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Polycom Conference Composer User Manual

Polycom conference composer software: user guide
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  • Page 1 Conference Composer User Guide...
  • Page 2 Copyright © 2001 Polycom, Inc. All rights reserved. Printed in the United States of America. Because of technical progress, specifications are subject to change without notice. ® The Polycom logo and Vortex are registered trademarks of Polycom, Inc.. Polycom, Inc.

  • Page 3: Table Of Contents

    ONFERENCE Conference ComposerTM Software ...2 Introduction ... 2 Installation... 2 Features of the Conference Composer Window ... 3 Operating Conference Composer...5 Device Parameters ...8 System ... 8 Options... 9 Mic/Line Inputs... 11 Input Filters ... 12 Automixer... 13 EF Bus ... 14 Matrix Mixer...

  • Page 4: Omposer Tm

    Conference Composer operates under Windows™ 98, ME, NT, and 2000. NSTALLATION Insert the Conference Composer disk into your CD-ROM drive and run the Setup program. If you have a previously installed version of Conference Composer on your computer, it is highly recommended that you uninstall that version (use Add/ Remove Program from the C version.

  • Page 5: Features Of The Conference Composer Window

    EATURES OF THE ONFERENCE Figure 1. Feauters of Conference Composer window gate and browse through your device list. Clicking on an item in the tree will dis- play the parameter page to the right of the explorer menu. between your PC and a Vortex or EF device (EF200 or EF1210). The W...
  • Page 6 ONFERENCE . User mode selects between B mode limits user options that can be adjusted. Advanced mode allows con- trol of all parameters available on Conference Composer. . The Help menu contains the A number of the software. TM S...

  • Page 7: Operating Conference Composer

    DOWN. To operate online, the EF Device should be connected to an RS-232 port of your host NLINE ONNECTED computer. The first step is to have Conference Composer scan your EF Device -- this EF D TO AN EVICE ensures the settings you see on the PC screen are exactly the settings in the device.
  • Page 8 RS-232 port and then automatically download all the settings into Conference Composer. Once the settings have been downloaded to the PC, any changes you make to the device through Conference Composer will be sent automatically to the device, updating its configuration in real-time.
  • Page 9 Figure 4 (the red X’s indicate that you are offline), and you are ready to pro- ceed to the next section. © Polycom, Inc. PERATING ONFERENCE Figure 5. Operating Conference Com- poser Offline. Conference Composer User Guide OMPOSER...

  • Page 10: System

    EVICE ARAMETERS Each device in Conference Composer is represented by a list of sub-entries for that device. For the Vortex, those fields are S Figure 4. By clicking on the Device (EF2280:00 in Figure 4) you bring up the S ing to the list of sub-entries in Figure 4.

  • Page 11: Device Parameters

    PTIONS Figure 8. Options Tab. The O • © Polycom, Inc. tab allows the user to set the following parameters: PTIONS . The modem initialization string, if enabled, ODEM NITIALIZATION TRING EVICE ARAMETERS Conference Composer User Guide...
  • Page 12 (or any device connected to the RS-232 port) each time the Vortex is reset (either through power-up or a software reset). This allows the Vortex to put the modem into an Auto Answer Mode, and set the baud-rate to 9600 bps.

  • Page 13: Mic/Line Inputs

    . These allow the user to set the input gain in dB on AIN SLIDER AND TEXT BOX . This applies mic or line level gain to the Input. In Mic mode, INE SWITCH EVICE ARAMETERS button is enabled and the particular EVELS Conference Composer User Guide...

  • Page 14: Input Filters

    Once the settings are configured for Input Channel 1, the user may copy those settings to all other channels using the C Conference Composer User Guide . 24 V phantom power can be enabled or disabled (it is enabled HANTOM OWER .

  • Page 15: Automixer

    NOM can be set to limit the maximum number of open micro- OCAL NOM then you should leave the L LOBAL EVICE ARAMETERS is specified globally for each of the NOM can be used to LOBAL OCAL Conference Composer User Guide...

  • Page 16: Ef Bus

    Vortexes in the E ANCELLER EFERENCE ON THE EF B Conference Composer User Guide NOM set to 8. To link Vortexes together, use the B number with the exception of B , or A ORCE...

  • Page 17: Matrix Mixer

    © Polycom, Inc. 1, R 2, or N EFERENCE EFERENCE Conference Composer User Guide EVICE ARAMETERS . Only one Vortex can put an AEC...
  • Page 18 Figure 12, we used stereo program audio and consequently had a local left output (Output C) and a local right output (Output D) in the room. The echo canceller reference R1 included both the codec audio (Input A), the phone add audio (Input B) Conference Composer User Guide Technical Support: 800.932.2774 EVICE...

  • Page 19: Output Filters

    Output Channel. ILTERS page allows the user to adjust the output level, select NOM attenuation, UTPUTS EVICE ARAMETERS button. RAPH button. YPASS HANNEL ILTERS TO ALL HANNELS con- UTPUTS Conference Composer User Guide...

  • Page 20: Logic Input

    AEC Reference, enable/disable AGC, set AGC Max, set AGC Rate, enable/disable Noise Cancellation, set Noise Cancellation Level, set Mic or Line Level, or turn Phantom Power On or Off. Within Conference Composer, the Logic pins also have an LED associated with them to indicate the status of the contact closure.

  • Page 21: Logic Output

    20 OGIC UTPUT or D CTIVATED EACTIVATED button will show the command syntax. OMMAND EVICE ARAMETERS and D control win- CTIVATED EACTIVATED field to pick a status off the Conference Composer User Guide...

  • Page 22: Presets

    References, R1 and R2 are also displayed on this page. To turn on the meter information, select the L Conference Composer User Guide the current settings as a preset at any time or a different preset at any time. Restoring a preset will send all the status...

  • Page 23: Project Files And Creating Reports

    REATING EPORTS Conference Composer can automatically generate reports of a Project, Device Chain, or Device which show all the settings configured for the device. A Project report will consist of the device chains and any devices that are part of the device chain. A device chain report will only include the devices included in the device chain.

  • Page 24: The Console Window

    EF Device and monitor the acknowledgements. The P change the settings on flow control and also includes the capability to update firm- ware. To open a Console Window, right click on the COM port in Conference Composer’s Explorer menu, and choose C ONSOLE Figure 17.

  • Page 25: Properties Tab

    Figure 18. Properties Tab in the Console Window. The Properties Tab provides the capability to change flow control and also update the firmware of your EF Device. The capability to update firmware is included in Conference Composer version 1.62 PDATING IRMWARE and higher.
  • Page 26 EF device. Click on the U In the dialog box that comes up, choose the EFB file for your appropriate device. These EFB files are found in the directory where Conference Composer is installed. Follow the instructions that come up in the dialog boxes.

  • Page 27: Modem Use With The Vortex

    You will need Conference Composer version 1.62 or later. You can find the latest ONFERENCE version of the software on our website at www.aspi.com, on the Vortex page. OMPOSER At the local site with the Vortex, use Conference Composer to enable the modem to ITE WITH THE auto answer: ORTEX Figure 19.
  • Page 28 At the remote site, open Conference Composer and from the F ROM THE EMOTE ERENCES ure 20. Figure 20. F Find the Comm Port that your modem is connected to and make sure the box beside it is checked. Click on the corresponding S comes up, go to the M Figure 21.

  • Page 29: Troubleshooting The Vortex Modem Connection

    PCs are configured as DTE, which means you don’t need a null modem to ORTEX communicate between the Vortex and a PC). © Polycom, Inc. ORTEX ODEM ONNECTION ODEM SE WITH THE ORTEX from the remote end. UTOSCAN window in Conference ONSOLE ONSOLE Conference Composer User Guide...

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