DISPLAY 3 also introduces a new “Don’t Care” designation, which lets users mark areas of a model where coverage and SPL targets do not apply. The optimization engine leaves those areas out of the DSP calculation and works only on the areas that matter. Users can also create and store multiple optimization snapshots, so a single model can hold separate settings for different audience or environmental conditions.
Beyond optimization, DISPLAY 3 continues to offer full system prediction across the wider Martin Audio portfolio with seamless SketchUp integration for venue modelling. Configurations generated in the software upload directly to iKON amplifiers via VU-NET™, which has itself benefited from a recent upgrade. The dedicated subwoofer array design tool is also retained, gaining additional configuration options while following the existing workflow.
VU-NET™ 2.3.5 targets reliability in large-scale deployments, adding two tools for verifying a system in the field before doors open. LED Mode illuminates Wavefront Precision cabinet LEDs in sequence or individually, confirming the physical order of an array at a glance, while Mute Mode steps through each cabinet in turn to verify audio routing.
Engineers can also save a diagnostic file directly from any iKON amplifier on the network, capturing the unit’s stored internal state across fault and protection counters, configuration and performance history, which shortens the time spent tracing a fault. Performance improves significantly across ganging, metering, snapshot recall and large project trees.
Dom Harter, Managing Director, commented, “The voicing gains in DISPLAY 3, alongside the speed improvements and the enhanced optimization tools, will keep Wavefront Precision at the front of the line array market for years to come, across both live sound and permanent installation, and the VU-NET™ release gives users smooth, reliable control of those systems.”
DISPLAY 3 is available now as a free download for Mac and PC.
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