Pachyderm Acoustical Simulation: Towards Open-Source Sound Analysis

The creator of the Pachyderm Acoustical Simulation plug-in, Arthur van der Harten is an acoustician working in the Specialist Modelling Group (SMG) at Foster + Partners. Here he describes the flexible format of this plug-in and how open-source software aided the analysis of a negative distortion in the acoustics of Hamer Hall Arts Centre in Melbourne.