Patent ID: 7809453

Claim:
A hardware apparatus for simulating a wave field synthesis system with respect to the reproduction room, in which one or more loudspeaker arrays, which can be coupled to a wave field synthesis renderer, are attachable, comprising: a provider for providing an audio scene description defining a temporal sequence of audio objects, wherein an audio object comprises an audio file for a virtual source or a reference to the audio file and information on a source position of the virtual source, and wherein an output condition is given for the wave field synthesis system; a simulator for simulating the behavior of the wave field synthesis system, using information on the wave field synthesis system and the audio files; a checker for checking if the simulated behavior satisfies the output condition; and an identifier for identifying which condition, out of a plurality of output conditions, is not satisfied, and due to which virtual source, out of a plurality of virtual sources, the output condition is not satisfied.