Ambisonic Effects

Ambisonic effects transform complete encoded fields while preserving the relationships among their channels. Place field effects after an encoder or encoded source and before decoding. Processor Ambi Grain instead generates a field from loaded encoded media, while grouped bus processors operate on lane-locked third-order fields.

Workflow

1. Choose a processor, match its supported order and bus width to the source field, and insert it on a track whose width matches its field or grouped-field buses. Place field effects after an encoder or encoded source, route complete 16-channel blocks into group processors, or load encoded media into Processor Ambi Grain.
2. Follow a single output field with an ambisonic decoder. Additional Ambisonic effects may be placed before that decoder when their supported order and channel count match the field. For grouped outputs, apply compatible effects within each 16-channel field and route each field to its own decoder, or mix the groups to one field before its compatible effect chain and decoder.
3. Establish a neutral processor state, then send audio through the complete chain.
4. Explore the controls appropriate to the selected processor, including effect amount, directional masks, listener relationships, transforms, topology, or grain behavior.

Selected effects and spatial instruments also use Listener Mode, an internal analysis layer that lets an ambisonic field influence its own later processing.

Field Effects

• Ambi Effect DJ Filter: an order-adaptive 1OA through 7OA low-pass/open/high-pass sweep with per-pickup variation, input meters, and directional masking across Icosa12, Dodeca20, or Sphere24 listener bodies.
• Ambi Effect Delay: overlap-add per-pickup delay time and feedback, with macro spread/deviation, topology routing, radial meters, and a directional dry/wet mask.
• Ambi Effect Pitch: dual-grain per-pickup pitch and window relationships using the same upscaled body, listener view, topology, and mask.
• Ambi Effect Gain: a neutral-at-zero directional level field with per-pickup gain, macro relationships, topology, and dry-suppressing mask.
• Ambi Effect Resonance Print: captures a compact directional modal fingerprint from the field, then re-excites it as a tunable, topology-routed resonant body without storing source audio.
• Ambi Effect Partial Trace: follows or freezes a reconciled bank of partials across the Listener body, with temporal smear and topology-routed sinusoidal HOA resynthesis.
• Ambi Effect Response Trace: captures one short directional kernel per Listener pickup, then convolves and routes the wet response locally, across, diffusely, or around the field.
• Ambi Effect Displacement: order-adaptive time-varying field warps loaded from 24-point Displacement Score geometry and resampled onto the selected listener body.
• Processor Ambi Imprint: directional convolution using .s3gimprint space responses.
• Ambi Transform Rot 64: coherent first-through-seventh-order field rotation.

Field and Bus Effects

• Ambi Depth: depth, focus, air, tail, low-body, and width shaping for one third-order field.
• Ambi Field / Bus Effects: group matrix, node mixing, rotation, and depth across lane-locked third-order feeds.
• Processor Ambi Grain: loaded-media granulation with one shared grain event stream across all active ambisonic channels.

Signal-chain Rule

encoder or encoded media
-> ambisonic effects
-> decoder
-> speaker or stereo output

Do not treat individual ambisonic channels as unrelated stems. Use the field-aware processors here when timing, filtering, geometry, or gain changes must remain coherent across the encoding.