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CHAPTER 4: Designing and Installing Your HAL System Step 3 Task Location Choose physical hardware. Decide which physical hardware components you will need to implement your design. Which HAL host do you need: HAL1x, HAL2, HAL3s, or HAL4? Will you be using RADs? If so, which ones and how many do you need? If you need additional RADs, DRs, Zone Processing, or analog inputs or outputs, you may need some Expansion Units. How about remote control? Do you need some DRs? As a convenience, you may want to open the Halogen software at this point and use its Hardware Workspace to experiment with and quickly test different hardware configurations. Inside or Outside of Halogen To learn more about the hardware available for your HAL System, see "Introduction to the HAL System" on page 8. Specify hardware in Halogen. Open the Halogen software application. In this step, you'll be working in the Halogen Hardware Workspace specifying the hardware components of your audio system. The host always defaults to HAL1x, but you can change this by 4 using the New button to create a new configuration that uses the HAL of your Halogen Hardware choice. Once you have a suitable HAL, you drag hardware objects from the Workspace hardware palette onto the appropriate hardware port displayed in the Hardware Workspace, and then configure the hardware as desired. For more details, see Working in the Halogen Hardware Workspace in the Halogen Help System. Specify inputs and outputs. You now open the Halogen Processing tab and begin working in the Proc- essing Workspace. First up is the I/O Processing. The I/O palette in Halogen is populated with all the inputs and outputs resulting from your selection of hard- ware. You simply find the input and output blocks you plan to use and drag them into the Processing Workspace. You can drop them anywhere you like, but we recommend placing them on the left side of the Processing Map. You'll 5 be setting up the actual audio routing in a later step. Halogen Processing Workspace You can work with these input/output blocks any way you like. For example, some designers prefer setting up all of their inputs first and then setting up their outputs, while others prefer to configure all the way from input to output at the same time. For more details, see Working in the Processing Workspace and Working with the I/O Palette in the Halogen Help System. 166

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Step
Task
Location
3
Choose physical hardware.
Decide which physical hardware components you will need to implement
your design. Which HAL host do you need: HAL1x, HAL2, HAL3s, or
HAL4? Will you be using RADs? If so, which ones and how many do you
need? If you need additional RADs, DRs, Zone Processing, or analog inputs or
outputs, you may need some Expansion Units. How about remote control? Do
you need some DRs?
As a convenience, you may want to open the Halogen software at this point
and use its Hardware Workspace to experiment with and quickly test different
hardware configurations.
To learn more about the hardware available for your HAL System, see "Intro-
duction to the HAL System" on page 8.
Inside or Outside
of Halogen
4
Specify hardware in Halogen.
Open the Halogen software application. In this step, you'll be working in the
Halogen Hardware Workspace specifying the hardware components of your
audio system. The host always defaults to HAL1x, but you can change this by
using the New button to create a new configuration that uses the HAL of your
choice. Once you have a suitable HAL, you drag hardware objects from the
hardware palette onto the appropriate hardware port displayed in the Hardware
Workspace, and then configure the hardware as desired.
For more details, see Working in the Halogen Hardware Workspace in the Hal-
ogen Help System.
Halogen Hardware
Workspace
5
Specify inputs and outputs.
You now open the Halogen Processing tab and begin working in the Proc-
essing Workspace. First up is the I/O Processing. The I/O palette in Halogen is
populated with all the inputs and outputs resulting from your selection of hard-
ware. You simply find the input and output blocks you plan to use and drag
them into the Processing Workspace. You can drop them anywhere you like,
but we recommend placing them on the left side of the Processing Map. You'll
be setting up the actual audio routing in a later step.
You can work with these input/output blocks any way you like. For example,
some designers prefer setting up all of their inputs first and then setting up
their outputs, while others prefer to configure all the way from input to output
at the same time.
For more details, see Working in the Processing Workspace and Working with
the I/O Palette in the Halogen Help System.
Halogen Proc-
essing Workspace
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