The PRIZM Sound Board User's Manual
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If you plugged your cable after launching the RICE program and your port doesn’t
appear in the drop-down PORT menu, click the
autoscan
button first, it will update
the list of available ports.
Note
: if by mistake you unplug your cable while the R.I.C.E. program is open, click
"autoconnect" a couple of times to ensure the COM port list is updated again once it’s
plugged back into the USB port of the computer..
With the saber on and the COM port selected, click connect. The saber should answer
echo and the green light will turn on.
From there, you're saber is ready to receive real-time configuration changes.
Reading the current settings
Just click on the "Read Cfg" button, and all the parameters of the different tabs will
refresh with the current settings of the saber (for the currently loaded sound bank
which number appears on the right side of the app).
Changing settings
The key point with R.I.C.E. is that the data cable doesn't need to stay connected all
the time to the saber once you've altered a parameter and you want to test it in an
actual condition. For example, the motion sensitivity parameters have to be tested by
waving the hilt. It's not a problem at all : R.I.C.E. supports to have data cable "hot
unplugged" and the blade led can even be turned off and turned on again (for testing
parameters like quick on and quick off durations. Then finally, the cable can be "hot
plugged" again to proceed to the saving operation.
Discarding settings
Not sure of what you've done? You want to start over? Discarding settings can be
done in 2 ways:
Insert the kill key in the recharge port to cut the power of the saber. Non saved
changes made to the configuration will be lost / discarded.
Click on the default button in the app to have a default configuration applied to
the saber. Beware, if your switch setup doesn't match the default, you might
have to play with the switch to maintain the saber on until you have actually
changed the switch setting.
Saving the settings
Once you're satisfied with the configuration of the saber, you can click on the "Save
on SB" button. The saber will play the power off sound followed by a 3 note melody
and will reboot with the settings saved. As settings are now split between the
override.txt
file and the bank
config.txt file
, the user can select which part
of the settings to save, or both. Remember that the color profiles are stored in the
override.txt
file.
