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Anleitung Zusammenfassung
. This product offers the latest advances in Focal amplifiers. In order to obtain the best results, we highly recommend you have your new amplifier installed by your local Focal distributor. To maximise the use all the functionalities of we recommend that you Focal Dual Monitor softfuture reference. your read ware amplifier the entire manual. We and to fully enjoy instructions in this recommend you its performance booklet, as well keep the manulevels, as the als for 1. Introduction The Dual Manager program has been designed to give you the entire control over a car audio system comprising one Focal Dual Monitor amplifier, operating together with its remote controller. Francais page 19 Focal® is a trademark of Focal-JMlab® -2. Installation 2.1. System requirements To run the program you will need a PC with the following minimum configuration or specifications: • Supported Windows OS -Windows 98 with Microsoft Installer 2.0 (CD-ROM include last version of Installer) -Windows ME -Windows 2000 -Windows XP • CPU Minimum -1GHz, recommended 2GHz and higher (this software makes intensive use of mathematics for DSP calculations). • Screen Resolution: 1024x768 and higher Colour depth: 16, 24, 32 Bits • Memory The program needs only 10MB of RAM. Any Windows OS with Microsoft recommended memory size is acceptable. After installation of all additional programs Windows should allocate 10MB of physical memory for the program to run without hard disk swapping activity. • Hard disk free space 3MB in “Program Files” folder and 1 MB for Drive C: Drive C: should be present. 2.2. Preparing the computer and installing the program Load the CD-ROM provided with Focal Dual Monitor amplifier. Copy the content of the CD-ROM to the hard disk, at an appropriate location. To install the program, simply double click on the Set-up icon and follow the instructions. If not already done, power up the Dual Monitor amplifier and connect the USB cable between the amplifier and your computer. Wait a few seconds while the amplifier firmware is loading, when finished Windows will notify you that a new hardware has been detected. When prompted do NOT allow Windows to install the drivers for you. ALWAYS choose to install the drivers by yourself. Windows 98, 2000 and XP will permit you to search for a driver. When asked to specify a location browse the disk directory and select C:\\FOCAL USB DRIVER 1. Install all drivers. Usually, you will need to install the drivers twice. Note: If this program informs you about an old Windows Installer version, you must exit the program, install a Windows Installer version 1.2 or above. Windows Installer 2.0 for Windows 98 is included on the installation CD or it can be downloaded from the Microsoft website. 2. Installation 2.3. Launching Dual Manager At the end of the previous step, a new shortcut has been created with a Focal Dual Manager icon on the computer desktop. To launch the program simply double click on the icon. If at this stage the amplifier is not connected or powered the following message will appear: “Amplifier is not connected. Program will be started in demo mode”. This mode is intended to let you to play around and get familiar with the various functions of the program without affecting the actual settings of the amplifier. If the amplifier and its remote controller are connected, the computer takes control and the 4 green LEDS on the controller come on. When the program starts a temporary start-up window will be displayed, including some information on the program release number. Towards the bottom of the window is a button labelled “Upgrade firmware”. This facility allows you to upgrade the various routines contained in the amplifier itself. For a few seconds the text displayed on the button appears in black, to indicate that this option can be activated. The first time you launch the Dual Manager program, you may be prompted to upgrade the firmware as it will check the compatibility between the current version of firmware and the program itself. In such a case, do execute the firmware upgrade by clicking the upgrade button. Once the upgrade has been completed, leave the program and start it over again. If the firmware upgrade is not executed, after a few seconds the start-up window will disappear and the main program window be displayed. Note: For more information on firmware upgrade please refer to another section of the manual. Load menuSave menuPreferences menu04Load menuSave menuPreferences menu04 3. Title bar and menus On the title bar is displayed a line of text which looks like the following: Focal Dual Manager (Loaded Preset 1: No Name). Restricted user mode. The left hand part is – obviously – the program name. The middle part, between brackets, indicates the last loaded Preset number and name: more information on presets is given in a further paragraph. Finally the right hand information describes the current status of the user mode: “restricted user mode” or “admini...