Patent ID: 7930048

Claim:
An apparatus for controlling a wave field synthesis renderer with audio objects, so that the wave field synthesis renderer generates, from the audio objects, synthesis signals reproducible by a plurality of loudspeakers attachable in a reproduction room, comprising: a provider arranged to provide a scene description, the scene description defining a temporal sequence of audio objects in an audio scene, and wherein an audio object includes information on a source position of a virtual source as well as an audio file for the virtual source or reference information referring to the audio file for the virtual source; and a processor arranged to process the audio objects, in order to generate a single output data stream, which is to be fed to the wave field synthesis renderer, the single output data stream comprising both the audio file of the audio object and, in association with the audio file, information on the position of the virtual source of the audio object; wherein the apparatus for controlling a wave field synthesis renderer comprises a hardware device; and the processor is formed to generate the output data stream so that the audio file comprises decompressed audio data.