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12 July 2024 at 12:11 pm #842In this situation reinstalling should work. If it doesn’t, then contact us through the form on the website or via email, and we can reset the license to ensure it does work.
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10 July 2024 at 12:20 pm #839What I am looking for is using Eclipse Audio software to provide not just offline processing, but real-time measurement and processing too. As per the SMAART control example I referred to. Will your software ever be expanded to be able to make live measurements too?
This is reliant on REW providing a realtime measurement streaming capability. We have no control of this. I’d suggest putting the question to REW. In the case of SMAART, they have a well documented realtime streaming API, which we connect to.
<Optimised for what? what we hear? removing detrimental reflections? etc. Can you outline why their method is so useful and should be adopted by everyone? I’m not aware of their method being published, can you provide a reference to this literature please?>
For this, I refer to you to Rational Acoustics. Their online SMAART user guide discusses some of these topics as well as their smoothing strategies, MTW and MTW+.
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7 June 2024 at 8:07 pm #832>> Is purchasing Smaart Modeler the only way to emulate MESA PEQ at this point?
Yes, but the settings need to be manually copied to the Lake Controller. Presently there’s no way to export settings from DM and import into the Lake Controller. (We are working with Lab Gruppen to address this.)
7 June 2024 at 7:35 pm #829>> CL or XP modules support both types of PEQ.
Yes, that’s correct, and so does the “Lake FIR 3-way” module. Every module has Mesa EQ on the front (which is PEQ1 in your screenshots), then IIR filters that are part of the core loudspeaker preset.
>> However, when loading speaker presets, most of the left type classic PEQ tabs disappear
>> and only the right type PEQ tabs (MESA EQ) are available in modules or groups.That’s because the loudspeaker manufacturer, who created the preset, has intentionally locked and hidden the IIR filtering (and delay, gain, polarity & crossovers) that form the core loudspeaker preset. They don’t want end-users adjusting the core preset, and so only the MESA EQ is available to users. For more details on how to lock and unlock modules, and how to hide and unhide EQ tabs, see the Lake Controller manual.
>> Therefore, most users only use the right type of PEQ (or MESA EQ).
Yes, and also because the this EQ is available in group EQ, which ultimately combines with the Mesa EQ for each loudspeaker module.
>> If Lake Mesa supports the right type of modeling in Smaart Modeler, I hope
>> your software can support it too. Is this possible?
>> Isn’t it possible to apply MESA EQ emulation at least to the IIR filter?As you have shown in your screenshots, the Lake Mesa filters are completely different to regular IIR parametric filters. It’s not possible to translate and exactly match a Lake Mesa EQ response with IIR filters, with the limited number of IIR filter biquads available in any of the Lake modules.
Like I said, in future we might provide Lake Mesa emulation in FIR Designer, but currently there is no easy way to send the Lake Mesa information to the module in the Lake Controller (along with all the other core preset information, including IIR filters, gain, polarity and delay).
7 June 2024 at 4:01 pm #827Yes, the Lake Mesa mode in Data Modeler mimics the Lake EQ used on the front of Lake modules and Lake Controller groups. We made this for Data Modeler since that product is aimed at system alignment, where users are using the Lake EQ.
No, there are no immediate plans to put this into FIR Designer, primarily because there isn’t currently an easy way to send this information to the Lake Controller through the Lake Controller SDK API. (This may change in the future.)
All Lake modules have an instance of Lake EQ on the input, followed by Lake IIR filters for the input and output EQ and crossovers. We currently only emulate the IIR filters.
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5 June 2024 at 9:46 am #825Hi John,
Glad you got it working. We were about to suggest exactly what you did with adding a phase column. There’s an option, on the FIR Designer Target tab, to either ignore the phase and use magnitude only.
For TXT and CSV import, a file with:
– 2 columns is treated as an time impulse response (with 1st column as a timestamp and the 2nd column the impulse response coefficients).
– 3 columns is treated as frequency (Hz), magnitude (dB) and phase (deg).
– 4 columns is treated as per 3, with the 4 column as coherence (between 0 and 100 %)Best regards,
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31 May 2024 at 7:43 am #822The manufacturer of Prodigy.mp told me the following:
The FIR filters in PRODIGY.MP are special filters with an additional recursive element.
This allows us to achieve a higher frequency resolution in the lower range with a relatively short length.
The price for this is that only minimal phase filters are possible, not linear phase ones.
This certainly explains the CSV format, where only support frequencies and the associated level are specified.Thanks. So this tells me they are importing a magnitude response, as a CSV of frequency (Hz) and level (dB), and converting this into a minimum-phase filter response – with some of the filtering implemented using IIR filters (which are recursive) and some as a short FIR filter. This makes sense.
Our (FIR Designer and FIR Creator) products can make arbitrary phase filters – i.e. they can be any combination of minimum-phase, linear-phase and maximum-phase – but the exported output is time domain FIR coefficients. Again, see the “FIR Filter Guide” referenced above.
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30 May 2024 at 5:17 pm #820In Armonia, we have 3 different windows on which we can EQ, they are shown in the amplifier view on the left:
First one is Advanced EQ, second one is Speaker EQ, and last is Ways (output EQ). FIR Designer is able to output to the last 2, which are very similar in the fact that they both can handle FIR and IIR. Advanced EQ is only IIR, and is the same EQ layer used in the groups:
Here for example, we have multiple groups. We can add any and all speakers to a group, and these use the Advanced EQ type (no FIR):
We can import .xml files, but those made for Speaker and Output EQ in FIRDesigner do not work:
Also, we cannot export to .xml, only to the proprietary format, .iqp, that you can find attached. I do not think it would be very different to export to this EQ type, the easiest way would be to add this possibility to the save IIR coefs in the IIR tab, so we could export to xml, and directly import in a group.
The Speaker and Output EQ with FIR still work in Armonia, the fact is that on a site with more than 2 speakers, opening each amplifier, load EQs one by one to each output is very time consuming, and you cannot benefit from the visual feedback that the workspace view offers.
I hope this helps !
This Powersoft Advanced EQ is different to traditional IIR filters. It’s very similar to Lake EQ (found in the Lake Controller and which initially appeared in the 2000’s) and it uses filter prototype shapes* which are combined into a composite EQ curve or response. In the background, all the group curves, which affect a particular loudspeaker, are summed and converted into a minimum-phase filter response.
At the moment we can’t emulate this kind of EQ in FIR Designer. (However we have created an emulation of the Lake EQ and it’s just been released in Rational Acoustics “Data Modeler” software.)
* Lake named some of these filter prototypes “raised cosine” and “mesa” filters.
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9 April 2024 at 5:41 am #807Hi Alex,
It sounds like you have a FIR Designer perpetual license which is bug fixes only. (4.0.3 is the latest on the 4.0 perpetual license.) To upgrade to the latest, take a look at:
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30 March 2024 at 8:32 am #804Thanks for your patience. Version 4.2.3 is now fixed. Restart FIR Designer and the app will give you the update link.
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30 March 2024 at 7:11 am #803Our sincere apologies, and thank you for reporting this. We’ll get right on it.
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29 March 2024 at 9:05 pm #800Thank you very much for using the forum. We’ve recently had some problems with the new update alert feature in versions since 4.1.1. For this specific issue, please contact us through the eclipseaudio.com contact form, with your license ID, and we’ll send you the link. (We don’t provide the licensable download links publicly.)
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28 March 2024 at 10:21 am #798Thanks again for reporting this. We’ve found the problem and a fix will be in the next releases of both FIR Designer and FIR Designer M.
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