Legacy objects for Vector Based Amplitude Panning in Max authored by Ville Pullki and adapted by Nathan Wolek.
This GitHub project is a package for Cycling74's Max, versions 6.1 or higher. It provides newly compiled, 64-bit versions of Ville Pullki's objects for vector-based amplitude panning that were originally developed in 1998.
Vector-based amplitude panning is a technique for spatializing sound across multiple loudspeakers. It is flexible enough to define an arbitrary number of speakers in 2D or 3D space. After speaker positions are defined, the user can move a single sound source through the configuration by adjusting its apparent azimuth and elevation.
Additional resources:
- AES paper on VBAP by Ville Pullki, published originally in 1997 by Journal of the Audio Engineering Society
- Legacy website for research group at Helsinki University of Technology
- Distinct implementation of VBAP for PD by Pierre Guillot of CICM
- 3D Sound Primer by Gary Kendall, published originally in 1995 by Computer Music Journal
If you have Git installed, you can install via the Terminal using the following commands for Max 7:
cd ~/Documents/Max\ 7/Packages
mkdir vbap
cd vbap
git clone https://github.com/nwolek/vbap.git
For Max 6.1, replace the first line above with the following, and then proceed with the remainder:
cd ~/Documents/Max/Packages
If you do not have Git installed, you can download the latest release here. After decompressing the zip archive, the resulting folder can be placed in one of the following folders:
~/Documents/Max\ 7/Packages~/Documents/Max/Packages
If you feel that you have found a bug, please report it via the Issues section of this GitHub project site.