Oxygen 5 Digital - User Manual
Version 2.5 - 12/22/2010
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3.2 Communication
All control communication takes place with MambaNet and gives the surface flexibility and power to
the Oxygen 5 Digital digital audio system. To understand the Oxygen 5 Digital audio system it would
help to know some principles of MambaNet.
MambaNet definitions:
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Objects
a fader, switch will have to trigger an action in the Oxygen 5 Digital digital audio system. In
MambaNet,
we
call
these
faders
and
switches
‘objects’.
-
Nodes
In hardware the faders and switches are grouped on modular blocks (think of a single PCB),
such
blocks
are
represented
as
‘nodes’
in
MambaNet.
-
Engine
In the Oxygen 5 Digital digital system the engine is in fact your mixing console. The functions
available in the ‘engine’ can connect to one or more objects found in your network.
In practice, this means you can connect any surface element like switches and faders to any function
of your mixing console(s). From now on, you can design your own functionality at the control surface.
Information for manufacturers and developers is located at
http://www.mambanet.org
, its possible to
make your own communication with the mixing system; we have a MambaNet library available for
Windows (DLL) and Linux (lib).
For professional developers it is possible to buy a Manufacture ID from Axel Technology so you are
able to make your own equipment compatible with the MambaNet protocol. Secondly, local radio
stations can use manufacturer ID 0xFFFF for some custom implementations.
(Al manufacturer IDs are unique except the 0xFFFF, which is free for ‘in-house’ implementation)
Figure 2: MambaNet logo
