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1 Playing back Ambisonics
2 Working with Ambisonics
3 Ambisonics Theory
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[edit] Playing back Ambisonics

Ambisonic players are available for most platforms (Win, OSX, Linux). Since Ambisonic files can be played back on any number of speakers, some of the players offer a more options than standard audio players (such as allowing you to chose 2, 5.1 or 20 surround speaker playback).

Click on the following link to see a choice of recommended players:

For playing back *.amb ambisonic files in a standalone player, please see

Playback Software

Playing back ambisonic files via DSP platforms (Bidule, MaxMSP etc.):

Object-Patcher_plugins

Note: Playing DTS files (as offered on Ambisonia.com) requires no special Ambisonic player since these files have already been decoded for 5.1 layouts)

For playing back *.dts files, please see

Playing DTS files on 5.1 Home Theatre systems

And for the software developers, See the Ambisonic Player Specification.

[edit] Working with Ambisonics

Ambisonics is an extremely versatile audio technology used by many engineers and artists to produce everything from stereo, to 5.1 to binaural to true multi-channel surround.

The recent upsurge in interest in Ambisonics has led to more tools being developed, from microphones, to software editing plugins for use with popular DAWs.