crossover software - adjustable while listening to a song

[jaygeorge1979]

i am trying to find some crossover design software that not only lets you simulate passive crossovers, but i want something that lets me adjust it while listening to a song...i want an adjustable freqency and crossover slope settings that i can adjust while a song is playing...

this is what i want to do with it...i want to hook up a single channel amp and speaker to the headphone jack of my computer and be able to play a song and adjust the crossover settings to be able to figure out what makes the speaker play most efficiently....once i am done adjusting it, i would be able to design a passive crossover using the freq, kind of crossover, and slope of the crossover...

the software doesnt need to be freeware, i wouldnt mind buying a program that could do what i asked

anybody wanna help?

[Cal Weldon]

Does that exist?

[xplod1236]

With cool edit pro, you can set up your crossover, and change the frequency and slope on the fly. It doesn't simlate passive XOs though.

[ShinOBIWAN]

Originally posted by Cal Weldon
Does that exist?

******!

I had a long and detailed reply written out and I stupidly hit the 'back' button on my mouse just before submitting it. Gutted!

But to save my fingers this time, the short answer is yes and no.

[ScottG]

Originally posted by ShinOBIWAN


But to save my fingers this time, the short answer is yes and no.

This looks like 90% of my responses! (..hmm maybe I need to trademark it?)

[Ultima Thule]

In that case we need at least say 3 ch soundcard which can run 3 independent amplifier for a 3 way loudspeaker, that's how it would look like if it should be possible to tweak the filters for each element and listen to the loudpeaer in real time.

Does such SW exist?

Cheers Michael

[xplod1236]

Originally posted by jaygeorge1979
this is what i want to do with it...i want to hook up a single channel amp and speaker to the headphone jack of my computer and be able to play a song and adjust the crossover settings to be able to figure out what makes the speaker play most efficiently

So what's the idea here? To hook up just one driver and see how it plays a frequency band, or to hook up 2 or 3 drivers at once, and simulate the whole XO? If it's just one driver at a time, cool edit pro would be fine. If its the whole speaker, then as Ultima Thule said, a multichannel sound card would be needed.

[jaygeorge1979]

this would only be for one driver at a time....

so my question is, does this cool edit pro program allow you to do these things:

-listen to a song while making adjustments, so i can hear how the speaker is responding

-adjust what order the crossover is (1st order, 2nd order, etc)

cuz if it does then all i need to know is where to get it

[Ultima Thule]

With cool edit pro, or actually Adobe Audtion these days, can do anything with sound manipulation, but you don't know what the filter component values would be for a specific element!

Cheers Michael

[jaygeorge1979]

Originally posted by Ultima Thule
With cool edit pro, or actually Adobe Audtion these days, can do anything with sound manipulation, but you don't know what the filter component values would be for a specific element!

Cheers Michael

yes, but couldnt you use the freq. and the slope of the Xover and put them into an online crossover calculator to figure out what values of caps and inductors to use to make it?