TC Electronic UpCon, Manual

Page: 23 / 114

UpCon – Basic concepts and operation
UpCon English Manual (2014-10-07) 20
Operating UpCon
UpCon is equipped with one or more signal pro-
cessing cards. Each card encompasses four so-
called engines.
As you can easily see, UpCon is a „headless
system“ – it has no front panel controls (with the
exception of the Reset button).
UpCon is operated using the TC Icon software,
which you can download from the TC Electronic
website.
You can use the same version of the TC Icon
software to operate UpCon and other profes-
sional broadcast products from TC Electronic
(e.g. DB4 and DB8 MKII).
Accordingly, a significant part of this manual
covers operating UpCon using TC Icon software
running on a standard computer, and the screen
shots you see are taken from the OS X or Win-
dows versions of this software.
Please invest some time in learning TC Icon’s
basic concepts
– you will benefit from it when
operating systems that may include many net-
worked TC signal processors.
Hardware versions
UpCon is available in five different hardware
versions: UpCon SDI with one, two or three du-
al-engine processing cards installed, and Up-
Con AES in balanced and unbalanced versions.
Expanding your UpCon
UpCon offers considerable flexibility in routing
and processing audio signals. To benefit from
this flexibility, you need to understand the basic
concepts and building blocks of the device as
outlined in this section.
The audio processing capabilities of your device
depend on the number of
dual-engine cards/
processors (3G Transmission cards) installed.
Each 3G Transmission card can process one
SDI audio stream.
Accordingly, an UpCon with two extra 3G Trans-
mission cards can handle
three independent
streams
– making it the perfect high-density
solution for any TV station in need of processing
multiple streams simultaneously.
Instructions on upgrading a base UpCon
with one or two Transmission 3G cards are
not part of this manual.
They are provided in
a separate document that comes with the 3G
Transmission card.