ZoneShape

interface ZoneShape

import type { ZoneShape } from '@driftengine/audio';

In depth

A zone is a return bus carrying a convolver, which is the point of having built a mix tree rather than a fixed set of sends: a room is not a special case in the mixer, it is a bus like any other, and the listener simply decides how much goes to it.

Listener-based, and that is the whole model. Whichever space the listener occupies decides the reverb, for every source at once. Cost: a sound inside a cave heard from outside it does not carry the cave's tail — it carries whatever space the listener is standing in, which is wrong in exactly the case where somebody is listening into a space rather than standing in one. The alternative is a convolver per source, which is the general answer and is priced accordingly. What would make this wrong is a scene whose drama is standing at a threshold listening in; that is when to pay for the other model.

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