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 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 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 Gilderﬂuke & Co.• 205 South Flower Street • Burbank, California 91502 • 818/840-9484 • 800/776-5972 • fax 818/840-9485 What You Should And Shouldn’t See ..........Shows Capacities for Sd-50/8s and Sd-50/40s ........ What To Do With A New Sd Flash Card ..........
Page 5 ‘Add devices without channels’: Move Existing Audio/Video Trigger Channels into the Appropriate ‘Devices’: Tell Pc•MACs that this is an ‘ Audio/Video Trigger’: Save and ‘Convert Audio/Video Sync’: Getting Started with an Sd-50/0 (quickly) ..............Sd-50/0, Sd-50/8 or Sd-50/40 Serial Commands ......
Page 6 Set Time Zone! ....................Sd-50/0, Sd-50/8 or Sd-50/40 Software Installation ....... Software/Firmware Versions ..................Updating Firmware on an Sd-50/0, Sd-50/8 or Sd-50/40 .......... Manual Configuration using ‘SdConfig.exe’ ........Track Setup ........................Sd-50/xx Manual / July 13, 2020 2:36 AM / page 6 of 167...
Page 7 Gilderﬂuke & Co.• 205 South Flower Street • Burbank, California 91502 • 818/840-9484 • 800/776-5972 • fax 818/840-9485 Move Up! ......................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 8 Time Zone! ......................Automatically Correct for Daylight Savings Time Changes! ......Display GPS Lock Status! ................Sd-50/0, Sd-50/8, and Sd-50/40 Installation ........Battery Replacement on an Sd-50/8 or Sd-50/40 ......Care & Feeding of an GPS Receiver ..........C-50Trans Transition Connector .............
Page 9 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/ 40, Sd-50/8 and Sd-40/0. The Sd-50/8s and Sd-50/40s can be pro- grammed using our free Pc•MACs software.
Page 10: 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 combination with additional Sd-50/xx’s, BR-SmartMedia cards or any Gilderfluke & Co. equipment. It can provide the...
Page 11 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 12: 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 an 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 13 Gilderﬂuke & Co.• 205 South Flower Street • Burbank, California 91502 • 818/840-9484 • 800/776-5972 • fax 818/840-9485 Mean Time’ (‘GMT’)) to within .001 of a second. Multiple Sd-50/8s and Sd-50/40s located anywhere on Earth can be scheduled to play the same shows and sounds at the same times, and will play them with .001 second accuracy.
Page 14 Gilderﬂuke & Co.• 205 South Flower Street • Burbank, California 91502 • 818/840-9484 • 800/776-5972 • fax 818/840-9485 50/8 or Sd-50/40 accepts data through its DMX-512 RS-422 serial port. This data is used to update the outputs, and takes precedence over the on board Flash memory. Sd-50/xx Manual / July 13, 2020 2:36 AM / page 14 of 167...
Page 15: 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 long-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 16 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 17: 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 18: 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 19: Heart (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 left 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 20: 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 an Sd-50/8, and the last output channel on an Sd-50/40 are shared with these audio trigger inputs. Nor- mally these are not used to trigger the audio on an Sd-50/8 or Sd-50/40.
Page 21: 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 22: 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 Gilder- fluke &...
Page 23: Optional Clock Input (Sd-50/8, Sd-50/40)
RTC chip inside the Sd-50/8 or Sd-50/40. This assures you that even if the GPS loses lock, the internal clock has been set accurately. 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 an Sd-50/ CC-10.
Page 24: Dmx-512/Midi/Net Serial In (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 40). If you hear ‘clicks’ or clipping on your amplifier outputs, then your power supply capacity may need to be increased. F) ! DMX-512/MIDI/Net Serial In (Sd-50/8, Sd-50/40) Two position Screw Terminals.
Page 25 Gilderﬂuke & Co.• 205 South Flower Street • Burbank, California 91502 • 818/840-9484 • 800/776-5972 • fax 818/840-9485 MIDI pin #1 = no connection MIDI pin #2 = no connection MIDI pin #3 = no connection MIDI pin #4 into - DMX/MIDI In MIDI pin #5 into + DMX/MIDI In The Sd-50/8 or Sd-50/40 will respond to MIDI ‘Note On’, ‘Note Off’, ‘Reset’, ‘All Notes Off’...
Page 26: Net Serial Input
Gilderﬂuke & Co.• 205 South Flower Street • Burbank, California 91502 • 818/840-9484 • 800/776-5972 • fax 818/840-9485 Net Serial Input Optoisolated/RS-422 switch on the bottom of the Sd-50/8 or Sd-50/40 can be in either position. If feeding multiple Sd-50/8 or Sd-50/40, then the ‘RS-422’ position should be used. One big disadvantage of the RS-232 serial port on the Sd-50/8 or Sd-50/40 is that only one Sd-50/8 or Sd-50/40 can be attached to the same serial port at the same time.
Page 27 Gilderﬂuke & Co.• 205 South Flower Street • Burbank, California 91502 • 818/840-9484 • 800/776-5972 • fax 818/840-9485 In addition to these connections, the IR Receiver requires a seven to twenty-four volt DC (Di- rect Current) power supply connection. This is normally attached to the two pads marked “+” and “-”...
Page 28: Ir Multilingual Mode
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 IR MultiLingual Mode The Sd-50s feature a multilingual mode for installations where the same IR triggers need to call up different Shows/SoundFIles.
Page 29: None
Gilderﬂuke & Co.• 205 South Flower Street • Burbank, California 91502 • 818/840-9484 • 800/776-5972 • fax 818/840-9485 1c) If the IR Trigger request Show/SoundFile #10 be played, then Show/SoundFile #39 will be requested and played. Example #2: Under the same conditions as in the example #1 above, but with the 'language select' inputs set to language 'b': 2a) IR request for Show/SoundFile #1 results Show/SoundFile #2 requested and played.
Page 30: 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 31: Left Line Output (Sd-50/0, Sd-50/8, Sd-50/40)
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 32: Outputs Via The '" J6' Port
External Power Internal Power For an 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 configura- tion).
Page 33 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 34: 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 35: 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 36: 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 37 Gilderﬂuke & Co.• 205 South Flower Street • Burbank, California 91502 • 818/840-9484 • 800/776-5972 • fax 818/840-9485 Any eight digital devices or one eight-bit analog device can be connected to any ‘" J6’ cable as shown. The LED between the ground (pin #1 brown) wire and supply (pin #10 black) wire acts as an indicator that is lit if the fuse for that channel is OK.
Page 38 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 39 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 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 40: 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 an 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 41: 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 42: Sd-50/40 Defaults
Gilderﬂuke & Co.• 205 South Flower Street • Burbank, California 91502 • 818/840-9484 • 800/776-5972 • fax 818/840-9485 c.3) If 31 or less SoundFiles are found, then the Animation ‘Virtual’ MCU Trigger bit #5 be- comes half mute in one second on closing, and unmute in one second upon opening. c.4) If 15 or less SoundFiles are found, then the Animation ‘Virtual’...
Page 43: 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 card.
Page 44 Gilderﬂuke & Co.• 205 South Flower Street • Burbank, California 91502 • 818/840-9484 • 800/776-5972 • fax 818/840-9485 and have them ‘stick’ until it finds a ‘different’ ‘Sd-50.cfg’ file. After this, the player will jump into step num- ber six shown above. If the Sd-50/xx finds the Sd 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 45: 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 an Sd-50/8 or Sd-50/40.
Page 46 Gilderﬂuke & Co.• 205 South Flower Street • Burbank, California 91502 • 818/840-9484 • 800/776-5972 • fax 818/840-9485 Outputs and Animation ‘Virtual’ MCU Trigger channel) are shown in bold. The last three columns show the capacity with the optional ‘extended’ show memory. Number of Number of Standard...
Page 47 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 an Sd-50/8 or Sd-50/40, you can very quickly burn through the standard on- board flash memory.
Page 48: What To Do With A New Sd 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 Flash Card Larger Sd flash cards only rarely need any preparation before they can be used with the Sd-50/xx. They are normally shipped formatted ‘FAT32’, which is ready to use with the Sd-50/xx.
Page 49 Gilderﬂuke & Co.• 205 South Flower Street • Burbank, California 91502 • 818/840-9484 • 800/776-5972 • fax 818/840-9485 The files system for Sd flash cards should be ‘FAT32’. You can uncheck ‘quick format’ to do a full format if you want to be sure that the Sd flash card is completely reformatted.
Page 50: Locking Your Data
There are two ways to protect the onboard flash memory on an Sd-50/0, Sd-50/8 or Sd-50/40: 1) When a Secure Digital (Sd) card is inserted in an 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 an Sd-50/0, Sd-50/8 or Sd-50/40 is locked as well.
Page 51: Getting Started With Pc•Macs And An Sd-50/8 Or Sd-50/40 (Quickly)! 5
Gilderﬂuke & Co.• 205 South Flower Street • Burbank, California 91502 • 818/840-9484 • 800/776-5972 • fax 818/840-9485 Getting Started with Pc•MACs and an Sd-50/8 or Sd-50/40 (quickly) The following instructions describe how to quickly let the latest versions of Pc•MACs set up and automatically conﬁgure an Audio/Video device like an Sd-50/8 or Sd-50/40 for you.
Page 52: Install The Software
Gilderﬂuke & Co.• 205 South Flower Street • Burbank, California 91502 • 818/840-9484 • 800/776-5972 • fax 818/840-9485 in other sections of the PC•MACs manual. It can be downloaded from the Gilderﬂuke & Co. website. Install the Software..If the PC•MACs software has already been installed on the computer you are using, you can skip this step.
Page 53 Gilderﬂuke & Co.• 205 South Flower Street • Burbank, California 91502 • 818/840-9484 • 800/776-5972 • fax 818/840-9485 under the 'Preferences' Menu. Pc•MACs and you laptop will become the DMX-512 'master' for your installation while you are programming. This is currently limited to twenty DMX-512 universes, which is 10,240 analog or 81,920 digital outputs.
Page 54: Starting A New Show In Pc•Macs
Gilderﬂuke & Co.• 205 South Flower Street • Burbank, California 91502 • 818/840-9484 • 800/776-5972 • fax 818/840-9485 Starting a New Show in Pc•MACs: To start a new Pc•MACs show for an Sd-50/8 or Sd-50/40, just take the following ﬁve steps: ! O pen Pc•MACs: You can do this by double clicking on Pc•MACs icon or the shortcut it left on your desktop during the installation.
Page 55: Close The 'New Show' Dialog / Open The 'Channels List' Dialog
Gilderﬂuke & Co.• 205 South Flower Street • Burbank, California 91502 • 818/840-9484 • 800/776-5972 • fax 818/840-9485 If you modify or add a preset, change the name of an output, or anything else, it will instantly and automatically be applied to all other shows which use the same ʻSiteʼ...
Page 56: Select The 'Add Device With Channels' Command
Gilderﬂuke & Co.• 205 South Flower Street • Burbank, California 91502 • 818/840-9484 • 800/776-5972 • fax 818/840-9485 ! S elect the ʻAdd Device with Channelsʼ command: Slide over to pick whatever GilderGear and third party hard- ware you need in your show. Re- peat this as needed.
Page 57: Attaching Dmx-512 Devices To An 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 Attaching DMX-512 Devices to an Sd-50/8 or Sd-50/40 The normal method of connecting the additional devices you just added to the Channels List is via the DMX-512 network.
Page 58: Triggering Audio/Video Files
Gilderﬂuke & Co.• 205 South Flower Street • Burbank, California 91502 • 818/840-9484 • 800/776-5972 • fax 818/840-9485 Triggering Audio/Video Files: The biggest single change in Pc•MACs from the v.199 version is that it will do virtu- ally all the work for you when triggering Audio and Video ﬁles. We call these drag-n- drop Audio/Video triggers.
Page 59 Gilderﬂuke & Co.• 205 South Flower Street • Burbank, California 91502 • 818/840-9484 • 800/776-5972 • fax 818/840-9485 If you want your Audio/Video ﬁles to play back from your Audio/Video devices, just do a quick AutoDownload, and drag the resulting folders to the players. Once the ﬁles are on the players, Pc•MACs will be able to trigger them too.
Page 60: Offline' Programming & Editing Your Show
Gilderﬂuke & Co.• 205 South Flower Street • Burbank, California 91502 • 818/840-9484 • 800/776-5972 • fax 818/840-9485 'Ofﬂine' Programming & Editing Your Show: If you have already moved the channels you want to edit over to the OffLine Edit- ing Window, you can skip the next step and open the OffLine window directly.
Page 61: Quick Tour The Offline Editing Window
Gilderﬂuke & Co.• 205 South Flower Street • Burbank, California 91502 • 818/840-9484 • 800/776-5972 • fax 818/840-9485 Quick Tour the OffLine Editing Window..A complete description of the OffLine Editing Window and its features can be found in the ʻOffLineʼ...
Page 62: Where In The Show Are We
Gilderﬂuke & Co.• 205 South Flower Street • Burbank, California 91502 • 818/840-9484 • 800/776-5972 • fax 818/840-9485 selected, the black line will be drawn as even thicker, and will be effected by any digital editing command that is invoked. Channels that are not selected, or are out- side of the selected range of time will not be altered.
Page 63: How Much Time Is Selected
Gilderﬂuke & Co.• 205 South Flower Street • Burbank, California 91502 • 818/840-9484 • 800/776-5972 • fax 818/840-9485 cursor in the analog pane of the OffLine Editing Window, the analog value of the cursor is also displayed. H) The names of the analogs and digitals are also listed at the left side of each pane.
Page 64: Offline Editing Window Shortcut Menu
Gilderﬂuke & Co.• 205 South Flower Street • Burbank, California 91502 • 818/840-9484 • 800/776-5972 • fax 818/840-9485 OffLine Editing Window shortcut menu..… RightClicking with your mouse on the OffLine Editing Window (avoid RightClicking on or near any analog or digital channels) will open a shortcut menu.
Page 65: Adding Drag-N-Drop Triggers To Your Timeline
Gilderﬂuke & Co.• 205 South Flower Street • Burbank, California 91502 • 818/840-9484 • 800/776-5972 • fax 818/840-9485 Adding Drag-n-Drop Triggers to Your Timeline..… You can add drag-n-Drop marker to your show by simply RightClicking with your mouse on the OffLine Editing Window (avoid RightClicking near any analog or digi- tal channels).
Page 66: Changing The Channels You Selected
Gilderﬂuke & Co.• 205 South Flower Street • Burbank, California 91502 • 818/840-9484 • 800/776-5972 • fax 818/840-9485 digital channel (ʻRN-50 Digitalʼ) is selected. The mouse movement is shown by the dotted arrow. It starts on the desired channel, and moves left or right. You can select all the channels that are being displayed by LeftClicking anywhere on the screen except on a channel and slid-...
Page 67: Still More Ways To Change The Channels You Selected
Gilderﬂuke & Co.• 205 South Flower Street • Burbank, California 91502 • 818/840-9484 • 800/776-5972 • fax 818/840-9485 <Shift>+LeftClick and <Control>+LeftClick modiﬁers to select a single output, a con- tiguous range of channels or random selection of channels. In the example above, the digital named ʻRN-64 Digitalʼ was initially LeftClicked to select it alone.
Page 68: Sorting The Channels On The Offline Editing Window
Gilderﬂuke & Co.• 205 South Flower Street • Burbank, California 91502 • 818/840-9484 • 800/776-5972 • fax 818/840-9485 Sorting the channels on the OffLine Editing Window..When programming a fountain or light show, it is common that one light or jet may be used as a part of several different patterns. In one pattern, it might be part of a circle.
Page 69: Drawing Digitals With A Right Mouse Click
Gilderﬂuke & Co.• 205 South Flower Street • Burbank, California 91502 • 818/840-9484 • 800/776-5972 • fax 818/840-9485 Drawing digitals with a right mouse click..You can draw (shown at left) or undraw (shown at right) any digital function by RightClicking on it and sliding the mouse left or right.
Page 70: Modifying Analogs With A Right Mouse Click
Gilderﬂuke & Co.• 205 South Flower Street • Burbank, California 91502 • 818/840-9484 • 800/776-5972 • fax 818/840-9485 Modifying analogs with a right mouse click..The tools that are used to ʻmushʼ analog channels around are called the ʻRubberbandingʼ tools. This is because Pc•MACs allows you to stretch and modify the analog wave- forms just as easily as you can with a rubber band.
Page 71 Gilderﬂuke & Co.• 205 South Flower Street • Burbank, California 91502 • 818/840-9484 • 800/776-5972 • fax 818/840-9485 b) Ramp: This generates a dead straight line be- tween each of the points. It is the most basic type of ramping available. The left and right ends are anchored at the edges of the selected area (or the default number of frames, if a stretch of time hasnʼt been selected).
Page 72 Gilderﬂuke & Co.• 205 South Flower Street • Burbank, California 91502 • 818/840-9484 • 800/776-5972 • fax 818/840-9485 d) Curve: Like the Spline above, except that it doesnʼt match the data before and after the ef- fected area. The start and end of the edit is al- ways at zero velocity (the lines are level).
Page 73 Gilderﬂuke & Co.• 205 South Flower Street • Burbank, California 91502 • 818/840-9484 • 800/776-5972 • fax 818/840-9485 f) Shift: This setting moves the analog movement in the direction you move the mouse without ef- fecting the amplitude of the movements. This is as if the movements were drawn along the road surface of a drawbridge.
Page 74: Cut, Copy And Paste, Just Like A Word Processor
Gilderﬂuke & Co.• 205 South Flower Street • Burbank, California 91502 • 818/840-9484 • 800/776-5972 • fax 818/840-9485 h) Draw: This is literally a ʻpencilʼ tool. This setting allows you to ʻdrawʼ an analog waveform using the mouse. It is especially useful for ʻdrawingʼ in ﬂickering light patterns, cleaning up mouth movements in animatronic ﬁgures or for particu- larly oddly shaped fade ins/outs.
Page 75: Paste In Something A Bunch Of Times
Gilderﬂuke & Co.• 205 South Flower Street • Burbank, California 91502 • 818/840-9484 • 800/776-5972 • fax 818/840-9485 If the number of channels that you ʻcopiedʼ does not agree with the number of channels you have selected when you ʻpasteʼ, Pc•MACs will warn you of this imbal- ance.
Page 76: Copy To A File
Gilderﬂuke & Co.• 205 South Flower Street • Burbank, California 91502 • 818/840-9484 • 800/776-5972 • fax 818/840-9485 Copy to a ﬁle…. Paste from a ﬁle..All the cut, copy and paste commands you tried out in the last sections can be used to save one or more movements to ﬁles in addition to the Windows ʻclip- boardʼ.
Page 77: Flip Your Show On Its Head
Gilderﬂuke & Co.• 205 South Flower Street • Burbank, California 91502 • 818/840-9484 • 800/776-5972 • fax 818/840-9485 Flip your show on its head..It invert command simply invert what you have displayed on the OffLine Editing Window. If digitals are ON, it will turn them OFF. If digitals are OFF, it will turn them ON.
Page 78: Stretch And Compress Time
Gilderﬂuke & Co.• 205 South Flower Street • Burbank, California 91502 • 818/840-9484 • 800/776-5972 • fax 818/840-9485 Stretch and compress time..Starting with the previous illustration, with one or more channel selected, you can then change the amount of time it takes for the movement to take place. To do this, move the cursor up into the time bar.
Page 79: Adding And Subtracting Time
Gilderﬂuke & Co.• 205 South Flower Street • Burbank, California 91502 • 818/840-9484 • 800/776-5972 • fax 818/840-9485 Analog functions are interpolated when you stretch or compress them, so they come out fairly cleanly. There arenʼt a lot of points between 'On' and 'Off' on a digital function, so you may see some rounding errors on the digital functions.
Page 80 Gilderﬂuke & Co.• 205 South Flower Street • Burbank, California 91502 • 818/840-9484 • 800/776-5972 • fax 818/840-9485 Use the ʻEditʼ menuʼs ʻDelete time' if you need the actions to happen sooner. The selected output(s) will shift by the number of frames you have selected (also in this example by ﬁfteen frames): Note that the analogs were automatically ʻcleaned upʼ...
Page 81: Generating A Ramp Between Two Points
Gilderﬂuke & Co.• 205 South Flower Street • Burbank, California 91502 • 818/840-9484 • 800/776-5972 • fax 818/840-9485 Generating a ramp between two points..If you are only using digital channels, you can skip this step. Select one or more analog channels for one or more frames worth of time: Select the ʻEditʼ...
Page 82 Gilderﬂuke & Co.• 205 South Flower Street • Burbank, California 91502 • 818/840-9484 • 800/776-5972 • fax 818/840-9485 The ʻLinearʼ generates ramps that are straight lines. This is usually the only type of curve available from most other control systems and all lighting boards: When set to ʻCurveʼ, the ramp starts and ends with the ends level.
Page 83: Copying From Digital Channels To Analog Channels
Gilderﬂuke & Co.• 205 South Flower Street • Burbank, California 91502 • 818/840-9484 • 800/776-5972 • fax 818/840-9485 Copying from digital channels to analog channels..If you havenʼt added both analog and digital channels to your show, you should skip this step. Pc•MACs supports resolutions from a one bit digital all the way up to a 32 bit analog.
Page 84 Gilderﬂuke & Co.• 205 South Flower Street • Burbank, California 91502 • 818/840-9484 • 800/776-5972 • fax 818/840-9485 Select ʻpasteʼ (shortcut: <Control>+V) Pc•MACs will warn you that you are pasting from digitals into analogs. Because thatʼs what you want to do, click ʻYesʼ: If the ʻPreferencesʼ...
Page 85 Gilderﬂuke & Co.• 205 South Flower Street • Burbank, California 91502 • 818/840-9484 • 800/776-5972 • fax 818/840-9485 You are unlikely to want square waves in your lighting channels. The ʻPrefer- encesʼ menuʼs ʻCut/Paste Optionsʼ can ﬁx this for you. The area shown as the ʻArea of Editʼ...
Page 86 Gilderﬂuke & Co.• 205 South Flower Street • Burbank, California 91502 • 818/840-9484 • 800/776-5972 • fax 818/840-9485 Because we didnʼt add a fade in a the start of each waveform, the timing has not changed on the rising edges. With a half second fade out on the falling edges of the waveform, you can see that lights will stay at 100% for the same duration as before, and then fade out over a half of a second.
Page 87 Gilderﬂuke & Co.• 205 South Flower Street • Burbank, California 91502 • 818/840-9484 • 800/776-5972 • fax 818/840-9485 The RN-58 jet and red LED are highlighted, just to make them easier to pick out from the crowd. Sd-50/xx Manual / July 13, 2020 2:36 AM / page 87 of 167...
Page 88: Copying From Analog Channels To Digital Channels
Gilderﬂuke & Co.• 205 South Flower Street • Burbank, California 91502 • 818/840-9484 • 800/776-5972 • fax 818/840-9485 Copying from analog channels to digital channels..If you havenʼt added both analog and digital channels to your show, you should skip this step. This section describes what is the opposite of what was described in the previous QuickStart ʻCopying from digital channels to analog channelsʼ.
Page 89 Gilderﬂuke & Co.• 205 South Flower Street • Burbank, California 91502 • 818/840-9484 • 800/776-5972 • fax 818/840-9485 Select the ʻEditʼ menuʼs ʻPasteʼ command (shortcut: <Control>+V): The analog data is now in the digital channel: As you can see, the beginnings and ends of the digital functionʼs lines are aligned with the points where the source analog function crossed the 50% level.
Page 90: Copying From Audio/Video Tracks To Analog Or Digital Channels
Gilderﬂuke & Co.• 205 South Flower Street • Burbank, California 91502 • 818/840-9484 • 800/776-5972 • fax 818/840-9485 Copying from Audio/Video tracks to analog or digital channels..If you havenʼt added any Audio/Video ﬁles to your show, you should skip this step.
Page 91 Gilderﬂuke & Co.• 205 South Flower Street • Burbank, California 91502 • 818/840-9484 • 800/776-5972 • fax 818/840-9485 Offset: This shifts the resulting waveform upwards, so that it never goes all the way to OFF. Typically used with lighting to keep it from turning all the way off between sounds.
Page 92: Ramp Analogs To A Color
Gilderﬂuke & Co.• 205 South Flower Street • Burbank, California 91502 • 818/840-9484 • 800/776-5972 • fax 818/840-9485 Ramp analogs to a color..If you havenʼt added any RGB lighting ﬁxtures to your show, you should skip this step. If you are programming RGB lights, you will want to ramp them to speciﬁc colors. Be aware that many RGB lights are not well calibrated.
Page 93 Gilderﬂuke & Co.• 205 South Flower Street • Burbank, California 91502 • 818/840-9484 • 800/776-5972 • fax 818/840-9485 At the end of the ramp time, the lights will be at the desired levels. You can use the ﬁll command to extend these levels for as long as needed, or use the same ʻRamp to a Colorʼ...
Page 94: Scale Analogs Without Stopping Patterns
Gilderﬂuke & Co.• 205 South Flower Street • Burbank, California 91502 • 818/840-9484 • 800/776-5972 • fax 818/840-9485 Scale Analogs without stopping patterns..If you havenʼt added any analog channels to your show, you should skip this step. If we have a chase or any other pattern that we have programmed into the ana- log functions, we can change the level of the analogs without changing what they are doing by using the ʻEditʼ...
Page 95: More Ways To Modify A Digital Channel
Gilderﬂuke & Co.• 205 South Flower Street • Burbank, California 91502 • 818/840-9484 • 800/776-5972 • fax 818/840-9485 values are used to scale the entire length of the selected area evenly. To fade in and out, you set one to a high value, and the other to a low value. In this case, we will be doing a fade out, so we will start with 100% and end at 0%: The same channels are highlighted so you can see what is happening with the analog during the fade.
Page 96: More Ways To Modify An Analog Channel
Gilderﬂuke & Co.• 205 South Flower Street • Burbank, California 91502 • 818/840-9484 • 800/776-5972 • fax 818/840-9485 More ways to modify an analog channel..If you are only using digital channels, you may want to skip this step. Select one or more analog channels for one or more frames worth of time. Under ʻEditʼ...
Page 97: Realtime' Programming Your Show
Gilderﬂuke & Co.• 205 South Flower Street • Burbank, California 91502 • 818/840-9484 • 800/776-5972 • fax 818/840-9485 'RealTime' Programming Your Show: This section presumes that you have already attached your Br-miniBrick4 Serial Adapt2 USB serial port adapter, and told Pc•MACs about it. Because the Br- miniBrick4's ONLY serial port connection is through the Br-miniBrick4 Serial Adapt2, DMX-512, ArtNet and other higher speed transports are not covered here.
Page 98: Digitals At The Bottom
Gilderﬂuke & Co.• 205 South Flower Street • Burbank, California 91502 • 818/840-9484 • 800/776-5972 • fax 818/840-9485 console/joystick. Move your console/joystick, and the sliders will move these sliders. The remaining sliders can still be moved using your mouse, as before. Digitals at the Bottom…...
Page 99: Test Drive The Soft Console
Gilderﬂuke & Co.• 205 South Flower Street • Burbank, California 91502 • 818/840-9484 • 800/776-5972 • fax 818/840-9485 Test Drive the Soft Console…... Once you have assigned your analog and digital outputs to the Soft Console, you can press the buttons and move the sliders. If ʻManualʼ mode is ON and the serial and/or DMX-512 cables are connected to the Br-miniBrick4, you will see your ac- tions reﬂected in the output LEDs.
Page 100: Save And Recall Console Presets
Gilderﬂuke & Co.• 205 South Flower Street • Burbank, California 91502 • 818/840-9484 • 800/776-5972 • fax 818/840-9485 Save and Recall Console Presets…... Once you have the inputs assigned on the Soft Con- sole, you can save the current setup as a ʻConsole Pre- setʼ.
Page 101: Autodownloading Shows
Gilderﬂuke & Co.• 205 South Flower Street • Burbank, California 91502 • 818/840-9484 • 800/776-5972 • fax 818/840-9485 AutoDownloading Shows: The final step in programming most shows is to generate an AutoDownload file to run on the perma- nent Show Control System. In this case, this will be your Sd-50/8 or Sd-50/40. An ‘AutoDownload Quick Start’, as well as full instructions on AutoDownloading shows is found in the PC•MACs manual.
Page 102: Set What The Target Device Does On Each Trigger Input
Gilderﬂuke & Co.• 205 South Flower Street • Burbank, California 91502 • 818/840-9484 • 800/776-5972 • fax 818/840-9485 ! Set what the Target Device does on each Trigger Input: Each Target Device has different numbers of trigger inputs, and different things it can do with them.
Page 103 Gilderﬂuke & Co.• 205 South Flower Street • Burbank, California 91502 • 818/840-9484 • 800/776-5972 • fax 818/840-9485 For each BrightSign video players triggered thru GPIO using either the v-Hd-to-DMX or v-Hd-to-1/4J6 and running the GilderScript Pc•MACs will create a drag-n-drop folder for each player. Within this folder, Pc•MACs will create the ‘playlist’...
Page 104: Updating Older Shows
Gilderﬂuke & Co.• 205 South Flower Street • Burbank, California 91502 • 818/840-9484 • 800/776-5972 • fax 818/840-9485 Updating Older Shows: If you have older, existing shows that were created with versions of Pc•MACs (versions prior to 2.0.216.1), it is a very simple process to update them. Using the new version of Pc•MACs, you can open any show that was created in any older version of Pc•MACs, or even older shows created in the original CP/M versions of ‘MACs’...
Page 105: Open The 'Channels List' Dialog
Gilderﬂuke & Co.• 205 South Flower Street • Burbank, California 91502 • 818/840-9484 • 800/776-5972 • fax 818/840-9485 ! Open the ʻChannels Listʼ Dialog: Typically all of your shows that run on the same Sd-50/8 or Sd-50/40 site file will be located in the same folder. Open any one of your shows that already uses Audio or Video files.
Page 106: Move Existing Audio/Video Trigger Channels Into The Appropriate 'Devices
Gilderﬂuke & Co.• 205 South Flower Street • Burbank, California 91502 • 818/840-9484 • 800/776-5972 • fax 818/840-9485 ! Move Existing Audio/Video Trigger Channels into the Appropriate ʻDevicesʼ: If your old show was already able to trigger Audio and Video files, then there are already some Audio/Video trigger channels somewhere in your Channels List.
Page 107: Save And 'Convert Audio/Video Sync
Gilderﬂuke & Co.• 205 South Flower Street • Burbank, California 91502 • 818/840-9484 • 800/776-5972 • fax 818/840-9485 ! Save and ʻConvert Audio/Video Syncʼ: Save your show and then reopen the same show. Opening the #1 show the ‘recent files’ list under the file pulldown is the quickest way to do this.
Page 108: Getting Started With An Sd-50/0 (Quickly)
Getting Started with an Sd-50/0 (quickly) If you are using an Sd-50/0, it is typically running as a stand-alone audio player, rather than a part of an overall Show Control System. For this reason, it is normally configured manually, rather than as part of a Pc•MACs show.
Page 109 Sd flash card or drag-n-drop folder. 6) Select the ‘Player Type’. In this case, we are us- ing an Sd-50/0…. Now that the ‘SdConfig.exe’ program knows what type of player it is configuring, the ‘No files in Directory Warning’...
Page 110 NOT drag the entire drag-n-drop folder. You need to open it and just move its contents! 11) Tell Windows to ‘Eject’ the Sd flash card and Move the Sd flash card to the Sd-50/0. If you do not ‘Eject’ the Sd flash card properly, Windows may damage the files it still copying them to the Sd flash card.
Page 111: 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 112: 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 113: Start Commands
Gilderﬂuke & Co.• 205 South Flower Street • Burbank, California 91502 • 818/840-9484 • 800/776-5972 • fax 818/840-9485 3) ! Start Commands Start Track: “t” [nn] (card address) Start Global: “u” These commands start the animation playing on the Sd-50/8(s) or Sd-50/40(s) addressed by the command.
Page 114: 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 115: Realtime Update
Gilderﬂuke & Co.• 205 South Flower Street • Burbank, California 91502 • 818/840-9484 • 800/776-5972 • fax 818/840-9485 AutoDownload file for sending. You must be sure that the modem program has not been set to ‘gobble’ any special characters (carriage returns, line feeds, etc.). The Hyper Terminal program that comes with recent versions of Windows will not work for sending AutoDownloads.
Page 116: 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) Start Commands: Start Track: “t”...
Page 117: Sd-50/0, Sd-50/8 Or Sd-50/40 Hardware Config
Sd-50/xx. For an 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 118: 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 ‘SdConfig.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 119: 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 character screen at one time. The RS-232 serial data signals from the Sd-50/xxʼs are brought out on a 1/8”...
Page 120 Gilderﬂuke & Co.• 205 South Flower Street • Burbank, California 91502 • 818/840-9484 • 800/776-5972 • fax 818/840-9485 - Gilderfluke & Co. - Sd-50/40 ShowControl - version 1.32 - copyright 2017 DCM - DeviceName @ Serial Address- 123 w/8 MBytes ADL file: AutoDownload_Filename.a00 w/123 ch.
Page 121 Gilderﬂuke & Co.• 205 South Flower Street • Burbank, California 91502 • 818/840-9484 • 800/776-5972 • fax 818/840-9485 ii) ‘playing’: Show was started using a ‘play’ command. This show will play to its end and just stop. iii) ‘stopped’: This is displayed if no show is playing. The data from the first frame or last frame of the show will be output by the Pb-DMX/xx, depending on if it is has yet to be played, or if it has already played through to its end.
Page 122: Play A Sound
Gilderﬂuke & Co.• 205 South Flower Street • Burbank, California 91502 • 818/840-9484 • 800/776-5972 • fax 818/840-9485 6) The current status of the B/Red optically isolated input. Input will show whether it is ‘opened’ (no current flowing) or ‘closed’ (current flowing through the input). 7) The current status of the C/Blue optically isolated input.
Page 123: Daylight Savings Time
Gilderﬂuke & Co.• 205 South Flower Street • Burbank, California 91502 • 818/840-9484 • 800/776-5972 • fax 818/840-9485 d) ! Daylight Savings Time At the first prompt, you can Y) Tell the Sd-50/8 or Sd-50/40 to automatically adjust for Daylight Savings Time (DST). It will use the rules you have set for the part of the world you live in, or when the U.S.
Page 124: Set Time
Gilderﬂuke & Co.• 205 South Flower Street • Burbank, California 91502 • 818/840-9484 • 800/776-5972 • fax 818/840-9485 h) ! Set Time This command is only available if the Sd-50/8 or Sd-50/40 is not listening to the time and location signals received from a GPS receiver. If he GPS is active, it will display the time from the GPS and set the time very accurately every minute, on the half minute.
Page 125: Reload Defaults
Gilderﬂuke & Co.• 205 South Flower Street • Burbank, California 91502 • 818/840-9484 • 800/776-5972 • fax 818/840-9485 o) ! Reload Defaults This reloads the default values for all the animation variables. It does not affect the variables used to trigger sounds.
Page 126: Verify Shows
Gilderﬂuke & Co.• 205 South Flower Street • Burbank, California 91502 • 818/840-9484 • 800/776-5972 • fax 818/840-9485 This command asks which ServoMotor you want to adjust (0-7). If the ServoMotor you select is not currently set for use as a ServoMotor, then it will ask if you want to make it so. Once the ServoMotor is selected, a special menu is displayed which shows how the ServoMotors are adjusted: -Gilderfluke &...
Page 127: Exit
Gilderﬂuke & Co.• 205 South Flower Street • Burbank, California 91502 • 818/840-9484 • 800/776-5972 • fax 818/840-9485 then this command will automatically verify the schedule. Pressing the <ESCape> key at any pint in the verification will abort the process. x) ! Exit This is used to exit the configuration mode.
Page 128: 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 129: 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 an Sd-50/xx: ‘SdConfig.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 130: Updating Firmware On An 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 an 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 131: Manual Configuration Using 'Sdconfig.exe
For an Sd-50/0, the ‘SdConfig.exe’ program must be used to configure the player before it can be used. Don’t panic. In most cases this is a simple eight step process.
Page 132 Sd flash card or drag-n-drop folder. 6) Select the ‘Player Type’. In this case, we are us- ing an Sd-50/0…. Now that the ‘SdConfig.exe’ program knows what type of player it is configuring, the ‘Track Warning’ message will disappear and the other menu tabs will be shown.
Page 133 Gilderﬂuke & Co.• 205 South Flower Street • Burbank, California 91502 • 818/840-9484 • 800/776-5972 • fax 818/840-9485 7) From under the ‘Edit’ menu, select ‘Reset Everything to Defaults’. You can manually configure your Sd-50/ xx player, but for the majority of users the faults will suffice.
Page 134: 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 ‘SdConfig.exe’ pro- gram.
Page 135 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 136 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 137 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) This feature is normally only used on Sd-50/0s that are being used as stand-alone audio players.
Page 138 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 ‘SdConfig.exe’...
Page 139 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 140 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 141 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 an 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 142 Gilderﬂuke & Co.• 205 South Flower Street • Burbank, California 91502 • 818/840-9484 • 800/776-5972 • fax 818/840-9485 1) Playback Level These options are not available if you are triggering a show with this input. This popup allows you to select a change in audio level on the outputs on this input/edge. This can be set for either the closing or opening edge.
Page 143 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 144 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 145 Gilderﬂuke & Co.• 205 South Flower Street • Burbank, California 91502 • 818/840-9484 • 800/776-5972 • fax 818/840-9485 MCU 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 146 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 an 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 147 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 148: Pause Or Resume
Gilderﬂuke & Co.• 205 South Flower Street • Burbank, California 91502 • 818/840-9484 • 800/776-5972 • fax 818/840-9485 h)! A Random SoundFile This plays a SoundFile picked at random from the entire card or one of the eight track lists. As an op- tion, you can delay the start of the audio from 0 to 999.9 seconds (16.65 minutes) before it plays.
Page 149: Animation Control Setup
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) DMX/MIDI/Serial Port Setup DMX-512/MIDI serial port can be set up to receive data in a variety of data formats, or disabled. The DMX- 512 serial port output will always transmit DMX-512, no matter what type of data is being received.
Page 150: Enable Dmx-512 Checksums
Gilderﬂuke & Co.• 205 South Flower Street • Burbank, California 91502 • 818/840-9484 • 800/776-5972 • fax 818/840-9485 receive the GilderChecksum until it is reset. The GilderChecksum will keep the Sd-50/8 or Sd-50/40 from updating its outputs on any frame of data that has any errors in it. Enable DMX-512 Checksums When the Enable DMX-512 Checksums checkbox is enabled, DMX-512 will be transmitted with the GilderChecksum in bytes 256 and 257.
Page 151: Midi Channel Number
Gilderﬂuke & Co.• 205 South Flower Street • Burbank, California 91502 • 818/840-9484 • 800/776-5972 • fax 818/840-9485 b) Each note will trigger a specific animated show. Up to 127 shows can be accessed in this way. c) Show numbers beyond the last show loaded on the Sd-50/8 or Sd-50/40 are ignored. MIDI Channel Number MIDI in data stream can be addressed to any of sixteen different addresses.
Page 152 Gilderﬂuke & Co.• 205 South Flower Street • Burbank, California 91502 • 818/840-9484 • 800/776-5972 • fax 818/840-9485 NAME COLOR SIGNAL FUNCTION RIGHT Ground BLUE Ground In addition to these connections, the IR Receiver requires a seven to twenty-four volt DC (Direct Cur- rent) power supply connection.
Page 153: Brick Address
Gilderﬂuke & Co.• 205 South Flower Street • Burbank, California 91502 • 818/840-9484 • 800/776-5972 • fax 818/840-9485 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. Typically the trans- mitters are placed along the path of the vehicle’s travel to trigger the appropriate animation and audio se- quences at the appropriate times.
Page 154: Disable Outputs When Stopped
Gilderﬂuke & Co.• 205 South Flower Street • Burbank, California 91502 • 818/840-9484 • 800/776-5972 • fax 818/840-9485 Disable Outputs When Stopped This checkbox is normally left ‘unchecked’. If it is checked, it will disable the Show Control out- puts if there is no show running on the Show Control side of the Sd-50/8 or Sd-50/40. This feature is used if there is a chance that a show will be stopped in the middle, and it may damage some- thing that the Sd-50/8 or Sd-50/40 is controlling if the outputs are left on for an extended period of time.
Page 155: Schedule Setup
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 156 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 157: Disable Schedule Starts On ʻDʼ/White Input
Gilderﬂuke & Co.• 205 South Flower Street • Burbank, California 91502 • 818/840-9484 • 800/776-5972 • fax 818/840-9485 You can name any schedule anything you wish. This will be displayed on the main menu of the Sd-50/8 or Sd-50/40. Buttons are available to add a ‘new entry’, ‘edit’ and existing entry, or ‘delete’ an existing entry. Double clicking on any exist- ing entry will also open it for editing.
Page 158: Daylight Savings Time & Time Zone Setup
Gilderﬂuke & Co.• 205 South Flower Street • Burbank, California 91502 • 818/840-9484 • 800/776-5972 • fax 818/840-9485 Daylight Savings TIme & Time Zone Setup (Sd-50/8 or Sd-50/40) The final tab in the ‘SdConfig.exe’ program is used to set a few options for the Real Time Clock and GPS: 1) Daylight Savings Time Here you can set the starting and ending schedule for your local Daylight Settings Time.
Page 159: Automatically Correct For Daylight Savings Time Changes
Gilderﬂuke & Co.• 205 South Flower Street • Burbank, California 91502 • 818/840-9484 • 800/776-5972 • fax 818/840-9485 3) Automatically Correct for Daylight Savings Time Changes This allows you to enable or disable support for Daylight Settings Time. This settings defaults ‘ON’, but you can turn it off if the Sd-50/8 or Sd-50/40 is to be located in Arizona, or another location which doesn’t use Daylight Set- tings Time.
Page 160: Sd-50/0, Sd-50/8, And Sd-50/40 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, and Sd-50/40 Installation The Sd-50/xx can be mounted using four screws; a pair of DIN rail adapters; 2-3/4” Augat ‘Snap- Track’...
Page 161: Battery Replacement On An 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 Battery Replacement on an 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 162: Care & Feeding Of An Gps Receiver
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 163: C-50Trans Transition Connector
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 an Sd-50/xx for the forty digital (on/off) Show Control Outputs.
Page 164: Sd-50/Cc-10 Card Cage
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 165 If a single slot is left unpopu- lated, or populated with an Sd-50/0, will break the daisy chain. This can be used to divide the backplane into two or more universes.
Page 166: Fcc And Ce Compliance
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 167: Hexadecimal To Decimal To Ascii To Percentage
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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