The Cinema Designer has released major software updates designed to bring more functionality to the online cinema design tool with several new features.
The new features in Cinema Designer 2.5 include Trinnov Waveforming, heatmaps/polar plots for selected manufacturers, additional surrounds, loudspeaker position adjustments, acoustic treatment placement for selected manufacturers, and channel updates.
Designers can now incorporate Trinnov Waveforming’s low frequency performance technology in their home cinema designs and can easily complete the complex calculations required, the company says. Designers can make changes in real time and dynamically recalculate and redraw the room.
In addition, The Cinema Designer now incorporates and illustrates enhanced performance data provided by selected manufacturers. Heat maps and polar plots are overlaid on the 3D viewport to demonstrate responses of the selected loudspeakers relative to the main listening position and other seats.
The company says this feature allows users to dynamically adjust the design in accordance with the loudspeaker data shown by the heat maps. Users can manually adjust seating row positions, with the 3D viewport updating in real-time to place seating in the optimum location.
Users can also easily add more surrounds that share discreet information, as many as an adjacent pair per row, if required, the company says.
The update also allows users to make minor adjustments to the placement of loudspeakers, and each can be repositioned within 10 inches of the calculated position to accommodate irregular room dimensions and other issues.
Another major update allows select acoustic products to be positioned and repositioned within the 3D space, enabling designers to make accommodates for physical attributes of the room, such as doors and windows.
The update also provides four additional Dolby configurations: Dolby Atmos 7.1.6 and Dolby Atmos 9.1.6, both providing six height channels; Dolby 2.1 for stereo with subwoofers; and Dolby Surround 9.1. Each Dolby/Dolby Atmos configuration can be selected with one or more subwoofers, the company says.
