User manual

4REA4 Controller Software User Guide
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V1.30
Engine Configuration - Input Channels & Busses
• The 4REA4 A-Core Engine offers 128 Input channels and 48 configurable busses plus 4 Stereo
Area Output busses and 4 Stereo Solo busses.
• The configurable busses can be used as Groups, Auxes, FX Sends and Matrices.
• All of these buss types can be Mono or Stereo and a Stereo buss counts as 2 busses from the 48
buss total.
• Mono busses can only be added or removed in pairs
• The audio engine runs at 96KHz and doesn’t have an option for any other sample rate.
Control
• The 4REA4 Controller Application which can run under 64 Bit Windows or Mac
• A-Control hardware devices – A-Control 8, A-Control 6 and A-Control 1 – these can control
functions such as faders, mutes, solos, aux sends.
• The ”APAD” iPad Application – this can control all of the standard channel functions including gain,
EQ and Dynamics.
• External GPI triggers from the onboard GPIO ports or the external GPIO unit.
Note: The system is capable of being controlled by up to 64 maximum networked devices with limits on
each of the A-Controller types of 16 i.e. You could have a maximum of 16 A-Control 6 within the 64 limit,
except for the A-Control 1 which has a limit of 32.
I/O Devices
NOTE: When using DMI cards and SD Rack (Local) cards in 4REA4, please note that these cards cannot be
“hot swapped”. Please power down the 4REA4 when inserting or removing these cards
A3232 and AStar
• A168 Stage Box offering 16 Analogue Mic Inputs and 8 Analogue Line outputs
• A164 Wall LCD offering 16 Analogue Mic Inputs and 4 Analogue Line outputs
These are connected via the 4 onboard A3232 ports which can be used singly or as two redundant pairs
Alternatively, they can be connected via the AStar port and AStar unit which provided 4 x A3232 Ports in a
remote location.
NOTE: Although the 4REA4 has two AStar ports these can only be used at the same time as a
redundant pair connected to two AStar units.
A168 and A164 Wall units can be used in Redundant mode or “Cascaded” in series on a single A3232 port
provided that their socket count doesn’t exceed 32 Inputs and 32 Outputs
Eg You could connect 2 x 168 devices in cascade mode on a single A3232 port to provide 32 Inputs and 16
Outputs.
Local SD Rack Cards
There are 3 SD Rack card slots on the 4REA4 and these can be populated with Mic Input cards (inc 32 bit
version), Analogue Output cards (inc 32 bit version), AES Input cards, AES Output cards and combined AES
I/O cards.
NOTE: 32 Bit DAC Cards require card firmware version V16+ to function correctly in 4REA4 – at the time of
4REA4 V1.0 release this version of card firmware is not standard for 32 Bit DAC cards used in SD-Racks.
Please contact [e-mail] for details of the firmware update procedure
DMI Cards
There are 4 DMI card slots on the 4REA4 and these can be populated with the following DMI card types in
Release V1.31
• MADI B or C
• Dante (Note: This is a 32/32 I/O device as it is running at 96KHz)
• Dante 64@96
• Aviom
• ADC
• Mic
• DAC
• AES
• Waves (Note: There is no control of Waves Multirack from the 4REA4 – this is an I/O only device)
• DMI Optocore