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CHAPTER 3: Key Audio Design Features HAL paging system and automatically shows up in the Paging Manager-as noted by the green Zone rectangle in each room. On the output side, each base room has two outputs: Record Out and Room Out. Just as it says, Record Out is intended for routing output for recording purposes. The Record Out node sends pre-level and pre-page output to its destination-thus avoiding volume changes or page interruptions from being recorded. The Record Out is also useful as an overflow output into zones that have their own paging zone and volume control. The Room Out is the output you want reinforced in the room. The beautiful thing (or ONE of the beautiful things!) about this Room Combine Processor block is that you don't have to think about any other room combinations when setting up the inputs and outputs to a base room. You can simply focus on that room only. Then-configure each room. Now that you've wired your inputs and outputs, created your room arrangement, and designated which walls are movable, you can configure the details of each possible room. We'll continue with the example we used at the beginning of this section (with a few additional inputs added for good measure). The example includes three base rooms arranged in such a way that five different rooms are possible. Your job now is to configure the audio for each of these five rooms. And again, although we've stated this already, we want to emphasize once more that you can focus entirely on the room you're configuring without even considering the needs of the other rooms! What signals should be heard in this room? What audio processing is needed for this space? How should the digital remotes work in this room? Here again are the five possible rooms resulting from our room arrangement, as displayed in the block's properties dialog box (the Room Processor tab): Each of the five possible rooms has its own Room Processor block, from which you can configure the appropriate settings for the room. We'll walk through two Room Processor configurations-a base room and a combined room. Let's start with Room A, a base room. Its properties dialog box (opened by double-clicking the Room Processor block or by hovering over it and clicking the properties icon that appears on its title bar) looks like this: 127

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HAL paging system and automatically shows up in the Paging Manager—as noted by the green
Zone
rectangle in each room. On the output side, each base room has two outputs:
Record Out
and
Room
Out
. Just as it says, Record Out is intended for routing output for recording purposes. The Record Out
node sends pre-level and pre-page output to its destination—thus avoiding volume changes or page
interruptions from being recorded. The Record Out is also useful as an overflow output into zones that
have their own paging zone and volume control. The Room Out is the output you want reinforced in
the room.
The beautiful thing (or ONE of the beautiful things!) about this Room Combine Processor block is that
you don't have to think about any other room combinations when setting up the inputs and outputs to a
base room. You can simply focus on that room only.
Then—configure each
room
.
Now that you've wired your inputs and outputs, created your room arrangement, and designated which
walls are movable, you can configure the details of each possible
room
. We'll continue with the exam-
ple we used at the beginning of this section (with a few additional inputs added for good measure). The
example includes three base rooms arranged in such a way that five different rooms are possible. Your
job now is to configure the audio for each of these five rooms. And again, although we've stated this
already, we want to emphasize once more that you can focus entirely on the room you're configuring
without even considering the needs of the other rooms! What signals should be heard in this room?
What audio processing is needed for this space? How should the digital remotes work in this room?
Here again are the five possible rooms resulting from our room arrangement, as displayed in the block's
properties dialog box (the
Room Processor
tab):
Each of the five possible rooms has its own
Room Processor
block, from which you can configure the
appropriate settings for the room. We'll walk through two Room Processor configurations—a base room
and a combined room. Let's start with Room A, a base room. Its properties dialog box (opened by dou-
ble-clicking the Room Processor block or by hovering over it and clicking the properties icon that
appears on its title bar) looks like this:
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