What is Aperture?
Aperture is a web-based software tool for sharing, presenting, and collaborating on Meyer Sound system designs without needing to download, register, or learn the relevant design creation packages, such as MAPP 3D, the flagship design tool for Meyer Sound products, or Dolby DARDT.
Aperture can open MAPP 3D and Dolby DARDT files in a web-based environment and enable acoustic predictions for the designs. Users can save specific views and prediction settings that can then be presented and exported as graphics for use in document creation.
Aperture also provides technical factor-of-safety document exports, equipment list exports, and exports to EASE 5. It is a companion to MAPP 3D. MAPP 3D remains the design tool for Meyer Sound products, as DARDT is the design tool that is used to certify Dolby rooms.
Aperture does not change a design or perform layer visibility functions. Specific PA options need to be set to ‘visible layers’ and saved before the MAPP 3D import.
Aperture lets sound designers:
Walk through a proposed system interactively, with live animations.
Produce clean, consistent graphics for a written proposal.
Tell a more compelling visual story than a flat design tool or screenshot.
Generate inventory and factor-of-safety details for an installation.
Important
Internet connectivity required
Aperture downloads loudspeaker information from the internet. When a project has many different models, it needs to download the models and the acoustic model from an online server. This makes it dependent on an internet connection during loading and import.
Aperture is a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) tool accessed via the Internet, which means it:
Opens in a web browser: No installation needed. Open Aperture in a browser at https://aperture.meyersound.com
Updates automatically: Because it's a web app, new features and fixes appear automatically