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PDA500PF PC Sw Quick User's Guide

Before to install the 'setup.exe', please make sure that the Net Framework 4.0 is already installed on
the PC used.

After install the 'setup.exe' and run the app “

PDA500PF

” then the system show the following window

and after few seconds the main window

The user must click on the menu “

Connect

” in order to connect one or several devices.

Summary of Contents for PDA500PF

Page 1: ...e internal intermediate processes and high performance 24bit AD DA Converters Processes as Noise Gate up to 512 taps FIR filters OR up to 48dB Oct IIR Hp Lp filters for X over parametric EQs per input...

Page 2: ...FIR type and the Out Band attenuation or importing from external application the FIR coefficients as txt file IIR Crossover filters with slopes from 6dB Octave up to 48dB Octave including Butterworth...

Page 3: ...20 kHz 8 load Frequency Response 20Hz 20kHz 0 5 dB Power Supply Switch mode power supply with PFC Power Factor Correction and integral standby converter Operating Range Universal Mains 85 265V Consump...

Page 4: ...applications Crossover section IIR HPF LPF Butterworth 6 12 18 24 48dB Octave Linkwitz Riley 12 24 36 48dB Octave Bessel 12 24dB Octave Filter resolution 1Hz Input Special Filters FIR up to 512 Taps f...

Page 5: ...witch Red LED Power Yellow LED Link Green LED Signal presence 1 x XLR female connector Input 1 x XLR male connector Link Output 2 x RJ45 connector M LAN Rs485 IEC C13 16A connector Power on off switch...

Page 6: ...Processes Block Scheme...

Page 7: ...e that the Net Framework 4 0 is already installed on the PC used After install the setup exe and run the app PDA500PF then the system show the following window and after few seconds the main window Th...

Page 8: ...l units can be connected in Network and to be controlled by the same Pc sw If only one unit with a defined Id is connected to the remote control in order to control it will be enough to select as conn...

Page 9: ...he Sw will show a list of the devices found if no device are found then is possible to continue in demo mode Off line on the window List ID If no devices found the Sw will ask if the user want to cont...

Page 10: ...hose parameters strictly related t the cabinet itself and its set up and not instead used for creating different sounding styles which are left to the user in terms of Input parameters set up On the b...

Page 11: ...ted preset If the Pc will be connected for an Editing Session the Pc connection time will read the Current input buffer the Fixed output parameters area and the System variables are and show the curre...

Page 12: ...Configuration from one of 8 available locations within the PDA500PF The configuration loaded will be the one edited with its parameters set on the Input editing window The stored Preset within the uni...

Page 13: ...s a Balanced Analog one coming from the the Front Panel XLR connector Noise Generator frame In alternative to the Analog Input a Noise Generator can be sent to the DSP processes and to the PDA500PF ou...

Page 14: ...this case the FIR turn to be a up to 512 Taps standard FIR which can be loaded with any sort of coefficients for getting any sort of result PEQ Min Phase Lin Phase etc For the use of the external coe...

Page 15: ...The 2dBu 0dBV represent the Input Level at the one the boost on both Lows and Highs stops maintaining a constant value up to the Max input level of 12dBV The level of 16dBu which is 18dBV is the Input...

Page 16: ...ocesses and Input levels close to the max accepted by the unit The process is active ONLY in case of Overflow occurring when the signal is not exceeding with the sum of the Input level and the process...

Page 17: ...g a wide list of filters type which can be selected for each filter of the parametric Eq The available filters are Bell constant Q Hi Low Shelving Q Symmetrical with variable Q Lp Hp Q 12dB Oct second...

Page 18: ...f Classic types is available there where the APEC sw is used for a cabinet working with a separate SUB RMS Compressor the PDA500PF is implementing a powerful RMS compressor on Inputs and Outputs which...

Page 19: ...ng a wide list of filters type which can be selected for each filter of the parametric Eq The available filters are Bell constant Q Hi Low Shelving Q Symmetrical with variable Q Lp Hp Q 12dB Oct secon...

Page 20: ...max input delay 680ms 231meter RMS Compressor the PDA500PF is implementing a powerful RMS compressor on Inputs and Outputs which compression coefficient is calculated on the base of tabled values givi...

Page 21: ...lowest than 250Hz Back the the X over for cutting frequencies lower than 250Hz of for any other reason coming from the user IIR classic Lp Hp filters can be used IIR X over If selecting IIR in the Sel...

Page 22: ...Hz step 1Hz c select the number of the Num Taps of the FIR from 256 to 512 The FIR latency is dependent from the number of the taps and being the FIR running at 48kHz the latency can be calculated as...

Page 23: ...ng from Third Party Sw EXT Icon here external coefficients can be imported into the FIR Clicking on the EXT Icon button the following window open and from the clicking on the LOAD icon a txt file see...

Page 24: ...s for Hp Lp for low frequencies and still have FIR filters available let say for further filtering as PEQ one or any sort of phase configuration then the user can operate in the following way sacrific...

Page 25: ...4dB Oct Two Cells Q1 0 55 Q2 1 30 36dB Oct Three Cells Q1 1 95 Q2 0 70 Q3 0 50 48dB Oct Four Cells Q1 2 55 Q2 0 90 Q3 0 60 Q4 0 50 Linkwitz Riley 12dB Oct One Cell Q1 0 70 24dB Oct Two Cells Q1 0 70 Q...

Page 26: ...l to aid the user in optimizing the response of a loudspeaker but driver choice as well as good cabinet and Xover design still remain the primary steps to achieve the best sound quality In general bef...

Page 27: ...R measurement to do this be sure you have an ASIO sound card a measurement microphone and at least a 4m x 5m x 4m L x W x H obstacle free measuring room if the available space is a little bit smaller...

Page 28: ...arios For each measurement geometry the minimum distances between loudspeaker microphone and obstacles has been computed in order to maintain a minimum distance between 1 the direct sound wave path fr...

Page 29: ...escribed 1 Loudspeaker system and microphone suspended at half height In this case the measurement space should be at least 4m x 5m x 4m L x W x H The microphone should be in axis with the loudspeaker...

Page 30: ...contact with the floor The floor should be very reflecting smooth especially beneath the mic a fine metal sheet under the mic can be useful for this purpose As the picture below shows in this measurem...

Page 31: ...g position The microphone should be in axis with the loudspeaker at an height of about 1 7m where the listener s head will stay So arrange the measurement choosing one of the three geometry setup and...

Page 32: ...audio card and the right input output channels using the list box at the top of the screen Now click the Test button to start the microphone test making sure the loudspeaker amplifier volume is low T...

Page 33: ...vity progress bar shows the activity completion status Wait in silence for the process completion After the sine sweep the Wizard starts the IR computation and the measured IR is plotted on the left g...

Page 34: ...e position The calculation engine applies a windowing process to the first 10ms of the real IR centered on its peak value to remove unwanted obstacle reflections in such a way to provide an environmen...

Page 35: ...estimate the frequency response below the reciprocal of the analisys time interval due to the time frequency duality So to avoid misleading view the frequency response plot shows a dotted line below 2...

Page 36: ...olution between the IR and the FIR filter IRxFIR yellow line It represents the result of the IR compensation process that corresponds to what would be the IR if it is measured with FIR processing enab...

Page 37: ...ow analize in more details the linearization capability of the computed FIR by comparing the time and frequency domain plots of the IR and the IRxFIR curves for a flat target magnitude In the time dom...

Page 38: ...ion and on the poor resolution of the FIR filter at low frequencies The upper limit MaxFreq is a user defined parameter that will be described afterwards Moreover the time domain graph shows the laten...

Page 39: ...e a target curve can be applied 2 Phase only In this mode the FIR filter works on the phase response only leaving the IR magnitude unchanged Max Frequency Before calculating the FIR the first thing th...

Page 40: ...parameter implies that the FIR filter will totally compensate them with corresponding peaks in the FIR frequency response which can result in undesired audible ringing effects tonal components will be...

Page 41: ...he magnitude response only or to both magnitude and phase For the magnitude smoothing the algorithm scans the frequency response of the FIR filter searching for frequency points where the magnitude is...

Page 42: ...sabled right side plot smoothing enabled When the Magn Phase mode is selected the phase smoothing is always applied to the whole frequency range even if the threshold is not equal to 0dB The following...

Page 43: ...peaker IR but in the most cases latency values greater or equal to 2 5ms allow to preserve almost unchanged the filter correction effects The following pictures compare the frequency responses both in...

Page 44: ...shown In the EQ Target page the magnitude response of the target curve blue line of the FIR filter green line and of the IRxFIR yellow curve are overlaid Curves in the plot can be hidden through the c...

Page 45: ...ton the gain of each parametric filter is set to 0dB to flatten the target curve Enabling the target curve smoothing allows to reduce unwanted ripples in the magnitude response when low frequency filt...

Page 46: ...e user defined parameters the corresponding coefficients can be saved in a file and recalled from outside the Wizard or stored in the DSP to start listening tests To save the filter file click the Sav...

Page 47: ...actual loudspeaker response resulting in a misleading behaviour To start the verify process click the Measure button at the top left of the screen and wait in silence After the sine sweep completion t...

Page 48: ...can be imported by the PDA500PF FIRFormat txt 2 65204521320808E 06 2 1021137868951E 06 1 21276289563775E 06 6 87446664056699E 20 1 48474417799171E 06 3 15405377541534E 06 4 88738331652021E 06 6 53749...

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