[Rempert]

ASDFer, that is a very interesting plugin you have put together. I'm still undecided on whether it makes my music more enjoyable, but I think it does what it is supposed to do pretty effectively. I haven't experienced any crashing (other than a few while I was figuring out how to set up the folder), but I do get stuttering when attempting to play a CD or a .wma file.

For a proof of concept, it gets a thumbs up. If you find the time and desire to work on it, I'm sure you will find plenty of people to bug you with feature requests

 

[ASDFer]

Fixed the stuttering problem. Just a matter of different buffer sizes for different files...

 

[tigre]

Great news, thanks. Some questions/thoughts:

- Is it possible to put the directory containing the HRTF files somewhere else (e.g. back to a fb2k components sub-folder) - having it in c:\ reminds me of win95 days

(not really important).

- Any news about 5.1 -> binaural conversion? (Just out of curiosity, for my needs stereo -> binaural is enough)

I've been thinking about how to further improve the results. There are 2 thoughts:

1. adjust the effect to different headphones. For this (inverse) impulse responses for headphone -> in-ear microphone would be necessary. I think I'll start a seperate thread about this, probably at hydrogenaudio. If anyone reading this knows where to find frequency response curves or impulse responses of different headphones (measured with in-ear headphones)

2. Add some room simulation with attenuated echos coming from different directions (I've already done this with my 1st trial)

(ASDFer, don't worry - these thoughts aren't meant as feature request for you, because they can be added by changing the impulse responses without any modification of the plugin needed... - besides maybe an option to load a set of impulse responses manually. The sliders could be disabled in this case.)

 

[squallor]

Here you go:
http://convolver.sourceforge.net/
Explanation of how to load HRTF data is lower on this page:
http://convolver.sourceforge.net/configegs.html

[size=xx-small]Note: I'm not associated with that project.[/size]

 

[BudR]

I've been using an Ispase SMK unit for approx. six months and it gives great binaural sound from stereo and surround.  They have demos on the site at www.ispase.com.