{"id":12427,"date":"2021-02-22T12:58:03","date_gmt":"2021-02-22T11:58:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/demdlx704as001.ad.harman.com\/?p=12427"},"modified":"2023-04-26T17:12:56","modified_gmt":"2023-04-26T15:12:56","slug":"traces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/audioworx.transfunnel.co\/old\/?p=12427","title":{"rendered":"RTA &#8211; Traces"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"emph\">A trace in RTA is a captured measurement curve.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Traces allow for the display of multiple captures measurement curves on the same plot for the quick comparison of measurements. The controls for traces are located on the right side of the spectrum graph.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"emph\">There are six different kinds of traces:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Spectrum &#8211; Complete data set from measurement without phase<\/li>\n<li>Phase &#8211; Complete data set from measurement with phase data<\/li>\n<li>Txt &#8211; Data imported from a text file (tab separated frequency &#8211; spectrum value pairs per line)<\/li>\n<li>Ovl &#8211; Data imported from an Overlay file format<\/li>\n<li>Eq &#8211; Target curve, a spectrum curve described by biquad filter parameters<\/li>\n<li>Peak Hold &#8211; Peak hold trace with three time constants<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"note\">Traces view is available only in Frequency Domain analyzer modes like Spectrum, Phase i.e, it is not available in Time Domain.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-21721\" src=\"https:\/\/audioworx.transfunnel.co\/old\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/TraceList.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"454\" height=\"347\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The trace menu is comprised of a\u00a0<strong>trace toolbar<\/strong> and a\u00a0<strong>trace list<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Every <strong>trace list<\/strong> entry has a button for <strong>re-capture<\/strong>, a checkbox for\u00a0<strong>selection<\/strong> and a\u00a0<strong>trace label. <\/strong>The selection checkbox marks the trace for math operations.<\/p>\n<p>A double-click on the trace label opens the trace property dialog:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-21718\" src=\"https:\/\/audioworx.transfunnel.co\/old\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/EditTraceProperties.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"430\" height=\"324\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In this dialog, the\u00a0<strong>name<\/strong>, the <strong>offset,\u00a0<\/strong>and the\u00a0<strong>color<\/strong> of the trace can be set. There are next and back buttons in the dialog so that user can navigate through multiple traces to edit them at a single time.<\/p>\n<p>The <strong>Trace Toolbar <\/strong>consists of several buttons:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-21719\" src=\"https:\/\/audioworx.transfunnel.co\/old\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/TraceToolbar.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"452\" height=\"148\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The <b>Capture<\/b>\u00a0button provides two options:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li>Click on button: Capture all traces<\/li>\n<li>Drop-down menu: Capture individual traces<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The\u00a0<strong>Import<\/strong> button offers a drop-down menu to import single traces (*.trace) or multiple traces (*.trclist).<br \/>\nThe <strong>Export<\/strong> button offers a drop-down menu to export the highlighted trace (*.trace), the selected trace(s) or all traces (both to *.trclist).<br \/>\nThe\u00a0<strong>Add Math Operation<\/strong> button offers a drop-down menu to generate an unweighted average, a difference or a sum trace from the selected traces.<br \/>\nThe\u00a0<strong>Add Target Curve<\/strong> button opens the target curve design dialog.<br \/>\nThe\u00a0<strong>Delete<\/strong> button offers a drop-down menu to delete the highlighted, all traces. The deletion has to be confirmed.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A <strong>Target Curve<\/strong> can be added by pressing on the <em>&#8220;+&#8221;<\/em> button on menu.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-21720\" src=\"https:\/\/audioworx.transfunnel.co\/old\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/TargetCurve.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"543\" height=\"236\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Once target curve is active, its offset will change by 3dB for every jump on octave banding configuration, to follow the behavior of the energetic sum of the octave banding.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-20992\" src=\"https:\/\/audioworx.transfunnel.co\/old\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/230327130520363.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"516\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0<strong>Peak Hold Trace<\/strong> can be activated using a checkbox in the Advanced Analyzer menu. It&#8217;s time constants <em>Forever, Slow, Fast<\/em> can be selected in the normal Analyzer Settings Menu. The peak hold trace is reset by choosing\u00a0<em>Delete<\/em> for the corresponding trace in the trace list.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-17143\" src=\"https:\/\/audioworx.transfunnel.co\/old\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/GlobalTuningTool_YutaG4t14P.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"711\" height=\"211\" \/>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-17144\" src=\"https:\/\/audioworx.transfunnel.co\/old\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/GlobalTuningTool_ZscZM9hLj1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"338\" height=\"236\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The <strong>Link Mode<\/strong> button is present for the Average channels, Multiplexer mode. This\u00a0button enables the user to link the measurements from both upper and lower graphs in the RTA screen by allowing trace capture and other operations on traces simultaneously on both graphs. On clicking this button, the user will be presented with an option to provide the name of the charts from below window. Once the linking is activated, any operation performed on the Traces in the upper graph, will be reflected in the lower graph.\u00a0 The upper graph will refer to Average channel 1 and lower graph will refer to Average channel 2.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-20205\" src=\"https:\/\/audioworx.transfunnel.co\/old\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/LinkingTraces.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"508\" height=\"323\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A trace in RTA is a captured measurement curve. Traces allow for the display of multiple captures measurement curves on the same plot for the quick comparison of measurements. The controls for traces are located on the right side of the spectrum graph. There are six different kinds of traces: Spectrum &#8211; Complete data set [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ocean_post_layout":"","ocean_both_sidebars_style":"","ocean_both_sidebars_content_width":0,"ocean_both_sidebars_sidebars_width":0,"ocean_sidebar":"0","ocean_second_sidebar":"0","ocean_disable_margins":"enable","ocean_add_body_class":"","ocean_shortcode_before_top_bar":"","ocean_shortcode_after_top_bar":"","ocean_shortcode_before_header":"","ocean_shortcode_after_header":"","ocean_has_shortcode":"","ocean_shortcode_after_title":"","ocean_shortcode_before_footer_widgets":"","ocean_shortcode_after_footer_widgets":"","ocean_shortcode_before_footer_bottom":"","ocean_shortcode_after_footer_bottom":"","ocean_display_top_bar":"default","ocean_display_header":"default","ocean_header_style":"","ocean_center_header_left_menu":"0","ocean_custom_header_template":"0","ocean_custom_logo":0,"ocean_custom_retina_logo":0,"ocean_custom_logo_max_width":0,"ocean_custom_logo_tablet_max_width":0,"ocean_custom_logo_mobile_max_width":0,"ocean_custom_logo_max_height":0,"ocean_custom_logo_tablet_max_height":0,"ocean_custom_logo_mobile_max_height":0,"ocean_header_custom_menu":"0","ocean_menu_typo_font_family":"0","ocean_menu_typo_font_subset":"","ocean_menu_typo_font_size":0,"ocean_menu_typo_font_size_tablet":0,"ocean_menu_typo_font_size_mobile":0,"ocean_menu_typo_font_size_unit":"px","ocean_menu_typo_font_weight":"","ocean_menu_typo_font_weight_tablet":"","ocean_menu_typo_font_weight_mobile":"","ocean_menu_typo_transform":"","ocean_menu_typo_transform_tablet":"","ocean_menu_typo_transform_mobile":"","ocean_menu_typo_line_height":0,"ocean_menu_typo_line_height_tablet":0,"ocean_menu_typo_line_height_mobile":0,"ocean_menu_typo_line_height_unit":"","ocean_menu_typo_spacing":0,"ocean_menu_typo_spacing_tablet":0,"ocean_menu_typo_spacing_mobile":0,"ocean_menu_typo_spacing_unit":"","ocean_menu_link_color":"","ocean_menu_link_color_hover":"","ocean_menu_link_color_active":"","ocean_menu_link_background":"","ocean_menu_link_hover_background":"","ocean_menu_link_active_background":"","ocean_menu_social_links_bg":"","ocean_menu_social_hover_links_bg":"","ocean_menu_social_links_color":"","ocean_menu_social_hover_links_color":"","ocean_disable_title":"default","ocean_disable_heading":"default","ocean_post_title":"","ocean_post_subheading":"","ocean_post_title_style":"","ocean_post_title_background_color":"","ocean_post_title_background":0,"ocean_post_title_bg_image_position":"","ocean_post_title_bg_image_attachment":"","ocean_post_title_bg_image_repeat":"","ocean_post_title_bg_image_size":"","ocean_post_title_height":0,"ocean_post_title_bg_overlay":0.5,"ocean_post_title_bg_overlay_color":"","ocean_disable_breadcrumbs":"default","ocean_breadcrumbs_color":"","ocean_breadcrumbs_separator_color":"","ocean_breadcrumbs_links_color":"","ocean_breadcrumbs_links_hover_color":"","ocean_display_footer_widgets":"default","ocean_display_footer_bottom":"default","ocean_custom_footer_template":"0","footnotes":"","ocean_post_oembed":"","ocean_post_self_hosted_media":"","ocean_post_video_embed":"","ocean_link_format":"","ocean_link_format_target":"self","ocean_quote_format":"","ocean_quote_format_link":"post","ocean_gallery_link_images":"off","ocean_gallery_id":[]},"categories":[253],"tags":[],"coauthors":[135],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/audioworx.transfunnel.co\/old\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12427"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/audioworx.transfunnel.co\/old\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/audioworx.transfunnel.co\/old\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/audioworx.transfunnel.co\/old\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/audioworx.transfunnel.co\/old\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12427"}],"version-history":[{"count":39,"href":"https:\/\/audioworx.transfunnel.co\/old\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12427\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22157,"href":"https:\/\/audioworx.transfunnel.co\/old\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12427\/revisions\/22157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/audioworx.transfunnel.co\/old\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/audioworx.transfunnel.co\/old\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/audioworx.transfunnel.co\/old\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12427"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/audioworx.transfunnel.co\/old\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=12427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}