Europe - Funktion-One has announced the full release of Projection v1.0 system design software, featuring an advanced wave-based low frequency model. Projection delivers fast, direct sound prediction and rigging calculations, enabling users to design and optimise Funktion-One systems ‘with unparalleled accuracy’.
Projection allows users to quickly build complex venues in 2D, streamlining the design process with an intuitive interface. Users can seamlessly add arrays, individual loudspeakers and microphones, optimising both mechanical and electronic array settings. The software’s advanced 3D view enables SPL calculations, providing a comprehensive visualisation of the design and allowing for precise adjustments.
Projection features two powerful 3D SPL calculation algorithms, including a new fast wave-based low-frequency model. This breakthrough technology fully predicts linear wave behaviour, including reflections, diffractions and occlusions, ensuring accurate performance simulations. The physical geometry of the loudspeakers is included in the calculation, a feature previously limited to expensive, specialised R&D software requiring powerful hardware. For frequencies above 160Hz, the real-time point source model delivers immediate and accurate insights into system behaviour.
Funktion-One R&D engineer, James Hipperson, comments: “Projection has been available to our customers while in development, but we deferred its full release until we could achieve a bass simulation model that met our standards. We've made Projection as intuitive and user-friendly as possible, offering all the tools sound system designers expect. The addition of the wave-based low frequency model to the feature set takes sound system design software to a new level.”