This means that instead of maintaining multiple separate products, with separate but related code bases, each at different release versions (i.e. With the release of v9, Smaart is moving from its old version-based product structure to a new, more cohesive edition-based one. The Smaart brand went through a few ownership changes until Rational Acoustics was founded in 2008 with the specific purpose of ensuring the continued development of the Smaart platform while substantially enhancing the educational and support efforts that back it. Smaart was first developed in 1995 as a cost-effective software-based solution to audio analysis during a time when the choices for audio analyzers were limited to a small number of moderately to extremely expensive hardware devices – with very limited functionality by today’s standards.
