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Version 4.3

U s e r ’ s G u i d e

&

T u t o r i a l

EASE Software © Copyright ADA (Acoustic Design Ahnert), Germany

RH 670

October 2009

Version 4.3.6

EASE 4.3 User’s Guide & Tutorial

Licensing Agreement

The software and/or databases described in this document are furnished under a license agreement or nondisclosure agreement. No part of this document and/or database may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or information storage and retrieval systems, for any purpose other than the purchaser’s personal use, without the written permission of Renkus-Heinz, Inc. (hereinafter referred to as Renkus-Heinz.)

Limited Warranty

Renkus-Heinz and ADA have made every effort to ensure the accuracy of this manual and make no warranties with respect to this documentation and disclaim any implied warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose. Information in this document is subject to change without notice. Renkus-Heinz and ADA make no warranties that such files and features as mentioned in this documentation exist on the distribution disks or as part of the materials distributed.

The Loudspeaker Database

The loudspeaker database supplied with your copy of EASE contains data from numerous loudspeaker manufacturers in addition to data from Renkus-Heinz. Renkus-Heinz and ADA have given all loudspeaker manufacturers equal opportunity and instructions for supplying loudspeaker data. If you require loudspeaker data not currently supplied with EASE, or if you have problems with the supplied data, please contact that manufacturer directly. As a matter of policy, Renkus-Heinz and ADA include data as supplied by the loudspeaker manufacturers and assume no responsibility for its accuracy.

Trademarks

EASE, EASE JR, EARS, AURA and ADA are registered trademarks of Acoustic Design Ahnert.

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Copyrights

Renkus-Heinz Inc. 2009. All rights reserved. Printed in the United States of America

ADA (Acoustic Design Ahnert) Berlin, Germany

Technical Support

If you have a question about EASE or run into a problem and cannot find the answer in this manual or on our website, call our Technical Support staff. Before you call, please:

Review the subject in this manual. Have your User ID number handy and know what version number you are using. You will find the User ID number on the rear of your EASE & EASE Guard CD jewel cases. The version number can be found in the About screen under the Help pull down menu.

Have a clear description of the problem and the wording of any error messages. Call from a telephone located near your computer and have your computer running, so you can refer to the screen during the call.

For EASE , EASE JR, EARS, and AURA support: call +1 949 588 9997, Monday through Friday between 8:00 AM and 5:00 PM Pacific Time and ask the operator for technical support on EASE or e-mail us at http://www.renkus-heinz.com/support/request-info/ tech-info/index.html.

For IR InfraRed Technical Support: call +1 763-493-5835, Monday through Friday between 8:30 AM and 5:00 PM Central Time and ask for Bruce Olson.

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Chapter 1: Installation and Registration

TABLE OF CONTENTS

 

Section 1: Installation and Registration ...................................................................................

2

General Information...............................................................................................................

2

Licensing & Trademark Information.......................................................................................

2

Technical Support .................................................................................................................

2

Table of Contents...................................................................................................................

3

Installation Instructions..........................................................................................................

8

Registration Instructions .......................................................................................................

12

User ID Number.............................................................................................................

12

Reference File ........................... ..................................................................................

12

License File ..................................................................................................................

12

Obtaining a License Key ..............................................................................................

12

Licensing By File ..................................................................................................................

15

Exporting / Importing License Keys......................................................

........................ 16

Terminating (Removing) License Keys .........................................................................

17

Protect License .....................................................................................................................

17

Program Updates ................................................................................................................

17

Speaker and Material Database Updates ............................................................................

18

Recovering Lost License Keys .............................................................................................

19

Section 2. Overview ...................................................................................................................

21

General Information ..............................................................................................................

22

Key Commands ....................................................................................................................

22

Help Files .............................................................................................................................

24

EASE 4.3 Manual .................................................................................................................

24

Starting EASE ......................................................................................................................

25

Opening a Project .................................................................................................................

28

Project Data Files .................................................................................................................

29

Terminology ..........................................................................................................................

31

Viewing a Project ..................................................................................................................

32

Using The Walker .................................................................................................................

34

Electro-Acoustic Calculations (Mapping) ..............................................................................

35

Calculation Setup Menus .............................................................................................

35

Area Mapping ...............................................................................................................

38

Section 3. Constructing A Model .............................................................................................

41

Naming a Project ..................................................................................................................

42

Open & Closed Rooms..........................................................................................................

43

Symmetrical Modeling ..........................................................................................................

43

Loading Loudspeaker & Wall Material Databases.................................................................

44

Printing Wall Material Database ...........................................................................................

45

Room Modeling Techniques .................................................................................................

46

Room Entry ..........................................................................................................................

48

Edit Project Options ..............................................................................................................

50

Entering Vertices ..................................................................................................................

53

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EASE 4.3 User’s Guide & Tutorial

Section 3: Constructing A Model (continued)

 

Entering Faces .....................................................................................................................

54

Making Steps ........................................................................................................................

57

Adding Seating Areas (Using the Coat Feature) ..................................................................

60

Adding Audience Areas ........................................................................................................

62

Adding Listener Seats ..........................................................................................................

62

Closing a Room ....................................................................................................................

63

Reverb Times ...............................................................................................................

64

Finding and Fixing Holes ......................................................................................................

65

Adding Loudspeakers ...........................................................................................................

68

Aiming Loudspeakers ...........................................................................................................

70

Mapping ................................................................................................................................

71

Adding / Changing Face Colors ............................................................................................

75

Section 4: Advanced Modeling Techniques ..................................................................................

77

Adding Doors and Windows .................................................................................................

78

Using Edges & Vertex On Face Margin ................................................................................

79

Finding Unknown Coordinate Locations ...............................................................................

80

Distance Calculations ...........................................................................................................

83

Create Shape Examples (Using Create Shapes) .................................................................

84

Creating Curved Surfaces .....................................................................................................

86

Using Extrude .......................................................................................................................

87

.Creating Rooms with Curved Ceilings and Walls .................................................................

89

Quitting the Symmetrical Modeling Mode .............................................................................

95

Cutting a Face into Two Parts ...............................................................................................

95

Adding Interior Shapes..........................................................................................................

97

Using Extrude Faces ..................................................................................................................

98

Adding Doors and Windows .................................................................................................

99

Using Coat Feature .......................................................................................................

99

By Modeling into a Wall .................................................................................................

99

Using Sequence ....................................................................................................................

100

Using Insert Audience Area ..................................................................................................

101

Adding Loudspeaker Grids ...................................................................................................

102

Adding Steps & Bleachers .....................................................................................................

105

Using Prototype Rooms ........................................................................................................

108

Prototype Room Models .......................................................................................................

110

Using Objects .......................................................................................................................

122

 

129

Cluster Construction ..................................................................................................................

 

 

130

Introduction ...........................................................................................................................

 

 

130

Using Main Speaker Base......................................................................................................

 

 

137

Using Edit Project ..................................................................................................................

 

 

138

Using Cluster Objects ...........................................................................................................

 

 

139

Creating CASE Drawings ......................................................................................................

 

 

141

Creating New Loudspeaker Files ..........................................................................................

 

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Chapter 1: Installation and Registration

Chapter 6: Import / Export Capabilities

143

Introduction ...........................................................................................................................

144

Import EASE 2.1 ...................................................................................................................

144

Export EASE 3.0 Project ......................................................................................................

144

Import CADP2 ......................................................................................................................

145

Import ASCII .........................................................................................................................

145

Import ASCII (EASE 2.1) ......................................................................................................

145

Export ASCII .........................................................................................................................

145

Import DXF / SKP Files ........................................................................................................

145

Export DXF Files ..................................................................................................................

145

Export SKP Files ..................................................................................................................

145

Computer-Aided-Design (CAD) File Transfer .......................................................................

146

Exporting DXF Files from EASE ..........................................................................................

146

Importing EASE DXF Files into AutoCAD ............................................................................

147

Exporting SKP Files from EASE ...........................................................................................

148

Importing EASE SKP Files into Sketchup ............................................................................

148

Importing AutoCAD DXF Files into EASE ............................................................................

149

Importing Google Sketchup SKP Files into EASE ................................................................

152

Helpful Hints for non-AutoCAD users ...................................................................................

155

Chapter 7: Using Optimize RT .................................................................................................

157

Optimize RT .........................................................................................................................

158

Chapter 8; Vision .......................................................................................................................

161

Introduction............................................................................................................................

162

Using Vision .........................................................................................................................

165

Creating New Lamps (Light Source Editor) ..........................................................................

170

Creating a New Texture (Texture Editor) ..............................................................................

172

Assigning Textures to the Model ..........................................................................................

176

Section 9; Room Investigations ..............................................................................................

179

New Mapping Conventions ..................................................................................................

180

New Level Conventions .......................................................................................................

180

Area Mapping .......................................................................................................................

180

Moving Audience Areas ........................................................................................................

183

Mapping ...............................................................................................................................

183

Setup Options (Area Mapping) .............................................................................................

183

Display Methods ..................................................................................................................

186

View Calculations Window ...................................................................................................

188

Display Measures .................................................................................................................

191

Direct SPL ....................................................................................................................

191

STI Speech Transmission Index ...................................................................................

192

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Section 9: Room Investigations (continued)

 

ALcons / Articulation Loss ............................................................................................

194

C Measurements (C7, C50, C80, Csplit) ......................................................................

194

D/R Ratio ......................................................................................................................

195

Critical Distance ...........................................................................................................

196

Pressure Levels (L7, L50, L80, Lsplit) ..........................................................................

196

Sum / Total SPL ............................................................................................................

196

Arrival Times .................................................................................................................

196

Lspk Overlap ................................................................................................................

197

ITD Gap ........................................................................................................................

197

Aiming ..........................................................................................................................

198

Auralize Direct Sound ...................................................................................................

198

Ray Tracing ..................................................................................................................

200

View Trace File .............................................................................................

203

Movies ..........................................................................................................................

206

Room Mapping .....................................................................................................................

207

Section 10: Advanced Acoustical Investigations ...................................................................

209

Local Decay Time .................................................................................................................

210

Standard Mapping With Reflections .....................................................................................

212

Local Ray Tracing .................................................................................................................

213

Ray Tracing Impacts ............................................................................................................

214

View Impact File ...................................................................................................................

217

Acoustical Probe ..................................................................................................................

217

Display Types ...............................................................................................................

218

RT Displays & Schroeder RT ........................................................................................

222

Mirror Image Impacts ...........................................................................................................

225

Split Impact File ....................................................................................................................

226

Update Impact File ...............................................................................................................

226

Section 11: AURA

227

AURA Introduction ................................................................................................................

228

AURA Mapping .....................................................................................................................

231

Calculation Setup Parameters ......................................................................................

232

Echograms ...................................................................................................................

236

EDT (Early Decay Time) ...............................................................................................

237

T Measures (T10, T20, T30) .........................................................................................

238

Definition.......................................................................................................................

238

C50 ...............................................................................................................................

239

Articulation Loss (ALcons) ............................................................................................

239

Speech Transmission Index (STI) ................................................................................

240

C80 ...............................................................................................................................

241

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Chapter 1: Installation and Registration

Chapter 11: AURA (continued)

 

Center Time ..................................................................................................................

241

LF Lateral Fraction & LFC Lateral Fraction Coefficient Measures ...............................

242

Sound Strength ............................................................................................................

243

Echo Speech ................................................................................................................

243

Echo Music ...................................................................................................................

244

Echograms ...................................................................................................................

244

Echo Speech (Time) .....................................................................................

244

Echo Music (Time) ........................................................................................

244

Histograms ...................................................................................................................

245

Particle Loss Method ............................................................................................................

246

AURA Response ..................................................................................................................

248

Setup Parameters ........................................................................................................

249

Scattering Wizard .................................................................................................................

252

Chapter 12: Auralization ...........................................................................................................

255

Auralization ...........................................................................................................................

256

Step 1. Creating the Reflectogram .......................................................................................

256

Step 2. Adding a Tail to the Reflectogram ............................................................................

258

Using Add Random Tail ................................................................................................

258

Using Predicted Impacts ..............................................................................................

260

Step 3. Combining the Reflectogram with the Characteristics of Hearing ............................

262

Step 4. The Final Convolution ..............................................................................................

264

EARS Options ......................................................................................................................

266

EARS RT Real Time Auralization .........................................................................................

268

Chapter 13. IR Infrared ................................................................................................

273

IR Infrared ............................................................................................................................

274

Inserting IR Emitters .............................................................................................................

274

Calculations ..........................................................................................................................

276

Creating New IR Devices .....................................................................................................

280

Radiators ......................................................................................................................

280

Modulators ....................................................................................................................

282

Chapter 14: SpeakerLab ..............................................................................................

 

Appendix

 

I. Equipment Requirements

 

II.

 

Index

 

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