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
Chapter 2: PRO2 Live Audio System
The PRO2 is a mid-size mixing console and comes complete with a stage IO box and
flight case. The console is designed to work for long periods, not just indoors but under
harsh sunlight or near freezing conditions.
The console forms the core of the PRO2 Live Audio System, whose network carries both
proprietary control data and open architecture AES50 digital audio, and uses readily
available standard cabling and connectors. The PRO2 uses the reliable Linux operating
system.
The PRO2 Live Audio System incorporates dual redundancy on mains power, facilitated
by two mains inlets.
Additional AES50-compatible sound processing products can be connected to the PRO2
to form extended distribution and mixing console “system”.
Features
Please remember, the PRO2 is not just a console, it’s a LIVE PERFORMANCE SYSTEM!
• Available in 8-channel (PRO2C) and 16-channel (PRO2) versions
•XL8-Style "Fast Zones"
• Midas preamps, which accommodate easy passive splitting (optional DL431 mic pres
give integral splits for connecting to analogue/digital consoles)
• Offline editor
• 156 inputs x 166 outputs (maximum capacity) point-to-point routing anywhere
within the network
• 56 mic/line inputs with Midas mic preamps
• 64 simultaneous input processing channels
• 32 analogue outputs (including 2 stereo local monitor outputs)
• Monitor mixing is simple — master, matrix and aux buses can be routed directly from
input channels with independent level control, giving 24 monitor mix buses
• Traditional FOH subgroup mixing is simple — any/all aux buses can operate as
post-channel fader and pan (aux gain fixed at unity)
• Aux inputs have two modes of operation: effects return and input channel
• Three AES3 outputs
• Two AES3 inputs
• Six AES50 on the Control Centre for I/O expansion and XL8 connectivity
• 27 sample-synchronous, phase-coherent mix buses
• Six multi-channel FX engines
• Up to 28 Klark Teknik DN370 31-band Graphic EQs
•Configurable "Area B"
• Surround panning including 5.1, Quad and LCRS
• Full-colour 15" daylight-viewable display screen with DVI out