sonic beacon

sonic beacon is a PC-based test and measurement system for the testing of loudspeakers and other electro-acoustic products using commercially available Windows multimedia sound cards.

sonic beacon will perform Frequency and Phase Response, Harmonic and Intermodulation Distortion, Polarity, Impedance, Sensitivity and SPL as well as other FFT and Real Time Analysis tests, Sixteen bit sampling rates up to 192 kHz and FFT lengths up to 128K points are supported.

It also contains a unique calibration algorithm that allows for the compensation of input level, latency and frequency response errors in personal computer sound card electronics. You can save the calibrations to a file and later re-use it with any new processes that require the sound card.

Multiple process streams may be opened within the application and will execute simultaneously. Multiple instances of the application can also be opened.

Data may be transferred to and from instances of the application, processes, text editors and spreadsheets using the Windows clipboard.

Modules may be added or deleted at any point in a process stream and all existing instruments, in the process, will retain their current settings. Process streams may be saved to disk and all instruments will retain their current settings, size and location when recalled.

Any module with a display screen may be previewed or printed. Debugging options include Pause on Every Module and Pause On Every nth Record.