SILVER Audio Processor 4Bmini User’s manual
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Clock Based Control (Dayparting)
The SILVER Audio Processor 4Bmini contains a battery backed up real time clock that can maintain the current time
and date even when the SILVER Audio Processor 4Bmini has its power removed. This allows users to switch
between presets at specific times of the day or week. This is very useful on a multi-format radio station where one
processing preset may not suit all of the formats of music that are broadcast.
The easiest way to control the dayparting is with the remote control application which is described elsewhere in this
manual but the use through the front panel menu system is described here.
The schedule menu contains the following options
The TIME
Daypart ON/OFF control
Dayparts 1-4
Dayparts 5-8
Setting the time (the SILVER Audio Processor 4Bmini system clock)
Setting the time is quite simple. Select the Day, Hour, Minute or Seconds and rotate the Knob until you get to the
desired setting. The Seconds can not be adjusted, only reset to 0 seconds as the knob is rotated.
Daypart ON/OFF
enables or disables the dayparting
The
dayparts 1-4 and 5-8
options drop you down into two further menus. Each containing four dayparts.
For each daypart you can enable or disable it and with the same control set the preset to switch to when the daypart
triggers (when the daypart start time matches the system clock).
You can also set the start time (trigger) of each daypart and set the length that the daypart shall be (the time the
trigger shall remain in force). The start time has a day option and this can be set to ALL which would mean that the
daypart would trigger every day at the specified time. If the length is set so that the trigger will carry across midnight
then the trigger will stop at midnight. TRIGGERS DO NOT CARRY ACROSS DAYS.
The dayparts can be layered so that one can override another. Let's say the default preset was U1:MAIN PRESET
and this was on the air all of the time. We want to change the preset from 7AM to 10AM every day of the week to
F2:CHR and then from 10AM to 12PM we want U4:NEW PRESET and then back to F2:CHR until 5PM.
Rather than setup the dayparts as
DPO: F2:CHR - ALL 07:00 - 03:00
(factory preset 2 to run from 7AM everyday for 3 hours)
DP1: U4:NEW PRESET - ALL 10:00 - 02:00
(user preset 4 to run from 10am everyday for 2 hours)
DP2: F2:CHR - ALL 12:00 - 05:00
(factory preset 2 to run from 12pm everyday for 5 hours)
We could instead setup the dayparts as
DPO: F2:CHR - ALL 07:00 - 10:00
(factory preset 2 to run from 7AM everyday for 10 hours)
DP1: U4:NEW PRESET - ALL 10:00 - 02:00
(user preset 4 to run from 10am everyday for 2 hours)
which saves a daypart position.
By carefully selecting the default preset and overlaying dayparts we are able switch presets significantly more than
you first think you will be able to.
