Category: Mac

Measuring Audio Unit Effects Plug-ins Using Electroacoustics Toolbox, Soundflower, and AU Lab A valuable use of Electroacoustics Toolbox is measuring Audio Unit effects. Measuring Audio Units can be useful to developers of such plug-ins, or to anyone employing Audio Unit effects in their digital audio recording, editing, or reproduction system. This tutorial requires two free software packages in addition to the Toolbox: Soundflower and AU Lab. AU Lab is distributed with Tiger (Mac OS X, 10.4). Soundflower is a free system extension for Mac OS X, version 10.2 or later, that allows for convenient routing of audio signals between applications on the Mac. More information regarding Soundflower, as well as a download link may be found at cycling74.com. (Version 1.2 […]

This article was originally published in the forums for version 2 of Electroacoustics Toolbox. Please visit the following link for an updated tutorial for version 3. Frequency Response Measurement with Electroacoustics Toolbox 3 Measuring the Frequency Response of Your Audio Device One of the most powerful tools in Electroacoustics Toolbox is the Dual FFT Analyzer, which is capable of measuring system transfer functions and even indicating the quality of the measurement. This tutorial focuses on using the Dual FFT Analyzer to measure the frequency response of the audio device that you use to measure other systems and devices. If you want to measure the frequency response, or impulse response, of a listening room for example, that measurement will be affected […]