channels dum dum
Posted on October 21 2022 by hatyn | Report Issue

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