User:Nettings/Ambisonics Scratchpad

This page contains a list of commercially released or broadcast productions that use Ambisonic technology.

Music, radio drama

 * Ambisonic Discography, a list of record releases, broadcasts and other Ambisonic content

Games

 * Colin McRae: DiRT, a video game whose PlayStation 3 version uses Ambisonics
 * Colin McRae: DiRT 2, a video game which uses Ambisonics (all versions)
 * F1 2010, a video game which uses Ambisonics (all versions)
 * Race Driver: GRID, a video game whose PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 versions use Ambisonics

Source texts on Ambisonics – basic theory
Included with permission from the List of Ambisonic Publications, which contains an extended list of references not all included here.


 * Duane H. Cooper, Takeo Shiga: Discrete-matrix multichannel stereo, JAES, June 1972, Vol.20, No:5
 * Michael Gerzon: Periphony: With-height sound reproduction, JAES Jan/Feb. 1973, Vol.21, No:1
 * Michael Gerzon: Surround-sound psychoacoustics, Criteria for the design of matrix and discrete surround-sound systems. Wireless World, December 1974, pp. 483–485.
 * Peter Fellgett: Ambisonics. Part One: General system description. Studio Sound, August 1975, p. 20–40.
 * Michael Gerzon: Compatible 2-channel encoding of surround sound. NRDC reprint from Electronics Letters 11 Dec. 1975 Vol.11 Nos: 25/26.
 * Michael Gerzon, Ambisonics. Part Two: Studio Techniques, Studio Sound, October 1975, pages 24–30. Correction in Oct. 1975 issue on page 60.
 * Michael Gerzon: Multidirectional sound reproduction systems, US Patent 3,997,725. 14 Dec. 1976
 * Michael Gerzon: The optimum choice of surround sound specification. AES preprint No:1199, March 1977.
 * Michael Gerzon: NRDC surround sound system. Wireless World, April 1977, p. 36–39.
 * Michael Gerzon: Criteria for evaluating surround sound systems. JAES June 1977, Vol 25, No:6, p. 400–408.
 * Peter Craven, Michael Gerzon: Coincident microphone simulation covering three dimensional space and yielding various directional outputs, US Patent 4,042,779. 16 Aug. 1977
 * Michael Gerzon: Sound reproductions systems with augmentation of image definition in a selected direction, US Patent 4,081,606. 28 March 1978
 * Michael Gerzon: Sound reproduction system with non-square loudspeaker lay-out, US Patent 4,086,433. 25 Apr. 1978
 * Michael Gerzon: Non-rotationally-symmetric surround-sound encoding system, US Patent 4,095,049. 13 June 1978
 * Barry Fox (writing as Adrian Hope): Surround sound patents, will the future of surround sound depend on patent bargaining? Wireless World, Jan 1979, p. 57–58.
 * Michael Gerzon: Sound reproduction system with matrixing of power amplifier outputs, US Patent 4,139,729. 13 Feb. 1979
 * Michael Gerzon: Sound reproduction systems, US Patent 4,151,369. 24 Apr. 1979
 * Barry Fox (writing as Adrian Hope): Ambisonics – The theory and patents. Studio Sound, Oct 1979, p. 36–44.
 * Michael Gerzon: Practical periphony: The reproduction of full-sphere sound, AES Preprint 1571, London 1980
 * Michael Gerzon: Decoders for feeding irregular loudspeaker arrays, US Patent 4,414,430. 8 Nov. 1983
 * Michael Gerzon: Ambisonics in multichannel broadcasting and video. JAES Vol 33, No:11, Nov. 1985 p. 859–871.
 * Dermot J. Furlong: Comparative study of effective soundfield reconstruction. AES preprint 2842, 18–21 Oct. 1989.
 * Michael Gerzon: Hierarchical system of surround sound transmission for HDTV, AES Preprint 3339, Vienna 1992
 * Michael Gerzon: Ambisonic decoders for HDTV, AES Preprint 3345, Vienna 1992