Rane HAL1x Design Guide - Page 136

HAL SYSTEM DESIGN GUIDE And this is how the three paging zones appear in the Paging Manager: Paging into any of these zones will send the page to the appropriate output for the currently-active room configuration. Distributed Program Bus in a Room Combine The Distributed Program Bus behaves in a room combine just as it does in a Zone Processor. Its channels are automatically included in every room's inputs, regardless of the room combination. A Room Processor's Selector block includes the Distributed Program Bus channels along with the room's local input. Linking this selector control to a remote device such as a DR2 or DR3 gives end users the ability to choose between the local input or one of the Distributed Program Bus channels. NOTE: You cannot mix the Distributed Program Bus channels with the local input channel. To hear a Distributed Program Bus channel, you need to select it. If your situation requires the mixing of these channels, do not use the Distributed Program Bus. Instead, wire the channels as local input to the room's Mixer. What aspects of each room can I customize? As discussed previously in this topic, each possible room in your room combine has a Room Processor block associated with it. You access these blocks by opening the Room Combine Processor block's properties and then clicking the Room Processors tab. From within a room's Room Processor, you can configure such things as the background music you want, the control links (or other links) that are needed, the volume for the room, the ducker depth and volume of pages, and so on. The Room Processor serves as a mini Processing Map for the room. You cannot drag and drop anything onto the map, but you can set many properties. Anything you customize in the Room Processor pertains to that room and that room only. You do not have to worry about a setting's impact on other room combinations. For more details on what you can configure and how to configure it, see Configuring Individual Room Processors in the Halogen Help System. But what if you want to include processing that isn't available in the Room Processor? You can accomplish this by using one or more presets. Each Room Processor comes with its own main preset-and the ability to add more presets. These presets pertain only to the room represented by the Room Processor. When the room is not available (in other words, the wall configuration has resulted in other rooms), its presets are deactivated. When the wall configuration changes, making this room available, its configuration comes off the shelf and its preset(s) is(are) activated. 132