Wheatstone D-8000, Technical Manual

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D-8000 / Jan 2003
V I R T U A L D I P S W I T C H
Any standard keyboard characters can be used. Displays are
limited to 8 characters, including blanks and punctuation.
Fader Control—Allows the fader position to control CUE and/
or fader on/off status (European Fader Start, or EFS). A and B
sources are individually configured.
Fader Cue - will assign the module's signal to the Cue bus
when the fader is moved all the way down. "Enable Functions"
/ "Cue Switch" has to be activated first.
EFS - will turn the module OFF when the fader is moved all
the way down and turn the module ON when the fader moves
from the fulldown position.
Remote Start—This setting allows you to correct for differing
source machine ON/OFF control signals to the IN-8 module.
When set to "Const", the module will work with most standard
source machines. Occasionally, the source machine, because of
the way it is designed, will send overly long control closures to
the module's remote ON and OFF ports - closures so long that
they will hang up the module's ON/OFF logic. When this kind of
problem manifests itself, setting to "Pulse" will convert the
closures to pulses before they get to the channel ON/OFF switch
logic.
Example: IN-8 set to default "Const". The external source
machine reaches end-of-play and sends a five second (or longer)
OFF signal to the module, effectively holding it in an OFF state.
You press the module ON switch but nothing happens - because
the OFF switch is locked up. By setting the option box to "Pulse"
this type of problem is eliminated: the module is turned off and
left immediately ready for further control input.
"Remote Start" / "Start/Stop" allows you to follow "Pulse"/
"Const" settings not just for the module's ON/OFF switches but
also for the module’s Remote START/STOP outputs. That is,
when “Remote Start”/”Start/Stop” is checked, a module on
signal from a remote machine will turn the module on and will
also cause a START logic output from the module; when this is
not checked, the START output is not generated from a module
on signal, but is still generated when the module ON switch is
pressed.
"Remote Start" - "Pulse", "Const", ”Start/Stop” functions
may be activated by either an A or B source.
Input Attenuation (dB)—This exclusive Wheatstone digital
console feature allows the user to digitally "trim" the gain back
on any input module. While this feature is most useful for
reigning in "hot" digital domain sources on SRC input modules,
digital attenuation may also be applied to any analog line level
source. Note that the digital attenuation occurs after the analog
pre-amp stages, therefore, clipping in those stages can not be
corrected with this feature (use analog trim pots located on the
input module).
D-8000 / Aug 2003