Omnia 9 Mkii Defined; The Omnia 9 Toolbox - Omnia .9 Installation & User Manual

OVERVIEW AND APPLICATIONS
Omnia.9 MKII defined
Omnia.9 has been evolving through software feature additions and refinements for years. We believe in continuous
improvement, and protecting the investment users have made in their Omnia products. But we got to a point where in order to
offer certain features, we needed to change some of the internal characteristics of the unit. Instead of just doing a "facelift" and
calling the unit by some new name, we took a different course:
We created the "MKII" platform to support major new features like Livewire+AES67, and to make it easy for you and our
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team to understand platform dependencies that may require hardware updates, vs. those that don't.
We made as many features as possible compatible with our existing user base, and our installation software able to
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understand the difference between platforms. This means a software-only upgrade gets you most of the new features in
the latest software at no cost, and with no hardware changes.
We created an upgrade path so users can work with us and our service centers to turn their "classic" Omnia.9's into
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Omnia.9 MKII units on a planned, elective basis.
Throughout the rest of this manual, you may see "Omnia.9 MKII" as an added reference, since it denotes the current shipping
product, or units that have undergone a platform upgrade. Please understand that this manual describes the current state of the
software as of 3.18.98 and higher, and most features herein are available to the all Omnia.9 users, regardless of legacy or MKII
platform.
The Omnia.9 Toolbox
Omnia.9 is unique in that it provides you with some built-in tools that we believe are essential to have when setting up your
processing. In the past, tuning a processor was done purely by ear in most cases. And while processing is certainly a subjective
process – it's as much art as it is science – having the right tools in your toolbox can be very handy (not to mention revealing)
when you want to find out why something sounds the way it does.
For that reason, we've chosen to include a built-in oscilloscope, an RTA, and an FFT spectrum analyzer that can monitor
dozens of different points within each of Omnia.9's processing cores. There's even a pink noise generator and a powerful
parametric equalizer so that you can calibrate your speakers, giving you an accurate monitoring point from which to adjust
your processing. Learning to use these tools to your advantage is just as important as learning how to use Omnia.9's controls,
because with them, you can see what you are hearing and make informed and intelligent adjustments to your audio that were
heretofore difficult if not impossible to make.
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