Try JAS 2.0! Much faster and more user friendly!

The new JAS application is now available at jocavi.net/JAS

The history behind JAS

It all started in January 2009 when we decided to create a room acoustic simulator that both we and our customers could benefit from in order to provide a more standardized and better looking acoustic analysis report.

At the time all of the tools available were quite academic, rudimental and didn't have much choice between materials. The materials libraries were quite slim and the interfaces were quite crude.

We then decided to create something that we could support in the future and that would create an appealing report that we and our partners could use to present our solutions.

Since then, JAS hasn't had many updates done to it. Along the times we've changed a few things here and a few things there, but nothing major that would call for a real change of version. Until now.

The all new JAS 2.0

Now available at jocavi.net/JAS

Now, almost 11 years later, it was time to take a fresh look at JAS and overhaul the whole user interface that has been in place almost since the beginning.

Live changes
The first thing you'll notice is that you'll now see the reverberation times chart right next to the input form.

Material absorption coefficients
What you'll also see is that as you change materials, you'll be able to see their acoustic properties on the fly, without having to have the page refreshed.

Before and after
One other thing you'll notice, amongst others, is that now you have the ability to describe two states for the same room, instead of relying on JAS to replace the panels for existing materials.
This makes the simulation much more trustworthy as there are no possible errors arrising from the assumption of which panel replaced which material.

Compatibility
This new version of JAS is not compatible with other projects you might have created with the original JAS application. The file format is quite different and neither application will be able to interpret the other version files.

That being the case, we've left a copy of the initial JAS program available for older projects at jocavi.net/JAS.OLD/.

If at any time y ou need help to migrate the old files to the new program, just send us an email with the old file attached and we'll take care of it for you.

Give us your feedback
We'll really appreciate if you have a gander through and let us know what you've thought of this new version of JAS. We want to make sure it works well for you and for your projects, so don't hesitate to email us at info@jocavi.net

Analysis features

In the report generated by this tool you'll find several sections that will be very useful to understand how the acoustics will change within an room. You can find a sample report here.

Right next to the chart you'll find the calculated overall reverberation percentage, the calculated RT average, the SPL noise reduction before and after the acoustic treament and the balance between the reverberation times over the reference frequencies.

We display the room modes in several ways. the first one being in the shape of a keyboard where you can easily identify the frequencies present in the room modes analysis.

You'll also be able to find the Shröeder frequency for that room which will tell you at which point diffusion products will start being effective.

After that useful display, we'll also show you, for all the room modes (width, length and height axis as well as tangential) some visual representation of the intensity of the fundamental, 1^st harmonic and 2^nd harmonic sound waves within your room.

This will very easily help you find the acoustic sweetspot within your room.

You can find a sample report here.

Also, if you do find any difficulty at all using this tool, please don't hesitate to write to info@jocavi.net or call.

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