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| ===== Passive Crossover Designer 8 ===== | ===== Passive Crossover Designer 8 ===== | ||
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| The Passive Crossover Designer 8 is a crossover simulation and speaker design tool built into an Excel spreadsheet. The design tool has now been expanded to include a box model, an impedance modeler, and a full active crossover design section for each driver that can be used along with the passive crossover features if desired. In addition to these features dozens of textbook crossover, electrical, and acoustical calculator tools are included as well. Analysis Toolpak must be installed and macros must be active for the program to function. Version 8 has been debugged to work more fluidly in Windows 10 and in Excel / Office 2016. | The Passive Crossover Designer 8 is a crossover simulation and speaker design tool built into an Excel spreadsheet. The design tool has now been expanded to include a box model, an impedance modeler, and a full active crossover design section for each driver that can be used along with the passive crossover features if desired. In addition to these features dozens of textbook crossover, electrical, and acoustical calculator tools are included as well. Analysis Toolpak must be installed and macros must be active for the program to function. Version 8 has been debugged to work more fluidly in Windows 10 and in Excel / Office 2016. | ||
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| The program includes the ability to save out all individual driver, crossover (active or passive), and system SPL and Impedance responses to frd and zma files that can be used in other software. It has the ability to print or save charts. Included are Pop-up parts layout schematics for each crossover section. You may save a fully loaded project under a new name and be able to reopen the file with the project intact. Simply click on "save as" in Excel, and give it a new name for your project. The spreadsheet will compress and save containing all data including frd and zma file data. When the file is reopened, the project will be exactly as it was when filed. (Files saved in this way will about 5mB in size) | The program includes the ability to save out all individual driver, crossover (active or passive), and system SPL and Impedance responses to frd and zma files that can be used in other software. It has the ability to print or save charts. Included are Pop-up parts layout schematics for each crossover section. You may save a fully loaded project under a new name and be able to reopen the file with the project intact. Simply click on "save as" in Excel, and give it a new name for your project. The spreadsheet will compress and save containing all data including frd and zma file data. When the file is reopened, the project will be exactly as it was when filed. (Files saved in this way will about 5mB in size) | ||
| - | Notes: | + | **Notes**: |
| PCD 8 has the ability to import second woofer and second midrange frequency response and impedance data files, so five different drivers can be imported if desired. (Note: If, however, you wish to model two woofers or two midranges and do not want to import a second set of data, that is OK, as the program will automatically use the original data as it did before as a default. The ability to import the second set of data is under the selection for two woofers and two midranges and is only an option to be used as desired. This allows you to import two different diffraction responses for drivers in an MTM, for example. Or you can import two completely different drivers with different frd and zma file if desired as well.) | PCD 8 has the ability to import second woofer and second midrange frequency response and impedance data files, so five different drivers can be imported if desired. (Note: If, however, you wish to model two woofers or two midranges and do not want to import a second set of data, that is OK, as the program will automatically use the original data as it did before as a default. The ability to import the second set of data is under the selection for two woofers and two midranges and is only an option to be used as desired. This allows you to import two different diffraction responses for drivers in an MTM, for example. Or you can import two completely different drivers with different frd and zma file if desired as well.) | ||
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| Commercial use is prohibited without prior authorization of the author | Commercial use is prohibited without prior authorization of the author | ||
| + | ===== Downloads ===== | ||
| + | * {{passive_crossover_designer_8.0.xlsm.zip}}: | ||
| + | * {{pcd6_user_guide_and_sample_files.zip}}: | ||
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