July 15, 2022, 5:46 p.m.

Introducing FOAFX: Spatial audio effects in Elementary

Elementary Audio Newsletter

Hey friends,

Over the course of the past semester, I’ve been working with a team from Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) on a tool for applying spatially positioned audio effects to first order ambisonic sound files. Our project, foafx, is the result of months of creative exploration and prototyping that proved to be a wonderful opportunity to leverage Elementary’s strengths.

Our work is available on GitHub at https://github.com/risdsound/foafx, and offers an exciting example of working with multi-channel audio in Elementary as well as ambisonic encoding and decoding. The tool itself is available on the command line from npm, and is documented thoroughly on our GitHub Readme:

npm install -g foafx
foafx --help

Feel free to open an issue on the repository to let us know what you think or to share a cool example, and as always you can catch me in Discord (@Nick) if you have any questions.

Lastly, I want to send a huge thanks out to the team for their work on this project:

  • Shawn Greenlee, Faculty Lead
  • Mark Araujo, Research Assistant
  • Caleb Shafer, Research Assistant
  • Femi Shonuga-Fleming, Research Assistant

Have a great weekend,

Nick

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