TC Electronic UpCon, Manual

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UpCon 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
Unpacking and setup 9
Package contents 10
Setup 10
Software: TC Icon and UpCon firmware 11
Finding and installing TC Icon software –
Microsoft Windows
13
Finding and installing TC Icon software –
OS X
15
UpCon: An introduction 17
Cinema-quality upconversion 18
Uncompromising Downmix 18
Loudness Transparency 18
Redundancy and reliability 18
UpCon – Basic concepts and operation
19
Operating UpCon 20
Hardware versions 20
Expanding your UpCon 20
UpCon SDI: The Serial Digital Interface 21
UpCon AES 21
SDI vs. AES 21
UpCon presets 22
UpCon features overview 22
UpCon
status indicators and ports
23
Front panel indicators 24
Front panel reset button 26
Back panel connectors 27
Setting up UpCon
31
Networking basics and troubleshooting 32
Quick Setup 35
Updating UpCon software 36
Basic operation 37
Introduction 38
Basic TC Icon operation 38
Faders 39
On-screen keyboard 41
Accessing UpCon 42
Operating multiple computers and / or
TC HD devices in one network
43
Scanning / rescanning a network for devices 44
Obtaining UpCon status information
45
Clock section 46
Status section 46
Setting up audio and syncing
49
I/O Setup – SDI 50
I/O Setup – UpCon AES 53
Setting up audio dithering 55
UpCon remote control 56
Remote – Master 57
Remote – GPI 58
GP Input Calibration 62
Setting up GPO 62
Remote – SDI 63
Recalling, storing and deleting settings
66
Scenes, Routings, Engines 67
The Library concept 68
Library – Recall page 69
Library – Store page 70
Library – Delete page 72
Library – Bank page 73
Updating UpCon firmware
74
Finding and installing UpCon
firmware – Microsoft Windows
76
Finding and installing UpCon
firmware – OS X
78
Icon Setup
81
Accessing the Icon Setup pages 82
Info page 82
Devices page 83
Security page 84
Joystick page 85
UI page 85
Color page 85