Patent ID: 7962231

Claim:
An apparatus for providing data for the wave field synthesis rendering in a wave field synthesis system, comprising: a provider for providing a plurality of audio files, wherein a virtual source at a source position is associated with an audio file; and a data output for providing the audio file to a first renderer module with which a loudspeaker is associated that is to be active for the reproduction of the virtual source, wherein the data output is further formed to not provide the audio file to a second renderer module; wherein loudspeakers associated with the second renderer module are not to be active for the reproduction of the virtual source; the wave field synthesis system comprises the first renderer module and the second renderer module; at least one loudspeaker is associated with each of the first renderer module and the second renderer module; the loudspeakers associated with first renderer module and the second renderer module are attachable at different positions in a reproduction room; and each of the first renderer module and the second renderer module comprises a certain maximum processing capacity, and wherein the data output is formed to provide an audio file to one of the first renderer module and the second renderer module only when a minimum proportion of the loudspeakers associated with the one of the first renderer module or the second renderer module has been determined to be active, wherein the minimum proportion is variable and depends on a utilization of the first renderer module or the second renderer module, which can be determined by a utilization determinator.