Software and APIs

API for Matlab/Octave

An application-programming interface (API) for Matlab and Octave.

The releases are provided at Sourceforge. The sources are stored at github

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API for C++

An API for C++ is available online. The version 1.0 is in accordance with the AES69-2015 standard.

The sources are stored at github

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SOFAlizer: Demo of a SOFA-based audio engine in C++

SOFAlizer is a simple demo of an audio engine as a plugin for the VLC-Player.

Currently, Windows binaries of the VLC-Player 2.1 compiled with the SOFAlizer plugin are available. In order to use SOFAlizer:

• Download the official VLC 2.1 from here and install on your machine
• Download the SOFAlizer from here, unzip, and copy over your VLC installation
• Start VLC
• Goto Tools, Preferences, check "Show settings: All"
• In the left panel, for Audio/Filters, check "SOFAlizer"
• In the left panel, for Audio/Filters/SOFAlizer, select at SOFA file 1,2,3 up to three SOFA files
• Click on Save
• Goto Tools/Effects and Filters, in that panel, select "SOFAlizer"
• Enable SOFAlizer
• Load a audio/video file, enjoy

The source code is available here. The file sofalizer.c can serve as an example of how to load SOFA files in C++.

WaveCloud-M

WaveCloud-M is Matlab-oriented room simulator. Beginning with version 1.0, WaveCloud-M can use HRTFs saved in SOFA to render binaural signals.

Spat

Spat is a software suite for spatialization of sound signals in real-time intended for musical creation, postproduction, and live performances made by IRCAM. It supports SOFA for binaural rendering.

HDF5View

SOFA files are based on netCDF-4. NetCDF is based on HDF5. HDFView is a generic viewer for HDF5 files running in Java.

Thus, SOFA files can be loaded and edited in the HDFView.

libmysofa

Libmysofa is a light weight C-library to read SOFA files.

It hardly has any library dependencies and is suitable for embedded devices.

In addition, it normalizes the input data and provides a function to look up and to interpolate the FIR filters for a given orientation.