Rane HAL1x Design Guide - Page 128

HAL SYSTEM DESIGN GUIDE To the left is an image of a Room Combine Processor block. The block displays the base rooms in your room combine (as well as providing connection points for wiring inputs and outputs, but we'll get to that in a moment). A base room is a room that cannot be subdivided. It can be combined with other base rooms to form new rooms, but it cannot be broken down any further. While this example contains three base rooms (Room A, Room B, and Room C), you can add up to nine more base rooms by clicking the Add Room button at the bottom of the block. Base Room Configuration The block now knows how many base rooms there are, but to make sense of them, it also needs to know how the rooms are arranged. You provide this information in the block's properties dialog box (on the Layout & Control tab) by simply dragging the rooms into a drawing area and arranging them appropriately. In our example, the rooms are arranged as shown here: Designation of Movable Walls The final key piece of information needed by the Room Combine Processor block is which walls are movable. Knowing both the arrangement of the rooms and which walls can be opened and closed, the block is able to determine how many actual room configurations are possible. To provide this last key piece of information, you simply drag a movable indicator (in the block's properties dialog box) onto the room arrangement and use it to specify which walls are movable. The result looks like this: 124