Focal DUAL MANAGER manual

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2 . I n s t a l l a t i o n 2.1. System requirements T o run the program you will need a PC with the following minimum configuration or specifications: • Supported Windows OS - Windows 98 with Microsoft Installer 2.0 (CD-ROM include last version of Installer) - Windows ME - Windows 2000 - Windows XP • CPU Minimum - 1GHz, recommended 2GHz and hi[...]

2.3. Launching Dual Manager At the end of the previous step, a new shortcut has been created with a F ocal Dual Manager icon on the computer desktop. T o launch the program simply double click on the icon. If at this stage the amplifier is not connected or powered the following message will appear: “ Amplifier is not connected. P rogram will be s[...]

Load menu Save menu Preferences menu 04[...]

3 . T i t l e b a r a n d m e n u s On the title bar is displayed a line of text which looks like the following: F ocal Dual Manager (Loaded P reset 1: No Name). Restricted user mode. The left hand part is – obviously – the program name. The middle part, between brackets, indicates the last loaded P reset number and name: more information on pr[...]

3.3. Save menu When clicking on Save a pull down menu is displayed, enabling the following operations: • Preset 1 to 5 When selecting one of the 5 P resets the current set of parameters, as displayed on the computer screen, will be saved in one of the five dedicated memory areas in the amplifier . Later on when the amplifier works in stand alone [...]

4.1. Overview Below the Menus bar the screen comprises: - different areas corresponding to different processing functions or group of functions. Each of these areas is located in a particular box with a black outline and a title in white capital letters (e.g. TIME DELA Y). - a middle area with a dB v . frequency graph, allowing to plot the frequenc[...]

Crossover type Crossover slope and frequency Q -bass section 08[...]

The following settings are available: • Crossover type This parameter defines the crossover operation mode, out of four possible ones: Band-P ass (both high pass and low pass are activated), Low-P ass (high-pass is disabled), High-P ass (low pass disabled), and Off (both high pass and low pass are defeated). T o edit this parameter , just click o[...]

Input section Output section Time delay section 10[...]

4.5. Input section • Channel This defines the input channel(s) that is to be taken for digital processing and routed to the outputs it can selected between L eft/Right (standard stereo source), Left+Right (mono summation of both input channels), Left (mono signal from left input), Right (mono signal from right input). • Input selector Let you s[...]

T o operate the button locate the mouse cursor on it, then drag it towards the left or right until the desired delay value is reached. While moving the cursor the updated value is displayed as a time delay , in ms (left box), and as its equivalent propagation distance, in mm and inches. In the previous example we should stop the cursor when the nea[...]

In Administrator mode, the Equalizer section is even more powerful and provides some additional flexibility: each of the 30 bands can actually be operated as an independent parametric EQ that may be configured individually . This is described in the next part of this paragraph, as mentioned earlier these features are accessible only in Administrato[...]

5.1. Special edition k eys When a parameter is edited by selection among a drop -down list of values, some particular keys can be used to navigate through the list: - [ È ] and [ Í ] keys: move one value up or down in the list - [P ageUp] and [P ageDown]: move one page up or down in the list - [Home] and [End]: go to the first or last value in th[...]

5.4. Default values Before Dual Manager has been executed for the first time and Presets have been defined by the user , the amplifier firmware uses default values for the various parameters, as listed below: 5.5. System and error messages Hereafter is a list of system and error messages, with their explanations or contexts. • Loading stages on s[...]

5 . H i n t s a n d t i p s • Software error messages “ Amplifier is not connected. Program will be started in demo mode.” Software will work in Demo mode. “C a n not fin d pa s sw or d. P rog r am w il l be te r mi na te d. ” P assword data are corrupted. Please, reinstall program again. “Hardware port error during waiting. Program wil[...]

• Hardware connection errors Note: In the event of such error messages being displayed, double check hardware, drivers, and restart program. In the worst case please upgrade the firmware. “Sensitivity setting error .” “Sensitivity reading error .” F or sensitivity . “ V olume setting error .” “ V olume reading error .” F or volume[...]