Audio Measurement and Analysis Software

Requirements to use the ARTA software are:

• Operating systems: Windows 2000/XP/Vista/Windows 7.
• Processor class Pentium, clock frequency 600 MHz or higher.
• Memory requirement for Windows 2000/XP is 256MB, and for Vista / Windows 7 is 2GB.
• Full duplex soundcard with synchronous clock for AD and DA converters.
• WDM Windows soundcard driver or ASIO driver (ASIO is trademark and software of Steinberg Media Technologies GmbH).

The ARTA software has been successfully used with following soundcards:

• RME UFX, Fireface 800, RME Fireface 400, RME HDSP
• M-Audio Audiophile 2496, USB Transit, Delta 44, Mobile USB Pre, Firewire Solo
• Axys D-AudioCard
• Echo Gina24, Echo Layla 24, Echo Indigo I/O (notebook)
• EMU 1820M, 1616M, 0204USB, 0404USB, EMU USB Tracker Pre
• YAMAHA GO46 and Terratec Firewire FWX24 (sample rate manually tuned) (drivers do not works on Windows 7)
• Marian Trace Alpha, Terratec EWX 24/96
• Digigram VxPocket 440 - a notebook PCMCIA card
• TASCAM US-122 - USB audio, Infrasonic Quartet, Sound Devices USBPre2
• Creative Soundblaster X-Fi (works on all sampling frequencies in sound creation mode)
• ESI Juli, U24 USB and Waveterminal, ESI Quatafire 610
• Creative Soundblaster Live 24 and Extigy-USB, Audigy ZS laptop, but only at 48kHz sampling frequency,
• Turtle Beach Pinnacle and Fuji (good old ISA card)
• Soundblaster MP3+ USB (notice: don't install SB driver, use a Windows XP default driver),
• Soundcards and on-board audio with AC97 codecs,

Installation of this software is easy; just run the installation program.

Setup of interface to soundcard on various operating systems is described in User manual.

Important notice for Windows 7 users:

- Many soundcards do not have drivers for Windows 7

- On Windows 7 and Vista it is recommended to use ASIO drivers.

- For Windows 7 - 64bit OS it is recommended to use computer systems with chipsets for the i3/i5/i7 Intel processor family.