Exhibition of 5.1 Wavelength on Radio France

December 2011, the festival Wavelength , Quartz of Brest, we selected and published many works for radio, documentaries, dramas, musical creations, soundscapes and sound design, that sound forms from the workplace and the students involved, conducted in multichannel. Those who, equipped with a listening device in 5.1, like listen to these works or can find them again this year at the site of Radio France, here .

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Best Wishes for 2012!


Best wishes for this New Year 2012!

flow 5.1 is compatible with Safari, Chrome MAC / PC

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Smyth Realize P8

Realize after the A8, the helmet model multichannel Smyth Research Realize P8 for professionals. Presentations at the Forum this year Multichannel: I / O balanced analog and AES digital SUB25, 8 level indicators for input signal, USB port for control by software. Adding an entry talkback (reversal of order network) for integration in the HD bus.

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Wavelength 2011

From 1 to 4 December 2011 held the 9 th edition of Wavelength festival, held each year in Brest. This year the multi-channel plays an important role especially with the programming of five impromptu Saturday at 3 Quartz_une selection of works from all walks of Bergamo by Periaux and Hervé Dejardin_et first broadcast on Thursday at 20h, at the Cinema Studios, reports of Multichannel interception in the presence of Lionel Thompson, producer of the program Interception of France Inter, Hervé Dejardin, sound engineer at Radio France and Irene Omélianenko, head of documentary programs on France Culture.

In addition, a workshop organized by Lucia binaural Hardoin held on Saturday at 10am at Quartz.

The programming of the works selected for impromptu Saturday: documentaries, dramas, soundscapes, music acousmatic IMPROMPTUS_5.1

presentation program

More info: wavelength

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14th FISM

14 th International Multichannel Sound Forum

Wednesday 9 and Thursday, November 10

France Televisions

Themes:

Wednesday, November 9

- Multichannel audio creation and games and radio

- The creation and multichannel cinema and music

- Night screening of "A Monster in Paris"

- Workshops 01.05

Game / simulation / augmented reality: PC or game console, headset 7.1

Listen "home theater" classic: 5.1 high-definition radio podcast

Listen "home theater" sound bars: HDTV + 5.1 sound virtualized

Thursday, November 10

- Home theater and listening on the move

- Recording and Sound Mixing 5.1 and 3D

- Workshops 01.05

Listen with headphones HRTF multichannel

Listen "home studio" 3D Audio: Format B in post-production

Listen "home theater" sound bars: HDTV + 5.1 sound virtualized

FISM 2011 program

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Guy Senaux: documentary footage and fiction Multichannel Radio France

Cries bonobo apes to tears of the storm through the crack of a tree being felled in the equatorial forest until his heavy fall on the ground covered with moss, sounds tamed, you will be surrounded by sonnets Shakespearean ... Enjoy the soundscapes as if you were there.

The cataclysm of sound, the monkey sun, the hippie bonobo apes, shakespeare sonnets.

Listening to streaming clips of the brilliant documentary and fiction produced by Radio France multichannel, multichannel sound Senaux Guy, here

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Capture HD/5.1 St Matthew St Denis

HD/5.1 capture of St Matthew Passion at the Basilica of St Denis July 5, 2011, as part of the festival of St Denis.

Direct Streaming Medici.tv 8:30 p.m. ET on more info here

Officer John Nelson, Ensemble Orchestral de Paris, the Paris Masters

Evangelist: Werner Güra

Jesus: Stephen Morscheck

Its taking Bergamo Periaux / Jiri Heger

Art Direction: Jiri Heger

His cars: LocSon, France Televisions

Main system MMAD star system, suspended Schoeps

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Pro-Sonnox Fraunhofer codec, encoding a 5.1 mix in real time

An interesting tool for encoding stereo and 5.1, introduced at NAMM this year, newly available. This is a plug-in developed with Sonnox and Fraunhofer, which can encode in 5.1, including mp3surround formats, aac-lc, and Heaac HDaac (lossless). We can insert a master in Pro tools, software or other VST compatible AT, and compare up to 5 different codecs, at varying speeds and then export the encoded files. He can hear the difference between the input signal and the output of the codec, it indicates the compression ratio, and optimizes the levels of bitstream so as not to saturate the file mixes with high levels. The plugin integrates even a ABX test to compare the different codecs and gives statistical results. It is possible to encode in offline, and decode files obtained from import into the session. However, it does not yet broadcast metadata (loudness, downmix, DRC)-specific Dolby (Dolby Pulse for HeAAC codec), or formats incorporating binaural HRTF mp3D such as Fraunhofer. One can expect a future update integrating mp3D and binaural Mpegsurround compatible.

Codecs supported:

- Mp3, mp3 Surround, AAC-LC, HE-AAC and HE-AAC v2
- Mp3-HD and HD-AAC (Lossless Codec)

Learn more: Sonnox

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Interception listening 5.1 on the website France Inter

Transhumance.

For thousands of years, sheep farmers are channeling their herds of plains drained by the approach of summer pastures to brand new mountain slopes released this winter. The practice continues, especially in the south of France. When it's June, 600,000 animals leave the plains of Provence to find the herb of the Alps. This "great transhumance" that moves the herds of several hundred kilometers was practiced until the middle of last century on foot. It is done now by truck. Until October, shepherds and animals remain on the mountain pastures. The shepherds, once exclusively from herding families, are now increasingly urban environments. They are often young, in search of another way of life closer to nature.

For Interception, Dervieux and Pascal Herve Dejardin followed a herd of 900 animals, of Provencal farmhouse in Saint Martin de Crau, to the slopes of Mercantour. They observed the daily work of the shepherds, recorded their thoughts, their concerns also. Especially that of the wolf, whose return in the sector fueling conversations.

"As long as there are shepherds" is broadcast, like all stories Interception, in stereo. But you can also download from the site of the France Inter broadcast format 5.1 (multichannel sound, or "surround"). The entire report was filmed in effect in its space, which restores the size of the grandiose alpine sound spaces.

Capture: dpa 5100 system, sound device 788T

Here is the page to discover France Inter reporting in 5.1: here

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Support MMAD, Star Williams, distributed by Areitec

The growing interest in the records for the 5-channel Home Cinema, Television or pure audio makes more necessary the search for a registration system 'surround' high quality, simple, reliable and immediately operational. The device 4 and 5 segments of equal width described by Michael Williams in the publications of the AES (see note), this growing interest in the audio industry. However, finding a satisfactory configuration of microphones can not ignore the purely mechanical contingencies related to the manufacture of a suitable support.

Williams is the star of such support, simple, reliable and adaptable to multiple configurations of equal segments 4 or 5 segments. The visual impact of this system has also been minimized. Now, only systems with 4 or 5 channels appear to meet the operational requirements' broadcast 'but the possibility of setting up a 7-channel system is also possible to experiment the new format, Blu-ray'.

A circular hub central allows to fix 4, 5 or 7 rays of different lengths depending on the directivity of microphones selected. At the end of these rays, there is a toggle that can receive a Schoeps microphone or series CCM (Compact Condenser Microphone) or Colette program, consisting of a preamplifier CMC and the full range of capsules.

The development of other combinations is contemplated to meet the needs of the audio industry. In fact, the ability to mount a microphone on a vertical rod is already proposed. While the star of Williams may be used alone, it is strongly recommended to add a suspension anti-vibratoins developed in collaboration with the company RYCOTE from the famous model Lyre Series InVision Broadcast '. This is the assurance that handling noise and other vibrations will be effectively mitigated. The fact that the whole system is suspended (and not each microphone) decrease considerably the resonant frequency and provides a much better filtering of the vibrations. One can choose two types of suspensions Lyre: the model is suitable for CCM INV1, and model the CMC INV4 + capsules. As well as in reporting and in the studio, the weight of the whole is often an important factor - with 5 microphones CCM, the set weighs approximately 500g and 950 g with the CMC + capsules. One can of course equip microphones with windscreens or Rycote Schoeps standards.

Note: Michael Williams presented a series of simple configurations in equal segments in an article in the AES presented at the 91 th Convention of the Audio Engineering Society in New York in October 1991 (AES preprint 3157). These configurations 4, 5 and 6 channels using supercardioid microphones, cardioid or Infracardioïdes. This publication was made ​​before the term "multichannel" is adopted to describe the systems for recording 5-channel configurations and standardized to 5 speakers that result. The article was updated in 2008 to the 124 th AES Convention in Amsterdam (AES preprint 7480) to include systems to channels 7 and 8. These and other articles by Michael Williams can be downloaded www.mmad.info .

The system is now distributed by Areitec, 4 rue Firmin Gillot, 75015 Paris France +33 1 45 30 21 23 areitec@areitec.fr

The Rays

3 sets of rays are provided to constitute a standard star to 5 channels, each set corresponding to a given directivity:

- Supercardioid (the shorter rays) for Schoeps CCM + CMC6 41 or MK 41

- Hypocardioïde (the longest rays) for Schoeps CCM21 or MK21 + CMC6

- Cardioid (rays of intermediate length) for Schoeps MK4 + CCM4 or CMC6

We can provide rays for omnidirectional microphones, but this configuration does not seem to give satisfactory results for optimal localization of sources.

The Star of Williams Standard is designed to channel 5. However the central hub can accommodate 4, 5 or 7 rays as needed. In this case, use a set of different radii for each configuration (4, 5 or 7) and for each type of directional (super-cardioid or hypocardioïde). These rays are available as accessories. The hub has colored markers to facilitate the mounting of: yellow for 4 channels, red and blue channels 5 to 7 channels. The central hub also has a slot for attaching a vertical rod to mount a microphone aditional dedicated to very low frequencies (the .1 of a 5.1 system).

Attaching Microphones ("Microphone Mounting Clip ')

It can fit two different bindings ('microphone clips') at each radius, one for the CCM and the other for the Colette series. Both have a standard thread 3/8 "to attach the appropriate media. However mounting the CCM does not authorize the radial fitting of the microphone position, and therefore the fixing been designed depending on the length of the radius, so that the membrane is correctly positioned. It is therefore important to use the media to set the CMS Schoeps CCM, whereas the CMC can be used interchangeably support Schoeps SG 20 or other equivalent fitting. It is only with the latter support that the position of the membrane can then be adjusted according to the specific configuration required. The cylinder that supports the mounting clip can rotate on the axis of radius to align the axis of the microphone with that of the Department.

Attaching the star microphone stand with swivel mount

The Star of Williams attaches to a standard foot by a standard thread of 3/8 ". If you must use an articulated support of the kind that is used in photo or video, you can return the hub and use the other thread 1/4 ".

Suspension

In general, it is preferable to use an anti-vibration suspension with the Star of Williams. The proposed suspension was developed in collaboration with the Society Rycote system and uses the "Lyre" of 'InVision1' or 'InVision4'. Depending on the total weight of the system, different flexibilities of mounting are necessary. For CCM, the model "Lyre" InVIsion1 is recommended, while for the series Colette, you should use the model "Lyre" of InVision4. You can also use an enhanced version of the Lyra InVision4.

This suspension system can also be mounted on a tripod with a standard screw thread 3/8 "or on a tripod by simply inverting the base. Support "Lyre" must then be rotated 180 ° to be aligned with the rays of the star.

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