Eventide BD500, Operator'S Manual

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Page 3: ...O ZERO 9 Ending a Show Segment with WAIT AND EXIT 9 DUMP Button 10 SNEEZE Button 10 Delay Amount Display 10 Operation as a Precision Fixed Delay 11 Controlling the Fixed Delay 11 Usage Notes 11 Chapter 3 Configuration 13 Password Protection 13 Restoring Factory Defaults 13 Table of Configuration Variables 14 Configurable Variables 16 Appendix A Optional AES EBU Digital Audio 19 Connection 19 Confi...

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Page 5: ...00 Features 8 seconds of stereo audio delay configurable Allows multiple DUMP operations without exhausting the delay buffer The DUMP function is adjustable and may be configured to delete an amount between 1 00 seconds and 8 00 seconds programmable in half second increments SNEEZE function replaces microphone mute switch and allows short interruptions to be unnoticeable Patented Eventide Rebuild ...

Page 6: ...y initiates or cancels the wait for safe mode which is used to start a show with a safe amount of delay Front Panel 5 WAIT AND EXIT button In profanity delay mode only initiates or cancels the wait and exit process which exits quickly from delay 6 REBUILD button In profanity delay mode starts or stops rebuilding the delay In precision fixed delay mode decrements the current delay amount digit 7 RA...

Page 7: ...remote control of front panel functions relay drivers for ex ternal signals and lamps and additional commands not available from the front panel 4 RS 232 Connector optional This is a female 9 pin DB9 connector supplied to con nect a remote computer or terminal The remote computer or terminal can control all functions of the BD500 including configuration See Appendix E 5 Remote Connector This is a ...

Page 8: ... pin 2 to your center conductor and leave pin 3 floating Analog Inputs These female XLR connectors provide differential balanced audio input The input level has a maxi mum value of 4dBm and nominal level of 20dBm but an internal attenuator increases the allowable level to 0dBm for nominal level and 24dBm for maximum Pin 1 is grounded Pin 2 is phase and pin 3 is phase Even though the inputs of the ...

Page 9: ...ely after the unit is switched on the front panel will be fully illuminated After several seconds the display will change to show TST Just before the TST symbol is displayed the unit flashes the software version number The TST symbol is displayed for 15 seconds while the unit performs a test of it s audio pro cessing hardware After 15 seconds the unit will read the front panel buttons and basic re...

Page 10: ...ess the RAMP TO ZERO button to go up through the configuration levels until you reach 3AU Press the WAIT AND EXIT button twice to go to the INP vari able Now press SNEEZE to reset the parameter to the factory default 0DB Press the REBUILD or RAMP TO ZERO buttons to step through the attenuation values to achieve the desired amount of trim attenuation or gain The available range is 31dB attenuation ...

Page 11: ... from delay when the call in portion of a program is over WAIT FOR SAFE Bring delay from 0 seconds to 4 seconds quickly When the wait for safe process is started the tape is bypassed so the transmitter gets live audio The record head is moved to the left by 4 seconds After 4 seconds of recording the transmitter is reconnected to the tape delay There is now a 4 second delay Note since the initial 4...

Page 12: ...ay Unit switches to rebuild mode when safe delay time is reached sneeze bypass relays are open unit is in line input audio is not going into delay but output audio is com ing from the delay The delay length is reducing rapidly When the SNEEZE button is released the unit will go back to the previous mode wait and exit bypass relays are open unit is in line input audio is not going into delay but ou...

Page 13: ...tly to the BD500 outputs It is usually undesirable to have that audio pass over the air Use a mixer or other control to disable that audio until the show is scheduled to start Ending a Show Segment with RAMP TO ZERO This process gradually reduces the delay and takes a variable amount of time up to a few minutes During the show the BD500 would usually remain in rebuild mode at maximum delay Wheneve...

Page 14: ...DUMP is released In configuration DUMP causes the unit to exit configuration mode and go into bypass mode In wait for safe DUMP causes the unit to stop wait for safe leaving the delay at 0 seconds In bypass live or wait and exit DUMP has no function SNEEZE Button This button is used to cover up an otherwise audible interruption to a program like a sneeze cough com ment to the caller or engineer or...

Page 15: ...elected delay digit Valid if lit RAMP TO ZERO increments selected delay digit Valid if lit SNEEZE selects one of 5 sets of digits to be adjusted Always valid The bar graph below the three digit display indicates which of seven digits five sets is selected for adjust ment The presence of the decimal point indicates that the three digits shown are the ones tenths and hundredths digits Press the SNEE...

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Page 17: ...e SNEEZE button to reset the param eter back to factory default Another Example If the BYPASS button is not illuminated press BYPASS Next press CONFIGURE Once the dis play shows CNF press the RAMP TO ZERO button The display changes to 1ON Now press the WAIT AND EXIT button twice The display changes to RUN To check the run mode press the REBUILD or RAMP TO ZERO button The display changes to show LI...

Page 18: ...ength Maximum length the profanity delay will rebuild to seconds 00 50 00 50 00 00 SAF Safe Time Amount of time the profanity delay must have built up in order to be SAFE Controls the lighting of the DUMP button and RCC outputs seconds 00 50 00 50 00 00 REB Rebuild Time Amount of time it will take to rebuild the delay from 0 seconds to maximum seconds 40 60 90 120 180 240 600 120 RT0 Ramp To Zero ...

Page 19: ...right mix of channels to be used in determining the best times to do audio processing during rebuild or ramp to zero channel LEF L1 CEN R1 RIG CEN REA Fatal Error Reaction Selects what should happen if a fatal error condition develops Options are hide the error usually restarts the unit or halt and show error action HID SHO SHO LOG Display Error Log Shows last three unique fatal error messages err...

Page 20: ...trols whether the BD500 goes into bypass at power up or goes directly into processing If INL is selected the unit will go directly to the in line mode selected by the RUN configuration variable Configurable Variables CLR Clear This control erases the stored fatal error log See Appendix F DIS Display Digits This is the number of digits used to display the cur rent delay amount The BD500 has a three...

Page 21: ...and is measured in seconds The actual time to complete a ramp to zero may be longer depending on the audio content and the settings of several other configuration parameters RUN Run mode This controls what mode the BD500 enters when leaving bypass mode The selections are live wait for safe rebuild and precision fixed delay Each of these modes is described elsewhere in this chapter The fac tory def...

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Page 23: ...g to the 5Er level using RAMP TO ZERO then stepping right to the FLB variable using WAIT AND EXIT Now use the REBUILD and RAMP TO ZERO buttons to choose analog or unlock Operation The BD500 with digital audio option will support three input modes These are Analog input at 32000 samples per second Analog input at 48000 samples per second AES EBU digital audio Regardless of what input mode is select...

Page 24: ...error message The BD500 s purpose is to store audio and play it back with a delay If the rate of audio into the unit changes while audio is stored the audio played from the delay will change pitch Thus if the AES EBU source s sample rate changes or stops altogether cable is disconnected the BD500 may play out audio with a significant pitch shift If the unit falls back from AES EBU to analog input ...

Page 25: ...o the SNEEZE and DUMP buttons The BD500 presents both contacts of the coil of an internal relay to the remote connector The user provides five volts nominal across the contacts to close the relay and actuate the function just as if the front panel button was pressed Pin Outs pin 1 dump output normally closed contact pin 2 dump output common contact pin 3 dump output normally open contact pin 4 DUM...

Page 26: ...Page 22 Appendix B Basic Remote Control BD500 Broadcast Profanity Delay Eventide Inc 1995 1999 doc release 10 ...

Page 27: ...e pin 9 ground pin 2 remote input 1 pin 3 remote input 3 pin 4 remote input 5 pin 5 remote input 7 pin 6 remote output 2 pin 7 remote output 4 pin 8 reference supply input for open collector output drivers max 25v 1 6amps pin 15 ground pin 9 common ground for inputs pin 10 remote input 2 pin 11 remote input 4 pin 12 remote input 6 pin 13 remote output 1 pin 14 remote output 3 pin 15 common ground ...

Page 28: ...AFE button WAE Wait And Exit same as the WAIT AND EXIT button REB Rebuild same as the REBUILD button used in precision fixed delay as decrement RT0 Ramp To Zero same as the RAMP TO ZERO button used in precision fixed delay as increment SNE Sneeze same as the SNEEZE button used in precision fixed delay as digit select DU Dump same as the DUMP button LIV Live cancel all commands and go to 0 00 delay...

Page 29: ...ys high impedance factory default ON On always a closure to ground BYP Bypass closure to ground when bypassed high impedance if in line LIV Live closure to ground when in line and at 0 00 delay WFS Wait For Safe closure to ground when doing wait for safe FUL Full Delay closure to ground when at full delay high impedance when delay full SAF Safe closure to ground when than safe time high impedance ...

Page 30: ...t and the caller cutoff relay Make sure unit is in bypass mode BYPASS button illuminated Press the CONFIGURE button to enter config mode The display shows CNF You are now in configuration mode Press the RAMP TO ZERO button six times so the display shows 6RE You are at the remote control configuration level Press the WAIT AND EXIT button once to move to the first input item The display shows IN1 Yo...

Page 31: ...5 auxiliary input 2 pin 16 auxiliary input 4 pin 17 auxiliary input 6 pin 18 auxiliary input 8 pin 19 no connection pin 20 no connection pin 21 auxiliary output 1 pin 22 auxiliary output 3 pin 23 auxiliary output 5 pin 24 auxiliary output 7 pin 25 common ground for open collector driver outputs pin 13 voltage Notes The field contact supply output is a BD500 supplied voltage to be used to trigger t...

Page 32: ...Page 28 Appendix D Optional Auxiliary Port BD500 Broadcast Profanity Delay Eventide Inc 1995 1999 doc release 10 ...

Page 33: ...An overflow or bad message will be answered with a E hex 45 3E Protocol The following page has a list of single byte commands which are available to the host computer The table lists the response generated by the BD500 All commands will generate a response indicates command processed X indicates command not valid at this time E indicates serial port error or unrecognized com mand U indicates front...

Page 34: ...quests debugging info responds with machine state name and current delay amount This is for debugging only may change and is redundant with the M and T commands J store config variable write the current config variable s value into permanent storage K ends a sneeze L requests levels three character response is left channel level followed by right channel level and terminated with Levels are report...

Page 35: ...the N command to step through values for a single variable Variable are not saved into nonvolatile memory im mediately as is the case with the front panel configuration mode You must use the J command to implicitly save a new value Non saved values are lost if the unit is powered off Most values will however be used by the BD500 immediately after changed Ex ceptions to this are the and variables t...

Page 36: ...Page 32 Appendix E Optional RS 232 Control BD500 Broadcast Profanity Delay Eventide Inc 1995 1999 doc release 10 ...

Page 37: ... if a failure occurs may be disabled in configuration Display version message Check that motherboard memory was initialized Check if unit has jumper for production self test if yes begin TEST FIXTURE and run test fixture forever Initialize AtoD converter used to measure power sup ply voltage Put up TST message Check power supply voltage If measures out of range display error message Check and load...

Page 38: ... are unused at this time and except for SNEEZE and DUMP keys holding down an unused key during startup will result in an error message SNEEZE and DUMP may be held down during startup with no consequences Error Processing If an error occurs that the software is not able to deal with an error report is generated This usually means that a mechanical or electrical failure has occurred with the unit or...

Page 39: ... error found dur ing the read cycle i e the memory was changed by some later address write or other failure A13 Error found by the 1st coprocessor external memory test The test reports that a memory failure was found during the first read back cycle The error was detected when the dynamic RAM was accessed using the X select line A14 Error found by the 1st coprocessor external memory test The test ...

Page 40: ...ting it or that the motherboard program has a bug Note that the receive driver has been called and exited successfully many times since the last power up A43 This is the opposite of A42 This error occurs when wait ing to leave sethostreadptr part of the coprocessor moth erboard receive drivers This error issued only during start up indicates that the coprocessor was sent a hard ware interrupt to t...

Page 41: ...OMs That test failed The particular version of the external memory test program uploaded was for the 4MByte RAMs A62 The factory burn in coprocessor external memory test pro gram was uploaded to the coprocessor during a burn in test run Three validity tests are run on newly uploaded DSP boot code before it is used The 3rd test is to readback the entire boot program and verify it against the copy o...

Page 42: ...uld have issued that hardware interrupt would not have exited without the dataword transmission being cleared This means that the coprocessor trashed it s own incom ing data bits TxRDY TxEMPTY without the motherboard CPU initiating it or that the motherboard program has a bug and somehow got out of the transmit function without waiting for the data bits to be clear D03 During DSP_START1 the mother...

Page 43: ...nish processing a data word transmission previously issued by the motherboard We shouldn t get here because the previous process that would have issued that hardware interrupt would not have exited without the dataword transmission being cleared This means that the coprocessor trashed it s own incom ing data bits TxRDY TxEMPTY without the motherboard CPU initiating it or that the motherboard progr...

Page 44: ...e the coprocessor was sucessfully accessed we can guess that either a bug exists in the DSP boot code or there is an intermittent problem in the coprocessor motherboard processor host port or with the coprocessor CPU itself The coprocessor external memory is not involved in this failure D26 This error occurs during DSP_START2 when waiting to leave sethostreadptr part of the coprocessor motherboard...

Page 45: ... unlikely have been caused by a hardware problem on the motherboard E32 During run time the motherboard processor determined that we arrived at a programming instruction waiting for the coprocessor to finish processing a data word trans mission previously issued by the motherboard We shouldn t get here because the previous process that would have issued that hardware interrupt would not have exite...

Page 46: ...pro cessor drivers This would indicate a firmware error E91 The configuration storage drivers reported a firmware er ror where a call was made to the driver with an invalid register number E92 The User Interface program reports a firmware error where a change state was issued with the same state number as the previous state E93 During start up the configuration storage drivers reported a firmware ...

Page 47: ...the current motherboard sample clock setting Check the audio card DSP card and sample clock gen erator F28 During burn in test operation the audio board initializa tion read a 0 for the audio card ID This could indicate that the audio card is not installed that the ID is incor rect on the card or that there is an interconnect problem between the motherboard and the audio card F45 During burn in te...

Page 48: ...river has been called and exited successfully many times since the last power up F56 This is the opposite of F55 This error occurs when wait ing to leave sethostwriteptr part of the coprocessor moth erboard processor transmit driver This error issued only during burn in test operation indicates that the copro cessor was sent a hardware interrupt to receive a data word and the coprocessor never acc...

Page 49: ... to 16bit sample Analog inputs outputs with digital audio option Connector XLR pin 2 hot true differential balanced 4dBm nominal 20dBm max Sample Rate 48kHz 20 bit sample note processing limits audio to 16 bit sample Frequency Response 5Hz to 22kHz 1dB Signal to Noise ratio 90dB A weighted Distortion 005 003 typical 1kHz 1dB below clipping in stable delay state Total Harmonic Distortion Noise 87 5...

Page 50: ...Page 46 Appendix G Specifications BD500 Broadcast Profanity Delay Eventide Inc 1995 1999 doc release 10 ...

Page 51: ... unit Demo units are also covered under warranty under slightly different circumstances see below and units that are used or have been used as part of a rental program are not covered under any circumstances It is your responsibility to prove or to be able to prove that you have purchased the unit under circumstances that ef fect the warranty A copy of your purchase invoice is normally necessary a...

Page 52: ...pecify a method that does not permit collect or COD charges remit sufficient funds to prepay shipping Shipping outside the United States If you purchased the unit from a dealer in your country consult with them before returning the unit If you wish to return it to us please note the following 1 The unit must be prepaid to our door This means that you are responsible for all shipping charges includ...

Page 53: ...ol broadcast delay during startup startup delay mode selection 11 blank display See display digits explaination control of broadcast delay configure for 34 button BYPASS See bypass CONFIGURE See configuration DUMP See dump RAMP TO ZERO See ramp to zero REBUILD See rebuild SNEEZE See sneeze WAIT AND EXIT See wait and exit WAIT FOR SAFE See wait for safe BYP symbol bypass in config level 1inline set...

Page 54: ... 21 indicator in profanity delay 8 RCC input command 24 RCC output signal 25 dump into rebuild explanation 25 RCC input command 24 E E R symbol ramp to exit rebuild in config level 6REmote to configure RCC input 24 ERR symbol error flashing on front panel 34 in config level 6REmote set up RCC output signal 25 error log 34 processing 34 RCC output signal 25 reaction adjustable in config mode 15 rep...

Page 55: ...ay fatal error log 15 16 loopback cables startup sequence analysis 33 M maximum delay See full delay maximum length 16 modes of operation 8 motherboard status LEDs used during startup 33 MUT symbol muting audio inconfiglevel 6REmote set up RCC command input 24 set up RCC output signal 25 mute controlled by RCC 25 RCC input command 24 RCC output signal 25 N NO SUCH FUNCTION displayed during startup...

Page 56: ...uirement 15 17 quality requested adjustable in config mode 15 explanation control of 17 R R1 symbol right 1 in config level 4processing selecting source for processor input 15 rack 5 ramp to bypass explanation 25 RCC input command 24 ramp to zero button in precision fixed delay 11 in profanity delay 9 on front panel 2 to decrease the broadcast delay 7 configuring the time 14 external relay closure...

Page 57: ...level 1TIme setting the profanity delay safe time 14 17 in config level 6REmote set up RCC output signal 25 safe delay time configuring 14 explanation control of 17 status output RCC output signal 25 with basic remote control 21 sample rate 32000 feature 1 operate select 19 48000 optional feature 1 configuration symbol 19 specification 45 SBI symbol station break insert in config level 6REmote set...

Page 58: ...splayed during startup 33 W WAE symbol wait and exit in config level 1INine setting the config password 14 in config level 6REmote set up RCC command input 24 set up RCC signal output 25 wait and exit button held during startup 34 in profanity delay 9 on front panel 2 to exit broadcast delay 7 used during startup 33 external relay closure 25 mode 8 RCC input command 24 wait and exit rebuild descri...