Audio Measurement and Analysis Software

Tutorials in German language:

Heinrich Weber, HoM for the ARTA software at the VISATON forum, has written a tutorial for DIY loudspeaker designers on using ARTA, STEPS and LIMP in German language entitled:

"Ein Kompendium für die Programme der ARTA-Familie"  (version 2.3)

He has also written a handbook containing a collection of DIY tools for loudspeaker measurements (in German language) entitled:

"Hardware & Tools"  (version 1.01)

Manuals and tutorial in Spanish Language:

ARTA manual de usuario Espanol v.1.2.0.pdf
LIMP-manual-de-usuario-Espanol-1.2.0.pdf
STEPS-manual-de-usuario-Espanol-1.2.0.pdf
Un pequeño compendio para los programas de la familia ARTA

Application Notes:

AP1:

• ARTA - Measuring Box (english version rev.4 - pdf 470kB)
• ARTA - Messbox (german version rev.3 - pdf 550kB),
• La Caja de Medición de ARTA (spanish version rev.2 -pdf 327kB). 

AP2:

• RLC measurement with LIMP (english version - pdf 54kB)
• RLC messungen with LIMP (german version - pdf - 62kB)
• Medición de RLC con LIMP (spanish version - pdf 65kB)

AP3:

• Why 64-Bit Processing (pdf - 75kB) gives reasons for using the program ARTA64.EXE.
• El porqué del procesado de 64 bits (spanish version  - pdf 80kB)

AP4:

• Loudspeaker free field response (english version rev.03 - pdf135kB).
• Respuesta de campo libre del altavoz (spanish version rev.02 - pdf 209kB).
• Ermittlung des Freifeld-Frequenzgangs (german version rev.01 - pdf 261kB)

AP5:

• ARTA Chamber for the Lower End Microphone Calibration (english version - pdf 352kB)
• Die ARTA-Mikrofonkalibrierkammer fürs untere Ende (german version - pdf 359kB)
• Cámara ARTA para calibración del micrófono en el extremo inferior (spanish version rev. 02 - pdf 730kB)

AP6:

• Directivity Measurements (rev.01 - pdf 402kB)
• Directivity und Polar (german version rev.01 - pdf 789kB)
• Directividad y Polaridad (spanish version rev 01 - pdf 548kB)

AP7

• Estimation Of Linear Displacement with STEPS (eng.  version rev.01)
• Ermittlung der linearen Auslenkung mit STEPS (german version rev.01)

AP8

• Repetitive measurements with script language AutoIT (eng.  version rev.01)
• Wiederholmessungen mit der Skriptsprache AutoIT (german version rev.01)

            Download example program: Macro_for_ARTA_Loop_Measurement.exe.

User Case Studies:

1. TMT-Vergleich (in german - pdf 2.4MB), writen by dipl.ing. Timo Kirschke, shows how he used ARTA and STEPS in the evaluation of 13cm bass-midrange drivers. The work is done with pre-release version of ARTA.
2. PAF212_Dokumentation (in German - pdf 21Mb) writen by Fabian Reimann, is very detailed technical report that shows how ARTA software is used in the design of an high quality PA loudspeaker system.

Links to Measurement Hardware Interfaces:

1. http://www.m1n1.de/html/messung.html
2. http://www.audiodesignguide.com/EMUinput/

Interesting papers:

1. I. Mateljan, K. Ugrinovic: The Comparison of Room Impulse Response Measuring Systems, Proceedings of the First Congress of Alps Adria Acoustics Association,  Portoroz, Slovenia, 2003.

2. I. Mateljan: Audio Quality Measurements in Communication Systems, Proceedings of the Second Congress of Alps Adria Acoustics Association, Opatija, Croatia, 2005.

3. I. Mateljan, H. Weber, A. Doric: Detection of Audible Resonances, Proceedings of the Third Congress of Alps Adria Acoustics Association, Graz, Austria, 2007.

4. Marko Horvat, Kristian Jambrosic, Hrvoje Domitrovic: Methods of Measuring the Reverberation Time, Proceedings of the Third Congress of Alps Adria Acoustics Association, Graz, Austria, 2007.

5. K. Jambrosic, M. Horvat, H. Domitrovic: The Influence of Excitation Type on  Reverberation Time Measurements, Proceedings of the Third Congress of Alps Adria Acoustics Association, Graz, Austria, 2007.

Many thanks to Heinrich Weber for nice German tutorial and continuous support and contribution in Application Notes.

Many thanks to Angel Fdez.-Escalante Bárcena and Andrea Gutiérrez Pérez for translation of  Application Notes and Manuals in Spanish.

Many thanks to Goran Repanic for lot of experimental work.

Many thanks to all members of the Visaton Forum for discussions and suggestions.