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ITEM# SOF-CARA
74.95


CARA
Computer Aided Room Acoustics 2.2 Plus
from ELAC Technische Software GmbH

Now includes a tutorial CD to get you up and running using CARA faster than ever! CARA is designed to assist you in achieving perfect sound at home. It will help with room design by letting you create a floor plan up to 100m X 100m with added features for celing angles, pillars, etc. Databases for room materials and loudspeakers are enhanced by editing capabilities allowing you to add your own custom elements. Numerous calculation features to evaluate a variety of room effects. Graphs and diagrams including 3D picture sequences will help locate the optimum position of loudspeakers in the described space. Features include: * Room Design Wizard offers a number of predefined floor plan templates. * Converter window for changing dimensions from standard to metric. * Loudspeaker Editor models 1-5 way loudspeakers, active/passive subwoofers, and dipole radiating flat panels. * Can define symmetry constraint options such as equal spacing to front and side walls. * Optimized calculating times so that simple rooms are calculated 1000 times faster than before! * Calculate and evaluate the "Acoustic Ambiance" of the room design using the reverberation time spectrum. * Suggests room modifications to improve the "Acoustic Ambiance" of the modelled room. * Run an "Auralization" and find out how the room acoustics influence music in the modelled room. * Special media player to compare "before" and "after" wave files and hear how room elements affect the acoustics.

1998-2002, CD-ROM.
.30 lbs

System requirements: Pentium or better processor, Windows 95/98/ME/NT 4.0/2000, 32MB RAM minimum, 64KB recommended; 300MB+ hard disk space; SVGA monitor (800x600, 16Bpp.). Click here to see the review