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Please consider that the operation of these protocols depend on their properties
the Settings page.
7.4.3 Sample Rate
The Sample Rate setting will determine how many samples of the data are taken
per second and stored in memory. This setting variants are 5, 10, 30 and 40
Frames Per Second (FPS). 40 FPS gives maximum quality in terms of smooth
dimming curves. 5 FPS is a low value but useful for slow DMX changes and
consumes much less memory. The 40 FPS setting is recommended unless there
is a reason to reduce the sample rate.
7.4.4 XLR Adapter
The DMX ports on the QuadCore are mainly used for outputting DMX and
therefor are fitted with female XLR connectors. When using the ports as an
input it is likely that the XLR needs to 'gender change' into a male connector.
Neutrik offers the NA5MM (figure 7.4), a 5-pin XLR male-to-male adapter for
this purpose.
7.5 Track Capacity
The QuadCore has 32MB memory, of which 24MB is reserved for the tracks.
The device uses a compression algorithm to store the data and optimise the
storage for best use. The duration of the recording that the track can hold
depends on several parameters: number of tracks, dynamic lighting content and
the number of DMX channels used. Therefor the maximum duration is hard to
specify, however, some guidance can be provided:
In a typical scenario where 32 moving heads - together consuming 512 channels
- are constantly changing their primary attributes (position, shutter, colour &
Figure 7.4: Neutrik NA5MM
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