Audio, 01
Place real speakers on the floor plan and the SPL heatmap redraws as you drag. Every area gets its level, uniformity, STI and RT60, and the zones, amplifier channels and cable gauges follow from the same layout.
what it answers, 05
The Coverage Advisor sizes the count from the area, the model’s coverage and the target level, shows the grid and lays it out in one click. Even spacing suits speech; Economy stretches it for background music with fewer speakers.
Coverage Advisor
Set a target level per area, then drop standing or seated listeners at their real ear height, 1.7 m or 1.2 m. Levels are tuned to the target at those points, and each area shows its continuous level, peak capability and headroom.
Target SPL and listeners
STI is estimated per IEC 60268-16 from the reverberation and the room’s background noise, and checked against a target of 0.60. C50 and C80 report the clarity of speech and of music.
Speech intelligibility
RT60 comes from the floor, ceiling and wall finishes, the occupancy and the furnishing, in octave bands. When a room is too reverberant, the treatment advisor gives the square metres of absorption to add and the STI after treatment.
Area acoustics
Every area starts as its own zone. Assign amplifier units, wire Single or Parallel at low impedance or on a 70 V or 100 V line, and the cable gauge is chosen to keep the loss within budget.
Zones and amplifiers
how it works, 05
The same steps as the tool’s task guides, and lesson 02 of the Learning Centre.
Give the area its length, width, ceiling and ear height, or start from one of the 14 venue presets, which fill in the target level, RT60, noise floor and spacing.
Search the library and place a model. Then set its distance from each wall, its height and its mount, and choose whether it moves freely or sticks to the nearest wall.
Pan and tilt change the direction and keep the position. The vertical coverage view shows where the beam meets the listening height.
Turn on the SPL heatmap and the coverage circles, look for quiet gaps and hot spots, and compare each area’s minimum, maximum, average, uniformity and STI.
Assign amplifier channels in Zones, fill the rack and draw the wiring from the same project. Then review it in 3D, walk and listen, and share the room with the client.
zones and amplifiers
Every area is its own zone from the start. Group areas onto one source when the job calls for it, flag a zone for paging, and give it a level offset that the prediction follows.
One channel per speaker, or two 8 Ω speakers on one 4 Ω channel. Each amplifier shows the channels it has used and the ones still free.
Dual-voltage speakers ride the line, capped at their largest tap, while a subwoofer in the same zone keeps its own low-impedance channel. Line speakers daisy-chain in the wiring diagram.
Five speakers on a four-channel unit: the fifth rides a second unit. Until it does, the heatmap and the verdict show that speaker unpowered.
Residential low-impedance runs stay within 7% of the channel impedance, about 0.3 dB, professional runs within 5%, and 70 V or 100 V lines within a 10% voltage drop.
the analysis
The standards check marks each area pass, marginal or fail against common design goals. This is how each figure is worked out.
what you hand over, 06
Per-area plans and SPL heatmaps, a standards table, a QR code to each area’s 3D tour, and an acoustics appendix with RT60 per octave, the materials, the ray-traced check and the treatment advice.
For: Client and installer
A channel strip for every output: level, polarity, filters, crossover, EQ, limiter and the time-alignment delay, then a calibration walk sheet speaker by speaker.
For: Installer
Zones print in the client proposal, and each amplifier unit becomes a line in the proposal, the bill of materials and the cable schedule.
For: Client
The priced bill of materials with a speaker installation schedule, a cable schedule, a pull schedule per run, and a network and Dante schedule.
For: Office
A QR code that opens one area in 3D on the client’s phone, with each speaker heard from its real direction. Links last 90 days unless you revoke them sooner.
For: Client
Measured SPL, STI and RT60 per area next to the prediction. A calibrated area prints as a site validation table, predicted against measured.
For: Installer
Amplifiers, zones and the client proposal are Premium tools: part of the trial and of Professional, and earned by dealers with volume.
in the catalogue
153
From 7 makers, each placed at its true footprint with its datasheet sensitivity, power and coverage.
34
15 of them with Dante.
18
8 audio matrices and 10 Dante interfaces in the rack and gear library.
Counts are the tool’s built-in catalogue in v2.0.0. Brand and product names in the catalogue belong to their owners. A product in the catalogue does not mean a partnership.
honest limits
The engine is a statistical model with an optional ray-traced check. The tool’s own help expects average level and coverage within about ±2 to 3 dB of a careful meter reading at mid and high frequencies, and ±3 to 6 dB at single points, steep angles and overlaps.
Below a room’s modal region no steady-state model resolves the peaks and nulls. Room modes and the sub placement ranking help you choose; the meter decides.
STI is estimated per IEC 60268-16 and checked against 0.60. RT60 is compared with a DIN 18041-style curve as a reference. Neither says a room meets a standard.
Walk and listen plays the predicted levels through your headphones or speakers. Use it to compare positions, never as the level on site.
faq
Yes. Set a whole area to 70 V or 100 V, or choose the connection per speaker. Power is capped at the speaker’s tap, a subwoofer keeps its own low-impedance channel, and line speakers daisy-chain in the wiring diagram.
A subwoofer plays below about 150 Hz, so it stays out of the broadband figures: adding one does not make an area read louder. It shows where it plays, in the 63 Hz and 125 Hz bands, the low-frequency extension and the sub level against the mains.
Optimise sub placement ranks candidate positions by how even the bass is across the listening area.
Paid accounts can add their own products, switched on per account on request. It is not part of the trial.
A custom speaker then behaves like the built-in ones.
No. Commission with an SPL meter, and an STI or STIPA check for speech. Type the measured average into site calibration and the model trims itself to the room as built; site tracking keeps the measured figures next to the predicted ones.
keep going
Lesson 02 · 11:09
Choose and place speakers, set position, mounting and aim, read the heatmap and the results, and listen in 3D.
Lesson 03 · 9:38
Turn the design into a system: zones and amplifiers, the rack, the wiring views, the report workspace and site tracking.
Lay out the speakers, check the coverage and hand over the paperwork from one project.
15-day trial for approved companies. No card, nothing to cancel.