The Secret Society of Lathe Trolls

We've updated SimuLathe CUT and REF to version 1.1.0 This is an extensive update driven by many user requests and bug reports: Inspection views in both CUT and REF editions now feature histograms for improved statistical analysis. Heatmap thresholds now allow being adjusted, also on the fly. The mic...

We launched a small series of articles showing how various test signals translate to geometry, click the image for more.

One issue with this is that the past is behind the stylus/pickup, you can't really see the history (at least not until it appears in the previous groove). Strictly speaking, the future is "blank". ;) At least from the point of view of the cutting stylus. I thought about a realtime groove view before...

You can watch the groove in realtime, but it's either too slow or too fast for the eye (no way to cover/visualize the full audible range 20-20k). In this regard, not much difference to a real world groove microscope. For realtime groove: 1. SL can visualize up to 18 sec of groove (at 4x audible rate...

Lol. We seriously considered adding stereoscopic modes to the microscope, because the flatness of the disk doesn't provide too many visual clues for distance. Without animation, the visual depth is prone to the "hollow face" effect, where depth information spontaneously flips from concave to convex ...

Hi Trolls, some of you possibly already took note of our "SimuLathe" product range. This is a technology capable of simulating the disk mastering process A to Z, at a precision adequate for professional purposes. Including audio preview via virtual pickup models. Also comes with a range of powerful ...