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This document provides you with conceptual information and detailed procedures to get the best out of Sound: Analysis and Specification.

Sound: Analysis and Specification is the premier software solution for sound design, sound analysis, sound quality and sound synthesis, and it is able to link sound to driving simulators, flight simulators and virtual reality platforms. Sound: Analysis and Specification paves the way to target sound definition, brand sound creation, subjective and objective testing, component separation, troubleshooting and sound dataset preparation.

Refer to the Release Notes to see what's new in the latest version.

Main Features:

  • Sound Editing Modification of acoustics signal in time domain, frequency domain and time-frequency domain to correct or delete sound components.

  • Sound Design Creation of new sounds

  • Sound Analysis Analysis of acoustic signals in time-domain, frequency domain and time-frequency domain to evaluate and validate perception and quality.

  • Recording Acquisition and edition of sounds in Sound: Analysis and Specification.

  • Separation of Sound Detection and edition of components in a sound.

  • 3D Sound Transaural is dedicated to spatial sound rendering with two speakers.

  • Psychoacoustics to evaluate the human sound perception based on indicators and to equalize sound based on sound levels or loudness model.

  • Order to identify and analyze the various harmonics of a sound.

  • Pulse Width Modulation to analyze the sound emitted by certain electrical rotating machines and study the PWM profile produced by this kind of sounds.

  • Sound Composer for rotating machines sound generation and mixing.

This software is only available for Microsoft Windows, and can be installed using the Ansys Unified Installer or its own installer, available from the Ansys customer site at www.ansys.com/customercommunity. For installation information, refer to the Ansys, Inc. Windows Installation Guide.