Pronet network, The pronet philosophy, Connecting devices – Proel PC260 User Manual

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PRONET NETWORK

The PRONET philosophy

PRONET software has been designed by Proel’s Research & Development Department to easily control a single unit or a network of

devices, like active loudspeakers or speaker processors, equipped with the C-AUDIO CORE digital processing platform .

PRONET has been developed in collaboration with sound engineers and sound designers, in order to offer an "easy-to-use" tool to

setup and manage your audio system . With PRONET you can visualize signal levels, monitor internal status and edit all the parameters

of each connected device .
Download the PRONET app from the PROEL website at http://www.proel.com clicking on support / download section.

Connecting devices

To configure a single processor like PC260 you can use a direct connection from your computer to the front panel USB port:

PC260 has both a USB and a network connection, so you'll need to select which connection you want to use in the SETUP menu (see

above in this manual) . If you want to use the network connection, the PROEL USB2CAN converter is needed .

The first time you connect a Processor device with a USB cable or with USB2CAN converter, Windows O .S . will ask you to install

the driver files, which you can find in the Driver folder within the Pronet application folder (by default is C:\Program Files\Proel\

Pronet\Driver, or if you changed it \Driver). Please refer also to "Installation" and "Drivers" paragraphs in the Pronet

documentation .

Connecting devices to a PRONET NETWORK

For managing complex setups including multiple units of active speakers and processors, PROEL engineers have developed a

networking system based on a robust, reliable and fast communication protocol called CANBUS .

The devices in a PRONET NETWORK are connected toghether with a "linear bus topology". A PROEL USB2CAN CONVERTER is needed

for connecting the network to the USB port of the PC running the PRONET application . The USB2CAN CONVERTER is connected to

the newtork input of the first device, the network output of the first device is connected to the input of the second and so on . For the

network connections simple RJ45 cat .5 (or cat .6) ethernet cables can be used .

The beginning and the end of a PRONET NETWORK must be terminated. One side is terminated by the USB2CAN

converter, the other side must be terminated pressing the TERMINATE switch on the last device. All devices between

these two points must have the TERMINATE switch lifted.

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network

PC260

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