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Quick Start Guide

This Quick Start Guide is intended to give a high-level procedure for getting a simple Q-Sys system connected, running a Q-Sys design, and passing

audio. The following procedure assumes that you have a Q-Sys Designer ﬁ le with components properly connected, but not necessarily conﬁ gured.

1. Set up the Q-LAN network. For more information about Network Requirements see Help File Networking Topic; for a list of qualiﬁ ed switches see

“Qualiﬁ ed Ethernet Switches” on page 13, or the QSC website (qscaudio.com).

2. Connect PC, and Core to the Q-LAN network. If you have any I/O Frames, they should be connected to the Q-LAN network at this time.

3. Connect DataPort ampliﬁ ers and loudspeakers.

4. Power up the equipment.

5. On the PC, Start Q-Sys Designer.

a. Open your design ﬁ le.

b. Select the Core in the Inventory list, and verify the conﬁ guration. Make sure the Core model is correct, and the correct I/O cards are identiﬁ ed in

the same slots as they appear in the physical hardware.

c. Open Q-Sys Conﬁ gurator and select the Core with the same name as in the design. If the names are different, you must change the hardware

name or the name of the Core component in Q-Sys Designer so they match. A new Core is shipped with both LANs enabled, and the

addressing Mode set to Auto. The available modes are:

» Auto — If there is a DHCP server on the network, the IP Address is automatically assigned. When a DHCP server is not found or

non-functional, and the Q-Sys end node is conﬁ gured for “auto”, it will use Link-Local addressing to self assign an IP address in the

169.254.0.0/16 range.

» Static — You assign a static IP Address, Mask and Default Gateway.

» Off — Available on LAN B only. In the Off mode, there is no network redundancy.

d. If you have any I/O Frames, select them one at a time in the Inventory list, and verify the conﬁ guration of each.

e. In Q-Sys Conﬁ gurator, Select the I/O Frame with the same name as in the design. If the names are different, you must change the hardware

name or the name of the I/O Frame component in Q-Sys Designer so they match. A new I/O Frame is shipped with both LANs enabled, and

the addressing Mode set to Auto. The available modes are:

» Auto — If there is a DHCP server on the network, the IP Address is automatically assigned. When a DHCP server is not found or

non-functional, and the Q-Sys end node is conﬁ gured for “auto”, it will use Link-Local addressing to self assign an IP address in the

169.254.0.0/16 range.

» Static — You assign a static IP Address, Mask and Default Gateway.

» Off — LAN B only, no network redundancy

f. Ensure that the ampliﬁ ers are properly connected in the design and conﬁ gured correctly. The connections and conﬁ guration should match the

physical connections.

g. Ensure that the loudspeakers are properly connected to the ampliﬁ ers in the design, and conﬁ gured correctly. The connections and

conﬁ guration should match the physical connections.

h. There are many ways to pass audio through the Q-Sys system, your design should contain one or more ways to do this. If not, refer to the

Online Help and add one of the components that would allow you to pass audio.

i. Save the design to the Core and connect (Press F5).

j. If the Core’s ﬁ rmware does not match the ﬁ rmware embedded in Q-Sys Designer on your PC, you are prompted to update the ﬁ rmware. The

Core 250i and 500i are supported by Q-Sys Designer 3.0 and above. Do not install a version of Q-Sys Designer earlier than 3.0.

NOTE:

To download the latest Q-Sys Designer software and ﬁ rmware, go to http://www.qscaudio.com/products/software/QSys.

6. Test the system.

Before trying to pass audio, place the System Mute component in your design, Run the design (F5), and click the Mute button. When you attempt

to pass audio for the ﬁ rst time, you can un-mute the system and the output will ramp up to the level of the settings in your design. If the system

begins to get too loud, you can press the mute button again and make necessary adjustments.

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