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C ONFERENCE C OMPOSER TM S OFTWARE Conference Composer User Guide 2 Technical Support: 800.932.2774 C ONFERENCE C OMPOSER TM S OFTWARE I NTRODUCTION Conference Composer is the design and configuration software that is supplied with the Vortex ® . Its purpose is to make it easy and intuitive to confi...
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O PERATING C ONFERENCE C OMPOSER © Polycom, Inc. 5 Conference Composer User Guide O PERATING C ONFERENCE C OMPOSER 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...
Page 8 - NOTE; EF; Select A; to have Conference Composer automatically find
O PERATING C ONFERENCE C OMPOSER Conference Composer User Guide 6 Technical Support: 800.932.2774 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 A UTOSCAN . A UTOSCAN will automa...
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D EVICE P ARAMETERS Conference Composer User Guide 8 Technical Support: 800.932.2774 D EVICE P ARAMETERS Each device in Conference Composer is represented by a list of sub-entries for that device. For the Vortex, those fields are S YSTEM , M IC /L INE I NPUTS , etc. as shown in Figure 4. By clicking...
Page 11 - The O; tab allows the user to set the following parameters:; Signal Activity LED of Inputs and Outputs.
D EVICE P ARAMETERS © Polycom, Inc. 9 Conference Composer User Guide 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. The ability to follow signal flow and the Signal Activity LED can provide useful tools to ens...
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D EVICE P ARAMETERS © Polycom, Inc. 11 Conference Composer User Guide M IC /L INE I NPUTS The M IC /L INE I NPUTS 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...
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D EVICE P ARAMETERS Conference Composer User Guide 12 Technical Support: 800.932.2774 33dB of gain is added to the signal. • P HANTOM P OWER . 24 V phantom power can be enabled or disabled (it is enabled in Figure 9). • M UTE . This button is used to mute or unmute the input signal (M UTE is disable...
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D EVICE P ARAMETERS © Polycom, Inc. 13 Conference Composer User Guide A UTOMIXER 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...
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D EVICE P ARAMETERS Conference Composer User Guide 14 Technical Support: 800.932.2774 M AX NOM set to 8. To link Vortexes together, use the B US M IXER number. Put all the Vortexes you would like to operate as one large mixer together on the same B US M IXER number with the exception of B US M IXER ...
Page 17 - . Only one Vortex can put an AEC; ATRIX; The EF B; Device 0. Any of the cross points can have arbitrary gains.
D EVICE P ARAMETERS © Polycom, Inc. 15 Conference Composer User Guide choices are R EFERENCE 1, R EFERENCE 2, or N ONE . Only one Vortex can put an AEC Reference onto the Bus. The other Vortexes can use this reference. M ATRIX M IXER The Matrix Mixer in Figure 12 allows the user to map any input to ...
Page 18 - and R; The full cross point matrix for a system using a phone add, a codec,
D EVICE P ARAMETERS Conference Composer User Guide 16 Technical Support: 800.932.2774 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. The outputs R1...
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D EVICE P ARAMETERS © Polycom, Inc. 17 Conference Composer User Guide 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. O UTPUT F ILTERS Each of the outputs can have up to 5 filters of equalization. These filters include ...
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D EVICE P ARAMETERS Conference Composer User Guide 18 Technical Support: 800.932.2774 (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...
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D EVICE P ARAMETERS Conference Composer User Guide 20 Technical Support: 800.932.2774 P RESETS The Vortex supports 16 factory presets (meaning they can’t be overwritten by the user) and 32 user presets. These presets store all information about the settings for the device: input gains, matrix crossp...
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T HE C ONSOLE W INDOW Conference Composer User Guide 22 Technical Support: 800.932.2774 T HE C ONSOLE W INDOW The Console Window provides communication information between your PC and the EF Device. There are two tabs in this window: the Console Tab and the Properties Tab. The Console Tab is a termi...
Page 25 - PDATING; If you do not have RTS and CTS, this process will not; You can keep the device con-
T HE C ONSOLE W INDOW © Polycom, Inc. 23 Conference Composer User Guide P ROPERTIES T AB The Properties Tab provides the capability to change flow control and also update the firmware of your EF Device. U PDATING F IRMWARE The capability to update firmware is included in Conference Composer version ...
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M ODEM U SE WITH THE V ORTEX © Polycom, Inc. 27 Conference Composer User Guide After both sides are setup, you should be able to A UTOSCAN from the remote end. Autoscanning will have your modem dial the remote site and connect to the remote modem, which is connected to the Vortex. You can then contr...
