Striking Analysis - Help
  • S Pullin
    5
    Is anyone aware of any instructions / guidance for using the "CAS" striking analysis software?

    Background:
    I have installed a simulator in our tower primarily with the aim of recording the ringing, to allow analysis of our striking and try to improve our 8 bell ringing. That works and we now have files saved from ABel (Lowndes format).
    Having downloaded the CAS software, which is kindly provided on the 12 Bell Contest website, I am at a bit of a loss how to make use of it - and searches online have proved entirely fruitless.
    For example, I fear that without being able to tell the analysis software what it is we should be ringing it has no chance in analysing the striking!

    Alternatively, is there any other software available that we can use? From what I can gather, Abel will only analyse striking when it is "ringing" some of the bells.

    I appreciate that by using sensors on the bells the striking analysis is not going to be perfect when ringing the bells 'open'. It has been set up to be reasonably close for each bell, and at this stage our striking is an order of magnitude beyond any discrepancies in this respect.....

    Many thanks in advance.
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  • John Harrison
    571
    ↪S Pullin
    I’m not familiar with CAS but they’re is an alternative you might like to look at. We use CIREL which takes input from a Bagley sensor and saves touches in Lowndes format.
    The analysis is simpler than what Hawkear (I assume using CAS) gives but we find it useful.
    We have calibrated our sensor timings to match the clapper timings by ringing te bell own with Abel sound as well and adjusting the delay until we couldn’t tell which was first. All can’t (or couldn’t when we did it) adjust for oddstruckness but our bells aren’t.
    Apply to share our experience.
    See: cirel.org.uk.
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  • S Pullin
    5
    ↪John Harrison
    Thank-you John. Cirel looks promising, complete with some explanation. I'll have a play with that.
    I did initially set the sensor outputs close to the sound and if we establish a means of analysing our striking, will check and refine the setup further.
    We have some very slight oddstruckness, I don't think sufficient to cause an issue at this stage. If it does become an issue (living in hope!) I could trial offsetting the sensor from BDC.
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