Tools menu

Assign device icons Displays the complete set of input and output device icons. You can drag any of these icons to the input and output boxes.

Edit device palette Allows you to add your own device icon graphics.

Audio-Input gain settings Displays the audio gain level setting for a single input or for all inputs and allows you to change it. The level is expressed as the magnitude (number of decibels) and polarity (positive [gain] or negative [attenuation]) of the audio adjustment.

Audio-Output volume settings Displays the audio output

level setting for a single input or for all inputs and allows you to change it. The level is expressed as a percentage of the input audio volume that is applied to the output; 0% is full attenuation (audio is silent), 100% is full volume.

Mute-Outputs settings Displays the Mute Adjust screen, from which you can mute video and/or audio for each output.

Update firmware Allows you to replace the firmware that is coded on the switcher’s control board without taking the switcher out of service, opening the switcher enclosure, and replacing the firmware chip set. See “Updating firmware” on page 5-6.

Hardware status Provides an overall view of the status of the matrix switcher, including the power supply voltages, the temperature status, the Remote RS-232/RS-422 port configuration, and the installed and updated firmware status (figure 5-10).

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Figure 5-10 — Status window

Name presets Allows you to assign a name to each of the 32 memory presets.

NPreset names are limited to 12 upper- and lower-case alphanumeric characters, space, and the _ and / characters.

NThe following characters are invalid in preset names: + ~ , @ = ‘ [ ] { } < > ’ “ ; : \ and ?.

Show RS-232 strings Displays the ASCII commands that are used by the current configuration. You can refer to these for RS-232 programming.

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