VBAP - Vector Base Amplitude Panning¶

Summary¶

• Description: VBAP is an efficient extension of stereophonic amplitude panning techniques, applied to multi-loudspeaker setups. In a horizontal plane around the listener, a virtual sound source at a certain position is created by applying the tangent panning law between the closest pair of loudspeaker. This principle was also extended to project sound sources onto a three dimensional sphere and assumes that the listener is located in the center of the equidistant speaker setup.
• Developer: Ville Pulkki, TKK
• Status: unfinished SpatBASE entry
• Platform: Csound, Pure Data, MaxMSP, SuperCollider

Availiability ¶

• VBAP for Pure Data or MaxMSP
• VBAP for SuperCollider
• VBAP for Csound
• VBAP in SSR
• VBAP in Jamoma
• VBAP implementation in Spatial Audio Matlab Toolbox
• VBAP in the SSR - Sound Scape Renderer *

Related¶

• rvbap - reverberated VBAP
• SSP - Sound Surface Panning

Projects¶

• art or research projects utilizing this spatial renderer

References¶

• Pulkki, V. (2001). Spatial Sound Generation and Perception by Amplitude Panning Techniques. PhD thesis, Helsinki University of Technology. [web]

External Links

• Ville Pulkki's VBAP webpage