Grass Valley Maestro Master Control v.2.4.0 - Manual (Page 36)

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Major Components
Major Components
Maestro hardware components consist of:
• A Maestro/Concerto+ rack mount frame.
• Maestro Frame Processor circuit boards and rear panels.
• A Maestro Control panel.
The Maestro Control panel may include a hardware control panel, a GUI
control panel, or both; however, at least one control panel is recommended
no matter how many channels are in a Maestro system. A Windows PC is
used for software installation, configuration, deployment and updates.
Maestro/Concerto Frames
Maestro/Concerto frames contain one or more Maestro Main (Processor)
boards. The Main board may be configured for standard definition (SD) or
high definition (HD) operation. Each Processor board provides one channel
that consists of one video and eight AES audio channels (that is, four stereo
pairs) or up to 16 embedded audio channels.
Note Up to 16 AES audio channels per video source are supported with external
AES-to-MADI conversion.
The Maestro system must be used with a Routing switcher that is con-
trolled by a Grass Valley router control system (for example, using Encore
as shown in
Figure 1 on page 30 or Jupiter as shown in Figure 2 on
page 31 ).
If a Grass Valley Concerto Routing switcher is used, and depending on the
system size, the Concerto boards may be mounted inside the Maestro/
Concerto frame.
The following Maestro/Concerto frames are available:
8 RU Maestro/Concerto frame (MAE-FRM128)
This frame, which is also known as the “Concerto Plus” frame, accepts
a total of four Maestro/Concerto boards in any combination.
4 RU M/C frame (CRS-FRM64)
This frame, which is also known as the “Concerto 64” frame, accepts 1
Concerto board plus 1 Maestro SD or Maestro HD Processor board. If
present, the Maestro board must be mounted in the bottom slot.
Note The original 7 RU Concerto rack frame is similar to the 8 RU Maestro/Con-
certo frame, but due to power and space limitations is not recommended for
Maestro systems.