Why won’t UA get into the room correction game?

I guess there's no Universal solution.

I really think the best solutions are external hardware and DSP. So I hope whenever UA goes that route, is with this approach.

Sonar works are doing the put it in the monitor thing

DSP limit?

No need to reinvent the wheel. Strike a deal with Sonarworks and port the code over. BUT, the elephant in the room is the longevity of UAD DSP. It’s in dinosaur territory.

This could be part of it, all those phase corrections are basically band pass filters with delay. It really makes the most sense to put it after the DAW. Now playing around a bit this week with DSP we found something that DSP is really good at but nobody is doing yet would require at least 3 outputs: remember a driver is still putting out audio beyond the crossover point, one of the reasons you choose to crossover at a particular crossover point is the crossover filter is going to attenuate and reduce comb filtering because of this behavior. You can correct this with DSP, though it’s a little complicated and we don’t know of anyone actually doing it, but when you put together a handful of speaker geeks a bunch of DSP units and enough channels of power amps it’s amazing what you can do.

First thing you can’t do this to a composite fullrange signal, you really need to make these corrections after the crossover for each driver, your aligning at least 2 signals operating in the same range if you try to it to the Fullrange signal it can’t delay just the part of the signal being attenuated by the crossover, but if use say a BSS drive rack in as basic signal alignment and a channel of say a Sound web 9098ii after the crossover you can treat it as a full range signal and do a bunch of alignment for each individual driver above and below the crossover point. We bypassed the passive crossovers in the Questeds took a ton of measurements and did a bunch manual alignment. Man it cleans things up, I wish there was an easy way to do this like Sonarworks, Dirac or Trinnov, but a manufacturer sure could clean up the average active with a bit of this.

Sonarworks profiles can be loaded into the newer RME interfaces room correction DSP now.


 Sonarworks - RME integration

Howard you know? 

UAD wants to sell the dream of when the music industry had money to musicians and amateurs more than make innovative or utilitarian processors.

DAD (NTP) already offer this and Sonarworks profiles can be loaded onto RME, Lynx, Merging, and DAD interfaces.
ntp-us.com/dad/spq/
www.sonarworks.com/soundid-reference/integrations

I’d just think this would be right down the “sell the dream” lane…I can picture the ad copy.

It’s a dark hot dreary summer night in a loser’s bedroom auralex-laden studio when suddenly, said producer pushes a button and the room slowly morphs into Abbey Roads or Capital etc…and the nerd bedroom guy is now drinking cold ones with George Martin, Max Martin and George Harrison. (Ok, Max isn’t dead) but blah blah…use this and life is good”