JBL HiQnet Performance Manager

 

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New: JBL HiQnet Performance Manager™ PUBLIC BETA
Release 2

JBL HiQnet Performance Manager is a software application designed to configure networked audio systems within performance venues such as theatre, house of worship, and corporate and other live sound events.  It dramatically reduces design time, simplifies networking and automates control interface configuration.  With considerable expert system design knowledge embedded directly into the software, Performance Manager cleverly disguises the complexity of system configuration and guides even the less-experienced user through the process so as to achieve a far more optimal result than would otherwise be possible.

It achieves this at the top-level with a comprehensive workflow paradigm, enabling the operator simply to start at the beginning by predicting speaker coverage, and then work his way through the remaining system configuration stages one step at a time.  Each workflow stage provides a dedicated interface tailored for that specific function, thereby providing a clear focus as to the goal of each operation.  The workflow finishes with an inbuilt and cohesive show monitoring and control interface.

Most significantly, all design and control is truly achieved at the system level, the more-traditional software model of individual device control still being possible, but rightly repositioned as the advanced use case.

Several innovative design concepts exist within Performance Manager:

• Templates for flown and ground-stacked loudspeakers with pre-defined grouping information provide the starting point for configuration
• An integrated predictive modeling tool drives the detailed configuration of the templates for both powered loudspeakers or passive loudspeaker / amplifier combinations
• All amplifiers are added to a passive loudspeaker system and each amplifier channel is associated with the appropriate loudspeaker bandpass input in a single automated step
• The correct loudspeaker tunings and all parameters derived from the predictive modeling are loaded into powered loudspeakers or amplifiers automatically
• Networking is reduced to a simple drag-and-drop to connect each virtual rack or powered array in the software with the target physical rack or array on the network
• All required control interfaces are included in the software for system calibration EQ, system tuning EQ, delay and gain eliminating the laborious task of creating customized interfaces
• All DSP is abstracted with an automatic mapping of controls to devices, regardless of the specific system configuration, providing a consistent interface for each and every system
• An integrated final mode converts the design workspace immediately into an interface for running the show, providing monitoring for input / output metering, load, AC and thermal levels, all monitoring driven from the representations of the loudspeakers, regardless of whether powered or amplified passive loudspeakers

Supported devices:

• Crown I-Tech Series [discontinued]
• Crown I-Tech HD Series
• Crown Macro-Tech i Series
• Crown VRACK
• dbx DriveRack® 4800 / 4820
• JBL powered VerTec Series [with DP-DA installed]
• JBL passive VerTec Series 

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