EASE Focus

Quickly enter a venue using differently shaped audience zones, and define multiple audience areas within these

Areas can be placed into EASE Focus 3 at different heights, and can have inclining seating. Geometry data can either be entered from an existing plan using regular X, Y, Z coordinates or by use of polar coordinates as derived from laser distance and inclinometers on site.

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Add additional vertical cutting planes to provide section views for extended evaluation

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Add sound systems from EASE Focus' encompassing database spanning more than 100 leading brands

EASE Focus 3 supports line arrays, configurable loudspeakers and columns, typical point sources, and subwoofer arrays. Each sound source can be tweaked and adjusted in placement, orientation, and electronic parameters such as gain, polarity, delay, and a virtual EQ.

Up to 40 sound sources, even from different brands, are supported within one project. Nifty functions for stacking, snapping, moving, and copying make the setup of larger systems easy.

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Watch EASE Focus immediately calculate the sound coverage on your audience zones and sections

Investigate the interaction between separate sound sources especially in the low and low-mid frequency range with the "Complex Summation" feature introduced with EASE Focus 3.

All mappings now clearly show the influence of polarity, phase, and propagation delay of your systems on the audience areas. Adjust your settings and re-calculate in order to maximize SPL and minimize negative effects.

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The “Complex Sum” calculation setting allows effective simulation and tuning of basically any arrangement of subwoofer arrays.

Place and stack your loudspeakers freely or insert a pre-configured array then tune them to deliver the desired radiation pattern. While inserting a new sound source you may specifically add subwoofers as a subwoofer array. EASE Focus 3 treats such an array as a single sound source, offers different parameters to conveniently configure it, and automatically computes suggested delays.

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In EASE Focus 3, each line array or loudspeaker is described by a so-called system definition which contains the mechanical, electronic and acoustic properties of the loudspeaker system. This system definition is stored in an EASE GLL file which can be compiled with the EASE SpeakerLab software.

GLL data files are created and supplied by loudspeaker manufacturers. Any GLL file can be loaded into the EASE acoustic modeling software. However, in order to create a GLL that can be used in EASE Focus 3 a loudspeaker company needs to be licensed by AFMG.

AFMG FIRmaker is the revolutionary sound optimization tool by AFMG building the bridge to next-generation sound systems

Loudspeaker manufacturers can employ FIRmaker to give their customers the option of tuning DSP-based FIR filters for every possible venue configuration within seconds.

All FIRmaker features can be access directly from within the EASE Focus user interface.

• FIR channel matrix to assign any combination of amplifiers, cabinets etc. to available FIR DSP channels
• Area definition specific to each sound source to use as target area or to avoid
• Flexible definition of various optimization target criteria, e.g. uniformity, maximum SPL etc.
• Fast preview and comparison of optimization results
• Selected best optimization can be saved to FIR filter files or uploaded directly to supported DSP device

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For detailed information, please see FIRmaker website.

This Software Development Kit offers loudspeaker manufacturers the tools needed to implement a server application which automates the communication between your DSP’s software and EASE Focus 3.

The main purpose of the SDK is to facilitate the transfer of FIR filters generated by FIRmaker to the loudspeaker management system. All loudspeaker companies licensed for FIRmaker and sound system designers using the technology can benefit from the fast and straightforward data exchange.

Any company that produces FIR-capable DSPs or amplifiers can implement this functionality in its DSP controller software. For this, AFMG offers this SDK package free of charge. For detailed information, please see SDK for DSP Communication Service website or contact AFMG.

For EASE Focus 3.1 and higher versions manufacturers have the possibility to develop and provide additional product-specific features through the implementation of the GLL Plug-In API

AFMG provides an SDK to third parties that enables them to create plug-ins and embed them into a GLL which can then be readily imported into EASE Focus. For detailed information please see GLL Plug-In API website.

Great efforts have been made to keep EASE Focus 3 intuitive and easy-to-use while introducing three-dimensional coordinates and many new features. It can be considered a tool for both the end user, who needs to set up the sound system for a show, as well as for the R&D engineer, who is interested in the acoustic qualities of the array design. EASE Focus 3 is the optimal tool for easy and quick prediction of the sound system performance in a given venue.

Compared to conventional aiming software the applicability of EASE Focus 3 is much larger. It is not fixed to a single loudspeaker product. System definition files for different types of line arrays can be created and added to the software database at any time and without changing a single line of code.