Expérimentations avec la Synthèse de Front d'Onde
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Système de sonorisation WFS open-source.
Patch de Pierre-Olivier Boulant fonctionnant dans Max8 sous Windows ou MacOS.
Documentation en français disponible
Open-source WFS sound reinforcement system.
Designed by Pierre-Olivier Boulant. Running with Max8 on Windows or MacOS.
English documentation available.
mise à jour du / updated 2025/09/13 // beta 2025/10/21 // testing v3 2025/11/25
Poursuivre la lecture de « Système WFS DIY »
You are a venue concerned with keeping your technicians up to date with the latest know-how in sound reinforcement?
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In some places, like churches that have very long reverberation times, voices and musical instruments can lose very quickly their definition. Sound reinforcement may be necessary. But when it is done with large speakers on both sides of the sound stage it can cause the acoustics to get louder and blur even more the sound because of a lack of spatial coherence.
In this case can WFS be the solution?
Milo Rau’s Histoire(s) du Théâtre 1 – La Reprise piece was shown at the GREC festival in Barcelona, not far from Toulouse. A great opportunity to try out the WFS system instead of the regular FOH system with an extra pair of speakers upstage. Poursuivre la lecture de « Histoire(s) du Théâtre 1 – La Reprise – season 1, episode 7 »
WFS can also be used for theatrical sound design to play soundtracks, Foley or prerecorded speech, add a sonic character to a prop or to reinforce voices. But what are the limits of realism from a technical stand point as well as from the dramaturgy?
The New Year’s Eve 2018 concerts at the Théâtre Garonne in Toulouse were the first occasion to use this WFS system for live concerts in front of an audience in Toulouse. The program for the evening: 6 jazz and free improvisation concerts.
Poursuivre la lecture de « First Concerts: Jazz 360° @ Théâtre Garonne, Toulouse, France »
Here are a few configuration examples of affordable consoles (between 2000€ and 5000€ roughly).
Yamaha 01V96, 01V96i & TF, Allen&Heath Qu24 / Qu32 & GLD80 / GLD112, Midas M32 & Behringer X32, Soundcraft Si, Presonus StudioLive v3, Roland m-400. Poursuivre la lecture de « Console configuration examples »
Here are a few pointers regarding routing between a console and a WFS processor. The console is there to preprocess all the signals from the microphones, recorded or synthesis tracks and send them to the WFS processing. After this the output signals have different options depending on the console’s possibilities. Poursuivre la lecture de « Console+WFS signal routing »
During our summer residency at Théâtre Garonne we have had the occasion to test our front-fills on a ground level stage. These little speakers have a coaxial design with a wide coverage angle of 120°. When they are put on the ground there are important reflections bouncing on the floor that can colour or interfere with the original signal.
Poursuivre la lecture de « Front-fills on a ground level stage »
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