HI
I'm a composer who has used Logic since it ran on an Atari, and was delighted by the update of Logic that includes Dolby mixing particularly as I have been working with sound spatialisation for many years - mostly live, in concerts of music I did at the Royal College of Music in London and around the world - classics of electronic music like Stockhausen and Jonathan Harvey and generally using Max/Ircam software which doesn't always actually work(!).
Anyway, I want to create ambient type music which rotates the sounds around the listener, and decoding to binaural and listening on Airpods sounds very good. But. If the head tracking could be employed to keep the image of this 3d soundcape fixed I think (know) the illusion would be so much more pronounced. So is there anyway that this can be incorporated into the listening experience (from the Music app on your phone) - presumably extra data in the file? I'm really not an engineer in that way.
Now even more fiddly, and probably a pipe dream, - I'm using the Leslie Cabinet plugin (native to Logic) to create a very lovely sound by spinning the sound of the Tanpura (The Indian Classical stringed drone instrument).
What could potentially be mind bending is if the output of the Lesile wasn't just stereo, but actually surround, and that this sound could similarly whirl around the head of the listener, MAINTAINING an fixed reference postiton (is that what I mean?) as the listener moves their head - so the surround leslie output could be directly "inserted" into the space and the Atmos system would, so to speak, know where the rotating drum of the Leslie is at all times.
Sometimes though I'm using quite fast rotations - hard to know what the speed is as the knob on the Leslie seems to use arbitrary units (ahem, something more scientific would help!), but max speed sounds like about 30Hz - almost audio itself which creates extaordinary effects.
At the moment I'm doing a rough fake by automating a surround panner, and I even tried mapping in a rotary controller, but actually that creates circles within circles, and it can't match the actual experience you might get in a performance of something like Harvey's 4th String Quartet where you're surrounded by actual speakers and the quatrtet is whizzing around you almost sounding like a cloud of bees (last movement -amazing).
Thing is we're close, and the listening quality of your products here (the Leslie, the Binaural render and the Airpods themselves) really is exceptional - so much better than stuff I (or other people) have made in say Max or Ableton Live. I'm very impressed so far but I feel we could push it to "the next level" as you Americans say.
I hope that explains the sort of thing I would like to work with? I'm sure it's very niche, and feel free to tell me to piss off, lol, but your ads always claim that you're really into making cool stuff. This is cool (says the 55yo balding guy).
I really think this way of listening with Aipods is going to become massive - I'm no gamer, but the implications for the immersive sound on those (and for watching films) is huge too (I'm sure you have someone working on it) I'm just a composer writing profoundly uncommercial, rather poetic, classical electronic music ;).
I've attached a rough BInaural mix of this thing I'm working on with the Tanpuras, Temple bells and some improvising musicians i know - once you hear the sound I think it will become much more clear what I'm talking about - and hopefully you like the music and not just effect! Very unfinished, and very hot off the press, so to speak.
I've also added a screen grab of my current workaround in Logic and a cool picture of Stockhausen making it work in !959 (!) before we ever dreamed of having tiny computers in our ears. If you can't help I may have to actually build a version of that spinning table, which would be a pain and expensive - I've spent more than enough on your products over the years. ;)
https://www.dropbox.com/s/uh9a4nx7psiv9qb/Tanpura%20Extended%20with%20Hannah%20Dolby%20Atmos%20Version%20%28A%29.mp3?dl=0
Ok it won't let me submit the pic, ugh...
Thanks for taking the time, let me know what you think, cheers,
Michael Oliva