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3 Replies Last post: Jan 5, 2010 3:48 PM by KHenner_BiampSupport

4 Room Combining

Jan 4, 2010 7:17 AM

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Jan 4, 2010
I have a project that is four separate rooms (no dividers). We want to combine the rooms using a Select 8 by simply listing each room as a Channel (four channels) allowing each room to tune into the room/channel they want to "combine" with. If all rooms tune to the same room/channel then all rooms would be combined...

This concept seems like it should be easy however I am stumped as I cannot use the Room Combine Processor as they are driven off a partition based layout and do not alow recalling every possibility...

With a matrix mixer 16 possibilities I am trying to figure out if there is an easier way to do this other that creating 16 presets and a bunch of confusing processing logic that will be able to determine the logic state of each Select 8 panel and recall the correct preset?? Is there an easier way espeicially with the logic side of this??

Thanks!!

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Jan 14, 2008
1. Re: 4 Room Combining Jan 4, 2010 1:29 PM
Maybe use a 4 channel mixer for each room. Each mixer would have an input from its room as well as the three other rooms. The Sel8 would simply turn on/off the inputs from the other rooms depending on which you want to combine with. See attached sample.
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2. Re: 4 Room Combining Jan 4, 2010 8:02 PM

I like the simplicity of your design. The problem for me is tracking the state of each Select 8 to recall the correct channel on/off configuration so that the full mix of all rooms is passed while multiple Select 8's are on the same room. In other words if 3 of the four rooms are tuned to the same room all three rooms will pass/mix their audio to all three rooms regardless of witch of the three rooms was selected as the common source... The control side gets a little harder for me...

This is my first Biamp program so I likely need more experience on the logic side of things. The audio programming side is very easy and intuitive... Any advice on how to wrap that up would be a huge help!

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Jan 14, 2008
3. Re: 4 Room Combining Jan 5, 2010 3:48 PM
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I'm not sure if I follow exactly what you're looking for. I recommend you give Biamp's tech support group a call at 800-826-1457 and we can discuss in detail with you.

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