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StormAudio ISP 3D.16 ELITE Installer's Manual

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ISP 3D.16 ELITE
ISP 3D.32 ELITE | Analog Edition
ISP 3D.32 ELITE | Digital Edition
ISP 3D.32 ELITE | Reference Edition
Firmware:
3.1r0

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  • Page 1: Read Me First

    Installer Guide ISP 3D.16 ELITE ISP 3D.32 ELITE | Analog Edition ISP 3D.32 ELITE | Digital Edition ISP 3D.32 ELITE | Reference Edition Firmware: 3.1r0 1. Check the online help of the Web Read Me First... Installer Interface. If you need 2.

  • Page 2: What's In The Box

    Welcome What’s In the Box Thank you for choosing a StormAudio Immersive Sound Immersive Sound Processor. This guide Installer Guide Processor provides step-by-step instructions for Firmware 3.1r0 setting up your ISP. Safety Instructions Power cord * The ISP range shares the same backbone,...

  • Page 3: Before You Begin

    Before You Begin In case the AC cord is delivered with Fuses attached, make sure to install them before connecting the unit. Ensure your electrical circuit has a good ground connection with all audio equipment connected to the same ground node to avoid ground loop. Required equipment: XLR cables Display / Projector...

  • Page 4: Installation Flow

    Installation Flow The installation of the ISP is made following an easy ow of con guration using an integrated Web Server. We have divided this Flow into several key steps, as shown below: Sources connection to the ISP Power up, Web Installer Interface access and general description System con guration : password, access management and Network Inputs de nition and con guration Theater and Audio Zones, creation and con guration...
  • Page 5 Hardware Connections Inputs 1.1) Connect the unit as shown below. Do not connect the outputs at this stage: allocation is made automatically during setup (Step 5 of this document). Check Fuse and install the proper Fuse if required Connect AC cord to Power Outlet (do not turn ON now) Connect the RJ45 LAN Network cable to the router/switch Connect your Digital Sources via Coaxial or Optical Connect your Analog Sources via RCA...
  • Page 6 Power On the unit following below steps : Turn the Main Switch to ON (I) on the back panel. Display will show StormAudio logo for few seconds and will enter the Sleep Mode (Led turns red continuously). When in Sleep Mode, press the Power Button. Unit will start.
  • Page 7 IP Addr : None Online Help wifi MAC Addr : None hostname : ISP 3D.16 ELITE serial number : ISP16-E-N00006 fw version : FW2.0r6 temperature : 35 °C FAN speed : 50% Press EDIT button for about 3s The display will show a list of system information, including the...
  • Page 8 Web Installer Interface Access & Help Power Up IP Address Login Navigation Online Help 2.3) Use your computer and open a Web Browser. 2.4) In the URL area, enter the IP address of your unit (such as 192.168.1.172) and validate. 2.5) The Home Page will be shown as below : Select the...
  • Page 9 Web Installer Interface Access & Help Power Up IP Address Login Navigation Online Help 2.6) Select Expert User again. You will access the System Page of the ISP. A single instance of the Web Interface should be activated for a proper and smooth con guration. 2.7) The Web Installer Interface is structured around a common part on the top area that will remain accessible at all time and give access to the basic functions.
  • Page 10 Web Installer Interface Access & Help Power Up Online Help IP Address Login Navigation 2.8) In order to support the Installer in his con guration process in the best way possible, we have developped an Online Contextual Help that can be activated at anytime as shown in 2.7.

  • Page 11: System Setup

    Web Installer Interface System setup Network Passwords Access Management In the System page, you can visualise hardware and software status of the ISP, change password for Expert and Installer access, modify the Network parameters and de ne the access level of the Expert user level. It is also possible to backup and restore the Con guration.
  • Page 12 Web Installer Interface Inputs setup Adjustment Inputs name Sources assignment Control Using the table you have lled up in previous step , you will now adjust the Inputs of the ISP. By default, as many inputs as there are available physical connections have been created.
  • Page 13 Web Installer Interface Speakers Adjustments Theater con guration Audio Speakers setup Principles Noise Manual Bass Zones Generator Levels Equalization Creation Distance Layout Replication Management Depending on your ISP, your system will support up to 32 channels on Main Outputs (with ISP-O-16-32 XLR and/or ISP-O-Digital Out installed) and 16 additional channels on Alternate Outputs (with ISP-O-Dual Theater).
  • Page 14 Web Installer Interface Speakers Adjustments Theater con guration Audio Speakers setup Principles Noise Manual Bass Zones Generator Levels Equalization Creation Layout Replication Distance Management Theater con guration is made in 3 steps: Creation (5.1 & 5.2), Speakers Layout selection (5.3) and Speakers/Subwoofers Replication de nition (5.4 &...
  • Page 15 Web Installer Interface Speakers Adjustments Theater con guration Audio Speakers setup Principles Noise Manual Bass Zones Generator Levels Equalization Creation Layout Replication Distance Management 5.3) Speakers Layout selection. Green: Fully optimized Yellow: Supported Orange: Not optimized Red: Not supported To make the Speakers Layout de nition easier, we have made a short list of Recommendations.
  • Page 16 Web Installer Interface Speakers Adjustments Theater con guration Audio Speakers setup Principles Noise Manual Bass Zones Generator Levels Equalization Creation Layout Replication Distance Management 5.4) The basic layout can be tuned to meet your exact speaker con guration, being multiway, with replication of some channels and/or with several subwoofers. For LCR, you can de ne as many ways as you want.
  • Page 17 Web Installer Interface Speakers Adjustments Theater con guration Audio Speakers setup Principles Noise Manual Bass Zones Generator Levels Equalization Creation Layout Replication Distance Management 5.5) When View is selected in Step 5.4, you will be able to visualise what you have made as adjustments: multi-way, replication, subwoofers...
  • Page 18 Web Installer Interface Speakers Adjustments Theater con guration Audio Speakers setup Principles Noise Manual Bass Zones Generator Levels Equalization Creation Layout Replication Distance Management 5.6) Once the Layout has been de ned and saved, you get access to the Speaker based adjustment.
  • Page 19 Web Installer Interface Speakers Adjustments Theater con guration Audio Speakers setup Principles Noise Manual Bass Zones Generator Levels Equalization Creation Replication Distance Layout Management Subwoofer channels have speci c ltering for the LFE content (bass channel from decoder). You can de ne a high pass lter to avoid rumble from subwoofer limited in the low frequency and a low pass lter.
  • Page 20 Web Installer Interface Speakers Adjustments Theater con guration Audio Speakers setup Principles Noise Manual Bass Zones Generator Levels Equalization Creation Distance Layout Replication Management 5.7) Next steps are level adjustment and manual equalization. To make these adjustments comfortable and eventually using Microphones with Capture systems, a Noise Generator is provided.
  • Page 21 Web Installer Interface Speakers Adjustments Theater con guration Audio Speakers setup Principles Noise Manual Bass Zones Generator Levels Equalization Creation Layout Replication Distance Management 5.8) Groups being de ned, you can now adjust the levels as described below. Select the signal you want to generate between Sine, Pink Noise and Narrow Band Pink Noise. In case of Sine selection, a frequency parameter that you can adjust will be shown.
  • Page 22 Web Installer Interface Speakers Adjustments Theater con guration Audio Speakers setup Principles Manual Bass Noise Zones Creation Distance Generator Levels Equalization Layout Replication Management 5.9) Whether you adjust an EQ for a Theater channel or Audio Zone channel, the same process will need to be followed for both (see next part 5.10).
  • Page 23 Web Installer Interface Speakers Adjustments Theater con guration Audio Speakers setup Principles Noise Manual Bass Zones Generator Levels Equalization Creation Layout Replication Distance Management 5.10) You have several possibilities to create an Audio Zone. It can be created as a Mono or Stereo Audio Zone without any display, as a zone dedicated for Headphones playback via an external headphones ampli er or as an Audio / Video Stereo Zone with a display involved.
  • Page 24 If you do not have these two elements, we invite you to contact your distributor to acquire an Integrator Calibration Kit. The Dirac Live Room Calibration Tool for StormAudio is a speci c version of the tool, with StormAudio drivers integrated, for sole use with StormAudio processors.
  • Page 25 Room Calibration Dirac Live Introduction Setup Measure Optimize Export 6.1) After having downloaded the Dirac Live Calibration Tool software from our Client Portal , install it in your laptop. Make sure to be connected to Internet during installation. 6.2) Once installed, go to your browser in the ISP Web Installer Interface and: Select the Speakers tab where the Theater or Audio Zone you want to calibrate is con gured.
  • Page 26 At this time, all audio adjustments made on the remote will be deactivated to not alter the calibration. 6.4) Launch the Dirac Live Calibration Tool (DLCT) for StormAudio. The application will go into the rst tab / step of the DLCT.
  • Page 27 Room Calibration Dirac Live Introduction Setup Measure Optimize Export 6.5) In this step, you will con gure the microphone to use. The Recording device will show which microphone is selected. Click on the arrow to check the UMIK-1 microphone is correctly selected.
  • Page 28 Room Calibration Dirac Live Introduction Export Setup Measure Optimize 6.6) In this step, you will adjust the output levels to match measurement requirements. With UMIK-1 connected, make sure the room is quiet. Adjust the Input gain so the background noise doesn’t exceed -24 dB in the level meters.
  • Page 29 Room Calibration Dirac Live Introduction Setup Measure Optimize Export 6.7) In this step, you will measure the acoustic room response placing the microphone into the sweet spot (exact center of the listening area). You will rst need to select the type of listening area you want to de ne.
  • Page 30 Room Calibration Dirac Live Introduction Setup Measure Optimize Export 6.8) With the rst measurement completed, the position is changed to Green and a new position is shown in yellow. There will be 8 additional positions of the microphone required to complete the capture process.
  • Page 31 Room Calibration Dirac Live Introduction Export Setup Measure Optimize 6.9) Once all measurements are completed, you will be able to visualise magnitude and impulse responses of all speakers. In addition, Dirac Live will add the recommended target curve as well as the window of correction deduced from the measurements.
  • Page 32 Room Calibration Dirac Live Introduction Setup Measure Optimize Export After Optimization, the simulated magnitude response curve is shown in Green. You can tick in these boxes to visualize di erent curves. You can browse the channels to check simulated curves for each speaker. For illustration of the correction window e ect, it was here moved so no correction were done above 2kHz.
  • Page 33 The last step of the Dirac Live process is to export the lter design into the ISP so it is combined into a new Audio Pro le with all manual audio adjustments made in part 5. Drag and drop the project le in the light blue area into the StormAudio Audio-Processor Project slot. While dropping the project, this will actually download the complete lter design package into the ISP.
  • Page 34 Room Calibration Dirac Live Introduction Export Setup Measure Optimize 6.11) Back to the Web User Interface, the Dirac Live pop up has been updated as shown below. Theater case Audio Zone case A name has been given by default to the New Pro le. For the Audio Zones, we manage a single Audio Pro le.
  • Page 35 Room Calibration Dirac Live Introduction Export Setup Measure Optimize 6.12) The new Pro le that you created at the end of the Dirac Live process. Back to the Speakers page in Edition mode you can now see: The values of Delay calculated by Dirac and applied in the Pro le. The values of Level calculated by Dirac and applied in the Pro le.
  • Page 36 Web Installer Interface Settings Triggers Parameters Limiters Front Panel AV Delay 16ch AES In this Step, you will adjust the Settings of the ISP by selecting the Settings tab. Adjustment of Triggers are made as below: To allow manual change of a Trigger on the Remote, turn Manual Switching to ON To automatize the Trigger behaviour, there are three possible modes: - on Wake = Trigger takes its active status at unit Wake Up, - on Input = Trigger takes its active status when an Input is selected,...
  • Page 37 Web Installer Interface Settings Triggers Parameters Limiters Front Panel AV Delay 16ch AES Downmix output can be used with a screen. Selecting Audio/Video Zone will add LipSync adjustment to the remote as well as general AV Delay in Settings page. To avoid damage of speakers, the installer may decide to limit the range of the audio adjustments available in the remotes.
  • Page 38 Web Installer Interface Settings Triggers Parameters Limiters Front Panel AV Delay 16ch AES When the «ISP-O-Digital In» option is installed in the ISP, you can receive the signals delivered by a Cinema Server or another multi-channel digital audio source. The signals are delivered in AES/EBU format over 2x RJ45 connectors.
  • Page 39 Web Installer Interface Listening Presets The last part of the Con guration of the unit consists on creating Listening Presets that will link together all the adjustments you have made in previous parts, that is to say: - Theater and an Audio Pro le, - Audio Zones to activate, - Triggers to control.
  • Page 40 Web Installer Interface SphereAudio Listening Preset For Headphones Zone, you have now the possibility to make use of the SphereAudio binaural engine powered by Auro -Headphones and integrated into your ISP. SphereAudio will create a 3D Immersive experience via headphones by binauralizing the mono or up to 13.1 encoded formats (native Immersive Sound) into two channels.
  • Page 41 Hardware Connections Outputs You can connect the analog outputs to your ampli ers according to the Speakers type installed as well as the Trigger outputs to de ne in the section 7 Settings. 8.1) In the System Page, select the «Export Parameters» function. A le containing the ISP Main Speakers and Alternate Speakers Channel Mapping will be downlaodable and printable.
  • Page 42 User Interfaces Control Web Remote StormRemote In the Web Interface, select Remote Control tab to access it. Source/Input selection area. Theater control with: - Unit power control - Master Volume, Mute and Volume Dim - Loudness, Cinema EQ and LFE Dim In this zone the Listening Preset can be selected, which de nes where the playback is expected.
  • Page 43 User Interfaces Control - SphereAudio Web Remote StormRemote In the Remote Control interface, you can select the Listening Preset that was created to call up the SphereAudio mode. When the SphereAudio Mode has been selected, the main Theater will get muted. All Theater related adjustments won’t be accessible anymore.
  • Page 44 User Interface Control Web Remote StormRemote A Remote Control application will soon be available on the Apple AppStore portal. We will inform you when StormRemote becomes available on stores for download. For further information, please contact the support team. You will rst connect the App to the ISP you want to control. Insert the IP address of the unit.
  • Page 45 User Interface Control Web Remote StormRemote Same additional adjustments as described in the Web Remote interface are available in the Adjustment page of the App Remote. In the Audio Zone page, you can select which Zone you would like to control and adjust. For the selected Zone, a set of parameters is adjustable, depending on the Zone type de ned.
  • Page 46 User Interface Control - SphereAudio Web Remote StormRemote When a Listening Preset activating the SphereAudio mode is selected in the Preset area, the StormRemote will behave di erently from the usual case, as described below In SphereAudio mode, the Theater is muted and cannot be controlled.
  • Page 47 Hardware Connections Connectors & Inputs table Inputs table Connectors Special care must be taken for the cables, wires and connectors to be used with the ISP. Here is a description of the connectors pin out and recommendation for the wiring. To connect the ISP to an ampli er, you must use male to female XLR cables.
  • Page 48 Hardware Connections Connectors & Inputs table Inputs table Connectors Source Name Digital Input connection Analog Input connection HDMI Input connection...

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