TRACT / User Guide
Contents
Introduction ................................................................................................................................................. 3
Setting Up Smaart ....................................................................................................................................... 5
The Two Basic Measurements ......................................................................................................................................... 6
Configuring Smaart .......................................................................................................................................................... 7
Smaart v8 Setup .......................................................................................................................................................................... 7
New Spectrum Measurement ....................................................................................................................................................... 9
New Transfer (TF) Measurement: .............................................................................................................................................. 10
About the Reference Channel .................................................................................................................................................... 10
Configuring Smaart Di v2 ........................................................................................................................................................... 11
Enabling the Smaart API ............................................................................................................................................................ 12
TRACT ...................................................................................................................................................... 13
Interface Overview ......................................................................................................................................................... 13
Components ................................................................................................................................................................... 14
Connecting TRACT and Smaart..................................................................................................................................... 15
Using TRACT and Smaart Over a SoundGrid Network .............................................................................................................. 16
Controlling Smaart from TRACT ................................................................................................................................................ 17
Banding and Averaging .............................................................................................................................................................. 19
Delay Measurement and Correction ............................................................................................................................... 21
Captures ........................................................................................................................................................................ 22
Calculating the FIR Filter Curve ..................................................................................................................................... 23
Constraining the FIR .................................................................................................................................................................. 26
User Reference Curves ............................................................................................................................................................. 27
IIR Filter Section ............................................................................................................................................................. 28
Master Section ............................................................................................................................................................... 32
Sub Zoom ...................................................................................................................................................................... 33
Cursor Coordinates ........................................................................................................................................................ 33
Using Workflow Examples ........................................................................................................................ 34
Case A: Frequency Correction—Tops/Full-Range ......................................................................................................... 34
Case B: Time Alignment—Front Fills ............................................................................................................................. 36
Case C: Phase alignment—Subs ................................................................................................................................... 37
