Owner's manual

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1.1 What is the Orchestra²
1. INTRODUCTION
Orchestra² is a powerful intuive and ergonomic remote controller designed to manage several switchers
such as Eikos, Eikos LE, OPS300, OPS200, Pulse, Pulse LE, SmartVu, SmartVu LE, Smart MatriX, Smart
MatriX LE, Smart Edge, Smart Edge FX, Smart Quad, Di-VenX II or Eikos², Saphyr, SmartMatrix², Pulse²,
QuickMatrix and QuickVu systems, independently or simultaneously in any kind of combinaon, including
So Edge Blending.
Orchestra² can control up to 6 independent screen conguraons in dierent locaons (single display or
mulple projectors in So Edge Blending mode) and store up to 64 presets per screen conguraon.
Orchestra² controls the eects and funconalies of the Di-VenX II, Eikos, Eikos LE, OPS300, OPS200, Pulse,
Pulse LE, SmartVu, SmartVu LE, Smart MatriX, Smart MatriX LE, Smart Edge, Smart Edge FX, Smart Quad
and Eikos², Saphyr, SmartMatrix², Pulse², QuickMatrix and QuickVu systems.
NOTE: Orchestra² oers the control of matrices in order to mulply the number of live sources, whatever the
Analog Way switcher number of inputs is.
Designed with a 16/9 TFT color touch screen for easy preview of all conguraons, Orchestris especially
dedicated to facilitate seng up and programming of mul-screen events and presentaons. It perfectly ts
your every day or presgious shows where speed and easiness of conguraon are required.
The numerous user friendly, customizable and congurable presets enable the set up of your screen
conguraon, so that they are easily accessible during your presentaon. Any last minute modicaon is easy
thanks to the direct input/output selecon access. Also equipped with a USB port, the complete conguraon
of your events can be saved for future use.
With its new Interface Human Machine, Orchestra² will help you manage mul-screen and mul-locaon live
presentaons with total peace of mind.
SCREENS: a “Screen” on the Orchestr is a containing element, which corresponds to a projecon surface.
A Screen generally contains a device, such as an Eikos, Eikos LE, OPS300, OPS200, Pulse, Pulse LE, SmartVu,
SmartVu LE, Smart MatriX, Smart MatriX LE, Smart Edge, Smart Edge FX, Smart Quad, Di-VenX II, Eikos²,
Saphyr, SmartMatrix², Pulse², QuickMatrix or a QuickVu, though a screen could well be composed of several
devices, in So Edge conguraon for example.
PRESET: a “Preset” on the Orchestra², is a capture (or a recall) of the state of a Screen. In other words, presets
allow to record or recall the state of sources and elements in a Screen at any given moment.
LAYERS: a “Layer” is an image display element (such as a Background, a PIP, or a Logo) that has an associated
visual priority — either in front of another layer or behind.
BACKGROUND FRAME: a “Background Frame” is a full screen image which is selected from one of the memory
slots available. A Frame can be ash captured from any video or computer source plugged into the machine.
BACKGROUND LIVE: a “Background Live” is a live (animated video or moon content) full screen image which
is selected from one of the available sources of the slave device.
PIP: a “PIPrefers to Picture-in-Picture. It is a source (typically of reduced size) that is posioned over another
background image or another PIP. PIPs can be reduced, enlarged, bordered and shadowed. They can overlap
one another, depending on their visual priority.
1.1 What is the Ochestra²
1.2 Useful terms and denions