User guide

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e Resource Window displays usage information specic to
the hardware device you're working with. e DSP usage meter
indicates the amount of DSP "horsepower" used by the current
conguration, and is always accurate. ere is no need to hit a
“compile” button, since Drag Net automatically compiles on the
y as you work. It is possible to exceed 100% DSP usage when
developing Storage congurations, but it is not possible to trans-
fer the Storage conguration to a Live device. e Delay blocks
meter indicates the amount of audio delay memory used in the
current conguration. Audio delay memory diers from memory
used by other signal processing functions; thus, it is given its
own meter.
Propagation delay (latency) statistics for both the analog
I/O and the AES3 digital Input are also displayed in the Re-
source window. e propagation delay varies slightly with the
quantity of signal processing blocks used in the conguration.
Importantly, the propagation delay for all analog I/O is forced to
be the same (referred to as “Delay Compensation”), in order to
maintain the relative timing between input signals (unless you
add a Delay block to the signal path, of course).
e Meter Window provides two tabbed views of all input and
output levels of a Live device. e Analog tab shows the calcu-
lated level, in dBu, at each analog input and output.
e Converters tab displays the dB Full Scale (dBFS) read-
ing immediately after the input A/D converters and immediately
before the output D/A converters. e AES3 digital input meter
(dBFS) is displayed in both views.
e number of meters provided varies with device type. Me-
ters are only active when working with a Live device.
e Parameter Window displays a tree structure view of all
signal processing and control blocks used in the active Device
Conguration. It is organized by block type (Input, Output,
Dynamics, Filter, etc.), with individual parameters appearing as
sub-entries beneath each block entry.
Individual parameters within a block are prefaced with “##”.
e Parameter window is primarily used to set up associa-
tions between parameters and remote control devices (VIP pins,
Smart Remotes).
Other things you can do with the Parameter window:
• Double-click any entry to view its Properties dialog.
• Drag-and drop entries from the Parameter window into the
Preset window to quickly build Presets.
• Edit VIP Properties.
• Add or Edit RW 485 Smart Remotes.
• Edit VOP Properties.
Handy tip: e Parameter window supports multi-select oper-
ations. Simply ctrl-click or shift-click multiple entries to perform
the same action for the entire selection – add a range of blocks to
the Preset window, for example. Alternately, you can select a top
level block – the Input block, for example – and perform actions
on all related sub-entries.