QSControl.net
BASIS / RAVE / DSP

QSControl.net is a networked audio system platform that seamlessly integrates
QSC's Amplifier and Loudspeaker Management, Configurable Digital Signal
Processing and Digital Audio Transport into a unified system
administered through a user-friendly GUI. QSC's BASIS, RAVE (520uz, 522aa/ua)
and DSP 322ua devices all operate under QSControl.net, networked and controlled
from Venue Manager software. Furthermore, multiple networked computers can
control and monitor all units simultaneously. QSControl.net is AMX®
and Crestron® compatible.
QSC has developed a revolutionary signal transport system that employs CobraNet™
technology to route multiple audio channels over standard Ethernet cables
and hardware. This network can replace hundreds of audio cables, dramatically
reducing installation time, effort and cabling costs while improving routing
flexibility and audio performance. This technology, integrated into our
RAVE and BASIS products, is the ideal audio transport system for arenas,
theaters and broadcast facilities that must route multiple channels over
long distances without noise or hum. Venue Manager Software
- Snapshots: recall config block and/or parameter settings
- Matrix mixer: any size up to 24x24
- Automixers: gain sharing
- Routers: any size up to 24x24
- Gain Controls: up to 24 channels
- Graphic EQs
- Filters: high/low/all-pass. shelf, parametric shelf, Butterworth,
Bessel-Thomson and Linkwitz-Riley high and low-pass
- Crossovers: Linkwitz-Riley, Butterworth, Bessel-Thomson (in-phase,
symmetrical, 2/3/4 way general purpose adjustable)
- Dynamics Processors: Compressors, peak limiters, AGCs, gates,
duckers (up to 8 channels, up to 60 sec fade-in/out times, priority
mix)
- Tone Generators: Pink/white noise, sine wave
- Delays
- Macros: user-definable custom blocks
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BASIS
BASIS processors include Amplifier and Loudspeaker Management, Configurable
DSP and CobraNet Digital Audio Transport (except BASIS 722az) in a compact
1RU device. BASIS processors can be generally considered a superset of the
RAVE and DSP 322ua devices.
Automatic Power Limiting* is one of the most powerful features of the BASIS
products. This technology establishes a feedback loop between QSC's speakers
and amps that assesses the driver's thermal response to the true power delivered
to it and uses this information to dynamically limit the power allowed to
reach the driver. Power Limiting has no effect on the sound until the designated
thermal limit is exceeded, beyond which the power to the driver is reduced
to a safe level. This maximizes each loudspeaker's performance without exceeding
its safe operating range.
Previous configurable DSP systems have often suffered from the problem of
variable latency for signal propagating through different processing paths.
QSC has solved this problem by yielding a short, fixed processing latency
through its DSP subsystem, regardless of the signal path.
BASIS processors connect directly to the DataPort on select QSC amplifiers,
providing network control and monitoring of amplifier functions. All models
incorporate the DSP functions discussed in Venue Manager Software.
RAVE
In addition to their Digital Audio Transport functions, the RAVE 520uz,
522aa and 522ua models incorporate DSP functions controlled by Venue Manager
Software. DSP 322ua
The DSP 322ua operates under QSControl.net but without CobraNet Digital
Audio Transport capability. It incorporates DSP functions controlled by
Venue Manager Software.
* BASIS Automatic Power Limiting is patented by QSC (U.S. patent number
6,940,981) |
QSCONTROL.NET BASIS/RAVE/DSP
DOCUMENTS
QSControl.net
Version 3 8-page brochure (PDF 1.9MB)
SOFTWARE
Venue Manager QSCAD
THX APPROVED
All of the QSControl.net devices are THX approved |