Soundweb Designer
Soundweb Designer is a software package which runs on a PC under Windows 95 or Windows NT.
You use Soundweb Designer to lay out the set of Soundweb units that will be used for a particular design, and to define the network connections between them. Within each unit, you define the audio processing objects that will be present in your system, and their interconnection.
Soundweb Designer has several facilities to assist in system documentation: you can annotate your designs with text and graphics, and print a list of the Soundweb equipment needed for the system, together with a wiring list for the network. Your designs can also be exported to Windows metafiles for inclusion in other documents.
Soundweb Designer provides default control panels to allow the adjustment of each audio processing object. As well as using these, you are allowed to build your own custom control panels. The software allows a great deal of customisation of the panel layouts, including the use of colour or images as backgrounds, and control over the shape, size, colour and edge styles of particular control items such as faders or buttons.
Soundweb Designer allows you to specify presets, which are complete records of the state of your system. These can be stored or recalled as necessary. Also available are "mini-presets", which allow you to store and recall the state of a particular group of parameters, without affecting the whole system.
Most commonly, presets are used to recall different sets of parameter adjustments. However, they can do more than this. Each Soundweb unit can store up to 12 totally different DSP layouts (these are called "configurations"); if a preset being recalled requires a different configuration from that currently active, the unit will mute its outputs and reload the DSP with the appropriate program before continuing.
Soundweb Designer allows you to specify multi-level password protection for your system. You can define different users, assign security levels to each user, and then demand that certain features of the system require a particular security level in order to allow them to be operated. You can also specify that a particular user should be forced into a particular control panel at start-up, thus ensuring that personnel get just the control screens that you have in mind for them.
Macros allow you to group together frequently used collections of processing objects, complete with their usual settings. Once defined, a macro looks to the user exactly like any other processing object.
Macros can be used as a way of protecting a consultant's intellectual property. Details of the macro definition are not available to the end user, who only sees the form of the macro: what are its inputs and outputs, and what parameters are available for adjustment.
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System Design and Documentation
You use Soundweb Designer to lay out the set of Soundweb units that will be used for a particular design, and to define the network connections between them. Within each unit, you define the audio processing objects that will be present in your system, and their interconnection.
Soundweb Designer has several facilities to assist in system documentation: you can annotate your designs with text and graphics, and print a list of the Soundweb equipment needed for the system, together with a wiring list for the network. Your designs can also be exported to Windows metafiles for inclusion in other documents.
Control Panels
Soundweb Designer provides default control panels to allow the adjustment of each audio processing object. As well as using these, you are allowed to build your own custom control panels. The software allows a great deal of customisation of the panel layouts, including the use of colour or images as backgrounds, and control over the shape, size, colour and edge styles of particular control items such as faders or buttons.
Presets and Configurations
Soundweb Designer allows you to specify presets, which are complete records of the state of your system. These can be stored or recalled as necessary. Also available are "mini-presets", which allow you to store and recall the state of a particular group of parameters, without affecting the whole system.
Most commonly, presets are used to recall different sets of parameter adjustments. However, they can do more than this. Each Soundweb unit can store up to 12 totally different DSP layouts (these are called "configurations"); if a preset being recalled requires a different configuration from that currently active, the unit will mute its outputs and reload the DSP with the appropriate program before continuing.
Security
Soundweb Designer allows you to specify multi-level password protection for your system. You can define different users, assign security levels to each user, and then demand that certain features of the system require a particular security level in order to allow them to be operated. You can also specify that a particular user should be forced into a particular control panel at start-up, thus ensuring that personnel get just the control screens that you have in mind for them.
Macros
Macros allow you to group together frequently used collections of processing objects, complete with their usual settings. Once defined, a macro looks to the user exactly like any other processing object.
Macros can be used as a way of protecting a consultant's intellectual property. Details of the macro definition are not available to the end user, who only sees the form of the macro: what are its inputs and outputs, and what parameters are available for adjustment.
Download Soundweb Designer for free!