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User Manual

Sonic Wave I

3D Sound Processor

Version 3.0.1

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Page 1: ...User Manual Sonic Wave I 3D Sound Processor Version 3 0 1...

Page 2: ...DONGLE 11 3 CONTROL ELEMENTS 12 DISPLAY MENU 12 HD VERSION 12 ROTARY CONTROL 12 BUTTONS 13 4 SYSTEM CONFIGURATION 14 SOFTWARE INSTALLATION 14 PC CONFIGURATION 14 MAC OS X SETUP WITHIN VIRTUAL BOX 15 M...

Page 3: ...EMENTS 39 MENU BAR 39 UPPER TOOL BAR 40 LEFT TABS 40 RIGHT TOOL BAR 41 STATUS BAR 41 SOURCE POSITIONING PANEL 42 INPUT PANEL 43 ROUTING PANEL 45 EQ PANEL 46 SYNC PANEL 47 8 HD OPTION 50 MEDIA MANAGER...

Page 4: ...sonicemotion com SIDE AND REAR SETUP FOR PERIPHERIC SYSTEMS 68 SUBWOOFERS 68 WFS SUPPORT SPEAKERS 68 SPEAKER REQUIREMENTS 68 16 SYSTEM TUNING WITH THE BUILT IN EQ 69 MEASUREMENT TOOLKIT 69 LASER METER...

Page 5: ...fore starting any servicing operation this equipment must be isolated from the AC supply mains by removing the incoming IEC mains connector Fuses should only be replaced with ones of the same type and...

Page 6: ...pression of spatial audio regardless of his or her position Using Sonic Emotion audio processing based on wave field synthesis WFS the Sonic Wave I processor is able to enlarge the sweet spot to the w...

Page 7: ...is done once and let s the Sonic Wave I processor calculate the filters and parameters which are used for the rendering Regardless of the amount of speakers and their position audio material fed in to...

Page 8: ...ted from any DAW player or live console through ADAT or MADI The Sonic Wave I processor controlled by the WavePerformer software component or and the WaveAutomation AU plugin sends the processed signa...

Page 9: ...0 0838 fax 41 0 44 850 0839 pro sonicemotion com www sonicemotion com HD Option The Wave I HD processor option is an additional 24 channel hard disk audio playback engine specifically designed to be c...

Page 10: ...ax 41 0 44 850 0839 pro sonicemotion com www sonicemotion com 2 Sonic Wave I Hardware Connections ADAT Version MADI Version In 1 Out 1 In 2 2 n 3 Out 3 WC WC MADI In MADI Out MADI Out WC In WC Out 1 I...

Page 11: ...ocessor comes with two Ethernet ports For communication with a control PC the left connector on the back must be used See Figure 1 6 below System Dongle The Sonic Wave I processor comes with a system...

Page 12: ...olume The selected source position preset and network information are displayed By turning the rotary control on the main page you will have direct access to the master volume HD Version On the displa...

Page 13: ...e rotary control Home Home window is shown Preset The saved presets are shown and can be selected by turning the rotary control and press enter E IO only on the MADI version Press Enter to select betw...

Page 14: ...tion Before running the applications the PC network settings must be set up to enable the control of the system 1 The Sonic Wave I processor can be controlled either by a LAN or a WIFI connection Make...

Page 15: ...machine on a Mac OS X host VirtualBox from Oracle is free to use and can be downloaded from http www virtualbox org To enable network communication from the virtual Windows machine to a connected Wave...

Page 16: ...and choose to name the device to which you have configured within Mac OS X to the Wave I processor network Ethernet or WLAN AirPort Windows VirtualBox Guest In the running virtual Windows machine go...

Page 17: ...an be found on page 67 Loudspeakers Assignment Hierarchy System Sonic Wave I for one listening area One individual listening area is described as a System There is always one main System accounting fo...

Page 18: ...kers further back in a room or under a theatre balcony Additional speakers above a stage that have an array of WFSmain speakers on its platform edge others WFSsupport speakers must be part of an indiv...

Page 19: ...tton transfers the configuration to the processor that creates all the necessary renderings accordingly The processor can then be used for real time operation including fine tuning loudspeaker EQ etc...

Page 20: ...natively a saved project can be opened in the WaveDesigner The configuration should then be transferred to the Processor pressing the upload button The processor then calculates first the filters and...

Page 21: ...on data and all settings to the Sonic Wave I processor which then calculates the renderings and restarts automatically Changes in speaker positions rendering loudspeaker type system subsystems and out...

Page 22: ...in the top right corner Loudspeaker placement area In the main workspace of WaveDesigner the speakers can be freely placed and moved around by drag drop The fixed zero point of the drawing area is dis...

Page 23: ...page 34 Reference Point An important element of the loudspeaker setup is the Reference Point When the loudspeaker positions are transmitted to the Wave I processor to create the corresponding filters...

Page 24: ...ard compatibility to the config tool version 1 Project Files in xml format from WaveDesigner version 2 can be loaded through the file open dialog However only position data and EQ parameters from V2 a...

Page 25: ...d On OK the array will be added to the grid All positions are meant relative to the 0 0 point Processor In the processor menu you can shutdown the Sonic Wave I processor if connected and collect syste...

Page 26: ...n calculates the renderings After uploading the processor is restarting automatically and online parameters that may have been loaded from a previous project are transferred to the processor speaker m...

Page 27: ...Processor or also store to the project file on your computer Right Tool Bar On top of the right hand tool bar there are three buttons to toggle the different operation modes of WaveDesigner Selection...

Page 28: ...ion sets the orientation of the loudspeaker array In a loudspeaker setup where speakers are mounted to the walls of a room with even distance the Array Dialog gives an easy way to define the setup for...

Page 29: ...displayed as X and Y coordinates in meters When a speaker is selected by clicking the properties of that speaker are displayed on the right side Index X Y Z Yaw Pitch Roll The X Y and Yaw parameters c...

Page 30: ...are explained on page 16 and for the active crossover the output channel can be selected Seen in Figure 1 19 Speaker The speakers are numbered these numbers correspond to the Index number shown on th...

Page 31: ...physical outputs to use Additional settings like crossover frequencies level delay limiter polarity etc are accounted for in the Speaker Management window page 33 Eventually the amplifier power and se...

Page 32: ...he cabling of the Wave I processor to the loudspeakers It can be opened through the symbol button in the right tool bar When starting the General Test the Sonic Wave I processor automatically iterates...

Page 33: ...ystem Control is opened Here the Subsystems can be labeled All speakers belonging to a Subsystem can be adjusted in gain and delay These parameters are added to parameters done individually to the spe...

Page 34: ...ws a plot of the frequency response for the selected speaker On the left side is a control box for general options Speaker Selection This section has two dropdown boxes for selecting the speakers The...

Page 35: ...each speaker and is not affected by the control all setting Test Mode If this checkbox is enabled the signal of the selected input is directly routed to the speaker selected in the control area This...

Page 36: ...Q box High Pass Low Pass The High pass and Low pass filters can be switched on with the checkbox The frequency spin box controls the frequency where the filter is applied The slope adjusted in steps i...

Page 37: ...box is filtered to the members of the selected subsystem Select all to make all speakers viewable Speaker Selection This dropdown box has entries for all speakers in the setup identified by their ind...

Page 38: ...re played back at its focused position With increasing distance from the reference point the sound wave becomes more plane and is heard from the same direction angle in the entire room allowing a swee...

Page 39: ...ore here you can quit the WavePerformer application Processor In the processor menu with Save Default Preset you can save the currently open layout as the default preset This is then the state the Son...

Page 40: ...to this state To save a static sound source set up place the sound sources to the desired positions and control the levels edit the name of the preset in the top left menu and then click on the save b...

Page 41: ...h the main area shows some useful information about the position grid On the left side the current mouse position is displayed as X and Y coordinates in meters When source is selected by clicking the...

Page 42: ...he loudspeaker setup and all source values are automatically downloaded from the system You can also manually import the speaker setup in the Menu with File Import from system or from a locally stored...

Page 43: ...t except for distance relative volume attenuation The clipping at setup dependent distance can be disabled in the view menu page 24 so sources can be moved within the full range of distance up to 200...

Page 44: ...turns green and by clipping it it turns red This way you can verify if you have connected the right input or if the internal HD playback works Input select If you have the HD option installed you can...

Page 45: ...ut to a given speaker of the subsystem All these settings are stored in presets and can dynamically be recalled They do not modify any subsystem adjustment performed in the WaveDesigner they simply ad...

Page 46: ...functionality enables to provide the system with a global sound color to the taste of the visiting sound engineer without modifying the installation output EQ of the setup The main area of the EQ pan...

Page 47: ...ff the EQ on the Sonic Wave I processor The current state is indicated through a green or red LED The Sonic Wave I processor offers an equalizer with 8 fully parametric bell filters and a high and low...

Page 48: ...t On the right hand side the controls are to switch the different Sync modes of the Wave I processor It either can be operated as Master with 44 1 kHz or 48 kHz or as Slave which syncs to a given inpu...

Page 49: ...mode otherwise the Wave 1 takes the setting of the connected device PC or converter Warning The slave mode with MADI input can only be activated if a proper MADI input Coaxial or Optical is selected...

Page 50: ...installation directory where the extension has to be installed To create a new project File New Project as shown below create a new sequence by right clicking on the Sequences icon in the project win...

Page 51: ...to a specific layer to view all available layer settings All layer parameters can be viewed in the right window at the same time Drag audio files from the sonic emotion folder directly to the timeline...

Page 52: ...HD The Wave I HD Processor display will show the progress of the file transfer To set the connection of the Media Manager to the Sonic Wave I HD processor type in the IP address of the Sonic Wave I HD...

Page 53: ...SC settings The communication port of the Wave I Processor is 2564 The device sending the OSC commands must be in the same network and some OSC applications require specifying the target address This...

Page 54: ...SourceDistanceAttenuationOn 21 SetSourceDistanceAttenuationOff SrcId SrcIndex 1 24 Deactivates the Distance Attenuation for the given Source e g SetSourceDistanceAttenuationOff 9 SetSourceName SrcId s...

Page 55: ...arAbs SrcId float float SrcIndex 1 24 Angle 360 0 360 0 Distance 200 0 200 0 m Set source position in Polar coordinates X Y e g SetSourceCartesianAbsXY 1 1 2 2 5 Source relative messages SetSourceAngl...

Page 56: ...ourceCartPairYX SrcPairIndex float float SrcPairIndex 0102 0304 x relative 1 1 y relative 1 1 Set pair barycenter in relative reversed Cartesian coordinates Y X e g SetSourceCartPairYX 0304 0 1 0 9 Se...

Page 57: ...ntly updated for stability reasons The panel should be exited and reentered for displaying the transferred values from OSC SetInputEQControlAllOn Activates the control all feature of the EQ similar to...

Page 58: ...he given Source e g SetInputEQLowShelfOff 12 SetInputEQLowShelfFrequency SrcId float SrcIndex 1 24 frequency in Hz 20 20000 Sets the frequency of the Low Shelf filter for the given Source e g SetInput...

Page 59: ...his software is only available for Logic version 9 on OSX computers with Intel Processors Installation Double click on the wave interface AU icon The installation window guides you through the install...

Page 60: ...s plug in will be the Master of the group Select now in the tap menu Group Master and add as many sources within that group you like All sources will now follow the group master To automate group move...

Page 61: ...MSP patch wfs sourcesCtrl maxpat allows for the control of system parameters such as angle and distance of all virtual sound sources The user can set the designated parameter within a Max MSP patch at...

Page 62: ...Max MSP specific automation formats e g MIDI or OSC No additional software is required The information of azimuth and distance should be sent to the receive objects WFSctrl Az and WFSctrl Dist of the...

Page 63: ...nk and copy the files onto the Wave I Processor dongle Insert the Dongle into a MS Windows computer and follow the instructions Info In the following procedure F Name of the dongle in the system brows...

Page 64: ...nect a monitor VGA connector on the back side and a keyboard to the Wave I processor 2 Plug in the system dongle 3 Start the Wave I processor and press and hold the delete key while the system boots 4...

Page 65: ...igital MADI coaxial or optical or ADAT 24 Internal playback engine HD option 24 Audio Output Digital MADI coaxial or optical or ADAT 32 Audio Processing Sample rate and bit depth 48 kHz 24 Bit Storage...

Page 66: ...u with all the necessary support in designing and planning your next installation Here are simple basic rules you may want to be aware of about the loudspeaker setup depending on the system you want t...

Page 67: ...directive speakers in the vertical direction would be preferable in larger rooms All speakers should be facing the audience The loudspeaker system is preferably positioned onstage to provide accurate...

Page 68: ...uency range The Sonic Wave I processor will drive them as dedicated speaker system WFS Support Speakers WFS support speakers are added to a main frontal system Their task is to improve the level cover...

Page 69: ...ge loudspeaker spacing The Laser Meter also helps to find the correct microphone position for individual speaker measurements at a given reference distance Measurement Software and Audio Interface The...

Page 70: ...ferent latencies can occur if some amplifiers have internal AD DA converters and built in EQ Latency can be monitored by measuring the impulse response of each speaker always from the same reference d...

Page 71: ...ers should be measured and combined together to get an average measurement The measured frequency response can be compared to the predefined target curve and adjusted interactively by using the contro...

Page 72: ...on s Sonic Wave I 3D sound processor With our multiple worldwide patented technology we are committed to bringing you our ground breaking Absolute 3D sound solutions to you and your clients For more i...

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