Instruction/ maintenance manual of the product CCUG-0100-01 Polycom
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Conference Composer User Guide.
Copyright © 2001 Polycom, Inc. A ll rights reserved. Printe d in the United States of Am erica. Because of technical progress, specifications are su bject to change without notice. The Polycom logo and V ortex ® are registered trademar ks of Polycom, Inc.
C ONFERENCE C OMPOSER TM U SER G UIDE Polycom, Inc., Copyright 2001 Tec hnical Support: 800.932.2774 1 Conference ComposerTM Software ..............................................................2 Introduction ............. .............. ...........
C ONFERENCE C OMPOSER TM S OFTWARE Conference Composer User Guide 2 Technical Support: 800.932.2 774 C ONFERENCE C OMPOSER TM S OFTWARE I NTRODUCTION Conference Composer is the design and configuratio n software that is supplied with the V ortex ® .
C ONFERENCE C OMPOSER TM S OFTWARE © Polycom, Inc. 3 Conference Composer User Guide F EATURES OF THE C ONFERENC E C OMPOSER W INDOW 1. E XPLORER M ENU . The Explorer-type menu structure allows you to easily navi- gate and browse throug h your device list.
C ONFERENCE C OMPOSER TM S OFTWARE Conference Composer User Guide 4 Technical Support: 800.932.2 774 •U SER M ODE . User mode selects between B ASIC and A DVANCED . Basic mode limits user options that can be adjusted. Advanced mode allows con- trol of all parameters avai lable on Conference Composer .
O PERATING C ONFERENCE C OMPOSER © Polycom, Inc. 5 Conference Composer User Guide O PERATING C ONFERENCE C OMPOSER Conference Composer may either be operated online or of f-line (not connected to a V ortex or EF device) depending on how you would like to use it.
O PERATING C ONFERENCE C OMPOSER Conference Composer User Guide 6 Technical Support: 800.932.2 774 NOTE If you have any devices currently using the serial port on your PC, such as a PalmPi- lot’ s HotSync, please close those programs to free the COM port before running A UTOSCAN .
O PERATING C ONFERENCE C OMPOSER © Polycom, Inc. 7 Conference Composer User Guide look like Figure 4 (the red X’ s indicate that you are offline), and you are ready to pro- ceed to the next section. Figure 5. Operating Conference Com- poser Of fline.
D EVICE P ARAMETERS Conference Composer User Guide 8 Technical Support: 800.932.2 774 D EVICE P ARAMETERS Each device in Conference Com poser is represented by a li st of sub-entries for that device. For the V ortex , those fields are S YSTEM , M IC /L INE I NPUTS , etc.
D EVICE P ARAMETERS © Polycom, Inc. 9 Conference Composer User Guide be difficult to light. If y ou set the signal act ivity level too low , the ambient ro om noise may light the signal activity LED too easily .
D EVICE P ARAMETERS Conference Composer User Guide 10 Technical Support: 800.932.2 77 4 will send the desired string to the modem (or any device connected to the RS-232 port) each time the V o rtex is reset (eithe r through power-u p or a software reset).
D EVICE P ARAMETERS © Polycom, Inc. 11 Conference Composer User Guide M IC /L INE I NPUTS The M IC /L INE I NPUTS page contains all the controls required to configure the 12 inputs (8 mic/line inputs and the 4 line level inputs).
D EVICE P ARAMETERS Conference Composer User Guide 12 Technical Support: 800.932.2 77 4 33dB of gain is added to the signal. •P HANTOM P OWER . 24 V phantom power can be enab led or disabled (it is enabled in Figure 9). •M UTE . This button is used to m ute or unmute the input signal (M UTE is disabled in Figure 9).
D EVICE P ARAMETERS © Polycom, Inc. 13 Conference Composer User Guide A UTOMIXER Each V ortex has two automixers that can be cont rolled: Automixer 1 and Automixer 2. The controls for the two automixers are shown in Fi gure 10. For most applica- tions, the user will choose a single automixer .
D EVICE P ARAMETERS Conference Composer User Guide 14 Technical Support: 800.932.2 77 4 M AX NOM set to 8. T o link V ortexes together , use the B US M IXER number . Pu t all the V ortexes you would like to operate as one large mixer together on the same B US M IXER number with the exception of B US M IXER 0.
D EVICE P ARAMETERS © Polycom, Inc. 15 Conference Composer User Guide choices are R EFERENCE 1, R EFERENCE 2, or N ONE . Only one V ortex can put an AEC Reference onto the Bus.
D EVICE P ARAMETERS Conference Composer User Guide 16 Technical Support: 800.932.2 77 4 T o change t he gain of an entire row or column yo u may simply click on the co lumn or row header (any of the labels 1-D on the co lumns or the rows) to see a collection of sliders as shown in Figure 13.
D EVICE P ARAMETERS © Polycom, Inc. 17 Conference Composer User Guide and a mono mix of the left and right program audio. The program audio is attenuated by 3 dB before adding it into the R1 output. O UTPUT F ILTERS Each of the outputs can have up to 5 filte rs of equali zation.
D EVICE P ARAMETERS Conference Composer User Guide 18 Technical Support: 800.932.2 77 4 (labelled NOM) enabled will reduce the ga in of the output signal by 3dB for each doubling of the number of open microphon es . NOM attenuation is computed sepa- rately for each output, depending on the inputs that are used to build each output.
D EVICE P ARAMETERS © Polycom, Inc. 19 Conference Composer User Guide closed) will happen when the contact is open . The LED status will also update to reflect polarity status. Figure 16 shows an assignment of Pin 1 to mute Input 1 when activ e (i.e.
D EVICE P ARAMETERS Conference Composer User Guide 20 Technical Support: 800.932.2 77 4 P RESETS The V ortex supports 16 factory presets (m eaning they can’ t be overwritten by the user) and 32 user presets. These presets store all information about the settings for the device: input gains, matrix crosspoints, automixer settin gs, etc.
P ROJECT F ILES AND C REATING R EPORTS © Polycom, Inc. 21 Conference Composer User Guide P ROJECT F ILES AND C REATING R EPORTS F ILE S AVING When working off-line, you may find it useful to save Project files for arch ival pur- poses or to allow you to send the configuration to another person.
T HE C ONSOLE W INDOW Conference Composer User Guide 22 Technical Support: 800.932.2 77 4 T HE C ONSOLE W INDOW The Console W indo w provides communication informati on between your PC and the EF Device. There are two tabs in this window: the Console T ab and the Prop erties T ab.
T HE C ONSOLE W INDOW © Polycom, Inc. 23 Conference Composer User Guide P ROPERTIES T AB The Properties T ab provides the capability to chan ge flow control and also update the firmware of your EF D evice. U PDATING F IRMWARE The capability to updat e firmware is included i n Conference Composer version 1.
T HE C ONSOLE W INDOW Conference Composer User Guide 24 Technical Support: 800.932.2 77 4 nected to other devices through the ASPI Bus or EF Bus. 2. In the P ROJECT menu, s elect A UTOSCAN to synchronize the dev ice settings with Conference Composer .
M ODEM U SE WITH THE V ORTEX © Polycom, Inc. 25 Conference Composer User Guide M ODEM U SE WITH THE V ORTEX C ONFERENCE C OMPOSER Y ou will need Conference Composer version 1.62 or later . Y ou can find the latest version of the software on our websit e at www .
M ODEM U SE WITH THE V ORTEX Conference Composer User Guide 26 Technical Support: 800.932.2 77 4 F ROM THE R EMOTE S ITE At the remote site, open Conf erence Composer and from the F ILE menu choose P REF - ERENCES . The dialog box that comes up should look similar to the on e below in Fig- ure 20.
M ODEM U SE WITH THE V ORTEX © Polycom, Inc. 27 Conference Composer User Guide After both sides are setup, you should be able to A UTO SCAN from the remote end. Autoscanning will have your modem dial the remote site and connect to the remote modem, which is connected to the V ortex.
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