Woofer Box Model and Circuit Designer 6.0 is now available

[Jeff B.]

Hello everyone,
I have released a newer version of WBCD 6.0. The only real change are updates that allows the program to function better in newer versions of Office. It was designed and tested in Windows 10 and Office 2016 with no problems. It's been a long time since the last update, and with this release, program development is now closed and the program is no longer supported the author. I hope you find this beneficial.
You can get the new program here: http://audio.claub.net/software/jbabgy/WBCD.html

Jeff B.

[thekorvers]

Thanks Jeff. We appreciate all your contributions.

[ernperkins]

That's an update I never expected. Thank you Jeff.

[MPSGODOY]

Hi, Jeff! Thanks for the new version. Do you have any kind of step by step for beginners or a video from someone who already explained it? I'm using it on mac but I'm afraid I don't know how to simulate properly... I've only found an YT video using your xover designer: https://youtu.be/Fm6tsj9Tpqs
Thanks,
Marcos

[stephenmarklay]

Hi, Jeff! Thanks for the new version. Do you have any kind of step by step for beginners or a video from someone who already explained it? I'm using it on mac but I'm afraid I don't know how to simulate properly... I've only found an YT video using your xover designer: https://youtu.be/Fm6tsj9Tpqs
Thanks,
Marcos

I got VBA compilation errors on my mac and the newest version of excel...

[wogg]

I got VBA compilation errors on my mac and the newest version of excel...

32 bit or 64 bit?

[stephenmarklay]

32 bit or 64 bit?

Thank you Wogg. It appears to be 64 bit.

[Jeff B.]

Thank you Wogg. It appears to be 64 bit.

The program will only run in 32 bit applications of Excel. But there usually isn't a very good reason to run Excel 64 bit if you don't have to. These programs won't be modified to run in 64 bit - there's just too much to change and I have officially moved on from working on these.

[stephenmarklay]

The program will only run in 32 bit applications of Excel. But there usually isn't a very good reason to run Excel 64 bit if you don't have to. These programs won't be modified to run in 64 bit - there's just too much to change and I have officially moved on from working on these.

Thank you Jeff. I will figure a way around it.

Edit: It appears that when I installed excel it defaults to 64 bit. However, after reading up on that I don’t need the extra capability so I will downgrade it.

Thanks guys.

[neildavis]

Aren't there also some VBA compatibility issues with the Mac version of Excel? At one time the VBA support on the Mac was very poor and with Office 2016 it got a lot better. It's worth trying the 32-bit version on your Mac, but it still might not work...

Many years ago I "translated" the WBCD Excel functionality to VB.net. It used the same equations as the spreadsheet, but provided the procedural logic to make it a Windows Form application. It wouldn't take too much coding effort to translate that program into a C# application that could run on a mobile device (using Xamarin). Or, it could be converted to a Java app. That's not something I want to do, but if Jeff is OK with it, I'd be happy to post the VB.NET code for someone else to rework it. The code isn't very elegant, as it was written to emulate a spreadsheet, but it works and provides the same functionality as WBCD...

[dlr]

Aren't there also some VBA compatibility issues with the Mac version of Excel? At one time the VBA support on the Mac was very poor and with Office 2016 it got a lot better. It's worth trying the 32-bit version on your Mac, but it still might not work...

Many years ago I "translated" the WBCD Excel functionality to VB.net. It used the same equations as the spreadsheet, but provided the procedural logic to make it a Windows Form application. It wouldn't take too much coding effort to translate that program into a C# application that could run on a mobile device (using Xamarin). Or, it could be converted to a Java app. That's not something I want to do, but if Jeff is OK with it, I'd be happy to post the VB.NET code for someone else to rework it. The code isn't very elegant, as it was written to emulate a spreadsheet, but it works and provides the same functionality as WBCD...

I've had plans to do a Xamarin app for box design. I haven't used Jeff's program at all, may not emulate it (I have my own interface ideas), but that might be a good starting point.

dlr

[neildavis]

I've got two variants of the WBCD--one that was used for the PSD-Lite code and a stripped-down version that is still getting worked over for the Active Speaker Designer Lite (ASD-Lite). The PSD-Lite code is somewhat confusing in that it allows using the box model on either the woofer or the midrange in a 3-way system, as well as doing a "what-if" design. So there is some confusing stuff going on to determine which speaker design is active. And right now some of that logic is "broken" because of changes I started for the larger ASD program but never finished. Also, it uses the CE database, which is now deprecated, for T-S parameters. That "extra" stuff is getting stripped out for ASD-Lite.

I'm still working on the ASD-Lite code. I needed the WBCD code to implement a bass "optimizer" for the stereo 3-way DSP boards that are described here. I've got a lot of that new code completed, but the WBCD portion still needs a lot more work. That's the code you should start with, but I probably won't have it completed for at least a month (it's not hard, but there are other projects in the queue).

The PSD-Lite source code consists of multiple directories because there are files that are shared between multiple programs (ASD/PSD/PSD-Lite). The files for just the Woofer Box calculations are at this link. Those files will give you an idea of what the code looks like.

The ASD-Lite program in its current form is here: http://www.audiodevelopers.com/Softw...Lite/setup.exe

I'll post the link to the ASD-Lite source code when I'm further along. You might want to look at the cute user interface for entering T-S parameters in ASD-Lite. It was described in this thread: http://techtalk.parts-express.com/fo...er-box-modeler

[stephenmarklay]

Aren't there also some VBA compatibility issues with the Mac version of Excel? At one time the VBA support on the Mac was very poor and with Office 2016 it got a lot better. It's worth trying the 32-bit version on your Mac, but it still might not work...

Many years ago I "translated" the WBCD Excel functionality to VB.net. It used the same equations as the spreadsheet, but provided the procedural logic to make it a Windows Form application. It wouldn't take too much coding effort to translate that program into a C# application that could run on a mobile device (using Xamarin). Or, it could be converted to a Java app. That's not something I want to do, but if Jeff is OK with it, I'd be happy to post the VB.NET code for someone else to rework it. The code isn't very elegant, as it was written to emulate a spreadsheet, but it works and provides the same functionality as WBCD...

Thanks for the thoughts on the mac version Neil. I have an old PC that I cleared off and put on WinISD. That is working and I will get a 32 bit excel on that machine too. It needs some more ram in a bad way but I will get that taken care of.

Appreciate it Neil.

[westrock2000]

Thanks for the thoughts on the mac version Neil. I have an old PC that I cleared off and put on WinISD. That is working and I will get a 32 bit excel on that machine too. It needs some more ram in a bad way but I will get that taken care of.

Appreciate it Neil.

Ask any friends that are computer guys, they might have old RAM laying depending on how much of a hoarder, err collector they are. A co-worker was recently saying he was going to buy some DDR3 memory for his computer and I was I’ll just give you 8GB of the stuff for free, I have no use for it anymore.

[stephenmarklay]

Ask any friends that are computer guys, they might have old RAM laying depending on how much of a hoarder, err collector they are. A co-worker was recently saying he was going to buy some DDR3 memory for his computer and I was I’ll just give you 8GB of the stuff for free, I have no use for it anymore.

Good thoughts and yep DDR3 is what I need for it