Manual

Loudness Pilot English Manual (2014-10-07) a
Important safety instructions 1
Warning 2
Caution: 3
Service 3
EMC/EMI 4
For the customers in Canada: 4
About this manual 5
Getting support 6
Before you get started 7
Register your product 8
Stay up-to-date on loudness 8
Unpacking and setup 9
Package contents 10
Setup 10
Software: TC Icon and Loudness Pilot
firmware 11
Finding and installing TCIcon software –
Microsoft Windows 13
Finding and installing TCIcon software –
OSX 15
Loudness Pilot: An introduction 17
Perfect loudness management for Stereo
and Mono 18
Ultra-low latency –
ultra-high redundancy 18
Comply with loudness standards 18
Targeted On Your Tasks 18
Loudness Pilot – Basic concepts and
operation 19
Operating Loudness Pilot 20
Hardware versions 20
Expanding your Loudness Pilot 21
Loudness Pilot SDI: The Serial Digital
Interface 21
Loudness Pilot AES 21
SDI vs. AES 22
Loudness Pilot presets 22
Loudness Pilot
status indicators and ports 23
Front panel indicators 24
Front panel reset button 26
Back panel connectors 27
Setting up Loudness Pilot 31
Networking basics and troubleshooting 32
Quick Setup 35
Updating Loudness Pilot software 36
Basic operation 37
Introduction 38
Basic TC Icon operation 38
Faders 39
On-screen keyboard 41
Accessing Loudness Pilot 42
Operating multiple computers and/or TC
HD devices in one network 43
Scanning / rescanning a network for devices 44
Obtaining Loudness Pilot status
information 45
Clock section 46
Status section 46
Setting up audio and syncing 49
I/O Setup – SDI 50
I/O Setup – Loudness Pilot AES 53
Setting up audio dithering 55
Loudness Pilot remote control 56
Remote – Master 57
Remote – GPI 59
GP Input Calibration 63
Setting up GPO 64
Remote – SDI 64
Recalling, storing and deleting settings 67
Scenes, Routings, Engines 68
The Library concept 69
Library – Recall page 70
Library – Store page 71
Library – Delete page 73
Library – Bank page 74
Updating Loudness Pilot firmware 75
Finding and installing Loudness Pilot
firmware – Microsoft Windows 77
Finding and installing Loudness Pilot
firmware – OSX 79