{"id":66,"date":"2010-07-14T14:31:49","date_gmt":"2010-07-14T13:31:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brucewiggins.co.uk\/?p=66"},"modified":"2010-07-14T15:05:06","modified_gmt":"2010-07-14T14:05:06","slug":"ambisonic-music-creation-grou-ps-site","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brucewiggins.co.uk\/?p=66","title":{"rendered":"Ambisonic Music Creation Grou.ps Site"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: auto; display: block; clear: left;\">\n<div style=\"width: auto; float: left; height: auto; padding: 5px;\"><script src=\"http:\/\/grou.ps\/gw.php?group_name=ambisonics&amp;width=196px&amp;fontfam=arial, helvetica, sans-serif&amp;fontsize=11&amp;bkgcolor=f1f1f1&amp;text_color=666&amp;border_color=a4a4a4&amp;gw_m_people=1&amp;gw_m_people_amount=4&amp;gw_m_blogs=0&amp;gw_m_blogs_amount=3&amp;gw_m_talks=0&amp;gw_m_talks_amount=3&amp;gw_m_photos=0&amp;gw_m_photos_amount=3&amp;gw_m_links=0&amp;gw_m_links_amount=0&amp;gw_m_wiki=0&amp;gw_m_wiki_amount=3&amp;gw_m_calendar=0&amp;gw_m_calendar_amount=0&amp;gw_m_groups=0&amp;gw_m_groups_amount=0&amp;gw_m_videos=0&amp;gw_m_videos_amount=0&amp;gw_m_files=0&amp;gw_m_files_amount=0&amp;gw_m_latest=1&amp;gw_m_latest_amount=2&amp;love_groups=1\" type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script><\/div>\n<p>This year I created a Ning networking site to support a 2nd year assignment in the module Computer Music Systems on our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.derby.ac.uk\/technology\/music\" target=\"_blank\">Music &amp; Media Technology<\/a> courses.\u00a0 The idea was to create a persistent site that was accessible by more than just one course\/module at the University of Derby, and one that was able to take in contributions from the students.\u00a0 This meant that it couldn\u2019t be hosted on our Virtual Learning environment (Blackboard), as too many barriers with regards to access are created depending upon which modules you\u2019ve registered for.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/ambisonic.ning.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ning website<\/a> I developed worked well, but as of July 20th, the free version will be stopped.\u00a0 So, I&#8217;ve moved the content over to the <a href=\"http:\/\/grou.ps\/\" target=\"_blank\">grou.ps<\/a> system.\u00a0 In many ways, the systems seems a little more powerful than its Ning counterpart, and importing the entire Ning website to the new system was straightforward as there is an app for that in the admin pages.<\/p>\n<p>So, if you\u2019re interested in actually creating some music\/audio using Ambisonics Surround Sound, feel free to join, contribute and share the site with others.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"width: auto; display: block; clear: left;\">Click the badge above to find the site\u2026..comments and suggestions always welcome!<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This year I created a Ning networking site to support a 2nd year assignment in the module Computer Music Systems on our Music &amp; Media Technology courses.\u00a0 The idea was to create a persistent site that was accessible by more than just one course\/module at the University of Derby, and one that was able to &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.brucewiggins.co.uk\/?p=66\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Ambisonic Music Creation Grou.ps Site&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,8],"tags":[33,11,10,9],"class_list":["post-66","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ambisonics","category-teaching-learning","tag-ambisonics","tag-grou-ps","tag-ning","tag-social-netorking"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2iYFT-14","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":95,"url":"https:\/\/www.brucewiggins.co.uk\/?p=95","url_meta":{"origin":66,"position":0},"title":"WigWare for Mac","author":"Bruce Wiggins","date":"July 30th,  2010","format":false,"excerpt":"My Ambisonic VST plugins have been available for the PC for a few years now and I\u2019m pleased to announce that they\u2019re finally also available for the Mac.\u00a0 I\u2019ve tested them on Reaper, Audiomulch and Plogue Bidule and they seem to work and tutorials on how to use them can\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Ambisonics&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Ambisonics","link":"https:\/\/www.brucewiggins.co.uk\/?cat=3"},"img":{"alt_text":"WigwareDecoder","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.brucewiggins.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/WigwareDecoder_thumb.png?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":33,"url":"https:\/\/www.brucewiggins.co.uk\/?p=33","url_meta":{"origin":66,"position":1},"title":"WigWare @ Glastonbury","author":"Bruce Wiggins","date":"July 5th,  2010","format":false,"excerpt":"It\u2019s good to see that, even though The Glade festival wasn\u2019t on this year, The Glade area of Glastonbury 2010 was being run by Funktion One using my WigWare Ambisonic Plug-ins to create a large scale Ambisonic surround sound experience! 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