Operator Manual
Table Of Contents
- Contents
- Overview
- Chapter 1: Introduction
- Chapter 2: PRO2 Live Audio System
- Chapter 3: About The PRO2 Control Centre
- Getting Started
- Basic Operation Of The PRO2
- Chapter 5: Before You Start
- Chapter 6: Working With The PRO2 Control Centre
- Chapter 7: Navigation
- Chapter 8: Patching
- Introduction
- Terms used in PRO2 patching
- About the Patching screen
- Patching tooltips
- About the patching procedure
- Configuring the devices
- Setting up the I/O rack device(s)
- How to patch
- Chapter 9: Basic Operation
- Setting a mic amplifier’s input gain
- Setting the high and low pass filters
- Input equalisation (E zone)
- Input dynamics processing (D zone)
- Output processing
- Using VCA/POPulation groups
- Setting up a mix
- Setting up the effects rack
- Simple routing to master stereo outputs
- Automation
- Configuring the inputs and outputs
- Using copy and paste
- User library (presets)
- Surround panning
- Area B operation
- Saving your show files to a USB memory stick
- External AES50 synchronisation
- Security (locking mode)
- Advanced Operation And Features
- Chapter 10: Stereo Linking
- Chapter 11: Panning
- Chapter 12: Soloing
- Chapter 13: Muting
- Chapter 14: Monitors And Communications
- Chapter 15: Graphic Equaliser (GEQ)
- Chapter 16: Internal Effects
- Chapter 17: Control Groups
- Chapter 18: Copy And Paste
- Chapter 19: Assignable Controls
- Chapter 20: Scenes And Shows (Automation)
- About automation
- Automation controls
- Automation screen
- Using the right-click menu
- Scenes
- Scene contents
- Point scenes
- Numbering and navigation
- Initial snapshot scene (scene 0)
- Date and time
- Scene cue list
- Editing scene properties
- Adding a new scene
- Copying and deleting scenes
- Changing the order of the scenes
- Overriding store scope
- Using patching in automation
- Using zoom
- Show files
- Rehearsals
- Safes
- Chapter 21: Scope (Automation)
- Chapter 22: Events (Automation)
- Chapter 23: Crossfades (Automation)
- Chapter 24: User Libraries (Presets)
- Chapter 25: File Management
- Chapter 26: Using Other Devices With The PRO2
- Chapter 27: Changing The Preferences
- Setting the meter preferences
- Configuring a virtual soundcheck
- Configuring playback
- Restoring the PRO2 defaults
- Checking the build information
- Using patching in automation
- Selecting the surround mode
- Setting the time and date
- Setting the user interface preferences
- Setting the navigation mode
- VCA unfolding
- Changing the default input/output names
- On-scene store
- Changing the signal processing preferences
- Adjusting PRO2 illumination
- Selecting the function of the foot switch(es)
- Selecting the fan speed
- Remote control server
- Configuring the channels, groups and internal units
- Chapter 28: Delay Compensation (Latency)
- Description
- Chapter 29: Panel Connections
- Chapter 30: Input Channels
- Chapter 31: Output Channels
- Chapter 32: GUI Menu
- Appendices
- Appendix A: Application Notes
- Appendix B: Functional Block Diagrams
- Appendix C: Technical Specification
- PRO2 general statistics
- PRO2 general specifications
- PRO2 audio performance specifications
- PRO2 system inputs and outputs
- DL251 I/O box - analogue inputs
- DL251 I/O box - analogue outputs
- DL251 I/O box - MIDI
- DL251 I/O box - digital system inputs and outputs
- PRO2 control surface - DSP/router system inputs and outputs
- PRO2 control surface - analogue audio system inputs
- PRO2 control surface - analogue audio system outputs
- PRO2 control surface - digital audio system inputs and outputs
- PRO2 control surface - control data system inputs and outputs
- PRO2 control centre - miscellaneous inputs and outputs
- Inputs and output characteristics
- Main processing functions
- Status functions
- Appendix D: Troubleshooting
- Appendix E: Updating The PRO2 Host Software
- Appendix F: Parameters Affected By Scope
- Appendix G: Parameters Affected By Automate Patching
- Appendix H: Parameters Protected By Safes
- Appendix I: Parameters Affected By Copy And Paste
- Appendix J: Parameters Affected By Stereo Linking
- Appendix K: Parameters Copied Through Scenes
- Appendix L: Service Information
- Glossary
- Other important information
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- 3 Power Connections. Before plugging the unit into a power socket, please make sure you are using the correct mains voltage for your particular model. Faulty fuses must be replaced with fuses of the same type and rating without exception.
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Chapter 22 Events (Automation) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .185
About events . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185
About the Edit Event window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 186
Programming events . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187
Chapter 23 Crossfades (Automation). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .191
About the crossfade Edit Event window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191
How a crossfade operates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 194
Crossfade groups . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195
Global events . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197
Manually controlling a crossfade . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 198
Chapter 24 User Libraries (Presets). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .199
About the Preset Manager screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199
Managing user libraries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201
Deleting presets from a user library . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202
Chapter 25 File Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .203
About the Files screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203
Chapter 26 Using Other Devices With The PRO2 . . . . . . . . . . . .205
Using multiple digital consoles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205
Using an external USB mouse . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 206
Using a USB keyboard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 206
Using an external monitor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 206
Chapter 27 Changing The Preferences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .207
Setting the meter preferences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207
Configuring a virtual soundcheck . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207
Configuring playback . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 208
Restoring the PRO2 defaults . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 208
Checking the build information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 208
Using patching in automation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 208
Selecting the surround mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209
Setting the time and date . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209
Setting the user interface preferences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209
Setting the navigation mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 210
VCA unfolding . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211
Changing the default input/output names . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211
On-scene store . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 212
Changing the signal processing preferences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 212
Adjusting PRO2 illumination . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 212
Selecting the function of the foot switch(es) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 212
Selecting the fan speed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213
Remote control server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213
Configuring the channels, groups and internal units . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213
Chapter 28 Delay Compensation (Latency) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .215
Insert compensation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215
GEQ compensation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 216
GUI Delay Compensation options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 216
Monitor Mode (Align with Masters) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 218