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Holoplot and AFMG implement X1 and X2 Matrix Array products in Ease 5

The inclusion of Holoplot products in the latest Ease 5 update will allow users to investigate the possibilities and impact of using Matrix Arrays in their venue, or any venue. Users can model Matrix Arrays and Beam Optimizations in the company’s Plan system design software to view sound pressure level simulations. The resulting array configurations can now be exported to Ease 5 for further analysis based on closed-room simulation.

Stefan Feistel, Managing Director at AFMG Technologies, the creator of Ease, and Emad El-Saghir, Fellow at Holoplot, explain how the collaboration came about and how the inclusion of Holoplot’s loudspeaker systems in Ease 5 Second Edition aims to benefit end users.

“The changes required to accommodate the complexity of Holoplot X1 and X2 data will benefit all end users of Ease 5, with the enhanced support for cluster-type GLL files recently released in Ease 5.59 and the improved data flow between Holoplot Plan software and Ease 5”, says Feistel.

The addition of the room simulations with Ease 5 enables all closed-room performance metrics such as diffuse field, STI and auralization predictions to be accurately obtained and compared with any product from the 150 brands contained in the Ease 5 Library.  Objective validation is another benefit of using a brand independent software to model speaker systems and room acoustics.

“We were early adopters of the Ease software”, says El-Saghir. “Before the new Ease 5 updates we had a hard time simulating large projects such as Sphere because of the huge arrays and large numbers of inputs involved. AFMG were very supportive, providing us with a dedicated server to run our calculations and simulations.”

“By 2018/2019, we had a special version of Ease to run our simulations, so we could stop using the dedicated server”, he continues. “In the early planning stages of Sphere, I could actually design the layout of the system and size the arrays. At the time, the development of our own tools to design was work in progress, so this allowed us to work on the Sphere. Today, our own tools are much more powerful, but back then these more simple tools were extremely helpful.”

Complex projects such as Sphere often force advances in technology and X1 was further developed in response to the needs of Sphere’s performance space. The innovations were also felt with Ease. The new performance requirement for Holoplot simulations in the design of Sphere aims to benefit all users. A 64-bit version of the calculation engine utilized by Holoplot, as well as other advancements, are now available to all users regardless of their loudspeaker choices.

Existing users of Ease 5 requested Holoplot’s inclusion in the library, and the continuing relationship between these two pioneering companies has been mutually beneficial, as they both agree. “You can now open a project in Ease and simply scroll down to Holoplot in the loudspeaker library. This allows you to experience accurate calculations for the Matrix Array inside that venue and is a very interesting scenario for users to explore”, says Feistel.

“Beyond Sphere, Ease was utilized on other major Holoplot projects”, concludes El-Saghir. “That is the power of the GLL format and the accessibility of combining Holoplot Plan with Ease. The comparisons between simulation results and real-world experience are very pleasing and have been repeatedly confirmed in even the most difficult venues to achieve good agreement.”

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