SIGMA EQ Station - Manual (Page 19)

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GLOBAL VIEW
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Global - View
Global page - Introduction
The Global page offers functionality for setting up a
network cluster of up to 64 EQ channels. The advantage of
setting up multiple EQ Stations in a network cluster is, that
it becomes very easy to monitor and adjust all channels in
the cluster from any of the User Interfaces available (front
panels, Motofaders or VirtualEQ Station).
To be able to set up and operate the EQ Station Cluster
network, read the following and examples carefully.
A few key terms to understand the Cluster network
topology.
Cluster:
• A Cluster is a group of EQ Stations with a total of up to
64 ch.'s (E.g. 8x 8 ch.'s or 16x 4 ch.'s - or any
combination of 4 and 8 channel EQ Stations).
• An EQ Station must be assigned to a specific network
Cluster when you want to operate multiple devices using
the TCP/IP network.
• Assigning a device to a cluster is done at the Setup/
Network and devices page on each EQ Station.
Default Cluster is: A.
Device:
• A devic e is the physical EQ Station unit. When set up in
a Cluster network, it is a MUST to set unique Device
Names for all units.
• Renaming of a device is done at the Setup page on each
individual EQ Station.
Input:
• The individual physical Inputs on EQ Stations (analog or
digital).
• All Inputs must be assigned to channel numbers in the
Cluster.
• Factory defaults are the logical numbers between 1 and 8.
• Assigning of physical Inputs to Cluster channel numbers
is done at the Global page.
Channel:
• A Channel is a number between 1 and 64 in a Cluster
• A Channel number may be assigned a physical input
from a device.
• Channels can be labeled with individual names.
• Assigning of Channel Cluster numbers to physical inputs
is done at the Global page.
Cluster - key issues
• All devices in a Cluster network MUST have unique
Device Names.
• All devices in a Cluster network MUST have unique IP
addresses with identical first three numbers
(e.g. 192.168.1.100 - 192.168.1.101, etc).
• All devices MUST have identical Subnet mask (e.g.
“255.255.255.0”) and identical Cluster ID (e.g. “A”).
• All devices MUST have unique Device Numbers.
I/O settings
Channel Config