Eclipse Audio’s ‘FIR Designer’ software has been empowering audio professionals since 2016, allowing them to create custom loudspeaker processing with a comprehensive range of user-driven features.
The latest addition to FIR Designer -‘Auto IIR’- accelerates the traditional IIR-filter-based equalization process for individual loudspeakers and systems. Version 4.2 introduces Auto IIR alongside an expanded selection of brand-specific IIR emulations.
“IIR filters are still more widely used than FIR filters for EQ,” said Michael John, the lead developer at Eclipse Audio. “Moreover, when FIR filters are utilized, they are almost always combined with IIR-based EQ. That’s why IIR filter design is a critical aspect of our software and the area where we receive the most feature requests.”
Within FIR Designer, users can access dedicated IIR functionality to select and manually adjust any IIR-based filtering they want to use in the destination processor. With the recent expansion of this...
