For those wanting to do room correction etc I'll have more to say about this but Audioweaver comes bundled with the Preamp as standard,
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David
Yes it beats having to directly program a DSP which is way beyond the scope of most people
Maybe Audioweaver is not for novice users (i.e. the general public), but it is within the scope for many or most diyaudio users. I have no problem with it after a little work (like everything!). It is MUCH MUCH easier than coding in C or assembler etc, so I am quite happy with it.
Could Audioweaver be easier? Probably, but not without reducing the flexibility significantly. My biggest gripe with it is that they do not have a unix or Mac development front end for it such as Supercollider, MaxMSP or Puredata (all DSP languages), but none of these run on SHARC chips... Tranquility Bass has templates for most of the use cases that people can then modify pretty easily.
Could Audioweaver be easier? Probably, but not without reducing the flexibility significantly. My biggest gripe with it is that they do not have a unix or Mac development front end for it such as Supercollider, MaxMSP or Puredata (all DSP languages), but none of these run on SHARC chips... Tranquility Bass has templates for most of the use cases that people can then modify pretty easily.
Im not an engineer and I had no trouble at all. If you think Audioweaver is hard then you would never, ever work out how to use DEQX and DEQX is a consumer product.
I think DIY hifi in most cases requires some very diverse skills that not everyone possesses. If you are going down the route of active loudspeakers you will need programming skills of one kind or another.
Audioweaver is not hard to learn, getting the most out of REW and translating that into Audioweaver adjustments in the Preamp is where the skill comes in. Buts that's the case with any active pre-amplifier you buy, it's not unique to the Analog Precision product.
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You should try coding them in C or C++ like I have too
A little bit of elbow grease with Audioweaver more or less puts a diyer on par with any dsp engineer and that's why Audioweaver was created in the first place People who just want a single one button solution are looking in the wrong place. Once you setup your active crossover system you are probably not going to change it. As an example it didn't take me long to group delay correct the 4-way LR crossover using rephase to generate the FIR coefficients and then load them into the FIR blocks in Audioweaver Even with those so called cheap DSP offerings and their simple canned user interfaces and fixed DSP functions are quite often missing a feature that you need and the vendors are not willing to modify the firmware just for your needs. This is where Audioweaver shines. It allows a diyer to add those features at any time without having to code the DSP at a low level
cheers
david
I agree with that. So if the product is aimed towards the hard core DIY users, it should be fine I guess. But that choice means excluding a larger group.
I've used Audio Weaver myself for a short time. It's definitely incredible powerful and versatile, but personally I wouldn't have chosen it for a commercial product. But that's me.
"commercial" only means that it's sold to make a profit. It can be sold to any specialist market. Audio Weaver seems appropriate for the market. Just like much engine tuning software would be aimed at folks with a certain technical knowledge (or willingness to learn it) rather than any old iPhone user.
There could be a cut down feature set with an easier user interface at a later date I'm sure... That would mean power users would still be able to access all the possibilites.
@David: How long, roughly, do I have to save up before your first production run ?
There could be a cut down feature set with an easier user interface at a later date I'm sure... That would mean power users would still be able to access all the possibilites.
@David: How long, roughly, do I have to save up before your first production run ?
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I agree with that. So if the product is aimed towards the hard core DIY users, it should be fine I guess. But that choice means excluding a larger group.
I've used Audio Weaver myself for a short time. It's definitely incredible powerful and versatile, but personally I wouldn't have chosen it for a commercial product. But that's me.
Audioweaver will come bundled with both versions of the preamp but the UPP version is not limited to running Audioweaver. I'll have more to say about this later on.
I agree with that. So if the product is aimed towards the hard core DIY users, it should be fine I guess. But that choice means excluding a larger group.
I've used Audio Weaver myself for a short time. It's definitely incredible powerful and versatile, but personally I wouldn't have chosen it for a commercial product. But that's me.
What software would you have chosen had this been your baby?
Is there any product available now using your preferred software package?
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I think this is the thing with most software.
It has to be intuitive, versatile and somewhat easy to use for most users. This is actually more difficult than most people think. Just look at how easy windows is compared to linux, in the begining.
Then Linux started making the transition to user friendly desktops like Mint and Ubuntu - and then things started rolling and almost everyone could use it for almost everything except some few speciel programs and still many games.
The visual is for me very important. I want to see directly how my actions in the program manifest itself in the curves.
I really like my Xoverwizard from groundsound for this. But friends of mine enjoy miniDSP too. I saw Hypex fusion software a month ago, which looked way more confusing. But hey - it's software, so they can improve over time.
But I would imagine that anything if not most things are possible in this respect, as long as you work for it
And we all have our personal wishes and preferences.
My request it's about records with inverted phase, so it's useful to have a button for this
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