Recording Setup
- Choose a space with an interesting sound palette!
- Monitor the audio for a while, get to know the sounds. Perhaps a deep listening exercise?
- I found it best to sit down, you're tethered by the length of your LMC USB cable anyway
- I found that the recordings of compositions worked really well with an accompanying 360 video, I used a GoPro for this. I used GoPros tool to bounce down the two sides of 360 video into an equirectangular video.
- I also took a screen recording of the patch whilst composing, using QuickTime Player
- These were composited in Adobe Premiere Pro, with the screen view acting as a 'picture-in-picture'
- The patch outputs (if enabled) two 4-channel B-Format
.wavfiles to your user directory:~/,realEnv.wavandvirtualEnv.wavcontaining the real and virtual audio capture from the patch. - I added these to the Premiere Pro project as ambisonic audio
- I then mixed down the project to equirectangular, with ambisonic audio, for YouTube 360.
Sources
- 360 footage
.mov(converted from GoPro GBACK and GFRONT.mp4files) - Screen Recording of Max 8
.mov - B-Format Microphone Capture
realEnv.wav - B-Format Max 8 Capture
virtualEnv.wav
Output
- Equirectangular 360 / Ambisonic video
.mp4