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<blockquote type=cite cite>1. Can the AG control workstation share
control of the Gentner with a<br>
Crestron or AMX system? Is the "control computer" used for
anything other<br>
then control of the Gentner/audio mixing? If we are using Crestron or
AMX<br>
could we use that in place of the current control
software?</blockquote><br>
The plan for the control computer is that it'll switch over to being a
Linux box when we get Gentner control software that doesn't require
Windows (this likely means that we'll be writing some... protocol is very
well defined by the Gentner documentation). Then we can do things like
gate rat transmission based on Gentner mic gating.<br>
<br>
We also plan to move control of the display machine to this box, doing
things like video layout, tool startup, and the like remotely. Ideally we
would control the whole node from the one machine so that we can quit the
switching back and forth that is currently necessary.<br>
<br>
(I envision an audio control panel that has a row of controls, one per
mic, with level meter and gain adjustment. It'd also have a row of
controls, one per remote source, again with a level meter and gain
adjustment. This application would be the merging of the Gentner
controller with remote control/monitoring of the rat running on the audio
box. All eminently doable, just requires time to build it).<br>
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<blockquote type=cite cite>2. Is the Gentner a capable overall mixer, or
would we still need a Mackie<br>
mixer for more generic use of the room.</blockquote><br>
Depends on what you're doing. All your microphones will have to go
directly into the Gentner no matter what, so that echo cancellation and
ambient noise detection work properly. The Gentner has a number of other
inputs (I think 4 more line level inputs, and 8 outputs on the AP400. The
audio box takes one input and output, or two for stereo (that we want to
support at some point, and the speakers take one or two outputs.<br>
<br>
<blockquote type=cite cite>In the agspecs-new-colored.ppt document it
lists: Mackie, Biamp, Intelix,<br>
and Voicecrafter. From my reading of the Gentner literature, it
claims to<br>
do all of this - true? (We will probably add a Mackie in anyway, so
we can<br>
mix in what ever comes up a little easier, but I was wondering if it
was<br>
necessary.)</blockquote><br>
Wow, I forgot about those slides :-). The gentner pretty much rolls the
functionality of all those boxes up into one box. <br>
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As far as adding a Mackie, that'd be fine in the mixed-purpose room. The
way I'd use it is to connect its output to a Gentner input, and mix it
into the speakers with the Gentner. I'm curious if this is sufficient for
your purposes.<br>
<br>
Also wrt general purpose use, Gentner sells an IR remote control for the
AP boxes. I'm not sure how it'd play with AG control stuff, however,
since I think the IR receiver plugs into the Gentner serial control
port.<br>
<br>
<blockquote type=cite cite>3. Is the telephone interface used much for
AG? </blockquote><br>
In the current network environment, we use it fairly frequently to patch
around lossy network (which causes great badness with the audio).<br>
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<blockquote type=cite cite>The AP800 has some appeal<br>
over the AP400 because of the additional inputs and outputs, but you
loose<br>
the telephone interface. </blockquote><br>
You can fix this two ways. If you want a *lot* of in/out, you can cable
the AP800 to an AP400 and gain four more mics, a bunch of I/O, and the
telephone interface. You can also cable in an AP10 which is just the
telephone interface.<br>
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By cable in, I mean the gentner private digital bus, which provides a
couple internal mixing buses for traffic between boxes. <br>
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Hope this helps,<br>
--bob</html>