Crown Audio IQ-MSD Turbo Software - Manual (Page 173)

IQ–MSD Turbo 1.4 Advanced IQ System Software
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8.5 Training a Drone
The real power of the drone lies in its ability to be trained to control an IQ System. Once trained, a drone can
function much like a host computer and control other IQ components in the system. Although “training” a drone is
really programming it, you don’t have to know anything about programming languages. Training a drone is
simply a matter of linking desired IQ commands to the appropriate drone inputs and outputs.
A drone can be trained either from its six Sub-block screens or from a graphics plate. Figure 8.3 shows the Drone
Object Attributes window which is used to train a drone from a graphics plate:
A drone is trained from a graphics plate by creating a container for each input and/or output and then placing
relevant control objects inside the containers. The control objects represent the various functions that will be acted
upon when the drone input or output is activated. Objects placed inside a drone container are linked to the input
or output which the container represents.
However, using the drone sub-blocks to train a drone is the most direct method because graphics plate objects
need not be created. The remainder of this section will use the sub-block method. To switch to the drone Sub-block
screens, select the ASA control in the Control Block screen and press either
E or Y. Section 8.4 also lists the
shortcuts that make it possible to jump directly to a single drone Sub-block screen. The first drone Sub-block
screen is shown in Figure 8.4.
The first drone Sub-block screen allows you to configure each AUX Input. It is followed by five drone Sub-block
command screens with the following titles: Simplex Input Commands, Analog Input Commands, Binary Input
Commands, Aux Output Commands and Paralyze Commands.
A description of the drone Sub-block screens and their associated controls are described next.
Fig. 8.3 The Drone Object Attributes Window