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Conference Composer
User Guide
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Copyright © 2001 Polycom, Inc. All rights reserved. Printed in the United States of America. Because of technical progress, specifications are subject to change without notice. ® The Polycom logo and Vortex are registered trademarks of Polycom, Inc.. Polycom, Inc. Installed Voice Business Group 1720 Peachtree Street NW, Suite 220 Atlanta, GA 30309-2439 Phone: (800) 932-2774, (404) 892-3200 Fax: (404) 892-2512 www.aspi.com Technical Support: (800) 932-2774 vortex@polycom.com CCUG-0100-01
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TM CONFERENCE COMPOSER USER GUIDE Conference ComposerTM Software ..............................................................2 Introduction ............................................................................................................ 2 Installation.............................................................................................................. 2 Features of the Conference Composer Window ..................................................... 3 Operating Conference Co
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CONFERENCE COMPOSERTM SOFTWARE TM CONFERENCE COMPOSER SOFTWARE INTRODUCTION Conference Composer is the design and configuration software that is supplied with ® the Vortex . Its purpose is to make it easy and intuitive to configure Polycom’s Vor- tex products, share configuration files, create presets, macros, and logic assignments. Conference Composer operates under Windows™ 98, ME, NT, and 2000. INSTALLATION Insert the Conference Composer disk into your CD-ROM drive and run the Setup progra
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CONFERENCE COMPOSERTM SOFTWARE FEATURES OF THE CONFERENCE COMPOSER WINDOW 4 1 3 2 Figure 1. Feauters of Conference Composer window 1. EXPLORER MENU. The Explorer-type menu structure allows you to easily navi- gate and browse through your device list. Clicking on an item in the tree will dis- play the parameter page to the right of the explorer menu. 2. STATUS METER. This meter and status light shows the communication status between your PC and a Vortex or EF device (EF200 or EF1210). The WA
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CONFERENCE COMPOSERTM SOFTWARE •USER MODE. User mode selects between BASIC and ADVANCED. Basic mode limits user options that can be adjusted. Advanced mode allows con- trol of all parameters available on Conference Composer. •HELP. The Help menu contains the ABOUT option that shows the version number of the software. Conference Composer User Guide 4 Technical Support: 800.932.2774
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OPERATING CONFERENCE COMPOSER OPERATING CONFERENCE COMPOSER Conference Composer may either be operated online or off-line (not connected to a Vortex or EF device) depending on how you would like to use it. If you work off-line it is easy to save the settings to a file, share the files with others, and then upload the settings into an EF device when you go online. The online or off-line operation of Conference Composer is the same, although if you are operating off-line you will need to ad
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OPERATING CONFERENCE COMPOSER Figure 3. Select AUTOSCAN to have Conference Composer automatically find online devices. NOTE If you have any devices currently using the serial port on your PC, such as a PalmPi- lot’s HotSync, please close those programs to free the COM port before running AUTOSCAN. AUTOSCAN will automatically find all EF devices (EF2280, EF1210, EF200) attached to the RS-232 port and then automatically download all the settings into Conference Composer. Once the settings hav
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OPERATING CONFERENCE COMPOSER look like Figure 4 (the red X’s indicate that you are offline), and you are ready to pro- ceed to the next section. Figure 5. Operating Conference Com- poser Offline. © Polycom, Inc. 7 Conference Composer User Guide
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DEVICE PARAMETERS DEVICE PARAMETERS Each device in Conference Composer is represented by a list of sub-entries for that device. For the Vortex, those fields are SYSTEM, MIC/LINE INPUTS, etc. as shown in Figure 4. By clicking on the Device (EF2280:00 in Figure 4) you bring up the SYS- TEM page as shown in Figure 6. Notice that each SYSTEM page has tabs correspond- ing to the list of sub-entries in Figure 4. Clicking on either a tab or the field name will bring you to a page with specific c
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DEVICE PARAMETERS be difficult to light. If you set the signal activity level too low, the ambient room noise may light the signal activity LED too easily. Figure 7. Signal Activity LED of Inputs and Outputs. The ability to follow signal flow and the Signal Activity LED can provide useful tools to ensure that the proper input to output mappings have been setup. OPTIONS Figure 8. Options Tab. The OPTIONS tab allows the user to set the following parameters: •MODEM INITIALIZATION STRING. The mo
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DEVICE PARAMETERS will send the desired string to the modem (or any device connected to the RS-232 port) each time the Vortex is reset (either through power-up or a software reset). This allows the Vortex to put the modem into an Auto Answer Mode, and set the baud-rate to 9600 bps. The default string is set to: ATE0F1&B1S0=2. •NON-VOLATILE MEMORY LOCK AND PASSWORD. Locking the Non-Volatile memory will prevent users from overwriting presets that have been saved and will also prevent the e
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DEVICE PARAMETERS MIC/LINE INPUTS Figure 9. Vortex MIC/LINE INPUTS tab showing Mic/Line Input 1, Line Input A, and the Signal Generator. The MIC/LINE INPUTS page contains all the controls required to configure the 12 inputs (8 mic/line inputs and the 4 line level inputs). Figure 9 shows a Mic/Line Input channel, a Line Input channel, and the Signal Generator – note that you can enable/ disable an input from view with the numbered buttons on the top of the page. Once Input 1 is configured,
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DEVICE PARAMETERS 33dB of gain is added to the signal. •PHANTOM POWER. 24 V phantom power can be enabled or disabled (it is enabled in Figure 9). •MUTE. This button is used to mute or unmute the input signal (MUTE is disabled in Figure 9). • AGC ENABLE. This will enable/disable the automatic gain control (AGC). • AGC MAX GAIN. This can be used to limit the total amount of gain the AGC can apply to the signal. • AGC MIN GAIN. This can be used to limit the total amount of attenuation the
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DEVICE PARAMETERS AUTOMIXER Figure 10. Automixer controls on the Automixer Page. Each Vortex has two automixers that can be controlled: Automixer 1 and Automixer 2. The controls for the two automixers are shown in Figure 10. For most applica- tions, the user will choose a single automixer. However if the Vortex is split to oper- ate in two independent rooms, the second automixer should be used. The HOLD TIME, DECAY TIME, and CAMERA THRESHOLD TIME is specified globally for each of the auto
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DEVICE PARAMETERS MAX NOM set to 8. To link Vortexes together, use the BUS MIXER number. Put all the Vortexes you would like to operate as one large mixer together on the same BUS MIXER number with the exception of BUS MIXER 0. If the BUS MIXER is set to 0, the Automixer will work independently from other connected Vortexes. Each of the eight signal channels going into the automixer can be configured to be part of a particular automixer (Mixer 1 or Mixer 2). If set to NONE, it is not par
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DEVICE PARAMETERS choices are REFERENCE 1, REFERENCE 2, or NONE. Only one Vortex can put an AEC Reference onto the Bus. The other Vortexes can use this reference. Figure 11. The EF BUS sub matrix. In this example, WB0 is grayed out because we are working with Device 0. Any of the cross points can have arbitrary gains. MATRIX MIXER The Matrix Mixer in Figure 12 allows the user to map any input to any output with an arbitrary gain in dB applied from -100 dB to +20 dB. Muted cells are sho
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DEVICE PARAMETERS To change the gain of an entire row or column you may simply click on the column or row header (any of the labels 1-D on the columns or the rows) to see a collection of sliders as shown in Figure 13. Figure 12. The full cross point matrix for a system using a phone add, a codec, and stereo program audio. Only the bold crosspoints are unmuted. Figure 13. Cross point slider view of how Input A is used in all the output chan- nels. The outputs R1 and R2 correspond to the ech
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DEVICE PARAMETERS and a mono mix of the left and right program audio. The program audio is attenuated by 3 dB before adding it into the R1 output. OUTPUT FILTERS Each of the outputs can have up to 5 filters of equalization. These filters include Parametric, Low Pass, High Pass, Low Shelf, and High Shelf. To use the filters, select the type of filter and adjust the controls for the filter. You can adjust the con- trols in a variety of ways: by typing in values in the text boxes, using the
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DEVICE PARAMETERS (labelled NOM) enabled will reduce the gain of the output signal by 3dB for each doubling of the number of open microphones. NOM attenuation is computed sepa- rately for each output, depending on the inputs that are used to build each output. The output levels will be displayed in real-time if the LEVELS function is enabled (click the LEVELS button to enable the levels). LOGIC INPUT The LOGIC INPUTS page allows the user to assign individual logic input pins to trigger spe
