Feature Idea: Load Atmos Sweep Files

tjcinnamon

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Not sure if this is possible but it would be nice to load up Atmos Sweep Files and then have them function like channels. It would allow us to leverage the Sequential measurement feature and measure a 9.1.4 setup much more seamlessly.

Or if anyone has an ideas on how to do this without a specific feature, I'm definitely interested.

Thanks for everything and I love all the new features!
 

John Mulcahy

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No, it isn't possible. REW is not an ATMOS decoder and even if it were it has no connection to the additional ATMOS channels, nor is it an ATMOS encoder so it can't directly produce ATMOS streams for receivers.
 

tjcinnamon

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No, it isn't possible. REW is not an ATMOS decoder and even if it were it has no connection to the additional ATMOS channels, nor is it an ATMOS encoder so it can't directly produce ATMOS streams for receivers.
makes sense. That's kind of what I figured.
 

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@John Mulcahy
Would it be possible to do "sequential measurements" from a file list i.e multiple files in a specific order in a specific folder?
 

John Mulcahy

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That wouldn't help REW since it can't decode ATMOS files. You could probably jury rig something by setting up a playlist on something that can decode the ATMOS files, setting REW up for acoustic timing reference and and doing a repeated measurement run with as many repeats as there are files to be played back, starting the measurement with nothing connected to on the REW output the starting the playlist. You'd have to manually label the measurements for the channel corresponding to the playlist order.
 

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Not that I'm advocating anything be added to REW, but I don't understand the decoding bit. REW could continue to take an LPCM sweep file, just like it does now for measurements from files, plus a playlist of files (not limited to Atmos; I have DD/DD+/DTS sweep files, for example), and it would need to act like an audio player to bitstream passthrough output the playlist, which would not require decoding as such.
 

John Mulcahy

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Audio players commonly decode their files before rendering them, but in any case Java's audio classes have no support for compressed formats or their containers.
 

canavan

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Not that I'm advocating anything be added to REW, but I don't understand the decoding bit. REW could continue to take an LPCM sweep file, just like it does now for measurements from files, plus a playlist of files (not limited to Atmos; I have DD/DD+/DTS sweep files, for example), and it would need to act like an audio player to bitstream passthrough output the playlist, which would not require decoding as such.
What would be the benefit of having REW play the files? Would it not be sufficient for REW to support creating (and taking measurements with) multi channel sweep files, or being able to just take sequential measurements from multiple sweep files played back to back?
 

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What would be the benefit of having REW play the files? Would it not be sufficient for REW to support creating (and taking measurements with) multi channel sweep files, or being able to just take sequential measurements from multiple sweep files played back to back?
I did say I wasn't advocating adding anything to REW for this. For >7.1 sound systems with only HDMI input, LPCM isn't sufficient to access all channels/speakers. It would be a small convenience if REW supported sequential measurements with file playback, but if REW doesn't know the file playlist, it can't generate very useful measurement names; that would be the additional minor convenience of having REW play the files.
 
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