SROOM

Simple stationary-source room simulation.

in RTcmix/insts/jg

quick syntax:

SROOM(outsk, insk, dur, amp, rightdist, frontdist, xloc, yloc, rvbtime, reflect, inroomwidth[, inputchan])

NOTE: This is an older RTcmix instrument, the newer MPLACE instrument is probably better to use for room-simulation.

SROOM uses the F. R. Moore approach to modelling room acoustics (described in F.R. Moore: “A General Model for Spatial Processing of Sounds.” The Computer Music Journal, Vol 7/3, pp. 6-15, 1983). you to specify a trajectory of a source sound through the room. NOTE: This is an older RTcmix instrument, the newer MPLACE or PLACE instruments do a better job of room-simulation, although they are more computationally expensive.

Usage Notes

SROOM will add reverberation and “roominess” to sounds it processes. Delay lines are calculated from the source to the listener. The room model is rectangular, delay paths are based on “ideal” reflections from the walls, the `listener’ (or “inner room” in Moore’s conception) has an expandable head, and reverberation is added to the delay lines to simulate diffusion from reflections of reflections. (NOTE: This is where MPLACE or PLACE may be better then SROOM. The reverberation algorithm employed by MPLACE/PLACE is much better than the simple Schroeder model used in SROOM

SROOM is identical to MROOM except that MROOM has the ability to process a moving sound source.

The room is set up on a Cartesian coordinate system (x-y plane) with the center of the listener’s head (“inner room” front wall) positioned at the origin (0,0).

Parameter p4 (“rightdist”) is the position along the x-axis where the right-hand wall should appear. SROOM will then create the left-hand wall at -p4, so this value represents 1/2 the room’s width (in feet). Similarly, p5 (“frontdist”) is the position along the y-axis where the front wall will be drawn. The rear wall will be positioned at -p5. p5 represents 1/2 the room’s height (also in feet).

The parameters p6 and p7 (“xloc” and “yloc”) are the x and y coordinates of the sound source. “rvbtime” (p8) is the amount of time (in seconds) it takes for the reverb comb filters to decay to .001 of their original value. Values greater than 1.0 - 1.5 tend to sound “metallic”; the frequency response of the reverb combs becomes clearly audible. p9 (“reflect”) is the percentage of sound reflected by the walls. A p9 value of 100 will mean that the walls will not absorb any of the incident sound. The only attenuation in the delay paths will be due to the distance travelled from the source to the listener (-6 db for each doubling of distance). p10 (“inroomwidth”) is the width of the inner (or listening) room (or the size of the listener’s head). The value represents 1/2 the true width of the inner room (in feet). p11 (“inputchan”) is an optional argument to specify which channel of the input sound to process through the room. The default is channel 0. Note that only one channel at a time may be processed through SROOM

The older makegen control envelope sysystem can be used to place an amplitude envelope in function slot 1 (the setline scorefile command may also be used to do this).

SROOM produces stereo output only.

Sample Scores

basic use:

   rtsetparams(44100, 2)
   load("SROOM")

   rtinput("mysound.snd")

   outskip = 0
   inskip = 0
   dur = DUR()
   amp = 0.8
   xdim = 20
   ydim = 20
   xsrc = 10
   ysrc = 10
   rvbtime = 1.0
   reflect = 90.0
   innerwidth = 4.0
   inchan = 0

   SROOM(outskip, inskip, dur, amp, xdim, ydim, xsrc, ysrc, rvbtime, reflect, innerwidth, inchan)

   outskip = dur+1
   amp = 0.7
   ydim = 50
   xsrc = -30
   reflect = 80.0

   SROOM(outskip, inskip, dur, amp, xdim, ydim, xsrc, ysrc, rvbtime, reflect, innerwidth, inchan)

See Also

DMOVE, FREEVERB, GVERB, MMOVE, MOVE, MPLACE, MROOM, PLACE, REV, REVERBIT, ROOM