*** Readme file for Ramsete View Beta v. 3.09 ***

This folder contains the "Beta" version of Ramsete View 3.09 and Material Manager 3.09.
As with previos v. 3.08, this new version supports MIMO impulse response creation in matrix multichannel WAV format, compatible
with all existing matrix convolution plugins: X-MCFX, MCFX, X-volver, Sparta Matrix Convolver, Aurora for Audacity, etc.
Ramsete is the forst room acoustics simulator capable of creating MIMO impulse response, which create a 6DOF link
between a source position and a receiver position. The directive emisison from the source and the directive listening 
from the receiver can be decomposed both in spherical hamronics (High Order Ambsionics) or with the SPS approach.
More info in these papers:

Angelo Farina, Alberto Amendola, Lorenzo Chiesi, Andrea Capra, Simone Campanini "Spatial PCM Sampling: A New Method For Sound Recording And Playback" - AES 52nd International Conference, Guildford, UK, 2013 September 2–4 Permalink: http://www.angelofarina.it/Public/Papers/273-AES52-2013.pdf

Angelo Farina, Lorenzo Chiesi	Measuring Spatial MIMO Impulse Responses in Rooms Employing Spherical Transducer Arrays	
AES Conference on Sound Field Control, Guildford (UK), 18-20 July 2016 Permalink: http://www.angelofarina.it/Public/Papers/280-AES-2016.pdf

If You find bugs with this new MIMO feature, please contact the author (farina@unipr.it)


The other big novelty is the import and export filters for the Catt Acoustics .GEO format.
Please note that this deals properly with the geometry (room, source and receiver positions) and material properties.
Catt Acoustics uses proprietary data files for defining the source directivity (.SD0, .SD1 or .SD2 formats).
Whilst Ramsete recognizes the filename defining the sound sources, in the geometry file (.RAY in Ramsete)
you find the reference to source files automatically converted with the same name but with the .SPK suffix.
But no conversion is actually done automatically, so the new .SPK file must be created from scratch, or from
existing CLF files.
Similarly, if you convert a .RAY file to .GEO, the referred .SPK source files are renamed to .SD0, but these source 
directivity files are not automatically created.
The Examples folder contains a number of .GEO and .RAY files, which were used during the development of this new feature.
If you have your own .GEO or .RAY files and the Catt Acoustics import/export filters are not working properly, please submit
samples of these files to the author (farina@unipr.it) for debugging. This is the main goal of releasing this Beta version.