Working Offline; Adding Merlin, Mla, Mld And Mlx - Martin Audio MLA User Manual

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Working Offline

Before we move on to look at adding elements to projects it is important to understand the difference between working off line
and normal on-line operation at an event. When working off line the Palette allows you to drop elements into the System
Diagram, you can open arrays and Merlins as you would for an on-line system. This is useful as a means to get used to system
operation in Vu-Net but very little beyond that. Unlike some systems you CANNOT create a system design off line and connect
to a system on site. When connecting to a system you have to use Device Discovery which searches all available connected
devices for system elements and automatically drops them into the system diagram showing their Ethernet and Vu-Net
Connections. This is vital as every Vu-Net element has a unique factory set IP address which Vu-Net records so it can provide
real-time monitoring of the system and can display the status of every device. If for example you re-connect to a system having
used it on one day and shut down over night, Vu-Net will be able to detect that every cabinet has been turned back on and the
status of all parameters of every DSP. We will show how to introduce all available elements into a project off line but will cover
Device Discovery and on-line operation in a later chapter.

Adding Merlin, MLA, MLD and MLX

Adding any devices to a System diagram is a simple case of clicking on the required item in the Palette;-
Then click on the System Diagram workspace. The cursor will have a small white box with a cross in the centre prompting you to
click where you wish to deposit the device. Here we see a new Merlin added to a project;-
The four black squares in the corners indicate that the device is still selected which is the default when a new element is added
to a project. The most useful thing about this is that it gives you the opportunity to move it to exactly where you need it simply
by using a click-drag-drop movement. A click anywhere else in Vu-Net will de-select the Merlin.
Adding an MLA/MLD array is done by clicking on the icon and then in the project window, you will see the following window;-
Enter the number of MLD required in the array. In the majority of systems this will be one or two. They will automatically be
added to the bottom of the array.
Next this window appears;-
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