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CDC seven

Digital Mixing Console

User Manual

Hardware

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Page 1: ...CDC seven Digital Mixing Console User Manual Hardware...

Page 2: ...Holdings Ltd One New Street Luton Bedfordshire LU1 5DX United Kingdom Telephone 44 0 1582 404202 Fax 44 0 1582 412799 Email General information info cadac sound com Service enquiries service cadac sou...

Page 3: ...ervicing is required when the apparatus has been damaged in any way such as the power supply cord or plug is damaged liquid has been spilled or objects have fallen into the apparatus the apparatus has...

Page 4: ...low all warnings in this manual and those printed on the console The console must be connected following the guidance in this manual Never connect power amplifier outputs directly to the console Conne...

Page 5: ...ection 2 Limits for harmonic current emissions equipment input current 16 A per phase BS EN 61000 3 3 2006 A2 2009 Electromagnetic Compatibility EMC Part 3 Limits Section 3 Limitation of voltage fluct...

Page 6: ...in Features 14 Hardware components 15 Control surface 15 Top view 15 Rear view 22 Channel Section 22 Master Section 24 Power supplies 25 Front panel 25 Remote Stageboxes 26 Connecting the hardware 28...

Page 7: ...reen menus 40 System functions 41 Waves SoundGrid interface 41 USB ports 41 Ethernet Ports 41 Video ports HDMI 41 GPIO ports 42 MIDI I O 42 Lamp 43 Updating system software 43 System expansion 43 Addi...

Page 8: ...s most of the features of our world famous large scale theatre and touring analogue desks available in a compact fixed architecture fully digital system using a high agility user interface based a on...

Page 9: ...y be ordered if required Control Surface The control surface is divided in four operational areas two Channel Sections each based around a 23 5 16 9 1920 x 1080 pixels touchscreen display with two set...

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Page 11: ...ncluding SRC CDC MC AES3 18 x AES3 inputs 18 x AES3 outputs 36 bidirectional audio channels CDC MC Optical up to 512 audio channels via optical fibre 2 km drive capability CDC I O 6448 64 mic line inp...

Page 12: ...o control a maximum console configuration of 96 input channels mixing into 48 assignable mix busses plus left centre and right master busses and two monitor busses for PFL and AFL The touchscreen base...

Page 13: ...d MegaCOMMS using high speed 75 ohm coaxial cable terminated in BNC connectors Two interconnection paths are provided A and B each of which requires a transmit and receive cable The maximum capacity o...

Page 14: ...ade or post fade switchable pre or post VCA Default display of all primary channel parameters Two physical inputs per input channel 4 band fully parametric EQ on all inputs and outputs Classic Cadac a...

Page 15: ...4 5 6 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 15 16 1 Main Screen a 23 5 16 9 high definition touchscreen The default display shows a block of 16 consecutively numbered channels alternative sets of channels may be disp...

Page 16: ...ault the input blocks of the channel strips are displayed at the bottom of the virtual channel strip and the pan blocks at the top The lower encoders are per channel coase input gain controls by defau...

Page 17: ...l if stereo The lowest segment acts as a signal present LED and illuminates at 70 dBFS The LEDs are colour coded the signal present segment is green the five highest segments are red with the top one...

Page 18: ...ther channels and the Output Layer buttons select higher numbered busses for control While Fader Follow Outputs is active the screen display and rotary encoders continue to be active for input channel...

Page 19: ...e Group 3 Mute Group 5 Mute Group 7 Mute Group 2 Mute Group 4 Mute Group 6 Mute Group 8 STORE UPDATE PREV NEXT BACK CUE MUTE ALL MUTE TALKBACK ENABLE SOLO CLR Phones Monitor LR Wedge LCR 10 20 30 5 40...

Page 20: ...Control Screen display to the home page The MENU button is disabled when the Cue List is in use 8 BACK button used in the menu system navigates back one level Illuminates red when available 9 CUE LIST...

Page 21: ...LCR 20 LCR ON button when this button is unlit the main LCR output is muted 21 LCR SEL button pressing this button changes the Main Screen and the faders SEL and ON buttons below the Main Screen to Bu...

Page 22: ...the inputs and other colours to indicate the selected sample rate in the case of the outputs 5 USB 2 x type A USB 2 0 ports 6 VIDEO HDMI connector for external display of the CDC seven s various scre...

Page 23: ...s plug ins Control for the external processing is available on the main screen The RESET button resets the Waves interface 13 Fan for internal cooling do not block The fan speed is controlled automati...

Page 24: ...n the stageboxes 4 48V eight red LEDs illuminate when 48 V phantom power is enabled at the associated input connector 5 OUTPUTS 1 to 8 eight balanced local analogue audio outputs from the CDC seven on...

Page 25: ...ct Rear panel 5 MAINS INPUT Neutrik powerCON TRUE1 male connector for AC mains Max rating 16 A A female powerCON connector is also provided this is paralleled to the input connector It may be used to...

Page 26: ...rnately when an input assignment is made to the connector on the Input Assign panel see Software Manual this is to aid on stage input identification while connecting up the console 4 48V an orange LED...

Page 27: ...In normal operation one or more green LEDs per port should be illuminated the number will vary and depends on the bandwidth in use The yellow LED flashes when no MegaCOMMS signal is present at the po...

Page 28: ...is no provision for a redundant power supply on the CDC I O 3216 remote stagebox Data communications MegaCOMMS Cadac s proprietary MegaCOMMS hi speed data protocol is used to interconnect the CDC seve...

Page 29: ...e Rack Redundant System TX A RX A TX B RX B BOOT SWITCH Port A Port B Tx Rx Rx Tx 18V FPGA stat0 18V FPGA stat1 48V PIC stat0 12V Spare USB Port A Tx Port B Tx Port A Rx Port B Rx AUX PWR C S B R 0 9...

Page 30: ...ixed at 96 kHz and a clock signal is always available at the rear of the console at the WORD CLOCK OUT connector Remote stagebox audio connections The stageboxes provide the non local audio inputs and...

Page 31: ...1 to 13 or 1 to 40 The LCR Master channel outputs are assigned to the three highest numbered output connectors 46 47 48 in the case of the 6448 I O Rack or 14 15 16 on a 3216 I O Rack Any of the abov...

Page 32: ...10 ohms Connections to these inputs should always be made using cable specifically designed for digital audio The digital inputs are equipped with Sample Rate Converters SRCs and can accept sample rat...

Page 33: ...e control The sockets are wired as follows Pin Connection Tip Left monitor output Ring Right monitor output Sleeve Screen common Waves SoundGrid interface The CDC seven is fitted with a Waves SoundGri...

Page 34: ...EL button has been pressed inadvertently For safety reasons the CDC seven boots up with the MUTE ALL function active all console outputs from both the stagebox es and the local analogue I O are hard m...

Page 35: ...including the LCR masters are arranged into nine layers of 16 adjacently numbered channels Each of the two main screens has its own set of layer buttons and thus each can display whichever layer is re...

Page 36: ...seven provides two methods of changing layers 1 Layer buttons the current layer is selected by the Input Layer and Output Layer buttons to the right of the fader block 12 at INPUT LAYERS and OUTPUT L...

Page 37: ...ayers are currently displayed Channel meters The CDC seven has 16 dual bargraph meters located in the fader bay one per fader The source for each meter will always be the signal in its channel the ide...

Page 38: ...oftware Manual for full details In addition to the fader bay meters each channel strip input or output on the Main Screen includes a small virtual bargraph again dual on stereo channels The source for...

Page 39: ...panel is open but it is possible to move the EQ panel to the right hand side of the screen so that EQ adjustment can be made by the vertical encoder set By pressing the Swap button the lower set of e...

Page 40: ...menu is effectively part of the CDC seven s automation system it enables file creation and management functions and is used when starting a new project or loading a previously stored one The Config me...

Page 41: ...e Master Section two sockets under the armrest and two sockets on the rear panel The location of the ports is illustrated at page 18 Item 16 page 20 Item 6 and page 22 Item 5 The USB ports are intende...

Page 42: ...The pinouts of the two connectors are as follows Pin GPIO IN GPIO OUT 1 Input 1 ve Relay 1 CO 2 Input 1 ve Relay 1 N O 3 n u Relay 2 N C 4 Input 3 ve Relay 3 CO 5 Input 3 ve Relay 3 N O 6 n u Relay 4...

Page 43: ...ding a second Stagebox Thisisasimpleandtransparentprocedure ObservetheappropriateMegaCOMMS network wiring method to be followed see page 28 for details Each stagebox must have a unique address this is...

Page 44: ...e as groups aux sends or matrix sends Matrix Any configuration from 1 x 47 to 47 x 1 available with full processing Outputs Up to 192 inc Local I O Graphic EQ 32 band 16 dB on all busses Internal FX U...

Page 45: ...stagebox 482 6 x 259 1 x 398 3 mm 13 5 kg 29 76 lb CDC I O 3216 32 16 remote stagebox 482 6 x 435 9 x 177 8 mm 10 9 kg 24 03 lb CDC MC MADI MADI network bridge 482 6 x 253 x 44 45 mm 4 5 kg 9 92 lb CD...

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Page 47: ...it may be occasionally be necessary to connect unbalanced devices Cadac recommends that the following wiring protocols are followed Unbalanced sources connect to a balanced input by joining pins 1 and...

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