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while there is program material level above a cer-
tain threshold; a remarkably fast 20% ramp rate
is then used when the program material level falls
below this threshold. This has the effect of devi-
ously shortening or lengthening gaps between spo-
ken words. The advantage of Smart Ramp is that
listeners cannot discern a change of pitch. At the
same time, the duration that the ramp remains in
process is dramatically reduced.
Of the three modes, Smart Ramp is the fastest,
but since its ramp time is dependent upon the pro-
gram material, the ramp duration is non-determin-
istic. One downside of Smart Ramp is that during
extended musical passages, the ramping process
is not particularly effective. Consequently, it’s best
to limit the Smart Ramp selection to spoken word
format program material.
Licensed Features
This section lists which licensed optional up-
grade features have been enabled. Enabling the
features is done by installing one of the iButton
upgrades to the HDE-200. See Chapter 2
Hard-
ware Installation for details on the Optional Up-
grade Kits that are available.
3.5.5.4 Address Configuration Utility
Click
System > Address Configuration Utility...
to open the Address Configuration window. It has
two sections: HDE-200 Configuration and Harris
Signal Chain Community ID. Changing the settings
in this window, for a new HDE-200, were covered
on pages 3-6 to 3-8.
This window allows the active HDE-200’s con-
figurations to be edited and then uploaded directly
to the HDE-200 by clicking
Save New Config...
which opens a pop-up warning (see page 3-8) that
clicking
OK will update and reboot the HDE-200.
Click
Cancel to stop the update procedure.
You can alternately use a USB flash drive to
“sneaker net” the settings to the HDE-200. In this
case click
Load Config From USB to show the
HDE-200 settings copied to the USB flash drive.
A complete procedure for editing the HDE-200
Network settings in the ECC app, and for updat-
ing the HDE-200 using a USB flash drive was de-
scribed earlier in this chapter.
NOTE:
ECC will refuse to accept an
IP address when the Gateway and IP
addresses are not within the same sub-
net mask range. It also will not allow
duplicate or all zero addresses.
The logging address is typically set within the
range of 239.255.255.1 - .254 so the address falls
within the normal address range for local network
multicasting. The default setting is 239.255.255.1,
using port 50010. It would be unusual to change
these settings.
Harris Signal Chain Community ID
The dialog boxes in this section allow the user
to enter a device name for the HDE-200 settings
that are being shown in the top of the window, its
location (e.g., TOC, rack 9), and its Multicast Com-
Address Configuration Window