Constellations of Us will be premiered at Lightwaves Salford, a free outdoor light festival with 12 interactive installations located around MediaCity and Salford Quays.

Opening Thu 4 – Sun 7 Dec 2025, from 4pm-10pm

#immersive #soundscape #installation #lightwaves #salford #mediacity #quaysculture #envelop4live #surroundsound

https://taylornuttall.wordpress.com/2025/12/01/constellations-of-us/

We’re thrilled to share that our "Medieval Towns and Villages Ambience Kit" is currently on super sale.

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Don’t miss out - this super-deal ends soon!

#SoundDesign #GameAudio #FilmAudio #AudioDrama #Podcast #ImmersiveAudio #Surroundsound #Ambience #SoundEffects #AudioLibraries

I have a new project launching in two weeks time as part of Lightwaves Salford. A preview of this will be being tested out at Beyond 2025 taking place at Media City on 24th to 26th Nov.
More information about the immersive soundscape can be found at my blog www.taylornuttall.com which I am updating as the work comes to fruition.

#immersive #soundscape #installation #surroundsound #soundart #lightwaves #MediaCity

https://www.taylornuttall.com

Periodic reminder.

Soundbars are crap, zero exceptions.

Surround sound only happens when you have speakers SURROUNDING you.

BlueTooth wireless connection is unsecure garbage, single channel, prone to hiccups in streaming.

Wires are best.

You don't need to spend a lot to have great surround sound.

#SurroundSound

ME: (being the stereotypical indecisive Libra) I can't decide if I want to actually wire the billiard room for surround sound or just get a sound bar. I wish there were somehow a sound bar that could still do rear channels.

JBL: Helllloooooooo

https://www.jbl.com/BAR-800-.html

#Audio #SurroundSound #HomeTheatre

Fascinating night at @bfi last night as @kermodedodge & @nellyjelson were joined by special guests @anne.j_dudley & @rachelportmancomposer to explore cinema’s soundtracks during this launch event for their book "Surround Sound"

#surroundsound
@heddaarchbold
#teamphoto
#monochrome

Frage an Audio-Kundige: Ich habe hier eine CD, der liegt als Bonus-Disk eine DVD bei mit einem Surround-Mix des Albums. Die Beschreibung sagt: »Digipak with 5.1 audio DVD-V (Dolby Digital, DTS)«. Gibt es einen Weg bzw. eine Toolchain, diesen Surround-Mix von der DVD runter zu rippen und so umzurechnen, dass ich den über Stereokopfhörer, aber mit „räumlicher“ Auflösung hören kann? Ich denke in Richtung Ambisonic.

Habe hier Linux und macOS in Verwendung. #audio #surroundsound

Lukewarm take:

Soundbars are garbage.

(watch a goddamn dumbass come argue this, trying to twist reality that sound can come from behind you, if there are speakers only in front of you, in a single point, not even two points apart)

#SurroundSound

I wonder sometimes if I like some shows and movies better than others because I have a full surround sound system in my living room.

Current "whoa" surround mixing examples:

- Alien:Earth S1E3 - last 5 minutes.
- Sinners - that music scene

#audio #surroundsound #atmos

Splitting a Surround Sound Audio File in Ubuntu

https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2015/07/splitting-a-surround-sound-audio-file-in-ubuntu/

See this update for a better way to do this.

Being mostly notes to myself and following on from my post on Quadrophonic files.

I have:

• A DTS album stored as a .WAV
• A .cue file with chapter markings

I want:

• The single large file to be split into individual chapters with one file per chapter.
• Each file to be multitrack (that is, to stay in surround sound)

It turns out, that there is no simple way to do this. There are tools to split stereo wav files by their cue sheet, but nothing for 5.1 files.

So, here's how I did it. This process uses mkvtools and avconv.

The Easy (But Fairly Manual) Way!

I can't find an automated way to do this from a cuesheet - so here's what you need to do.

A typical cue looks like

Track 2 starts at 4 minutes, 38.14 seconds into the file. It finishes at (8m 39.09s - 4m 38.14s) = 4m 0.95s.

That is, avconv forced to use DTS, starting at 4.38.014 and finishing after 4m .95s, copying the codec into a new file.

Calculating Offsets

It's hard to manually calculate all the timings. One quick(ish) way to get them is by using cueconvert.

If you open the newly created .toc file, you should see something like:

You can then use those timings as your -ss and -t values - remember to add the extra leading "00:".

Limitations

The Hard (But Somewhat Automated) Way!

Convert the .WAV to .MKV

In some cases, avconv will think your 5.1 recording is stereo. Fix it by forcing the codec it detects.

Create a Chapters File

MKVmerge require a specific format of chapter file which is different from a normal .cue file. Creating this will be a manual process.

Save that as chapters.txt.

Add The Chapters to the .MKV

A single command for this one:

Split The MKV

There are a couple of ways to do this, I use:

You'll now have track-001.mkv, track-002.mkv etc.

Limitations

At this point, we have two moderately annoying problems.

That last one is rather a showstopper! For some reason, the .MKV files play back their audio properly. When trying to extract or convert it, all sorts of stream errors occur.

TODO

Either write a patch for avconv to get it to split by .cue - or write a small Python script to do everything automagically!

Any suggestions for a better way to do this? Stick them in the comments box.

#audio #avconv #dts #linux #surroundSound