Page 1 Sd-50/0, Sd-50/8, Sd-50/40 Audio & Show Control Systems The Sd-50/0 is a complete, stand alone .Mp3/.wav player system. Just add a power supply and your speakers, and it will play audio from the Sd/MMC flash card. The Sd-50/8 & Sd-50/40 add up to forty digital Show Control outputs, DMX-512,...
Page 2 Gilderﬂuke & Co.• 205 South Flower Street • Burbank, California 91502 • 818/840-9484 • 800/776-5972 • fax 818/840-9485 Safety Disclaimer: Any electronic or mechanical sys- tem has a potential to fail. Certain applications using Gilderﬂuke & Company equipment may involve potential risks of death, personal injury, or severe property, or en- vironmental damage (“Critical Application”).
Page 3: Table Of Contents
RS-232 Serial Port (Sd-50/0, Sd-50/8, Sd-50/40)! ..........Sd/MMC Socket (Sd-50/0, Sd-50/8, Sd-50/40)! ..........Optional Clock Input (Sd-50/8, Sd-50/40)! ............Card Cage Connection (Sd-50/0, Sd-50/8, Sd-50/40) ! ........Power Supply (Sd-50/0, Sd-50/8, Sd-50/40) ! ............. DMX-512/MIDI/Net Serial In (Sd-50/8, Sd-50/40)! ..........
Page 4 What To Do With A New Sd/MMC Flash Card ........Preparing Animation Data for AutoDownloads ....... Locking Your Data ................Sd-50/0, Sd-50/8 or Sd-50/40 Serial Commands ......Echo Commands:! ....................Echo On: “a” [nn] (card address) Echo Off: “b” Card Status: “i” [nn] (card address)! ..............
Page 5 Exit! ........................Set Time Zone! ....................Sd-50/0, Sd-50/8 or Sd-50/40 Software Installation ......Software/Firmware Versions ..................Updating Firmware on a Sd-50/0, Sd-50/8 or Sd-50/40 ..........‘Mp3 Config.exe’ ................. Track Setup ........................Move Up! ......................Sd-50/xx Manual / October 29, 2012 2:29 PM / page 5 of 120...
Page 6 Gilderﬂuke & Co.• 205 South Flower Street • Burbank, California 91502 • 818/840-9484 • 800/776-5972 • fax 818/840-9485 Move Down! ......................Reload Track List From Directory! ..............At End! ......................... Stop Play Next Higher Selection Play Random Selection Play Same Selection Again Play Specific SoundFile Can Step On Track with a new Play request! ...........
Page 7 Write Protect Flash Memory Schedule Setup ......................Disable Schedule Starts on ‘D’/White Input Reset Clock on ‘RTC’ Input Sd-50/0, Sd-50/8, and Sd-50/40 Installation ........Battery Replacement on a Sd-50/8 or Sd-50/40 ......Care & Feeding of an GPS Receiver ..........
Page 8 Gilderﬂuke & Co.• 205 South Flower Street • Burbank, California 91502 • 818/840-9484 • 800/776-5972 • fax 818/840-9485 A note about this manual: This manual covers the specifics of the Sd-50/0, Sd- 50/8, Sd-50/40. To program the Sd-50/0, Sd-50/8, Sd-50/40 you will also want to refer to the PC•MACs manual sections that cover the PC•MACs software.
Page 9: Getting Started (Quickly)
If you just configured a Sd-50/0, it is now ready to run. Connect speakers and a power supply. If you set a startup sound and chain of SoundFiles to play after, It will start playing when it is powered up. Oth- erwise, it will now accept inputs on the ‘"...
Page 10 Gilderﬂuke & Co.• 205 South Flower Street • Burbank, California 91502 • 818/840-9484 • 800/776-5972 • fax 818/840-9485 found elsewhere in this manual. If you just want to watch the LED indicators for the Show Control Outputs on the Sd-50/8 or Sd-50/40 blink, you can skip connecting to your show for now. Open the ‘PC•MACs’...
Page 11 Gilderﬂuke & Co.• 205 South Flower Street • Burbank, California 91502 • 818/840-9484 • 800/776-5972 • fax 818/840-9485 If you have a PC•MACs RealTime license, you can assign the Show Control channels to the Soft Con- sole and program that way. Without a PC•MACs RealTime license, programming can be as simple as: Press the ‘Selected Channels’...
Page 12: Sd-50/0, Sd-50/8 Or Sd-50/40 Overview
500 Watt linear amplifiers. With no moving parts to wear out, the Sd-50/0 should well outlast the speakers it is attached to. The Sd-50/0 can be used singly, or in com- bination with additional Sd-50/xx’s, BR-SmartMedia cards or any Gilderfluke & Co. equipment. It can...
Page 13 Gilderﬂuke & Co.• 205 South Flower Street • Burbank, California 91502 • 818/840-9484 • 800/776-5972 • fax 818/840-9485 to 48K per second are supported. • Amazingly powerful 100 Watt Stereo Class-D Amplifier (fifty watts/channel). This amplifier has the output power of a typical 400 to 500 Watt linear amplifier, but without the high current draw and waste heat.
Page 14: Features The Sd-50/8 And Sd-50/40 Adds Includes
Features the Sd-50/8 and Sd-50/40 adds includes... • Eight (Sd-50/8) or forty (Sd-50/40) digital (on/off) Show Control outputs to a Sd-50/0. These can be used to drive solenoid valves, relays, LEDs and other typical loads directly. DMX-512 input for programming or controlling the .Mp3/.wav player and show control outputs.
Page 15 Gilderﬂuke & Co.• 205 South Flower Street • Burbank, California 91502 • 818/840-9484 • 800/776-5972 • fax 818/840-9485 sushu, West-Japan. The ‘Atomic’ Clock synchronizes the clock inside the Sd-50/8 or Sd-50/ 40 once each day. These radio signals are not available (or strong enough to be used) in all parts of the world.
Page 16 Gilderﬂuke & Co.• 205 South Flower Street • Burbank, California 91502 • 818/840-9484 • 800/776-5972 • fax 818/840-9485 outputs are needed, additional Sd-50/8s or Sd-50/40s can be added to give you as many outputs as you need. • The digital Show Control outputs from a Sd-50/8 or Sd-50/40 can be fed to Digital to Analog converters (like our single channel DAC-08 or four channel DAC-QUAD) wherever you need...
Page 17: Differences Between Sd-50S And Mp3-50S
Gilderﬂuke & Co.• 205 South Flower Street • Burbank, California 91502 • 818/840-9484 • 800/776-5972 • fax 818/840-9485 Differences between Sd-50s and Mp3-50s Many first-time users of the Sd-50/xx will be familiar with our Mp3-50/0, Mp3-50/8 or Mp3-50/40. The Mp3-50/xx series of Audio Repeaters and Show Controllers are the direct ancestors of the Sd-50/xx se- ries.
Page 18 Gilderﬂuke & Co.• 205 South Flower Street • Burbank, California 91502 • 818/840-9484 • 800/776-5972 • fax 818/840-9485 and shows can be used, albeit with less accuracy than is available with either the GPS or ‘Atomic’ clock options. • Schedules can now be ‘named’, and the names are retained for display on the serial menus and for further editing.
Page 19: Sd-50/0 Sd-50/8 Or Sd-50/40 Indicators
Gilderﬂuke & Co.• 205 South Flower Street • Burbank, California 91502 • 818/840-9484 • 800/776-5972 • fax 818/840-9485 Sd-50/0 Sd-50/8 or Sd-50/40 Indicators There are only a small number of connections, indicators, and configuration switches on each Sd-50/0, Sd-50/ 8, Sd-50/40.
Page 20: Right (Sd-50/0, Sd-50/8, Sd-50/40)
This LED flickers to give you a rough approximation of the audio being played out of the right side of the audio player. It is downstream of the volume processing done on the Sd-50/0, and will dim to reflect changes in volume level.
Page 21: Heart (Sd-50/0, Sd-50/8, Sd-50/40)
‘channel’. The forty outputs of the Sd-50/8 or Sd-50/40 are divided into five, eight-bit wide ‘channels’. The eight inputs of a Sd-50/0, eight outputs of a Sd-50/8, and last channel of a Sd-50/40 are shared with the eight optically isolated inputs to the audio half of the Sd-50/8 or Sd-50/40. This channel, and only this channel can be switched between using ‘internal’...
Page 22: Input Open (Sd-50/0)
A Sd-50/0 has eight optically isolated trigger inputs which can be used to select, start shows and SoundFiles and change the audio levels of the audio half of the Sd-50/0 player. The only output channel on a Sd-50/8, and the last output channel on a Sd-50/40 are shared with these audio trigger inputs. Normally these are not used to trigger the audio on a Sd-50/8 or Sd-50/40.
Page 23: Sd-50/0, Sd-50/8 Or Sd-50/40 Connections
Gilderﬂuke & Co.• 205 South Flower Street • Burbank, California 91502 • 818/840-9484 • 800/776-5972 • fax 818/840-9485 Sd-50/0, Sd-50/8 or Sd-50/40 Connections Sd-50/0 (Audio Only): 5.500 2.250 Sd-50/0 Gilderﬂuke & Company • Burbank, California Gilderﬂuke & Company • Burbank, California 1.300...
Page 24: Serial Port (Sd-50/0, Sd-50/8, Sd-50/40)
Gilderﬂuke & Co.• 205 South Flower Street • Burbank, California 91502 • 818/840-9484 • 800/776-5972 • fax 818/840-9485 A) ! RS-232 Serial Port (Sd-50/0, Sd-50/8, Sd-50/40) The serial command set is identical to, and compatible with all the RS-422 Serial Ports used on Gilderfluke &...
Page 25: Optional Clock Input (Sd-50/8, Sd-50/40)
Gilderﬂuke & Co.• 205 South Flower Street • Burbank, California 91502 • 818/840-9484 • 800/776-5972 • fax 818/840-9485 C) ! Optional Clock Input (Sd-50/8, Sd-50/40) This 2.5 mm stereo jack is used to connect either the radio controlled ‘Atomic’ clock or the GPS re- ceiver to the Sd-50/8 or Sd-50/40.
Page 26: Card Cage Connection (Sd-50/0, Sd-50/8, Sd-50/40)
This will disable the ‘snooze’ but- ton, and thereby prevent it being hit accidentally in the future. D) ! Card Cage Connection (Sd-50/0, Sd-50/8, Sd-50/40) This female header connection is used to connect the power and secondary serial port to a Sd-50/CC- 10.
Page 27: Midi Notes Input
Gilderﬂuke & Co.• 205 South Flower Street • Burbank, California 91502 • 818/840-9484 • 800/776-5972 • fax 818/840-9485 world for controlling all kinds of theatrical equipment (fans, strobes, chain winches, wiggle lights, etc.). You can address your Sd-50/8 or Sd-50/40 to respond to any address between 0 and 511. The Sd-50/8 or Sd-50/40 will support all 512 possible DMX-512 channels.
Page 28: Net Serial Input
Gilderﬂuke & Co.• 205 South Flower Street • Burbank, California 91502 • 818/840-9484 • 800/776-5972 • fax 818/840-9485 c) The next eight MIDI notes are sent to the ‘MPU Interface’ to select and trigger audio files, mute, and otherwise control the .Mp3/.wav player. d) The remaining notes are used to directly select and play individual SoundFiles stored on the .Mp3/.wav player.
Page 29: Ir Input Mode
Gilderﬂuke & Co.• 205 South Flower Street • Burbank, California 91502 • 818/840-9484 • 800/776-5972 • fax 818/840-9485 other Gilderfluke & Company devices. The only requirement is that they all be set to unique ad- dresses. Since RS-422 is probably the most widely used of industrial data networks, a myriad of other pieces of equipment are available which will also work with the Net Serial mode.
Page 30: Ir Multilingual Mode
Gilderﬂuke & Co.• 205 South Flower Street • Burbank, California 91502 • 818/840-9484 • 800/776-5972 • fax 818/840-9485 Lower nibble Switch #1 Switch #2 Switch #3 Switch #4 of Address Upper nibble Switch #5 Switch #6 Switch #7 Switch #8 of Address IR MultiLingual Mode The Sd-50s feature a multilingual mode for installations where the same IR triggers need to...
Page 31 Gilderﬂuke & Co.• 205 South Flower Street • Burbank, California 91502 • 818/840-9484 • 800/776-5972 • fax 818/840-9485 IR mode and the majority of settings are entered using the Mp3 Configurator program, just like normal, and the shows are programmed using PC•MACs, just like normal. You will need to pro- gram additional Shows/SoundFiles to allow for each language used.
Page 32: None
Gilderﬂuke & Co.• 205 South Flower Street • Burbank, California 91502 • 818/840-9484 • 800/776-5972 • fax 818/840-9485 3b) An IR request for Show/SoundFile #2 will play Show/SoundFIles 5, 6, 7 or 8, depend- ing on the 'language select' inputs to the J8 port. 3c) An IR request for Show/SoundFile #3 will play Show/SoundFIles 9, 10, 11, or 12, de- pending on the 'language select' inputs to the J8 port.
Page 33: Left Speaker Output (Sd-50/0, Sd-50/8, Sd-50/40)
After the end of the DMX-512 data, any remaining channels will be padded out through the 512th channel. H) ! Left Speaker Output (Sd-50/0, Sd-50/8, Sd-50/40) I) ! Right Speaker Output (Sd-50/0, Sd-50/8, Sd-50/40) Four position Screw Terminals. These are the two outputs of the Sd-50/xx‘s onboard Class-D ampli- fier.
Page 34: Outputs Via The '" J6' Port
Depending on the type of Sd-50/xx, this connection can serve a number of different functions: Sd-50/0: These pins are used to connect to the eight optically isolated trigger inputs which are used to select SoundFiles, start, mute, half mute, pause, or unmute the .Mp3/.wav player. What each of...
Page 35: Inputs Via The '" J6' Port
External Power Internal Power For a Sd-50/0, the ‘" J6’ input is strictly an .mp3/.wav input. It is optically isolated. It can be set to run from an external power source or the same power as the Sd-50/xx (default configuration).
Page 36 Gilderﬂuke & Co.• 205 South Flower Street • Burbank, California 91502 • 818/840-9484 • 800/776-5972 • fax 818/840-9485 1. When running ONLY ServoMotors on the ‘" J6’ connector, the Sd-50/8 or Sd-50/40 is run from a typical twelve to twenty-four vdc Resistor power supply, just as you would 1/4 J6...
Page 37: J8 ʻAʼ, ʻBʼ, ʻCʼ & ʻDʼ Inputs (Sd-50/8, Sd-50/40)
Gilderﬂuke & Co.• 205 South Flower Street • Burbank, California 91502 • 818/840-9484 • 800/776-5972 • fax 818/840-9485 heavy-duty motor with separate power and control connections. Typically power for such a Servo- Motor will the same twelve or twenty-four vdc that the Sd-50/8 or Sd-50/40 thrives on. Connect the motor as shown in its instructions.
Page 38: J8 'A', 'B', 'C' & 'D' Binary
Gilderﬂuke & Co.• 205 South Flower Street • Burbank, California 91502 • 818/840-9484 • 800/776-5972 • fax 818/840-9485 These four inputs are uncommitted optoisolators. Effectively, you are sending the external control sig- nal into a LED which has a resistor wired in series. This requires external power be supplied from some- where.
Page 39: ʻJ6ʼ Show Control Outputs (Sd-50/40)
Gilderﬂuke & Co.• 205 South Flower Street • Burbank, California 91502 • 818/840-9484 • 800/776-5972 • fax 818/840-9485 #10 Black (12–24 vdc) #9 White (bit 0) #8 Grey (bit 1) #7 Violet (bit 2) #6 Blue (bit 3) #5 Green (bit 4) #4 Yellow (bit 5) #3 Orange (bit 6) #2 Red (bit 7)
Page 40 Gilderﬂuke & Co.• 205 South Flower Street • Burbank, California 91502 • 818/840-9484 • 800/776-5972 • fax 818/840-9485 screw terminals. Ribbon cable to screw terminal adapters are also available from a number of different sources. Any eight digital devices or one eight-bit analog device can be connected to any ‘"...
Page 41 Gilderﬂuke & Co.• 205 South Flower Street • Burbank, California 91502 • 818/840-9484 • 800/776-5972 • fax 818/840-9485 Each ‘J6’ cable is arranged in the following order: wire function wire number color circuit ground brown channel 0 data bit #7 channel 0 data bit #6 orange channel 0 data bit #5...
Page 42 Gilderﬂuke & Co.• 205 South Flower Street • Burbank, California 91502 • 818/840-9484 • 800/776-5972 • fax 818/840-9485 If the loads you are controlling with the the Sd-50/8 or Sd-50/40 controller are at a higher voltage and/ or current than it will provide directly, then relays can be added on the Show Control Outputs (or DMX-512 Outputs) to control any sized loads.
Page 43: Defaults For Sd-50/0S, Sd-50/8S And Sd-50/40S
GilderTerm will ‘stick’ until you change them again, or you insert a card with a Sd-50.cfg file loaded on it. The Sd-50/xx will load any Sd-50.cfg file as soon as it finds one. Sd-50/0 (audio only) Defaults Volume to defaults.
Page 44: Sd-50/8 Defaults
Gilderﬂuke & Co.• 205 South Flower Street • Burbank, California 91502 • 818/840-9484 • 800/776-5972 • fax 818/840-9485 c.1) If 127 or less SoundFiles are found, then the ‘" J6’ Trigger Inputs bit #7 becomes ‘Stop Now’. c.2) If 63 or less SoundFiles are found, then the ‘"...
Page 45: Sd-50/40 Defaults
Gilderﬂuke & Co.• 205 South Flower Street • Burbank, California 91502 • 818/840-9484 • 800/776-5972 • fax 818/840-9485 c.2) If 63 or less SoundFiles are found, then the Animation ‘Virtual’ Audio Trigger Input #6 becomes full mute in one second on closing, and unmute in one second upon opening.
Page 46: What You Should And Shouldn't See
Gilderﬂuke & Co.• 205 South Flower Street • Burbank, California 91502 • 818/840-9484 • 800/776-5972 • fax 818/840-9485 What You Should And Shouldnʼt See Any Sd-50/xx should be booted and begin counting sounds within five seconds. If it takes longer than this, it is an indication that it is having a problem reading the files from the Sd/MMC card.
Page 47 Gilderﬂuke & Co.• 205 South Flower Street • Burbank, California 91502 • 818/840-9484 • 800/776-5972 • fax 818/840-9485 menus, and have them ‘stick’ until it finds a ‘different’ ‘Sd-50.cfg’ file. After this, the player will jump into step number six shown above. If the Sd-50/xx finds the Sd/MMC flash card, but the MCU has a problem reading the configuration, show, schedule and GPS files, there will be a delay of approximately ten seconds while it chews on them.
Page 48: Shows Capacities For Sd-50/8S And Sd-50/40S
Gilderﬂuke & Co.• 205 South Flower Street • Burbank, California 91502 • 818/840-9484 • 800/776-5972 • fax 818/840-9485 Shows Capacities for Sd-50/8s and Sd-50/40s This section gives some hints for setting up the shows that will be used by the Show Control side of a Sd-50/8 or Sd-50/40.
Page 49 Gilderﬂuke & Co.• 205 South Flower Street • Burbank, California 91502 • 818/840-9484 • 800/776-5972 • fax 818/840-9485 Outputs and Animation ‘Virtual’ Audio Trigger Input channel) are shown in bold. The last three columns show the capacity with the optional ‘extended’ show memory. Number of Number of Standard...
Page 50 Gilderﬂuke & Co.• 205 South Flower Street • Burbank, California 91502 • 818/840-9484 • 800/776-5972 • fax 818/840-9485 As you can see in the preceding chart, although you can download as many as 512 channels worth of data, when you get that many channels on a Sd-50/8 or Sd-50/40, you can very quickly burn through the standard on- board flash memory.
Page 51: What To Do With A New Sd/Mmc Flash Card
Gilderﬂuke & Co.• 205 South Flower Street • Burbank, California 91502 • 818/840-9484 • 800/776-5972 • fax 818/840-9485 What To Do With A New Sd/MMC Flash Card Larger Sd/MMC flash cards only rarely need any preparation before they can be used with the Sd-50/ xx.
Page 52 Gilderﬂuke & Co.• 205 South Flower Street • Burbank, California 91502 • 818/840-9484 • 800/776-5972 • fax 818/840-9485 The files system for Sd/MMC flash cards should be ‘FAT32’. You can uncheck ‘quick format’ to do a full format if you want to be sure that the Sd/MMC flash card is completely reformatted.
Page 53: Preparing Animation Data For Autodownloads
Gilderﬂuke & Co.• 205 South Flower Street • Burbank, California 91502 • 818/840-9484 • 800/776-5972 • fax 818/840-9485 Preparing Animation Data for AutoDownloads The show data used on the Sd-50/8 or Sd-50/40, BR-MultiBrick32, BR-ANA, BR-EFB and BR- SmartMedia use a complex multi channel format which allows them to be AutoDownloaded from PC•MACs.
Page 54 Gilderﬂuke & Co.• 205 South Flower Street • Burbank, California 91502 • 818/840-9484 • 800/776-5972 • fax 818/840-9485 11) You can quickly test if the Sd-50/8 or Sd-50/40 is attached to the serial port properly by hitting the ‘Reset Target Device’ button. Of course, this will also erase any show data that was already in the Sd-50/8s’ or Sd-50/40s’...
Page 55: Locking Your Data
1) When a Secure Digital (Sd) card is inserted in a Sd-50/0, Sd-50/8 or Sd-50/40, it checks the condition of the ‘lock’ switch. If the Sd flash card is locked, then the internal flash memory on the a Sd-50/0, Sd-50/8 or Sd-50/40 is locked as well.
Page 56: Sd-50/0, Sd-50/8 Or Sd-50/40 Serial Commands
Gilderﬂuke & Co.• 205 South Flower Street • Burbank, California 91502 • 818/840-9484 • 800/776-5972 • fax 818/840-9485 Sd-50/0, Sd-50/8 or Sd-50/40 Serial Commands The Sd-50/xx can be accessed through the RS-232 serial port from any computer running just about any modem or terminal program.
Page 57: Echo Commands
Gilderﬂuke & Co.• 205 South Flower Street • Burbank, California 91502 • 818/840-9484 • 800/776-5972 • fax 818/840-9485 from around the block or around the world. Commands can be addressed to a single card on the network, or all the cards simultaneously.
Page 58 Gilderﬂuke & Co.• 205 South Flower Street • Burbank, California 91502 • 818/840-9484 • 800/776-5972 • fax 818/840-9485 When the Sd-50/xx receives this command, it will respond with the following information: 1) Header Information: a) Gilderfluke & Company b) product name c) Firmware revision number d) copyright.
Page 59: Card Reset: "J5Aa5" [Nn] (Card Address)
Gilderﬂuke & Co.• 205 South Flower Street • Burbank, California 91502 • 818/840-9484 • 800/776-5972 • fax 818/840-9485 e) Schedule being used, or ‘none loaded’ if no schedule file has been found, or ‘none today’ if there is a schedule being used on this day. Note that the schedule being used is only up- dated on even minutes, as the schedule is scanned.
Page 60: Stop Commands
Gilderﬂuke & Co.• 205 South Flower Street • Burbank, California 91502 • 818/840-9484 • 800/776-5972 • fax 818/840-9485 played after a Sd-50/8 or Sd-50/40 is reset, it will play the show which has been set as the ‘first’ show dur- ing the AutoDownload.
Page 61: Select & Play Sound Commands
Up to two hundred fifty-five different sounds can be stored on a single Sd-50/xx. These commands can be used to select an individual sound on the selected Sd-50/0(s), Sd-50/8(s) or Sd-50/40(s). Individual sounds can be requested with a range of 01 to FFH. Once a sound is selected, it will be played immedi- ately.
Page 62: Autodownload: "Sa5A5" [Nn] (Card Address)
Gilderﬂuke & Co.• 205 South Flower Street • Burbank, California 91502 • 818/840-9484 • 800/776-5972 • fax 818/840-9485 12)! AutoDownload: “sA5A5” [nn] (card address)! This is the format of the file that the Sd-50/8 or Sd-50/40 will receive and load into its 'Flash' memory. An AutoDownload file is a binary file.
Page 63: Serial Command Summary
Gilderﬂuke & Co.• 205 South Flower Street • Burbank, California 91502 • 818/840-9484 • 800/776-5972 • fax 818/840-9485 Serial Command Summary Echo Commands: Echo On: “a” [nn] (card address) Echo Off: “b” Card Status: “i” [nn] (card address) Card Reset: “j5AA5”...
Page 64: Sd-50/0, Sd-50/8 Or Sd-50/40 Hardware Config
Sd-50/xx. For a Sd-50/0, this is the trigger input to the .Mp3/.wav player, and either position can be used as determined by your application. For the Sd-50/xx, this is also the first or last Show Control output channel.
Page 65: Sd-50/0, Sd-50/8 Or Sd-50/40 Serial Configuration
Gilderﬂuke & Co.• 205 South Flower Street • Burbank, California 91502 • 818/840-9484 • 800/776-5972 • fax 818/840-9485 Sd-50/0, Sd-50/8 or Sd-50/40 Serial Conﬁguration Sd-50/xx is normally configured through the ‘Mp3 Config.exe’ program. You can also configure much of the Sd-50/xx through the serial port. You will use the serial port configuration commands for: For testing purposes.
Page 66: Entering Serial Conﬁguration
Gilderﬂuke & Co.• 205 South Flower Street • Burbank, California 91502 • 818/840-9484 • 800/776-5972 • fax 818/840-9485 displayed 'double spaced'. This won't cause any problem, but will make it hard to see the whole eighty by twenty-four char- acter screen at one time. The RS-232 serial data signals from the Sd-50/xxʼs are brought out on a 1/8”...
Page 67 Gilderﬂuke & Co.• 205 South Flower Street • Burbank, California 91502 • 818/840-9484 • 800/776-5972 • fax 818/840-9485 -Gilderfluke & Co. Sd-50/40 Audio/Show Controller vers. 1.00 copyright 2007 DCM- Card at 00h/__0 | DMX-512 w/258 /CS data Rxd | flash: 4 MBytes (locked) 1/4 J6 in: 00000000b | MCU in: 00000000b A/Green: Open B/Red:...
Page 68 Gilderﬂuke & Co.• 205 South Flower Street • Burbank, California 91502 • 818/840-9484 • 800/776-5972 • fax 818/840-9485 8) The current status of the D/White optically isolated input. Input will show whether it is ‘opened’ (no current flowing) or ‘closed’ (current flowing through the input). If the option to enable/disable the Real Time ‘Atomic’...
Page 69: Play A Sound
Gilderﬂuke & Co.• 205 South Flower Street • Burbank, California 91502 • 818/840-9484 • 800/776-5972 • fax 818/840-9485 ii) Playing (at the end of the SoundFile it may or may not play another sound file). iii) Looping. At the end of the sound, it will loop the same SoundFile as seamlessly as possible.
Page 70: Daylight Savings Time
Gilderﬂuke & Co.• 205 South Flower Street • Burbank, California 91502 • 818/840-9484 • 800/776-5972 • fax 818/840-9485 This stops any sound which is playing immediately. If the sound which is playing is ‘unsteppable’, then using this command to stop the sound will allow you to then start a new sound playing. Once stopped, the sound ‘info’ line will change to reflect the status of the sound file.
Page 71: Set Time
Gilderﬂuke & Co.• 205 South Flower Street • Burbank, California 91502 • 818/840-9484 • 800/776-5972 • fax 818/840-9485 This clears the ‘looping’ flag, so the currently running show (if any) will stop at the end and wait for the next start command.
Page 72: Display Conﬁg. From Sd/Mmc
Gilderﬂuke & Co.• 205 South Flower Street • Burbank, California 91502 • 818/840-9484 • 800/776-5972 • fax 818/840-9485 m)! Display Conﬁg. from Sd/MMC This displays a second page of configuration information. See the next section of the manual for the commands available on the ‘configuration’...
Page 73 Gilderﬂuke & Co.• 205 South Flower Street • Burbank, California 91502 • 818/840-9484 • 800/776-5972 • fax 818/840-9485 In the Sd-50/8 or Sd-50/40, the ServoMotor PWM is ‘eight bit resolution’. This means that there are 256 tiny steps between fully retracted and fully extended. If you need higher resolution, a Ser-DMX or Bt-Servo can be used for ‘twelve bit resolution’.
Page 74: Verify Shows
Gilderﬂuke & Co.• 205 South Flower Street • Burbank, California 91502 • 818/840-9484 • 800/776-5972 • fax 818/840-9485 v) ! Verify Shows This command is available ONLY if ShowFiles have been loaded on the Sd-50/8 or Sd-50/ This command is used to test the show data which has been downloaded to the Sd-50/8 or Sd-50/40. This will take anywhere from a few seconds to several minutes, depending of the size of the AutoDownload file that must be tested.
Page 75: Secondary Configuration Menu
Gilderﬂuke & Co.• 205 South Flower Street • Burbank, California 91502 • 818/840-9484 • 800/776-5972 • fax 818/840-9485 Secondary Conﬁguration Menu This menu is entered through ‘main’ configuration screen by using the command ‘m’, ‘Config’. This menu is exited in the same way, by using the command ‘m’, ‘Config’. This puts you back at the ‘main’...
Page 76: Midi Channel
Gilderﬂuke & Co.• 205 South Flower Street • Burbank, California 91502 • 818/840-9484 • 800/776-5972 • fax 818/840-9485 2) ! MIDI channel This is the MIDI instrument number used to access the Sd-50/8 or Sd-50/40 through the MIDI in port. Valid ad- dress ranges are 00h through 0Fh (0 through 15 in decimal numbers).
Page 77: Eeflag0
Gilderﬂuke & Co.• 205 South Flower Street • Burbank, California 91502 • 818/840-9484 • 800/776-5972 • fax 818/840-9485 9) ! eeFlag0 These are the binary ‘flag’ settings from the ‘Mp3 Config.exe’ program. Valid values are from 00h to FFh. You really shouldn’t muck with these.
Page 78: Eeflag3
Gilderﬂuke & Co.• 205 South Flower Street • Burbank, California 91502 • 818/840-9484 • 800/776-5972 • fax 818/840-9485 f) ! eeFlag3 These are the binary ‘flag’ settings from the ‘Mp3 Config.exe’ program. Valid values are from 00h to FFh. You really shouldn’t muck with these.
Page 79: Display Conﬁg. From Sd/Mmc
Gilderﬂuke & Co.• 205 South Flower Street • Burbank, California 91502 • 818/840-9484 • 800/776-5972 • fax 818/840-9485 m)! Display Conﬁg. from Sd/MMC This returns to the main page of configuration information. See the last section of the manual for the commands available on the ‘configuration’...
Page 80 Gilderﬂuke & Co.• 205 South Flower Street • Burbank, California 91502 • 818/840-9484 • 800/776-5972 • fax 818/840-9485 from UCT for the local ‘standard’ time and the number of hours (valid numbers are 0 through 15). For those few places in the world that need it, you can also set the number of minutes to add at 0, 15, 30 or 45 minutes on top of the number of hours to be added/subtracted.
Page 81: Sd-50/0, Sd-50/8 Or Sd-50/40 Software Installation
Gilderﬂuke & Co.• 205 South Flower Street • Burbank, California 91502 • 818/840-9484 • 800/776-5972 • fax 818/840-9485 Sd-50/0, Sd-50/8 or Sd-50/40 Software Installation There are three pieces of software that you may need to install on your computer to use the Sd-50/xx.
Page 82: Software/Firmware Versions
Gilderﬂuke & Co.• 205 South Flower Street • Burbank, California 91502 • 818/840-9484 • 800/776-5972 • fax 818/840-9485 Software/Firmware Versions There are three different pieces of software and firmware used in a Sd-50/xx: ‘Mp3 Config.exe’ This program lives on your PC. It can be easily updated by replacing the program on your PC. The software revision number is found under the ‘Help’...
Page 83: Updating Firmware On A Sd-50/0, Sd-50/8 Or Sd-50/40
Gilderﬂuke & Co.• 205 South Flower Street • Burbank, California 91502 • 818/840-9484 • 800/776-5972 • fax 818/840-9485 Updating Firmware on a Sd-50/0, Sd-50/8 or Sd-50/40 We have made firmware upgrades on the Sd-50/xx as simple as possible. The firmware update files are named: ‘Sd50-00.frm’...
Page 84: Mp3 Config.exe
Gilderﬂuke & Co.• 205 South Flower Street • Burbank, California 91502 • 818/840-9484 • 800/776-5972 • fax 818/840-9485 ʻMp3 Conﬁg.exeʼ The ‘Mp3 Config.exe’ program is used to do the vast majority of the Sd-50/xx configuration. To use it, you must first have inserted the Sd/MMC flash card into your computer so that you can access it. This is usually accomplished in one of two ways: 1) Plug in a USB cable from your computer to a Sd/MMC compatible Reader/Writer.
Page 85 The FIRST thing to do when you are configuring a player is to select which type of player you are using. Under the ‘Player Type’ Pulldown, you should select whether you are configuring a Sd-50/0 (Audio only) or a Sd-50/8 or Sd-50/40 (Audio and Show Control), or a Sd-50/8 or Sd-50/40 with the ‘Atomic’...
Page 86: Track Setup
Gilderﬂuke & Co.• 205 South Flower Street • Burbank, California 91502 • 818/840-9484 • 800/776-5972 • fax 818/840-9485 Track Setup (Sd-50/0, Sd-50/8, and Sd-50/40) The .mp3 and .wav SoundFiles are entered and sorted on this menu tab of the ‘Mp3 Config.exe’ pro- gram.
Page 87 Gilderﬂuke & Co.• 205 South Flower Street • Burbank, California 91502 • 818/840-9484 • 800/776-5972 • fax 818/840-9485 You can set what will happen at the end of any of the SoundFiles. It can either sit there and wait for the next input, or delay between 0 and 999.9 seconds (16.65 minutes) and play another track: After the delay (or immediately), you can set to it to do any of the following: a)! Stop...
Page 88 6) Track to Play at PowerUp Whatever track you select will automatically begin playing as soon as the Sd-50/xx is powered up. For Sd-50/0 applications where they simply loop sounds all day long, this is how you start the SoundFiles playing without using an external switch closure or controller.
Page 89 Gilderﬂuke & Co.• 205 South Flower Street • Burbank, California 91502 • 818/840-9484 • 800/776-5972 • fax 818/840-9485 PlayList Setup (Sd-50/0, Sd-50/8, and Sd-50/40) You can create up to eight lists of SoundFiles. Any SoundFile stored on the Sd-50/xx’ Sd/MMC flash card (shown on the ‘Track...
Page 90 Gilderﬂuke & Co.• 205 South Flower Street • Burbank, California 91502 • 818/840-9484 • 800/776-5972 • fax 818/840-9485 Audio Setup (Sd-50/0, Sd-50/8, and Sd-50/40) This tab is where you set the audio output levels for the Sd-50/xx. The volume control pots on the front of the Sd-50/xx’s is downstream of the electronic volume limits set inside the ‘Mp3 Config.exe’...
Page 91 Gilderﬂuke & Co.• 205 South Flower Street • Burbank, California 91502 • 818/840-9484 • 800/776-5972 • fax 818/840-9485 nance so that the audio plays at a more comfortable level. Although it is usually set to a level lower than the ‘Main Volume Level’, it can be set anywhere, including higher values.
Page 92 Gilderﬂuke & Co.• 205 South Flower Street • Burbank, California 91502 • 818/840-9484 • 800/776-5972 • fax 818/840-9485 ʻ¼ J6ʼ Input Setup (Sd-50/0, Sd-50/8, and Sd-50/40) The Sd-50/xx has eight optically isolated trigger inputs on the ‘ ’ input on its end. These inputs can "...
Page 93 Gilderﬂuke & Co.• 205 South Flower Street • Burbank, California 91502 • 818/840-9484 • 800/776-5972 • fax 818/840-9485 A Binary Select pattern can be used to directly access all possible 255 Show or SoundFiles which can be loaded onto a Sd-50/xx.
Page 94 Gilderﬂuke & Co.• 205 South Flower Street • Burbank, California 91502 • 818/840-9484 • 800/776-5972 • fax 818/840-9485 a)! Do not change Playback Level This option is not available if you are triggering a show with this input. This leaves the audio levels where they were before.
Page 95 Gilderﬂuke & Co.• 205 South Flower Street • Burbank, California 91502 • 818/840-9484 • 800/776-5972 • fax 818/840-9485 If you are triggering a show, the playlist popup is disabled and you can select: e)! Whatever is Next This plays what the current/last SoundFile has set as the ‘next’ SoundFile to play at its end. This is set on the Track Setup tab.
Page 96 Gilderﬂuke & Co.• 205 South Flower Street • Burbank, California 91502 • 818/840-9484 • 800/776-5972 • fax 818/840-9485 Your options are: a)! Stop Now This immediately stops any SoundFile playing this input/edge. b)! Stop at End The current audio file plays through to its end normally. At the end of this SoundFile, the Sd-50/xx will stop and wait for the next command before it plays the next SoundFile.
Page 97 Gilderﬂuke & Co.• 205 South Flower Street • Burbank, California 91502 • 818/840-9484 • 800/776-5972 • fax 818/840-9485 Animation ʻVirtualʼ Audio Trigger Input Setup (Sd-50/8, and Sd-50/40) This is NOT the port which triggers animation. This is the port that is used to trigger audio func- tions from the animation data.
Page 98 Gilderﬂuke & Co.• 205 South Flower Street • Burbank, California 91502 • 818/840-9484 • 800/776-5972 • fax 818/840-9485 A Binary Select pattern can be used to directly access all possible 255 SoundFiles which can be loaded onto a Sd-50/ xx. If you are assigning inputs as part of a binary address, you should start by assigning ‘bit #0’. It is on this input that you will be able to tell the Sd-50/xx to start, stop, or change volumes (fade in or out).
Page 99 Gilderﬂuke & Co.• 205 South Flower Street • Burbank, California 91502 • 818/840-9484 • 800/776-5972 • fax 818/840-9485 c)! Fade to Zero In This ramps the audio back towards the a fully muted level. The ‘In’ in the command refers to the time it will take to ramp to the selected level.
Page 100 Gilderﬂuke & Co.• 205 South Flower Street • Burbank, California 91502 • 818/840-9484 • 800/776-5972 • fax 818/840-9485 i)! Speciﬁc SoundFile This selects and plays a specific SoundFile. This selection ignores the ‘on Sd/MMC flash card/From PlayList’ settings. As an option, you can delay the start of the audio from 0 to 999.9 seconds (16.65 min- utes) before it plays.
Page 101 Gilderﬂuke & Co.• 205 South Flower Street • Burbank, California 91502 • 818/840-9484 • 800/776-5972 • fax 818/840-9485 Animation Control Setup (Sd-50/8, and Sd-50/40) This window is used to setup: 1) Modes for the DMX-512/MIDI serial port. 2) RS-232 and Net Serial Port Address.
Page 102 Gilderﬂuke & Co.• 205 South Flower Street • Burbank, California 91502 • 818/840-9484 • 800/776-5972 • fax 818/840-9485 When this mode is enabled, any valid DMX-512 will take over the Sd-50/8 or Sd-50/40. The eight (Sd- 50/8) or forty (Sd-50/40) Show Control outputs, ServoMotors, and audio volume and trigger control can all be controlled directly from the received DMX-512.
Page 103 Gilderﬂuke & Co.• 205 South Flower Street • Burbank, California 91502 • 818/840-9484 • 800/776-5972 • fax 818/840-9485 Level Controls have been enabled, the ‘Note On’ velocity is used to set the .Mp3/.wav player level. The MIDI ‘Note On‘ velocity of 1 through 127 translates to volume levels from 0% through 100%.
Page 104 Gilderﬂuke & Co.• 205 South Flower Street • Burbank, California 91502 • 818/840-9484 • 800/776-5972 • fax 818/840-9485 e)! IR Trigger Mode Turning this mode on disables DMX-512, MIDI in Net Serial input on the DMX-512/MIDI serial port. Data output from the DMX-512/MIDI serial port will be buffered and repeated, but otherwise an unaltered version of what is received on the input.
Page 105 Gilderﬂuke & Co.• 205 South Flower Street • Burbank, California 91502 • 818/840-9484 • 800/776-5972 • fax 818/840-9485 Upper nibble Switch #5 Switch #6 Switch #7 Switch #8 of Address When in this mode the ‘EARLY STARTS’ should be set to ‘IGNORE’ on all of your shows. Any binary show number received by the serial port for more than ten times will trigger that show.
Page 106 Gilderﬂuke & Co.• 205 South Flower Street • Burbank, California 91502 • 818/840-9484 • 800/776-5972 • fax 818/840-9485 The Show Control data is normally output on the Show Control Outputs, MPU Control channel, Audio Level control channels, and DMX-512 outputs. The show data is typically programmed using our PC•MACs software, and downloaded to the Sd-50/8 or Sd-50/40 through the RS-232 serial port or Sd/MMC flash card.
Page 107 Gilderﬂuke & Co.• 205 South Flower Street • Burbank, California 91502 • 818/840-9484 • 800/776-5972 • fax 818/840-9485 Schedule Setup (Sd-50/8 or Sd-50/40) The RealTime Clock is available on the Sd-50/8s and Sd-50/40s. The Real Time Clock chip provides the time of day and calendar information that is used to look in the schedule to see if there are any shows and SoundFiles that need to be played.
Page 108 Gilderﬂuke & Co.• 205 South Flower Street • Burbank, California 91502 • 818/840-9484 • 800/776-5972 • fax 818/840-9485 As with just about everything on a Sd-50/8 or Sd-50/40, the configuration for the ‘Atomic’ Clock option is done through the ‘Mp3 Config.exe’ Program. The main screen for configuring this option appears as a 365 day calendar. This is used to access the schedules you have set up.
Page 109 Gilderﬂuke & Co.• 205 South Flower Street • Burbank, California 91502 • 818/840-9484 • 800/776-5972 • fax 818/840-9485 Once one or more date(s)/DOW(s) are selected, the popup at the right of the window will show the name of the sched- ule which is assigned to these date(s)/DOW(s), if there is one.
Page 110 Gilderﬂuke & Co.• 205 South Flower Street • Burbank, California 91502 • 818/840-9484 • 800/776-5972 • fax 818/840-9485 The last two settings available for the Sd-50/8 or Sd-50/40 with the RealTime ‘Atomic’ Clock option have to do with the optically isolated trigger inputs to the Show Control half of the unit. Disable Schedule Starts on ʻDʼ/White Input This input can be used to disable scans of the RTC schedules when the input is opened.
Page 111 Gilderﬂuke & Co.• 205 South Flower Street • Burbank, California 91502 • 818/840-9484 • 800/776-5972 • fax 818/840-9485 Sd-50/0, Sd-50/8, and Sd-50/40 Installation The Sd-50/xx can be mounted using four screws; two DIN rail adapters; 2-3/4” Augat ‘Snap-Track’ (which itself can be DIN rail mounted using DIN rail adapters); or just Velcro’d down.
Page 112 Gilderﬂuke & Co.• 205 South Flower Street • Burbank, California 91502 • 818/840-9484 • 800/776-5972 • fax 818/840-9485 Battery Replacement on a Sd-50/8 or Sd-50/40 (Sd-50/8 or Sd-50/40) A small lithium battery keeps the internal Real Time Clock chip running, even when the Sd-50/8 or Sd- 50/40 is powered down for months.
Page 113 Gilderﬂuke & Co.• 205 South Flower Street • Burbank, California 91502 • 818/840-9484 • 800/776-5972 • fax 818/840-9485 Care & Feeding of an GPS Receiver (Sd-50/GPS8 or Sd-50/GPS40) The GPS option adds a commercially made GPS receiver to the Sd-50/8 or Sd-50/40. The GPS option will work anywhere on the planet.
Page 114 Gilderﬂuke & Co.• 205 South Flower Street • Burbank, California 91502 • 818/840-9484 • 800/776-5972 • fax 818/840-9485 Care & Feeding of an ʻAtomicʼ Clock (Sd-50/WWV8 or Sd-50/WWV40) The ‘Atomic’ Clock we are currently using is manufactured by Oregon Scientific. We have modified it to allow it to run from a wall mounted power supply, and output a resynchronizing pulse to the Sd-50/8 or Sd-50/40.
Page 115 Gilderﬂuke & Co.• 205 South Flower Street • Burbank, California 91502 • 818/840-9484 • 800/776-5972 • fax 818/840-9485 7) Press the ‘alarm’ button again. The ‘weekday’ alarm should now be set to 3:05 AM. 8) Press the ‘alarm’ button once, the lower ‘single’ alarm symbol should light. 9) If the alarm hasn’t been set, then ‘-:--’...
Page 116 Gilderﬂuke & Co.• 205 South Flower Street • Burbank, California 91502 • 818/840-9484 • 800/776-5972 • fax 818/840-9485 C-50Trans Transition Connector (Sd-50/40) The C-50Trans is a convenient way to attach discrete wires to a Sd-50/xx for the forty digital (on/off) Show Control Outputs.
Page 117 Gilderﬂuke & Co.• 205 South Flower Street • Burbank, California 91502 • 818/840-9484 • 800/776-5972 • fax 818/840-9485 Sd-50/CC-10 Card Cage (Sd-50/0 (or with restrictions Sd-50/8 or Sd-50/40)) The Sd-50/CC-10 is a card cage designed to hold up to ten Sd-50/0s in 2U (3-1/2”) of standard 19” rack space. The Sd- 50/CC-10 can also be used with Sd-50/8 or Sd-50/40, but there is no space between the cards for the animation trigger in- puts or Show Control Outputs (Sd-50/40 only).
Page 118 If a single slot is left unpopu- lated, or populated with a Sd-50/0, will break the daisy chain. This can be used to divide the backplane into two or more universes.
Page 119 Gilderﬂuke & Co.• 205 South Flower Street • Burbank, California 91502 • 818/840-9484 • 800/776-5972 • fax 818/840-9485 • Connect the equipment into an outlet on a circuit different FCC and CE Compliance: from that to which the receiver is connected. •...
Page 120 Gilderﬂuke & Co.• 205 South Flower Street • Burbank, California 91502 • 818/840-9484 • 800/776-5972 • fax 818/840-9485 HEXadecimal to Decimal to ASCII to Percentage This chart shows decimal, HEXadecimal, and a few percentage equivalents to aid you when you need to convert between numbering bases: ! decimal!HEX!ASCII! %! decimal!HEX!ASCII! %!

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