"Room tones" from Krilloud?

Thank you. I understand, now. I can see how audio edits need to be hidden this way. I'm not sure why so many of these files use server rooms for their background noise, though. I haven't seen many movies lately, but I would be surprised if many were set in rooms housing large numbers of servers.

In any case, I'm off to search for binaural impulse responses.

Edit: The search result was positive, and there are near-field and far-field impulses that can be downloaded, but I'm fairly sure that these can't be used directly in Pianoteq or a vst: http://spatialaudio.net/183/    This link takes you to an overview of the files. The files themselves can be reached by clicking on the small "Here" link.

They require another program that itself doesn't seem to exist as a VST, the open source Soundscape Renderer: http://spatialaudio.net/ssr/

Do you have knowledge about any way to use these in a vst host? Does anyone? My interest, obviously, is in hearing Pianoteq with binaural impulses shaping the reverb.

Both of those gumroad binaural recordings seem promising for someone wanting a big sound. A shame that they didn't do small spaces. But of course that's natural--a cathedral and a warehouse are going to have more reverb. I'm still hoping that someone will create similar recordings in studios and living rooms. And at a piano.

In looking at the project, they seem more oriented towards use in MATLAB, which makes the WAV files something of an afterthought.  I can confirm that these are mono files; my guess is that the file names hint at which channels are right and left by the "air_lecture_X" where the 0 is left and the 1 is right, with the following numbers indicating which sample the pair was from.  Though it could also be the second number field that indicates stereo.

You could sum two mono files and have a stereo impulse file, but I don't know that this is necessarily helpful, in that quad impulse responses should yield as good or better results as a binaural stereo impulse.  I know I've never had a problem with good quad files providing realistic results, but that could just be a matter of taste (particularly as I rarely use the binaural function of PTQ).

You can definitely skip the "phone" files as they're an experiment in dereverberation for devolving VOIP call sources.  My guess is that this is something of a dead project which was provided for free, because they could, not because they had a usable deliverable for music production or anything other than abstract analysis and research (hence it was abandoned).

I can dig up some links to the old quad files I use, if that helps.

Also, here's an interesting take on uses and disadvantages of binaural reverb: https://www.mattmontag.com/auralization/headphones/

I think it's sounding pretty good.  I honestly wouldn't expect an earth-shattering improvement between a nice-sounding Quad file of a large space and a binaural impulse.  The distance between each ear and the distance between a stereo pair is quite comparable.  The biggest difference between live performance, speaker playback, and headphone playback is usually what the human body does to subtly change or filter EQ, add slight delay, and increase some resonance of select frequencies at select times.  Something that technology can't presently simulate across all three approaches.

Unless paired with some yet-to-be-invented audio-influencing haptic tech that goes with headphones, headphones will never be truly immersive.  Also, as PTQ lacks the ability to know exactly where you are relative to the keyboard surface, if you turn your head or move around the room, the sound won't change, which it would in a real acoustic environment.  Maybe someday, we'll at least get something akin to the old Wiimote or Xbox Kinnect that could in some way detect where you ears are relative to a midi keyboard and send that information to an audio engine or directly to PTQ and make a real-time compensation for our movement relative to the sound.  Perhaps that's even within reach of particularly adventurous DIYers now...

As it is presently with how the technology is implemented in PTQ (and basically everywhere but select VR-based gaming engines), a high quality Quad impulse file which is fixed in space will act almost identically to a binaural impulse response for realism, and the binaural impulses will likely be lower quality as there are fewer good options to choose from.  In time, technologies like the ambisonic support in Unreal Engine that allows far simpler control of noise directionality and convolution (functioning presently a poor-man's VR-friendly Dolby Atmos) could open up easier or more novel ways of creating a more immersive experience with PTQ or any number of other applications.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1cgN5pLG8Rs

You can work with it without compiling code, and as far as I'm aware the audio engine in built in.  You'll need to install the Epic Games Launcher and then you install Unreal Engine from there.  I don't know how exactly to run external audio to it, but there should be a simple way to route a virtual port to it in most operating systems.  How practical it will be is another question, but Unreal Engine can function as a standalone.

https://docs.unrealengine.com/en-US/Bas...index.html

I'll keep digging.  I found a few forum pages at Unreal, and I do know that Unreal supports microphone input for voice chat functions in games: so for music there should be a virtual port/audio capture utility hidden in there somewhere.  I don't think it will support global clock, ASIO, etc. but there's bound to be some way to jury-rig it.  Some people say that with Mic inputs there's not latency at all, which is promising for PTQ, etc.  I wish I knew more people who had more experience with Unreal for this kind of thing.  I only use it--very occasionally--for 3d modelling/world-building/rendering/game environment testing, never anything like this...

I know I've seen people use a microphone input in the node editor/blueprint window, but, again, I haven't tested directly.  The "Media Framework" built into 4.26 and later is supposed to allow for codeless integration of external audio and video sources, so that's at least a place to start.

Here are some links that talk around the issue to one extent or another.  Some require more C++ knowledge others are (supposedly) much easier to test:

https://couchlearn.com/the-easy-way-to-...ne-4-game/
https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/confu...-19/106081
https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/hey-i...ace/105171
https://docs.unrealengine.com/en-US/Wor...index.html
https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/how-c...ase/105413
https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/micro...int/133618