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Paging in a Room Combine, to the Room Combine Processor

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CHAPTER 3: Key Audio Design Features Paging in a Room Combine Imagine you're the receptionist at a large conference center and you receive an emergency call for a conference attendee named Jonathan Clark. The caller knows that Mr. Clark is currently in Session 3A. You look it up and see that Session 3A is being held in the Flamingo Room. But your paging system has three possible choices for the Flamingo Room-one as a standalone room, one in combination with the Palm Room, and another in combination with both the Palm and Dolphin Rooms. But you haven't a clue as to which walls they've opened or closed! So you page into the standalone Flamingo Room. Unfortunately, you guess wrong. The Flamingo Room has been combined with the other two rooms and the page is heard only in the Flamingo area. Luckily someone else hears it and notifies Mr. Clark that he has an emergency call. What a pain! There must be a better way! And, of course, there is-the HAL System Room Combine Processor way! And guess what? It's automatic. You don't have to do anything-except configure your base rooms. Let's take a closer look. If you've read about or used the HAL paging system, you know that when you drop a Zone Processor or Paging Zone on your Processing Map, that zone automatically shows up in the Paging Manager and is available to page into. The same is true for base rooms in a room combine. When you add a base room to the Room Combine Processor, that base room appears as a zone in the Paging Manager. When you combine two or more base rooms, their paging zones are merged behind-the-scenes such that a page into any of the combined base rooms is heard in the entire space. Returning to our above example, if using the HAL System, the receptionist's page into the Flamingo Room would be heard in the entire area (Flamingo, Palm, and Dolphin). Let's take a look. Following is the Room Processor properties dialog box for the combined Flamingo, Palm, and Dolphin rooms (A+B+C). Note that the Paging Zone block shows all three paging zones: 131

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Paging in a Room Combine
Imagine you're the receptionist at a large conference center and you receive an emergency call for a con-
ference attendee named Jonathan Clark. The caller knows that Mr. Clark is currently in Session 3A. You
look it up and see that Session 3A is being held in the Flamingo Room. But your paging system has
three possible choices for the Flamingo Room—one as a standalone room, one in combination with the
Palm Room, and another in combination with both the Palm and Dolphin Rooms. But you haven't a
clue as to which walls they've opened or closed! So you page into the standalone Flamingo Room.
Unfortunately, you guess wrong. The Flamingo Room has been combined with the other two rooms and
the page is heard only in the Flamingo area. Luckily someone else hears it and notifies Mr. Clark that
he has an emergency call. What a pain! There must be a better way!
And, of course, there is—the HAL System Room Combine Processor way! And guess what? It's auto-
matic. You don't have to do anything—except configure your base rooms. Let's take a closer look.
If you've read about or used the HAL paging system, you know that when you drop a Zone Processor or
Paging Zone on your Processing Map, that zone automatically shows up in the Paging Manager and is
available to page into. The same is true for base rooms in a room combine. When you add a base room
to the Room Combine Processor, that base room appears as a zone in the Paging Manager. When you
combine two or more base rooms, their paging zones are merged behind-the-scenes such that a page into
any of the combined base rooms is heard in the entire space. Returning to our above example, if using
the HAL System, the receptionist's page into the Flamingo Room would be heard in the entire area (Fla-
mingo, Palm, and Dolphin).
Let's take a look. Following is the Room Processor properties dialog box for the combined Flamingo,
Palm, and Dolphin rooms (A+B+C). Note that the Paging Zone block shows all three paging zones:
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