Video Transcript
USB Audio
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"Bring Your Own Device" functionality is a must-have in today’s meeting
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and USB audio is a huge part of this equation for the Q-SYS platform.
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It lets the user quickly interface their own laptop and other devices with the room’s systems for presenting,
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teleconferencing and more. The Core 110f, for instance, features a Type B USB connection that
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lets you simultaneously stream up to 16 channels of USB audio in and 16 channels out to a single device.
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To enable this ability, go to the Core’s properties panel and change the USB Endpoint Count from 0 to 1.
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This creates input and output components that you can drag into your Schematic that will either receive
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or send audio across the USB connection.
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Your PC and any appropriate applications should see a new device called "Q-SYS CORE 110f"
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with a connection label based on your settings.
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You can actually have up to 4 different Endpoints running across this USB connection
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for use by different programs, but most users will probably only need one or two.
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One common use for this connection would be for teleconferencing.
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You could run the audio of a PC program such as Skype or Lync to the Core to play your telephone call
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over a conference room’s high quality loudspeakers, and use the Core to process
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the conference room’s microphones before sending them back to the PC.
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Basically you’d be turning your Q-SYS system into an external echo-canceling speakerphone for your laptop.
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In fact, if you have this USB Endpoint’s type configured as a "Speakerphone,"
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then this USB connection will be identified as a Speakerphone by your conference application.
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If you select it in the PC audio configuration menu as the "Default Communications Device",
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you’ll connect quickly and automatically.
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Since this type of telephone audio will be in mono,
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you’ll notice that the components only have one input pin and one output pin.
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You’ll want to use an Acoustic Echo Canceler to process the audio of this conference call.
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For an example of a simple AEC setup,
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check out our Training Quickstart video on the Acoustic Echo Canceler.
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The other type of connection is called "Soundcard".
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In this example, the PC will identify the USB Endpoint as a Line Out or Aux In channel.
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By default this will provide you with 2 channels for a stereo connection.
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You can increase the number of channels up to 8,
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but be aware that Windows has a limitation that prevents it from handling more than two channels.
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Fortunately you can correct this by installing a universal ASIO driver.
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You can find these drivers for free online, such as this website, www.asio4all.com.
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You could also change the Soundcard’s Input Mode from Line to Speaker.
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You would use this option if your room has, let’s say, a PC with a blu-ray player connected to the Core via USB.
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If you selected "speaker" the Core’s USB connection will self-identify as a speaker output from your PC.
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This allows you to specify a stereo, quadrophonic, 5.1 or 7.1 system
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so that the PC will appropriately deliver surround sound audio across the USB channels.
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In this mode, the USB output in Q-SYS will be seen as a USB Line In to the computer.
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The most important thing to keep in mind when configuring your USB connections
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is that the USB Input in Q-SYS is the Output for the PC,
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and the Output component in Q-SYS will be an Input to the PC. Just remember that the
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terms "Input" and "Output" in Q-SYS are from the Core’s point of view, and you’ll be fine.
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Thanks for watching, and we’ll see you next time.
Lesson Description
USB Audio
This module will show you how to configure USB devices so that they can be used in Q-SYS as an audio input or output.
Tips and Definitions
USB Audio
- A USB device can be configured as a speakerphone or as a soundcard.
- Windows devices will need a universal ASIO driver to play more then 2 channels out of a soundcard.