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Simplify your calibration process with Trace, a plugin that integrates Q-SYS™ systems with Rational Acoustics' Smaart®. By combining data from both platforms, Trace allows you to manage configurations and tuning from a single interface.

Downloads:

Quick Start Guide

Licensing Agreement

Features:

Delay Finder

  • Using the Smaart API from Rational Acoustics, Trace displays Smaart's delay finder, phase and frequency response curves and superimposes the Q-SYS equalizer on top of it. Adjust the EQ response (optionally inverted) and observe the resulting changes in real-time.

Portable Power

  • A typical Trace system will consist of one or more Q-SYS Cores, a computer running Smaart, an RF microphone and receiver, a Wi-Fi access point, and the Trace plugin running on a separate laptop in Q-SYS Designer. With this setup, the Core(s) and Smaart host can remain in the electrical equipment room, while the operator carries the laptop running Trace from venue to venue. Trace was specifically designed with large, multiple-venue  and distributed sites in mind.

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FAQs

System Requirements

  • Q-SYS Core running Q-SYS v8.3 or later

  • Smaart v8.5.1.1 or Smaart Di2. Trace does not support Smaart v9. Trace currently only supports a single measurement/one microphone at a time

What can Trace control in Q-SYS?

  • Trace can control Named Parametric EQs up to 32 bands each including high-shelf and low-shelf filters and Named Delays up to 512 taps.

What is a typical use case for Trace?

  • Trace is primarily designed for large-scale distributed or multi-venue facilities. The intent is for the Smaart computer to be positioned near the Q-SYS Core(s) in the rack room. In fact, the Core, if capable, could even be used as the soundcard for the Smaart Measurement and Reference signals. A second laptop, running Q-SYS Designer and Trace, would then be taken location to location to make the measurements and implement the calibration settings. The measurement microphone would be connected back to the rack room via RF, analog, or digital (i.e. Dante) infrastructure with the appropriate routing to Smaart via the Core soundcard.

Do I need a license for Smaart as well?

  • Yes. Trace cannot run without a valid license of Rational Acoustics' Smaart.

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