Audio and Three Dimensional Sound Links

Links to 3D and Spatial Sound related resources on the Web. Reference, Research, Educational,Tools, People, Commercial Systems and Products. Links to other 3D related and general Audio Lists and Patent Resources

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Index

Reference

1. Audio Patents
2. Does KEMAR Sleep in a Procrustean Bed? William L. Martens
3. Spatial Sound - An Overview Kimmo Vennonen
4. Duda Research: General Model Sound Localization Research: A General Sound Localization Model
5. 3D Sound Reports Reports on Spatial Sound Research by [ Richard O. Duda ]
6. TECHNOLOGIES FOR THREE DIMENSIONAL SOUND PRESENTATION ISSUES IN SUBJECTIVE EVALUATION OF THE SPATIAL IMAGE by Elizabeth A. Cohen
7. Jean-Marc Jot: Synthesizing Three-Dimensional Sound Scenes in Audio or Multimedia Production and Interactive Human-Computer Interfaces. 5th International Conference: Interface to Real & Virtual Worlds, Mai 1996
8. PRODUCT DESIGN CONSIDERATIONS FOR IMPLEMENTING 3D AUDIO ALGORITHMS WITHIN EXISTING MULTICHANNEL FORMATS by Nicolas Sincaglia and Sylvain Rebaud
9. Cochlear Mechanics by Jont B.Allen and Stephen T. Neely
10. The Java Cochlear Auditory Model The University of Memphis
11. Fundamentals of Auditory Neuroscience How is Sound Processed by the Brain? - Don H. Johnson
12. Virtual Tour of the Ear©: --Welcome by Perry C. Hanavan
13. PINNA / CONCHA by Roy F. Sullivan, Ph.D.
14. A Pictorial Guide to the Cochlear Fluids by Alec N. Salt, Ph.D., Cochlear Fluids Research Laboratory,Washington University
15. Virtual Audio Bibliography Technical Report B-94-2 by Toni Emerson - HTIL University of Washington
16. Audio-Related Technical and White Papers by Geoff Martin
17. Sound Localization Bibliography by Geoff Martin
18. Bibliography ICAD Annotated Bibliography. AUDITORY DISPLAY: SONIFICATION, AUDIFICATION AND AUDITORY INTERFACES. Gregory Kramer (editor)
19. View Bibliography Index Keith Martin, MIT Media Lab
20. Stereo Microphone Technique by Geoff Martin
21. Room Acoustics Modelling by: Philip Edelbrock
22. Frank's Masters Thesis DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION OF AN AURALIZATION SYSTEM WITH A SPECTRUM-BASED TEMPORAL PROCESSING OPTIMIZATION by [ Frank Filipanits Jr.]
23. Ari Hollander's Master's Thesis An Exploration of Virtual Auditory Shape Perception
24. An Analysis of Ambisonic Sound Systems of First and Second Order thesis by [ Jeff Bamford ]
25. SSSound - 3 Sound Localization Real-Time 3-Dimensional Audio Rendering. By [ Araz Inguilizian ]
26. Luis F. Tavera's Thesis Page Three Dimensional Sound for Data Presentation in a Virtual Reality Environment
27. [ Phil Brown's ] thesis (380k) on spatial hearing is available online in *.pdf format.
28. Technical Reports MIT Media Lab Machine Listening Group
29. 3D Sound for Virtual Reality and Multimedia by Begault Book
30. SPATIAL HEARING The Psychophysics of Human Sound Localization Revised Edition - Book
31. Book Review of "Spatial Hearing" by Jens Blauert by [ Ralph Glasgal ]
32. BINAURAL AND SPATIAL HEARING IN REAL AND VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENTS Book
33. 3D AUDIO - Book (Spanish language) Laboratorio Pirámide PRINCIPAL
34. Acoustical Society of America - Publications
35. Acoustics FAQ
36. 3-D Audio Course Notes by Richard O. Duda - Excelent intro.
37. PHYSICS OF SOUND Course Notes by David Worrall. Australian Centre for the Arts & Technology
38. MM4850: Audio Course Notes by [ Bill Thibault ]
39. Rane Professional Audio Reference Online Encyclopedia of audio
40. Audio Compression References
41. Lexicon of Auditory Display
42. A comparison of Internet audio compression formats
43. ftp://ftp.cwi.nl/pub/audio/index.html Audio file formats
44. Audio Interchange File Format (AIFF)
45. Rockwell Voice ADPCM Specification and Source Code Audio compression
46. IMA ADPCM the Algorithm Audio compression
47. ATRAC: Adaptive Transform Acoustic Coding for MiniDisc
48. RIFF MCI Document File format and control interface specifications
49. MPEG.ORG - MPEG Pointers and Resources Audio compression- MPEG Audio files have the extension .mp2 or .mp3.
50. ASPECTS OF SAMPLING, OVERSAMPLING, QUANTISATION, DITHER AND NOISE-SHAPING, AS APPLIED TO DIGITAL AUDIO by [ Christopher Hicks ]
51. Interactive Filter Design by Tony Fisher
52. Polyphase Filter Designer in Java
53. CMSA web-based filter designer
54. Poles and Zeros by Manfred Thole - a use for Java!
55. Spherical Harmonics
56. HMI DownloadsWhite paper by Dr. Bill Gardner, Ph.D describing the various 3D audio and environmental modeling techniques used in InMotion 3D Audio Producer.

Research

1. The Virtual Acoustics Project in the ISVRThe Institute of Sound and Vibration Research (ISVR) at the University of Southampton
2. Ames Spatial Auditory Display (ASAD) NASA Ames Research Center.
3. Caltech Music Lab Home Page
4. Auditory Perception Lab U.C. Berkeley, Dept. of Psychology
5. HRTF Measurements of a KEMAR Dummy-Head Microphone by [Bill Gardner ] and [ Keith Martin ] MIT Media Lab
6. HUT Acoustics Lab Helsinki University of Technology
7. DIVA - Digital Interactive Virtual AcousticsTelecommunication Software and Multimedia Laboratory, Helsinki University of Technology. (new link 24/9/98)
8. AUDITORY home page MIT Media Lab AUDITORY list archives|| Auditory Demonstration CDs
9. Spatial Audio Work in the GVU MCG Georgia Institute of Technology
10. R. O. Duda Research Sound Localization Research
11. Keith Martin's Research Interests MIT Media Lab
12. MIT Media Lab: Michael Casey's Audio Research Projects
13. Ewan Macpherson's Research Waisman Center
14. SPATIAL-AUDIO GENERATOR WEB PAGE
15. Csound Project by Eli Breder and David McIntyre
16. [ William Martens ] spatial hearing research, 3D media consultant, -audio for VRML, spatial audio
17. [ Gary S. Kendall ] Assoc. Professor of Music Technology and Music Theory - Northwestern University
18. Spatial Audio Systems at the University of Aizu by [ Michael Cohen ] - Pioneer Sound Field Control System
19. The Home Page of Robot Ears by Jie Huang
20. HDRL: Hearing Development Research Laboratory University of Wisconsin-Madison.[ Fred Wightman ] , [ Doris Kistler ] & Co. Waisman Center || Head Related Transfer Function Data
21. Human Interface Technology Laboratory HTIL University of Washington
22. MSU Acoustics/Psychoacoustics Home Page Michigan State
23. Acoustics Department Homepage Pennsylvania State University Virtual Acoustic Reality
24. Sheffield Speech and Hearing Research Group || ShATR's Home Page
25. Parmly Hearing Institute || Demonstrations and Data
26. The Darmstadt Auditory Research Group
27. [Jont B Allen ]
28. [ Home Page for Dick Lyon ]
29. [ Dan Ellis's Home Page. ]
30. [ Angelo Farina's Home Page ]
31. [ Russell Storms Home Page ]
32. [ Sean Olive's Web Page ]
33. [ AT&T Labs Research - James Johnston ]
34. [ MOURJOPOULOS ]
35. The Acoustics Laboratory, Aalborg University
36. Machine Hearing Research Group Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Memphis .
37. Trevor Shackleton's Home Page of the Hearing Research Group at the University of Sussex.
38. Acoustic Laboratory In Japan
39. CSULA Psychoacoutics Web Page

Products

1. Virtual Reality Headsets
2. HeadRoom: Home Page for Headphones || HeadRoom In Depth Headphone Evaluations
3. HeadWize - A NonProfit Resource Site for Headphones and Headphone Listening.
4. AKG Acoustics - Home Page
5. Sennheiser Home Page Headphones, Microphones etc.
6. Sony Consumer Product Guide: Accessories Headphones, Microphones etc.
7. Precision Audiotronics Stereo Earphones & In-Ear Monitors
8. Etymotic Research
9. earWear(tm) || Etymotic Research ER-4S (Stereo) and ER-4B (Binaural) Canalphones
10. Knowles Electronics - Emkay Innovative Products
11. Brüel & Kjær Sound & Vibration
12. BOSE
13. Meridian Audio Home Page digital and analogue audio and surround sound.
14. Soundboards
15. Soundcard WWW Site
16. Soundcard WWW Site - Hardware Section
17. Turtle Beach Systems Home Page
18. AudioWorks2 || Technical Overview from [ Paradigm Simulation, Inc. ] Spatial Audio Development System for SGI Computers
19. Eighth Nerve - Capybara, DSP, Kyma - Symbolic SoundCorporation
20. RSS-10 Sound Space Processor Product Information - [ ROLAND U.S. ]
21. WELCOME TO CREATIVE LABS
22. AdB Home Page professional digital audio products
23. TrueVerb Reverb Distance, Virtual Space Processor from [Waves Inc]
24. Arboretum Systems, Inc Hyperprism real-time sound effects processing software
25. EuPhonics - EuSpace spatial enhancement and 3D localization algorithm kit [EuPhonics] time sound effects processing software
26. CATT-Acoustic - Room Acoustic Prediction/Auralization
27. Ramsete Program Home Page Acoustic prediction software
28. Aurora Home Page Convolver/Deconvolver, MLS or IRS measurements, Inverse Filter, Cross Talk Cancellation, Spectral analysis + +
29. The PanHandler Surround Sound Panner and Encoder Plug-in for the SAW/SAW Plus.
30. OmniSound Corporation OPS-1 multi-format surround sound panner for film/video audio post production<
31. SigTech Home Page. TimeField Acoustic Correction processor
32. Euphonia - Page d'accueil - Acoustique virtuelleAuralization etc. (In French)
33. NXT Homepage distributed mode speakers
34. Extreme Audio Reality
35. SuperCollider FAQ
36. BackGRAF SURROUND SOUND RENDERER
37. Richard Brice FRANCINSTIEN STEREO ENHANCEMENT

Microphones

1. Schoeps-KFM 6
2. Schoeps-"ORTF Stereo" Microphone MSTC 64
3. NEAR COINCIDENT VS. MS STEREO MIKING - AN OPINION
4. Josephson Microphones
5. Optimum Stereo Signal Recording with the Jecklin Disk
6. Stereo Mic Techniques
BRIEF REVIEW OF THE DECCA TREE MICROPHONE METHOD
7. SOUNDFIELD RESEARCH microphone systems
8. AGM MR2 Technology

"3D" or multichannel sound, chips or cards, New WAVE format info

1. Soundcard Attrition Page New WAVE format test files by [Richard Dobson] Composers Desktop Project (CDP)
2. The PC AV Tech Computer Sound card tests - Arny Krüger
3. SONGBIRD 3D™ AUDIO ACCELERATOR VLSI TECHNOLOGY, INC - AUDIO
4. Medianix Semiconductor, Inc.
5. Welcome to Gadget Labs Wave/4 PC digital audio card 4-track
6. HOONTECH - SoundTrack97 8-track sound card
7. Event Electronics Home Page Multitrack Digital Audio Gina || Layla || Darla
8. Frontier Design Group Home Page WaveCenter™ multichannel audio and MIDI soundcard for Windows 95 PCs.
9. StudioCard - 4 Channels Digital Audio "High Performance Multi-Channel Digital Audio for Personal Computers" Antex Electronics Corporation

Commercial "3D", Spatial, Binaural & Surround Sound Systems

1. Sensaura - Hearing is Believing! 3D-sound developed by Central Research Laboratories ( UK ) - EMI, Alastair Sibbald & co.
2. Transaural (TM) - Cooper Bauck Corporation Harman International Home VMAx
3. Crystal River Engineering
   • Aureal: Home Page
   • A3D Aureal's 3D audio technology
   • AuSIM Engineering Solutions including CRE legacy solutions
4. 3 D Sound, True ThreeDimensional Experience 3D Sound Inc.
5. SoundStorm 3D -- Overview from [ Reality by Design ]
6. QSound home page - Danny Lowe
7. Spatializer Technology
8. Brown Innovations Inc.
9. SRS Labs - Hughes Aircraft, Arnold Klayman
10. NuReality Home Page
11. Lake DSP Including Dolby Headphone
12. LEVEL CONTROL SYSTEMS
13. ULURU - The Music - Spherical Surround Sound
14. Dolby Laboratories, Inc.
    Dolby Laboratories--Dolby Surround and DS Pro Logic
    Dolby Laboratories--Dolby Digital (AC-3)
    Dolby Laboratories--The Sound of Home Theater
15. Lucasfilm's THX Home Page
16. AUDIO DIMENSIONS HOME PAGE "The home of innovative and cost effective surround sound. "
17. CIRCLE SURROUND® 5.2.5 Surround Sound Systems
18. Digital Theater Systems
19. THE SONY IMAX THEATRE ( Sound info.)
20. Holophonics 3D Sound Technology and Sound Effects
21. Sur-real Technologies Virtual Audio
22. Wave Arts, Inc. Wave Arts was founded by Bill Gardner

Ambisonics

1. U.York : MTG: Ambisonics Home Page
2. The Ambisonic Index by Richard Elen - Apogee Electronics
3. Ambisonic Surround Sound FAQ
4. Ambisonic References compiled by Michael Gerzon
5. [Dave Malham]
6. [Martin Leese]

Ambiophonics

1. Ambiophonics-The Way to Realistic Home Sound Reproduction

Stereo-Dipole

1. The Virtual Acoustics Project in the ISVR: Stereo-Dipole
2. Stereo Dipole (SD) reproduction system

Binaural

1. Homepage - THE BINAURAL SOURCE unique catalog of headphone recordings
2. Tchad Blake: Binauralisms: Listening
3. Core Sound Binaural Microphones put them in your ears [ Len Moskowitz ]
4. The Sound Professionals Binaural Microphones
5. Sonic Studios DSM Stereo Recording Mics
6. KU 100 Binaural Microphone - [ Neumann ]
7. Binaural Microphone Construction
8. Duen Hsi Yen's Binaural Sound Page
9. Holophonics Samples

VRML

1. Realistic Sound Experience (RSX) for the Internet Intel - Virtual Reality is coming! now "3D"
2. VRML Audio Tutorial || Links at dFORM
3. Cosmo Player VRML 2.0 Browser - SGI

Misc.

1. 3D Audio Immersion
2. Audio Engineering Society
3. ARA Home Page Acoustic Renaissance for Audio
4. The Academy Advancing High Performance Audio and Video
5. welcome to the RePro 1996 index page The Guild of Record Producers, Directors & Engineers
6. APRS Home Page The Association of Professional Recording Services
7. ProStudio.Com Studio Sound
8. Audio Engineering Society Audio Engineering Society, Inc.
9. The MiniDisc Community Page
10. The dat-heads mailing list
11. The Speaker Building Page
12. Andere links "Interesting (bio-)acoustical links"- bird songs etc.
13. 3D Audio Immersion"Information and the latest news about 3D audio developments for PC gaming"
14. The cyberLibrary [ Parsons Audio ]
15. CD-Recordable FAQ
16. Welcome to AUDIOPHILE AUDITION E-zine for audio, music and home theater

Sound Samples

1. The Virtual Acoustics Project in the ISVR: Stereo-Dipole Sound Samples
2. Sound Library sample file of music processed by Stereo Dipole System
3. The NetSound Home Page MIT
4. Sensaura Sound Samples .wav, .mp2-MPEG-audio-players || Download MPEG for Cool Edit
5. VMAx Demos
6. Demonstrations of Lake DSP Audio Convolution
7. A Free CD! Lake DSP
8. SRS Samples
9. QSound Demos
10. RSX Demo Programs - Intel
11. VLSI 3D AUDIO : DOWNLOADABLE SAMPLES
12. 3-D Audio Samples - Multimedia Computing Group at Georgia Tech
13. Wave Files [ Timothy T. Read ]
14. Virtual Audio CD Sampler + Thunder Storm
15. Binaural recording of two dogs running around! Duen Hsi Yen's Binaural Sound Page
16. HUT Acoustics Lab Sound Examples
17. Diamond Multimedia: Audio Clips
18. Sound Dogs Large online library of sound effects - commercial
19. The Sonic Cd-Rom Desktop Audio Production
20. Actual Binaural Demos Page
21. Página personal de Joaquín Martínez Vizuete audio.zip
22. HDRL: Hearing Development Research Laboratory || 3D Hearing Test!
23. HMI Downloads
24. Sound examples ODEON sound examples for different simulated rooms

Unsorted (eg. 3D Karaoke )

1. TIMEWARE Corp. Virtual Reality Audio(TM) technology
2. Sound Traffic Control

Software

1. "Sonic" - a Digital Audio Programming Language by Don Cross (new link 18/9/98)
2. CLIMAX SOFTWARE SOLUTIONS 3D-Audio - New spatialisation audio software (Shareware )
3. HMI Home Page InMotion 3D Audio Producer for Windows 95/98/NT
4. Cool Edit digital sound editor for Windows.- (Very good)
5. CD/DA Software CD Digital Audio to WAV conversion software Dido 4 - Michiel Overtoom works great
6. Innovative Quality Software (IQS) SAW
7. WinAmp Audio Mpeg player - (Very good)
8. RealReverb Web sitesoftware convolver plugin for WinAmp
9. NONAGS Sound Utilities - 32bit
10. Sound Compression - Lossless
11. The Layer3 Software Page MPEG

Psychoacoustics of Spatial Hearing

1. Franssen Effect Parmly || Duda
2. Cifton Effect Parmly || Duda
3. Precedence Effect Parmly || Duda
4. Binaural Interference Parmly
5. Huggins Pitch Parmly
6. Auditory Distance Perception A Literature Review [Pavel Zahorik]
7. Spatial hearing:HDRL: Current Research
8. Demonstrations in Auditory Perception
9. AUDITORY PERCEPTION
10. Musical Illusions and Paradoxes - Diana Deutsch Welcome to Philomel Records !
11. McGurk Effect Net Site

Sound Analysis

1. Intelligent Speech Analyser™ Home Page - Pitchsystems Ltd
2. Automatic Audio Morphing || Interval Research Corporation || Malcolm's Page of Publications
3. Spectra Plus
4. Avisoft-SASLab : Sound Analysis and Synthesis Software for Bioacoustics

Links

1. DSP Links || Audio DSP
2. HUT Acoustics Laboratory Links by [ Martti Rahkila ] and [ Jyri Huopaniemi ]
3. the ACOUSTICS page by [ Douglas Nunn ] Durham University.
4. Duda Research: Links "Links to the World of Spatial Sound "
5. Audio Loop by [ Miha Frlec ] - Loads of Links
6. Audio and Hifi Tomi Engdahl's Audio and Hifi page
7. Kimmo's Spatial Sound Links and Kimmo's Ambisonics Links
8. On The Net - Sound Toni Emerson -. HTIL University of Washington
9. Audio and Music Links by [ Geoff Martin ]
10. Audio/Acoustic Links Audio Research Group at University of Waterloo
11. WWW Pages Relating to Sound Computation SIGSound
12. Ola's Audio & Acoustics resource index Loads of Links + technical stuff
13. AES: Other Audio Related WWW Links Audio Engineering Society, Inc.
14. WWW Virtual Library on Acoustics and Vibrations
15. "The Best" List of Audiology Hyperlinks! (The BLAH!)
16. EAW Ken's Audio Links Eastern Acoustic Works ( EAW )
17. Audio Related Internet World Wide Web & FTP Sites by [ Steve Ekblad ]
18. MUSIC PRODUCT LINKS AT SYNTH ZONE Loads of Music Product Links
19. AudioWeb Home Page "Premiere site for Audio Enthusiasts"
20. ProAudio Web Homepage
21. The Virtual Times: Audio Links
22. World of Audio
Audio Links
23. Infoseek: The Good Life Channel > Music > Audio > Engineering
24. Audio Files Audio Related Links and Articles
25. Applications Directory: Audio Rendering For Silicon Graphics
26. Audiolit Surfboard Large links list

Last updated on 01/July/99
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