4
3
Finally, the smart power conservation feature means that
towards the useful end of the battery life, you’ll be advised
when to change the batteries.
We suggest that before you begin using your RC2000 Mk
w
that you take a few minutes to read this manual, so that you
can become familiar with its many features. If you already
have one or more Marantz components in your A/V system,
you’ll find that the RC2000 Mk
w
is already pre-
programmed with hundreds of functions, and you can
begin using it immediately with no additional programming
required.
Then, when you feel comfortable using the RC2000 Mk
w
and its provided commands, you may wish to “customize” it
for your own system, by “learning” other remote commands
for your other A/V components, and take advantage of
other features, such as the macro capability.
Now, let’s take a few minutes to become familiar with the
basic layout of the RC2000 Mk
w
, and introduce you to its
features. Some buttons are intentionally small and usable
only with a small pointed object, such as the tip of a paper
clip, so that they cannot be inadvertently activated in
normal use. You’ll use these small programming buttons
only if you wish to activate the various learning and
programming features, which we suggest you use only after
you have become comfortable using the RC2000 Mk
w
in
your system for a while.
BUTTON NAMES AND FUNCTIONS
q
MODE (operating mode)
This button is used to change from normal operation to the
learning mode, and is used when “learning” commands
from other brands of A/V components. Each time this button
is pressed (using a small pointed instrument such as a
paper clip tip) the mode changes as follows:
LEARN
USE
NAME
. As the mode changes, the LCD display will
show which mode is currently selected.
w
MACRO (for multiple step macro functions)
This button is used to memorize a series of functions. When
this button is pressed, the RC2000 Mk
w
changes to macro
programming mode, and is ready to learn a sequence of
remote control commands.
e
CLONE
The RC2000 Mk
w
has the ability to “replicate” itself,
downloading some or all of its internal commands to
another RC2000 Mk
w
. This button is used when you wish
to “teach” another RC2000 Mk
w
some or all of the
customized commands you’ve already programmed into
the first RC2000 Mk
w
. Each time the button is pressed, the
mode changes as follows:
CLONE TX
CLONE RX
OFF
.
r
POWER ON and OFF
These two buttons are used to turn the main component’s
(preamp or receiver) AC power on and off. We provide both
ON and OFF commands so that your A/V system is remote
compatible with external infrared controllers, such as in-wall
keypads, etc.
t
SOURCE ON/OFF
This button is used to turn the AC power on and off to any
of your A/V source components that have their own remote
control power commands, such as TV, DVD player , laser
disc player, VCR, etc.
y
MACRO 1-4
Each of these 4 buttons can be programmed with a “string”
of commands, called a macro, to initiate a sequence of
remote codes to achieve a particular result. For example, a
macro button could be programmed to:
1. Turn on the main system power
2. Turn on a particular source component (such as a laser
disc player)
3. Turn on the TV set
4. Set the TV to its video input
5. Adjust the surround processor to the home theater
surround decoding mode
6. Activate the laser disc player’s PLAY function.
This means that by pressing one macro button, you can
achieve the same result as pushing up to 20 buttons in
sequence.
u
DIRECT
With today’s high performance A/V systems, it is not
unusual for each component in your system to have dozens
of specialized command functions. If we were to duplicate
all of those commands for each component onto the
RC2000 Mk
w
keypad, we could easily exceed 300 buttons
for an entire home theater system, which would result in
either a huge keypad, or buttons of infinitesimal size. The
DIRECT
command buttons (4 on each side of the LCD
display, 8 total) work with the
PAGE
buttons (4 pages for
each source component) to provide up to 32 dedicated
specialized functions for each of the 10 function selectors.
Each
DIRECT
function may also be provided with an
alphanumeric function indicator visible in the LCD display.
You may even change the displayed name of each function
to another name, if you wish.
i
PAGE
Used to select any 1 of the 4 pages of 8 functions for each
DIRECT
button, as explained above.
