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E DESK
Say goodbye to expensive racks of analog equipment and bundles of cables with the Whirlwind E Desk. Just click open the door to its virtual “Equipment Room” where you will find an almost unlimited supply of
mixers, processors, EQs, delays, controls and more. Use it to configure complete systems for paging,
music and multimedia programs in retail stores, restaurants, churches, live sound reinforcement – anywhere multiple channels of high quality audio need to be mixed, processed and distributed. Because
E Desk uses the CobraNet™ digital network protocol, each unit can route and transport up to 32 channels
of bi-directional digital audio in real time and is compatible with equipment produced by over 50 of the world’s top audio manufacturers. It’s an economical way to design simple or complex systems and its intuitive graphical interface makes it easy to perform tasks that once took piles of cables, expensive equipment and hours of labor. Furthermore, different configurations can be recalled at a touch of a button. |
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E Desk hardware features:
- Six 60 MHz 32-bit floating point Analog Devices SHARC DSPs (360 MFLOPS)
- 80 MHz 32-bit Motorola Power PC host processor
- 32 Mbytes SDRAM
- 8 Mbytes Flash ROM
- Ethernet communications for software control and configuration
- Support of TCP/IP, UDP and ICMP (ping) networking standards
- Battery backed real-time clock and calendar
- Powered CAN bus for easy addition of E Desk control devices; rotary encoders and contact switches
- RS-232 serial port for simple connection to 3rd party control devices; AMX® or Crestron®
- Internal 80 watt universal switching power supply
- Mic/Line inputs with programmable mic preamp (0dB to ~ +66dB gain)
- CobraNet™ interface supporting 64 channels of digital audio (32 in/32 out) over Fast Ethernet
- Compatible with all other CobraNet™ compliant devices
- Works with standard Ethernet switches
- Multiple system-wide presets and current settings stored in flash memory
- Layout drawing information stored in flash memory
- 24-bit A/D & D/A converters
- Multiple E-Desk can be networked such as to distribute the DSP's processing power for complex designs.
- CE certified
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Easy to use E Desk Control Software |
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| E Desk's intuitive graphical interface will have you designing your system in no time. A comprehensive help system is also available to walk you through all of the toolbars, menus and component objects and explain the functions of each piece. Sample layouts are also provided to illustrate common system architectures. |
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E Desk software features:
- Win32 application – (a PC with Windows 2000/XP operating system required)
- Fully dockable Menu and Toolbar support
- Overview Window for easy panning and zooming of large layout files
- Fully customizable Equipment Room bar for storing default and custom DSP objects
- Workspace state saved at program shutdown, including current documents, Toolbar, Catalog & Overview Window viewer states
- User configurable data file and Equipment Room catalog
- Simple object attribute control: colors, line widths, hatching, text font, size, style & alignment, border widths, etc.
- Multiple simultaneous line (wire) drawing with no special editing modes required
- Special text block object to enter freeform text and label information
- Easy-to-use tools for object alignment, sizing, packing, spacing & centering
- Fully supported object drag-and-drop between Catalog and view, and between views
- Fully supported multiple layers within a drawing
- Support of Clipboard operation
- Programmable presets
- Export file types: DXF (drawing interchange format) & EMF (enhanced meta files)
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The Equipment Room |
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| Imagine a room at your fingertips that's stocked with a virtually unlimited supply of top quality gear! That's what you get with E Desk and its powerful processing power. Create a dream system that's efficient and flexible with results that can be seen and heard instantly. And because it's CobraNet™ compatible, you can create a sophisticated digital network and control up to 64 channels of real-time audio. |
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Available units in the Equipment Room include:
- Mixers (33 types – standard, auto mixer, matrix, mix-minus combiners - up to 40 channels)
- EQs (15 types - parametric, graphic, feedback suppressors)
- Filters (14 types - high & low pass, high & low shelf, bandpass)
- Crossovers (6 types - two, three and four way, 6-24dB/Oct and 6–48dB/Oct)
- Dynamic Processors (4 types - levelers, comp/limiters, duckers, noise gates)
- Routers (16 types – from 2x4 to 40x40)
- Delays (up to 2000mS)
- Controls (75 types – levels, mutes, presets, remotes, logic)
- Meters (12 types – signal, peak, RMS)
- Generators (tone, pink noise, white noise)
- Custom (Equipment can be created by editing existing objects and saving as new Component Objects in the Equipment Room)
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EASY TO PROGRAM
Just “Drag and Drop” gear from E Desk’s Equipment Room onto your computer screen and draw your connections. It’s that simple. But don’t let the ease of use fool you - E Desk has the capability of configuring systems from basic to extremely complex. E Desk will even spread
the processing over multiple units if more processing is required in extremely large systems. |
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RECALLABLE PRESETS and CUSTOM SCREENS
Presets can be created, stored and activated by custom screens, contact closures, or remote control wall plates. The programmer can create custom screens for users to select audio sources, outputs, routing, volumes, etc. |
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HIGH CAPACITY
E Desk provides inputs and outputs for 32 digital + 8 analog inputs and 8 outputs. |
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Provide visual indication of connectivity and data |
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100 - 240V, 50/60 Hz |
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Allows E Desk to be controlled by RS-232 control systems such as AMX® or Creston® |
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E Desk provides 8 analog mic/line inputs and 8 analog line outputs |
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| REDUNDANT COBRANET CONNECTIONS |
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Up to 32 bi-directional digital audio channels |
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For configuration and programming |
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Provides the connection for V8, S8, VS8, and Voltage Command Box external control devices |
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| The V8 is an external control device, which allows adjustment of eight selectable E Desk volumes. |
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| The S8 is an external control device, which allows initiation of eight selectable E Desk actions. Actions can be individual or grouped; they include recalling presets, ducking, conbining, etc… |
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| The V8 combines the functions of both S8 and V8 |
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