7.1 surround sound: Difference between revisions

The history of [[electronic music]] includes the evolution of multi-channel playback in concert (arguably the real roots of "surround sound" for cinema) and for a considerable time the 8-channel format was a de facto standard. This standardisation was fostered, in great measure, by the development of professional and semi-professional 8-track tape recorders—originally [[Analog signal|analog]], but later manifesting in proprietary cassette formats by [[Alesis]] and [[Tascam]]. The speaker configuration, however, is much less traditional, and unlike cinematic reproduction systems, there is no hard-and-fast "standard". In fact, composers took (and to some extent still take) considerable interest in experimenting with speaker layouts. In these experiments, the goal is not limited to creating "realistic" playback of believably natural sonic mentsenvironments. Rather, the goals are often simply to experience and understand the effect created by variations on source and imaging.