Visual Productions CUECORE2 Manual page 7

1.1.1 Solid-State
The solid-state aspect was perhaps the most important trait that made the
CueCore1 a default choice for many system designers. The CueCore2 continues
this design without any moving part, without forced cooling, and its data safely
stored in flash memory. The resulted reliability outperforms any PC based
lighting system.
1.1.2 Multi-zone Replay Unit
One of the principle functions of the CueCore2 is to playback DMX shows. We
took a lot of consideration into making this feature as powerful as possible with
the given hardware platform. The playback mechanism we developed can control
six different zones. Each zone will be controlled by a completely independent
playback. This playback features many options that provides the freedom to
the users to employ very smart programming. These options include intensity,
rate, precedence, release-time, repeating, fading and inter-cue conditions.
1.1.3 Networking
Our world is one big connected network and the CueCore2 will blend in nicely.
This Ethernet-based device is setup via DHCP or static address, hosts a modern
web-interface for programming and is of course also powered by PoE.
1.1.4 Protocol Conversion
One of the strongest Unique Selling Points of the products designed at Vi-
sual Productions is the number of communication protocols supported. The
CueCore2 further raises this bar. It contains protocols familiar to the CueCore1
(DMX, Art-Net, UDP, OSC) and introduces a fresh set of new protocols: sACN,
KiNet, TCP and NTP. This vast collection of protocols can be used for record-
ing, sending, triggering and converting.
1.1.5 Scalability
One CueCore2 can do a lot, multiple CueCore2 units can do even more. Through
using CueluxPro it is possible to control up to 32 universes by connecting mul-
tiple CueCore2 units. For stand-alone scenarios we even developed a brand new
Master/Slave protocol that, once set up with just a few mouse clicks, allows 25
CueCore2 to work together and keep 50universes synchronised at 40 frames per
second.
We hope that you enjoy integrating the CueCore2 into your lighting designs.
The CueCore2 engineering team.
1.2 Features
The feature set of the CueCore2 includes:
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