You also have to take account of this when you're adjusting channel volumes. With a stereo mic, you have the same advantages as with the Ambisonic mic in terms of ease of set up and reduced intrusiveness, but you have no control at all over stereo positioning or relative volume levels. There is one more thing I have to tell you about Logic and Ambisonics. Before I bought the mic I wanted to try out the principle, and there are many Ambisonic files on the Internet you can download I started with the example files Rode provide on their website.
So I set Logic up as described above, imported a file and Only two tracks of the four would play, as you can see in Screen 4. Fortunately there's a workaround! To cut a long story short, several SOS Forum members checked this out and we discovered this was a bug introduced with Logic You can import an Ambisonic file into Logic It has been reported to Apple as a bug in the current at the time of writing version It might be fixed by the time you read this.
This is a potentially significant problem because there are portable recorders, like the Zoom F4 and F8, which will produce Ambisonic files, and so would be useful for making recordings on site that you could then import into Logic for mixdown. This would not, on the face of it, be possible while this bug is present.
However, I have devised a workaround, which works because Logic will successfully import Ambisonic files it has written itself. So here we go:. Drag the Ambisonic file onto the Logic arrange area. You will be asked what to do with it. You will also have the quadraphonic surround panner present on each channel. For each track in turn, open the panner and set the pan for the track as follows:.
However, if you want to try the sort of stuff I describe above you may want to do the following steps, which will use Logic to write a new Ambisonic file it will be happy with. Set file format, resolution and bit rate appropriately for your project. Click OK. When the file save screen comes up, choose an appropriate filename but don't for neatness, mostly, but also to avoid deleting the file accidentally save in Bounces.
Save in Audio Files for the project instead. The bounced file will now appear in the Project Browser and it will now be recognised as a quadraphonic file by Logic, and be fully usable so you can drag it to a quadraphonic channel and proceed as above. One last thing: Logic includes a binaural panner, but this is intended for setting normal mono and stereo sources into a binaural space. It isn't intended for use with Ambisonic recordings. This is an area I want to explore once my funds have recovered a bit, and of course I can then revisit all my earlier recordings to rework into binaural output should I so wish.
Buy PDF version. Previous article Next article. Radial J48 more noise than Hi-Z Input? The panner works with all formats from stereo to 7. For stereo tracks being panned into surround, a single V-Panner grid controls the linked actions of the two Pro Tools pan screens.
In addition, the unique motion feature allows panning to be controlled by movement of the smartphone. Moving the smartphone around degrees moves the pan position around the edge of the surround field. The new Dobly Atmos feature is also available in the V-Panner app for Android tablets and phones as well as for iPhones and laptop browsers.
The Dolby Atmos plug-in is used to create spatial 3D panning for object tracks in Pro Tools on the dubbing stage. The new Dolby Atmos pan screen in the V-Panner and V-Console iPad app directly controls the object panning in the Dolby Atmos plug-in allowing for more creative movement control of the object from the iPad screen.
This is the first and only touch-screen Dolby Atmos controller available. The Dolby Atmos iPad screen includes controls for Z Elevation, and Wedge, Ceiling and Sphere Elevation modes as well as an object size control, mirroring controls in the plug-in.
