Ancient Acoustics gives you the full, immersive impression on being in the ancient theatre and listening to the actor standing at the edge of the stage while you are seated in the middle of first row.
The app uses the patented quantum simulation to discover with you the acoustics as was intended by ancient engineers.
The sound propagates as if it was emitted from the mouth of the actor standing at the edge of scene in the central position to the location of the mid seat in the first row.
Some delay in sound processing on Android has to be expected. Please be forewarned that the app may be addictive – you may want to hear more and more music with the effects of ancient theatre. Also your hearing may improve.
Another fact is that the app as it requires the heavy digital signal processing and hence is resources-hungry. This means that a battery of the Android phone will be used similarly as when browsing the Internet.
Further, you should exit the application when not in use to save the battery.
On Android 11 and higher due to privacy concerns you can access only the music stored in the internal memory of the phone.
MANUAL: When you open the app, the button “Press here to open a file” will pop up. When you press it, you will navigate to your files. To experience fully the effect you should choose the .WAV files with CD quality (stereo, 16 bit, 44100 Hz). When you select the file, the navigation menu will close and the playback will start. You should select the level of the effect from the options “hardly audible”, “audible”, “very audible”. We recommend using “audible” or “hardly audible”. “very audible” is useful only if you want to try very strong level of effect. If you are done with selecting the option, you can tick the checkbox “Ancient theatre filter” and the sound will change to the processed version.
The effect on the clapping hands and percussion gives undesired results – they were not used in the ancient theatres.
For the examples you can go to https://ancient-acoustics.com/
See https://ancient-acoustics.com/example/
and https://ancient-acoustics.com/2021/02/10/more-examples/
The example on the Greek ancient music https://ancient-acoustics.com/2021/05/26/promoleth-helikona/