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TC Electronic System 6000 MKII Operation Manual

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  • Page 1 Operation manual English...

  • Page 3: Table Of Contents

    License Agreement ......58 Appendix Technical Specifications - Mainframe 6000 MKII ..60 Technical Specifications - TC Icon & Remote CPU ..61 TC Electronic, Sindalsvej 34, DK-8240 Risskov Prod No: 606146012 - Rev.

  • Page 4: Important Safety Instructions

    IMPORTANT SAFETY INSTRUCTIONS The lightning flash with an arrowhead symbol within an The exclamation point within an equilateral triangle is equilateral triangle, is intended to alert the user to the intended to alert the user to the presence of important presence of uninsulated "dangerous voltage"...

  • Page 5: Introduction

    We hope you will have a lot of creative and interesting working hours with your System 6000. Feel free to contact us with any comments or questions via info@tcelectronic.com. TC Electronic Please note: We reserve the rights to change the contents of this manual at any time.

  • Page 6: Getting Started

    GETTING STARTED This is an illustration of how to connect a standard System 6000 as it comes with one Mainframe and one TC Icon. We recommend reading through the entire Hardware & Installation section before operating. Please note that a crossed ethernet cable (supplied) must be used in this type of setup. When the system is connected to a HUB as a part of a major network non-crossed ethernet cables must be used (not supplied).

  • Page 7: Front And Rear

    FRONT AND REAR System 6000 Mainframe Front Power Key Power On LED Switches power On/Off. During start-up this LED is red. When the unit is ready for use, the LED will turn green. PCMCIA slot Reset (countersunk) For handling of preset banks. Press and hold this button during boot to reset the frames IP address to the default setting: 192.168.1.xx, - where “xx”...

  • Page 8: Dsp 6000 - Card And Connections

    DSP 6000 - CARD AND CONNECTIONS connector Sync In Word Clock Use the supplied cable to connect the AES/EBU Inputs/Outputs. For connections to external clock via the standard BNC connector (see illustration above). When several devices are connected in a chain and Cable type is twisted pair (12 pairs) with common screen.

  • Page 9: Remote Cpu

    REMOTE CPU Remote CPU front panel Power Key Switches power On/Off. Green LED indicates power on state. Remote CPU rear panel COM port 1 LAN 1 COM port 2 Ethernet/LAN Connection connection for for TC Icon connection for sw setups with updates etc.

  • Page 10: Tc Icon

    TC ICON TC Icon Front TC Icon Rear 198 mm Screen TC Connection Cable. The TC Icon screen is a touch-sensitive capacitive screen. Use the special TC Icon cable supplied with the unit ONLY! The resolution is 640 x 480 16 bit color resolution. The No other cables can be used.

  • Page 11: Installing Additional I/O Cards

    INSTALLING ADDITIONAL I/O CARDS Caution! The servicing instructions are for use Slot A by qualified personnel only. To reduce the risk of electric shock do Slot C Slot B / AES-8 not perform any servicing other than that in the operation instructions unless you are qualified to do so.
  • Page 12 INSTALLING ADDITIONAL I/O CARDS Caution! The servicing instructions are for use Slot A by qualified personnel only. To reduce the risk of electric shock do Slot C Slot B / AES-8 not perform any servicing other than that in the operation instructions unless you are qualified to do so.

  • Page 13: System 6000 Network & Updating Software

    SYSTEM 6000 NETWORK & UPDATING SOFTWARE This section deals with Setting Subnet Mask & TCP/IP on System 6000 The System 6000 Subnet Mask and I/P address can be set - basic network terminology related to System 6000 via the TC Icon page: frame/system/main/net - how to connect System 6000 in a LAN (Local Area Network) The frames IP address can at all times be reset to default:...
  • Page 14 SYSTEM 6000 NETWORK & UPDATING SOFTWARE Updating Software Step 2 - Mac & PC System 6000 is a constantly evolving platform and updating • The three software types are now be visible when you software is a standard procedure to keep the system up-to- press the panes: Frames, DSP and NET.
  • Page 15 SYSTEM 6000 NETWORK & UPDATING SOFTWARE Updating TC Icon Software • Then press “Permissions” and press “Add” Beware, the 19 “Remote CPU rack module and the TC Icon are viewed as one inseparable unit and therefore there is only one TC Icon software-package. •...
  • Page 16 • Download Icon Editor for Mac • Open the Icon.dmg file placed on your desktop and drag TC Electronic does NOT have access to any files or the application to your desktop or another location of information on devices connected to LAN2.
  • Page 17 SYSTEM 6000 NETWORK & UPDATING SOFTWARE Hubs For optimal performance use a 100Mbit Hub. We recommend Hubs from 3Com and Cisco. Warning This product includes an “Ethernet Port” which allows this product to be connected to a local area network (LAN). Only connect to networks that remain inside the building.

  • Page 18: Basic Operation

    BASIC OPERATION List of connected units Introduction Engine Structure This section of the manual is a general introduction on how The core element of Mainframe 6000 is the 4 Engine to operate System 6000 via the TC Icon. The basic System structure.
  • Page 19 BASIC OPERATION The Icon Operating Levels Library, Frame & LINK key Engine select Tabs The Library-Recall page illustrated in Fig.3 leads to explanation of the “operating levels” in the System 6000. We differentiate between 3 levels of presets: Scene, Routing and Engine levels. Function •...

  • Page 20: Library - Recall

    LIBRARY - RECALL Operation Level Tabs Bank Selectors Wizard Library, Frame and Engine selectors Function Select Tabs Fader Group Selector Parameter Fader values present in the last modified Engine. Library Recall Recalling a Scene or an Engine preset • Press the RECALL tab to select the Recall page. •...

  • Page 21: The Wizard And Algorithm Filter

    THE WIZARD AND ALGORITHM FILTER Introduction The Wizard To easily find the perfect preset for your application among the vast amount of presets available in the System 6000, we have added a Wizard function. Basically the Wizard allows you to set up a few criteria and thereby narrow down the pool of presets to select from.
  • Page 22 THE WIZARD AND ALGORITHM FILTER Algorithm Filter Type This is where you make the most detailed selection of presets to choose from. • Specify from which types of presets you would like to recall. Types varies depending on the selected Wizard Category selected on the Mode page.

  • Page 23: Library Store

    LIBRARY STORE Operation Level Tabs Name Field Library, Frame and Engine selectors Press WIZARD Function to add Wizard Select tags to presets. Tabs Fader Group Selector Parameter Fader values present in the last modified Engine. Library Store Wizard - Scene, Routing or Engine presets •...

  • Page 24: Bank And Naming Display

    BANK AND NAMING DISPLAY Library - Bank A 512kB PCMCIA card can hold: 500 Engine presets in 5 banks of 100 presets Via the Library Archive page you can copy Scene, 250 Routing presets in 5 banks of 50 presets Routing and Engine banks to and from a 3.5”...

  • Page 25: Library - Delete

    LIBRARY - DELETE Library, Frame and Engine selectors Function Select Tabs Fader Group Selector Parameter Fader values present in the last modified Engine. Library - Delete For convenience it is possible to “clean up” the User bank by deleting individual presets. Deleting a Preset •...

  • Page 26: Frame Page

    FRAME PAGE Frame - Routing one single physical Output. • It is possible to connect an Engine Output to the Inputs of the three other Engines. To distribute a single Output of an Engine to several physical Outputs: • Route the Engine Output to a physical Output. •...

  • Page 27: Frame System - Main

    FRAME SYSTEM - MAIN Frame - E1 to E4 Clock Master Select the Clock source for the complete Mainframe, including all Engines and all I/O’s. Select between: Internal, Wordclock, AES 1-2, 3-4, 5-6 or 7-8. A lock up to an external source will take up to 7 sec. It is not necessary to have the physical input routed to an Engine Input to have the clock accepted.
  • Page 28 FRAME SYSTEM - MAIN SMPTE presets and channel 6 to access Routing presets. Bank Mode The Bank mode settings determine the destination bank of the received program change on the specified MIDI channels. Normal mode: This mode requires that the external sending MIDI device can send both Controller 0 and 32 in addition to MIDI program changes.
  • Page 29 FRAME SYSTEM - MAIN MIDI Control Page MIDI Dump Page On MIDI Control Page the following options are Pressing these command buttons will dump the available: current settings as SysEx messages to the MIDI Out port of the Mainframe. Read Program Change Select whether the Frame should read incoming program If connected to a MIDI sequencing device it is then changes or not.
  • Page 30 FRAME SYSTEM - MAIN External MIDI Control - of Fader Parameters From software version 2.5, all fader assignable parameters can be remote controlled via MIDI Control Change Messages. To be able to control Faders you must create a dedicated Fader User Group holding these parameters. Page 20 in this manual section explains how to create User Fader Groups.
  • Page 31 FRAME SYSTEM - MAIN Setting up How to record/playback MIDI data into/from DigiDesign Protools 5.x ? Make sure to select MIDI channel settings corresponding to the channels your external controller is using for each Engine. This is setup in the MIDI Setup page. Recording •...

  • Page 32: Error Indication

    FRAME SYSTEM - MAIN Error Indication If “no Lock” is acheived or “Sample Slip” situations occur Software versions this will be indicated via the small red dot in top of the Current installed software versions. Frame Tab. Press the Frame Tab and you will be guided to the exact Network Identifier page where you can correct or compensate for these Press the field “Network Identifier”...

  • Page 33: Frame System - I/O

    FRAME SYSTEM - I/O Via the I/O page the following operations are handled: • Outputs 9-16 are always available. If ADA-24/96 cards are installed, they will output simultaneously with the • Settings for the DSP card AES-8 Outputs on channel 9-10 (Slot A) and 13-14 (Slot C). •...
  • Page 34 FRAME SYSTEM - I/O I/O - Slot A, B & C Output, pin 2 selected Pin 2 hot, pin 3 connected to reference (shield) at the Input This is where you setup card specific parameters. of downstream device. In this mode pin 3 acts as a Parameters are only available when a I/O Card is detected.
  • Page 35 FRAME SYSTEM - I/O "Bright" filter If an ADA-24/96 card is installed in slot A analog Input channels 9-10 are available. These filters are something entirely different: Ultra-short If ADA 24/96 cards are installed in both slot A and C, impulse response, linear phase and quite a bit of deliberate analog Input channels 9-10 and 13-14 are available.

  • Page 36: Frame System - Licenses

    “License Type”. (see above) To try out one or more of the licenses a time limited Demo Key can be achieved by contacting TC Electronic. Press the Get Demo Key and follow the instructions.

  • Page 37: Engine Edit Page

    ENGINE EDIT PAGE Name of the currently Library Frame and Engine Selectors recalled preset Overflow Indication Input Meters Parameter Pages Link key Output Meters Fader Group Selector Fine Adjust Fader Group Mode Parameters/ Value fields The Engine 1-4 Edit Pages Fader User Group - Assign key This is where you edit algorithm parameters.Parameters in By pressing the Fader Group Selector Up key you enter...

  • Page 38: Icon Setup Page

    ICON SETUP PAGE Icon User Interface Sticky Clip Meter Clip Indicators Go to the Select & Setup pages pressing the TC Icon If the Sticky Clip function is activated the Internal Overload key in the upper left corner. LED on the Frame Routing page will stay lit once activated Press SETUP (upper tab) and UI (side tab) to enter the until Reset Clip on the Frame Routing page is pressed.

  • Page 39: Smpte

    SMPTE Auto Edit Page Cursor The white triangular cursor always indicates the current clock position in relation to the Event List. Event Parameters For each Event the following parameters are available. Time - indicates the SMPTE time at which the Event takes place.
  • Page 40 SMPTE Remote device disk drive Step/Adjust Range: Frame, 1 Second, 10 Seconds, 1 min., Event lists can easily be organized and saved to a 10 min. or 1 hour. PCMCIA card in the Mainframe. Use the Step parameter to select Adjust range and the Mainframe selection is done in the Auto Edit page.

  • Page 41: Tc Icon Software Editor

    TC ICON SOFTWARE EDITOR The TC Icon Software Editor is a fully operational Faders at bottom software remote control for the System 6000 All functions available via the TC Icon hardware version are also available via the Software Editor. A network adapter must be installed in your computer for connection to a Mainframe.

  • Page 42: Room Simulation For Multichannel Music And Film

    Introduction Room Simulation for Multichannel Film and Music For more than 10 years TC Electronic has put considerable research resources into perfecting digital room simulation. Presented at the AES 107th Convention, New York, NY, Our achievements have been made possible by combining 1999 September 24-27.
  • Page 43 ROOM SIMULATION FOR MULTICHANNEL MUSIC AND FILM In the real world, all actors or instruments are not piled up multichannel presentations. on top of each other. If the target format is 5.1, at least two directional 1.1 Music Production configurations should exist in the room simulator, namely for home (110 degree surround speakers) and theatre (side In many studios, one good reverb is used to render the array surround speakers) reproduction.
  • Page 44 ROOM SIMULATION FOR MULTICHANNEL MUSIC AND FILM environments ranging from "phone-booth" to "canyon" The Level and Delay dimensions are easily implemented • The system should not be limited to simulating natural with high precision, the other 3 dimensions are each acoustics: Often quite unnatural reverb effects are quantized into a number of predefined steps, for instance desired, e.g.
  • Page 45 ROOM SIMULATION FOR MULTICHANNEL MUSIC AND FILM 2000 low- and higher-level parameters. However, this is not the time or place to go into more details. When this paper is presented at the 107th AES Convention in about 4 months, we will have more real life experience with the system.

  • Page 46: Sample Rate Conversion Filters - Ada 24/96

    SAMPLE RATE CONVERSION FILTERS - ADA 24/96 Sample Rate Conversion Filters • The Sampling Theorem puts a dramatic restraint on bandwidth: Any remaining signal components above the Nyquist frequency (only 22.05 kHz at 44.1 kHz sampling Introduction rate) turn into aliasing. Therefore the magnitude The Delta-Sigma Converters of the ADA 24/96 operate at response has to drop sharply just above 20 kHz.
  • Page 47 SAMPLE RATE CONVERSION FILTERS - ADA 24/96 Fig. 2 Fig. 3 illustrates how attenuation is performed just above FS/2 when operating at 48kHz sampling rate. As shown in fig. 4 alias components will be reflected around FS/2 and will disturb the high but still audible frequencies. Fig.

  • Page 48: Clock And Synchronization In System 6000

    CLOCK AND SYNCHRONIZATION IN SYSTEM 6000 By Christian G. Frandsen Jitter performance is measured in seconds and a typical value could be in the area of 100 ps peak to 50 ns peak (jitter is also often measured in peak to peak or RMS). The Introduction typical jitter frequency spectrum tends to be low frequency This document will discuss the clock, synchronization and...
  • Page 49 CLOCK AND SYNCHRONIZATION IN SYSTEM 6000 clock from the incoming digital signal in order to be Jitter accumulation synchronized to the transmitting device. In conventional Jitter accumulation can happen in a chain of devices due to circuit designs the extracted clock is typically used directly intrinsic jitter PLUS jitter gain (see The clock design on for the converters.
  • Page 50 CLOCK AND SYNCHRONIZATION IN SYSTEM 6000 The clock design on System 6000 How to detect interface jitter. The typical way to investigate interface jitter is by measuring the clock variations directly on the digital signal. There are devices made specifically for interface testing. The way they usually work is by applying a PLL circuit like the ones used for jitter rejection (see The clock design on System 6000) and then measure the amount that has been...
  • Page 51 CLOCK AND SYNCHRONIZATION IN SYSTEM 6000 System 6000 technical specifications regarding the clock circuitry: Jitter rejection filter (4'Th order filter): < -3dB @ 50 Hz < -69dB @ 500 Hz < -100dB @ 1.4 kHz Jitter gain: < 1 dB @ 2Hz Jitter rejection at external sample rates: 30 to 34 kHz,...
  • Page 52 CLOCK AND SYNCHRONIZATION IN SYSTEM 6000 Measurements on System 6000 slave to the digital input. Notice that even with this much zoom the jitter on internal- As mentioned before the higher frequency in the program mode is not visible. signal and the higher level the more sensitive it is to jitter The very little jitter that shows on slave-mode is low on the sampling clock.
  • Page 53 CLOCK AND SYNCHRONIZATION IN SYSTEM 6000 Figure 10 Zoomed (frq. only). System 6000 and conventional design in slave-mode. Wide band jitter applied. On Figure 10 25 ns peak wide band jitter has been applied to both System 6000 (lower) and a conventional design (upper).
  • Page 54 CLOCK AND SYNCHRONIZATION IN SYSTEM 6000 from the signal on input 1. If the phase of a signal (including two audio channels) is above the limit, the current sample in this signal can be interpreted as the previous or the next sample and this will add a delay to these specific two audio channels.
  • Page 55 CLOCK AND SYNCHRONIZATION IN SYSTEM 6000 be eliminated. A setup using word clock generator will Literature: typically not suffer from this kind of problem due to every [1] Jitter: Specification and Assessment in Digital Audio device being slave to the same reference. Therefore there Equipment by Julian Dunn.

  • Page 56: License Agreement

    1. License. SOME JURISDICTIONS DO NOT ALLOW THE LIMITATION OR EXCLUSION OF TC Electronic grants to you the right to use this copy of TC Electronic software and the LIABILITY FOR INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES SO THE ABOVE LIMI- related documentation (the "Software") on a single DSP Card. You own the media on TATION OR EXCLUSION MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU.
  • Page 57 ICON OS. Back-up Copy If TC Electronic A/S has not included a back-up copy of the TC ICON OS with the TC ICON/Remote CPU 6000, you may make a single back-up copy of the TC ICON OS. You may use the back-up copy solely for archival purposes. Except as expressly provid- ed in these licensing terms, you may not otherwise make copies of the TC ICON OS.

  • Page 58: Technical Specifications - Mainframe 6000 Mkii

    TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS - MAINFRAME 6000 MKII Digital Inputs and Outputs Connectors: SUB-D, 25 pole (8 channels AES/EBU in/out) Formats: AES/EBU (24 bit) Word clock input: BNC, 75 Ohm or Hi-Z, 0.6 to 10 Vpp Internal sample rate: 96 kHz, 88.2 kHz, 48.0 kHz, 44.1 kHz...

  • Page 59: Technical Specifications - Tc Icon & Remote Cpu

    TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS - TC ICON & REMOTE CPU TC Icon mk II Remote CPU 6000 mk II Embedded AMD Geode LX-800, Display Type: 6,5" TFT active matrix color LCD dis- CPU: 500MHz play, 640 x 480 pixels resolution. High System disc: luminance (300 cd/m2, typ.) System Memory: 512MB CompactFlash Card...

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