JBL HiQnet Performance Manager

 

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New: JBL HiQnet Performance Manager™

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

New in version 1.5:

• Support for JBL VRX Series loudspeakers
• Support for JBL STX Series loudspeakers
• JBL Version 5 Preset Data for VerTec Series models VT4887A / VT4887, VT4886 and VT4883
• Custom Racks can now be designed with mixed Crown amplifier models
• Custom Racks can now be designed to include any number of  Crown amplifiers up to a maximum of eight
• New amplifier sleep-mode utility
• Now possible to open a Performance Manager file and send the configuration directly to the network rather than just receive from the network
• Support for single-channel subwoofers improved
• Polarity and delay values set in online modes are now properly updated in the integrated JBL Line Array Calculator 

New in version 1.1:

• Support for the Crown VRACK 4x3500 with full integration into the Performance Manager workflow

• JBL V5 Preset Data for VerTec VT4889 (V5 R1) and VerTec VT4888 (V5 R1)
         - Short Throw (ST) and Long Throw (LT) preset support for VT4888 and VT4889, with HF shelving characteristics that are consistent with VTX V25
         - Sub / low preset (X, 60, 80) support for VT4888 and VTX G28, S28 subwoofers
         - Sub / low preset (X, 60, 80) support for VT4889 and VTX G28, S28 subwoofers
         - Cardioid preset (X, 60, 80) support for VT4882, VT4880, VT4880A subwoofers
         - Cardioid preset (X, 60, 80) support for VT4880 and VTX S28
         - Cardioid preset (X, 60, 80) support for VT4880A and VTX S28
         - Revised limiter thresholds
       - The VTX V25 R1.1 release for Crown Audio IT12000HD includes minor changes to subwoofer model limiter thresholds

• JBL V5 Preset Data VTX V25 (V5 R 1.1) release for Crown Audio I-T12000 HD
         - Minor changes to subwoofer model limiter thresholds

• JBL V5 Preset Data VTX V25 (V5 R 1.2) release for Crown Audio I-T4x3500 HD
      - Minor changes to subwoofer model limiter thresholds and introduces extra long throw (XLT) support

• Network sharing is now always on

• Significant bug fixes:
         - Amplifying user-defined speaker with factory-defined speaker is now possible in same amplifier
         - Occasional fail on export of user-defined speakers fixed
         - Occasional crash on entering “Edit Groups” mode fixed
         - Gain reduction meter now shows maximum reduction

Performance Manager 1.1 supported devices:

• JBL VTX Series V25, G28 and S28 models
• JBL powered VerTec Series [with DP-DA installed]
• JBL passive VerTec Series
• Crown I-Tech HD Series
• Crown Macro-Tech i Series
• Crown VRACK 12000
• Crown VRACK 4x3500
• Crown I-Tech Series [discontinued]
• dbx DriveRack® 4800 / 4820

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