Huron & SNAP Documentation

An overview of the Simulation Tools
Lake Technology’s Simulation Tools provide a wide range of
options for configuring and creating aural simulations. This
multitude of potential configurations provides not only a wealth
of possibilities for aural simulations but introduces a level of
complexity to the running of such simulations.
In order to reduce possible confusion this subsection seeks to
provide an overview of the relationship between the elements
which comprise a simulation and addresses the most important
aspects of setting up a Lake Technology sound simulation.
The following terms are used throughout the simulation tools
documentation and are important to know in order to
understand the functioning of the Simulation Tools.
• Real world: This is it, you are living in it.
• Soundscape: The virtual audio simulation generated by a
simulation application. The Soundscape can be thought of
as a virtual audio world.
• Simulation application: An application which takes audio
and other inputs and processes them to generate a
Soundscape.
• Listener: The real world person who listens to an audio
simulation via headphones or a speaker array.
• Listener object: The virtual object that represents the
listener inside the Soundscape.
• Sound source: The real world sound source (CD player,
WavePlayer application etc.) that is used as an audio input
into the simulation application.
• Sound object: The virtual object that represents the sound
source in the Soundscape during a simulation.
• Position: The real world position of the listener or tracking
device.
• Location: The virtual location of an object (listener or
sound) within the Soundscape.
• Location channel: The messaging channel over which
information relating the location of virtual objects is passed.
Location channel numbers must be in the range 1 to 255, as
channel 0 is reserved in most applications.
• Rotation: The real world orientation of the listener or
tracking device.
• Angle: The virtual orientation of a sound or listener object
in a Soundscape.
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