Martin Audio Announces an Update in Display 3 Beta 5 with New
Sub Array Tool
The latest beta version of the 3D prediction software incorporates a new sub array tool enabling
rapid design of ground deployed linear arrays of subwoofers.
Martin Audio has announced the latest major update to its 3D prediction software featuring a
new sub
array tool that user trials have declared as "astonishingly powerful", as well as a host of
additional features and workflow improvements.
DISPLAY 3 is a powerful tool for both live and installation projects, working seamlessly with
SketchUp for sophisticated venue modelling, thus allowing for simpler venue and shape creation.
Incorporating many of Martin Audio's line array, constant curvature, point source and subwoofer
solutions, DISPLAY 3 is ideal for cohesive system design and prediction in a 3D environment.
This latest beta version incorporates, for the first time, a new sub array tool enabling rapid
design of ground deployed linear arrays of subwoofers. Traditional techniques have been employed to
determine the EQ required to approximate and steer far-field beams. Emphasis has been placed on the
speed of design using a handful of parameters, rather than requiring manipulation of individual
loudspeakers and associated EQ elements.
In this version, two sub array types are supported with 'Broadside Stack' and 'Castellated'
configurations. For Broadside Stacksany sub loudspeaker can be selected, while for Castellated
scenarios only subs which have cardioid settings available can be utilised—but more will be added
over time.
Castellated arrays have three styles defined as Presets, with 'Bookend' where the end parts of the
array are two boxes high; 'Buttress' where the array is one box high at the ends; and 'Uniform'
consisting of an array of L shaped elements. Beam width can be set from 1 degree to 180 degrees,
where setting to 1 degree will generate the narrowest beam possible from the array and by
incrementing the width users can get closer to the coverage required.
Ambrose Thompson, Research Director, commented, "While it is the first iteration of this sub
array
tool, I believe it already sets a new benchmark in prediction software, and I'm delighted that user
trials have also re-confirmed this."
The Beta 5 release also includes other notable updates including the following: an early version of
a tool to display the frequency response at any position on a surface; flown deployments of Martin
Audio's latest product, TORUS 8; a new control in the Loudspeaker Property Inspector to optionally
constrain aiming angles to those available for the pin locations in the lift bar; default speaker
insertion heights, and the inclusion of BlacklineX point source and subwoofer solutions.
Summing up, Thompson said, "This is a significant update to DISPLAY 3 that I'm confident our users
around the world will relish. As with all things software, there are always new developments
required and we are already hard at work on the next set of updates."