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jeff8houses
May 5th, 2009, 04:53 PM
I'm stoked Rational is in charge of Smaart now.

As a desperate request for any upcoming versions or an improvement on 6, could we get the impedance function back? I used Smaart 5.4 for my entire Master's thesis on loudspeaker design and would love to continue using it down the road in future versions.

Unfortunately I'm having tons of problems with 5.4 working on my newer Vista machine. Some sort of driver issue that wont allow it to start. I don't actually own 6 (only messed around with the demo)and probably won't do it as it doesn't have the impedance stuff, but it works very well. I'm aware of the admin permissions thing for 5.4, but that doesn't seem to help. So for now I'm kind of in limbo with a non-working 5.4 and trial version of 6.

I'm glad the THD was fixed in 6 as that was another biggie for me, though I like the realtime viewing in 5.4 better. As a distortion analyzer I use it to find out where the 1% THD level is and correlate it to dBu, so slowly bringing it up to the 1% mark is way easier than trial and error offline. Any chance we could make it realtime?

Thanks for keeping Smaart rockin!

Jeff Merkel

sarson
May 5th, 2009, 05:40 PM
Try turning off Defender and the User Account Control, that made 5.4 work on my machine.

jeff8houses
May 6th, 2009, 02:25 AM
I thought I'd turned all that off ages ago, but I just went in and toggled everything on and off to no avail. Bummer. Thanks for the suggestion though.

Jeff

Calvert Dayton
May 11th, 2009, 05:06 PM
Hi Jeff,

We do intend to offer an impedance measurement option in Smaart 7 (or whatever we end up calling it) -- it probably would have been included in a Smaart 6.2 release by now if the entire core development team for Smaart hadn't gone off and started their own company.

SmaartLive 5 works fine under 32-bit versions of Vista though. All you have to do is either use the RunAs Administrator option (even when logged in as an administrator) or just turn off User Account Control (UAC). I've never heard of Windows Defender being part of the equation...