Getting Started - Martin Audio MLA MINI Advanced User's Manual

MLA MINI
DISPLAY 2.2

GETTING STARTED

The Options in the Help menu are a good place to start to ensure that the design process is
tailored to how you would like to work for a given project. Clicking on the icon in the help menu
brings up this window, the options selected are the defaults for all new Display 2.2 installations"
Splay Tool
Auto Use Splay will instantly apply the optimised angles to the array model. With this disabled
you can review the array shape before applying the angles to the project. In most cases this can
be left enabled.
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General
Metric allows you to select metric in place of imperial
measurements.
Equal scale refers to the x and y scales for the 2D slice
drawing required of the venue. For a venue with say a
very long x axis and very little height, it may be easier to
depict the layout with unequal scales.
SPL View
dB/div allows selection of the Decibel per division on the
optimisation of either 5 or 10.
Show extreme is active when Multi-plot has been
enabled. The response at the start and finish of the
audience region will be highlighted in green and red
respectively so they are easy to pick out particularly when
large numbers of audience plots have been selected.
Num Aud Plots dictates the number of audience plots to
show if the Multi-plot option has been enabled. This can
be as many plots are there green "virtual microphone"
dots, the display would however look very confused so
not more than around 12 is a more practical number.
Enable Multi-Plot when checked will display the number
of response graphs specified in the Audience Plots
window.
Fixed response allows you to select the fixed responses
displayed when in Multi Plot is enabled. With Multi-
plot disabled the SPL window will show the response
at the reference position as a dashed yellow line, plus
the average response over the entire audience region
as a dashed white line. In Multi Plot mode you have
the option to display simultaneously with the audience
plots you have specified, either the reference response,
still with a yellow line, the average audience response
or neither.
Slice
Show Coord allows you to turn off the display of the
coordinate number for each node on the drawing. This
might be useful for a very complex drawing where the
numbers would clutter the view but for the vast majority
of projects this should be left on.
MLA Mini Display 2.2 V1.0