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This is the new native format for Windows2000, the Kernel Audio services from which have been incorporated into Windows98 Second Edition.
The final html version of the specification can be read here.
Here are two quad soundfiles in the new format. I hope to post more
examples soon (space permitting), and also that other sites will appear,
as other developers complete the software required to handle the new format.
CDP has published a free Multi-Channel
Toolkit (WIN32 console), which includes a program to play these files
using a multi-channel MME device, and a program to create the quadraphonic
pan illustrated above.
Example 1: from Microsoft
Speech idents, in LCRS surround format(44100Hz,16bit, 3.83 secs)
Wave_ex1.zip
(291KB)
example 2: from me! (illustrated above)
Drum, panned ambisonically in a circle in quad format (LF,RF,LR,RR)
(22050Hz,16bit, 4.78 secs)
(also contains the PEAK chunk)
Drmapan.zip
(660KB)
Also imminent : an example in the new ambisonic B-format subtype of
WAVE-FORMAT-EXTENSIBLE.
In the meantime, details of my proposed B-Format specialization of
WAVE-EX can be read here.