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Section 1: Getting Started
Thank you for choosing the WAF Orfeusz206 Advanced Speaker Management System. Orfeusz206 was
carefully designed, manufactured and tested, and we hope that you will be using it for long years with
total satisfaction.
Orfeusz206 is a spatial sound processing unit, delivered with its companion software running on a
standard PC equipped with a Windows™ operating system. Orfeusz206 will introduce spatial sound
attributes in your show, and allow you to perform real-time surround mixing. Additionally, Orfeusz206
will be helpful in conventional stereo setups. As this kind of device is not common on the market, we
recommend that you read thoroughly the user manual to make the best of your new equipment.
This first section deals with general aspects of the device, including hardware features and some
software conventions.
General Overview
Orfeusz206 can work either in Spatial Mode, or in Stereo Mode, online (host-connected) or stand-alone.
In Spatial Mode, Orfeusz emulates a user-defined acoustic model based on room properties and sound
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positions. In Stereo Mode, Orfeusz206 can route, shape and distribute in various ways the stereo
input to outputs for a stereo sound setup.
Spatial and Stereo modes are mutually exclusive: you run either a spatial sound
setup, or a stereo one, and it is your responsibility to operate Orfeusz206 in the
appropriate mode.
To access the audio processing parameters, you need to launch a remote session (i.e. you need to connect
the hardware unit to a free USB port of your PC and run Orfeusz206 control application). In remote
session, all parameters can be altered, and changes take effect immediately. You need also to be in
remote session in order to store or delete stand-alone modes.
When running stand-alone, the external unit does not try to initiate a connection with the computer, and
instead, processes audio according to parameters stored in memory. Stand-alone modes are appropriate
for static spatial scenery or stereo configuration, and Orfeusz206 provides memory space for 3
independent sets of parameters. Selection of the operating mode is made with the front panel pushbutton.
Hardware Presentation
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An object in this context is either one of the sources or the 'listener' – see section 3.
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