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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PRO2 Live Audio System
Owner’s Manual
• Aux sends 1-16 and matrices 1-8 (PRO2 only)
• Aux Sends 1-16 (PRO2c only)
• The sixth POPulation group is pre-populated with:
• Matrices 1-8 (PRO2c only)
• FX 1-3 are pre-loaded with DN780 Reverb effects
• FX 4 is pre-loaded with a Pitch Shifter effect
• FX 1-4 stereo outputs are patched to aux returns 1-8
Normal (FOH) mode
In addition to the common normal mode settings (above), the following settings are
applied in Normal (FOH) mode.
• Matrix outputs 1-4 are configured as mono sends and patched to FX 1-4
• Aux send outputs 1-8 are patched to DL251 outputs 1-8
• Matrix outputs 1-5 are patched to DL251 outputs 9-13
• Master L, R and C outputs are patched to DL251 outputs 14-16
• All input and aux return channels are routed to the stereo masters
• Aux send 9-16 are configured as stereo groups and routed to the stereo masters
Normal (Monitors) mode
In addition to the common normal mode settings (above), the following settings are
applied in Normal (Monitors) mode.
• Aux sends 1-16 are patched to DL251 outputs 1-16
• All input and aux return channels are routed to all aux sends with pre-fade set to ON
and send level set to OFF
VCA unfolding
The VCA Unfolding section of the User tab lets you select
Overlay Stereo Pairs to unfold only left channels of
channel pairs when a VCA group is selected. Use the
navigation buttons to display any desired right channel.
Changing the default input/output names
The Name Lists section of the User tab lets you change
the names that appear in the lists on the Input Sheet and
Output Sheet. These lists provide you with a number of
default names from which you can choose when naming
your inputs and outputs in the GUI menu.
>> To change the set names in the Input/Output Sheets
1 At the GUI, choose homePreferencesGeneral.
2 In the Names Lists section of User Interface Preferences, click SET NAMES.