Room Tone Control

[DR7]

I was wondering if a module exists for tone control for each room such as being able to select and save Bass,Treble,Balance as well as being able to do the same with Min/Max Volume and System Startup Volume for each room?

I looked at many of the Crestron modules and I find the "Stereo Volume and Tone Control v1.1" it doesn't seem to properly control the Bass and Treble and seems buggy.

If a person was going to attempt to create something like this is their a control ID on equipment ID that should be used? I did refer to the crosspoint routing page and to be honest I am not sure I can even pull this off or have the time and that's why I thought to ask if someone already created a module with this functionality.

I can, of course, do everything to control these values, save them to ARAM and recall them but my lack of skill is with packaging it all into a module that is a crosspoint so I can have one "Audio Settings" page used for all rooms instead of having spaghetti code with buffers and multiple pages to accomplish a simple task that's needed for all rooms.

Thanks in advance.

[adelyte-austin]

@DR7 There is no Crescendo compatible module for non-volatile tone control since many of these settings do not need to change at runtime, like min / max volumes. Sonnex tool made eq controls even less important. Typically if a user requires this for a BIPAD8 I write a monolithic Device module: D-05 Tone Controls (ID is arbitrary) and the appropriate views. Basic ramp and toggle logic will work here. Use an ARAM and DRAM symbol inside the System folder at the top of the program and those settings will persist. You could also create a wrapped device module with the necessary logic for each audio output, then have the interface select the appropriate device based on the current room. This could be D-11 through D-18.

The correct method would be to write a full implementation using simpl+ module that writes to file, then use the Switcher - D4 ID pathway and connect it to the generic layer for interfaces. There is no plan for this currently, but perhaps users would like a poll to decide its importance?

[DR7]

Thank you Austin for the detailed reply, my SIMPL+ was enough to get certified and that was years ago and I've unfortunately avoided it since and really should practice. My crosspoints also are not the best but I am learning by looking inside your modules.

One thing I did notice tonight was the SWAMP offers the selection of tone profiles via analog using the EQ_Selection signal and sending it a 0-5. I think this would take care of most peoples needs but for whatever reason some users want all the adjustments while myself I just set it and forget it by logging into the SWAMP.

Other frameworks I have used do include these functions and seem to have a 100-200 or more signals in their modules(WAY to many!) and usually have an Audio Zone control module and a Media Room module but the size of the others modules I have seen are huge, Crescendo is small clean and efficient and I prefer picking all my sources using /x01/x02 etc instead of choosing to enable or disable from dropdowns in parameters.

Myself, of course, I would vote for the poll but not so sure how others feel about the importance, its one of the only things I've noticed missing from the framework so far so I thought to ask because I assumed maybe someone else had created a module already I could easily use.

[adelyte-chris]

We do provide custom code on contract. If you have a client who needs tone controls or anything else not included in the framework, we would be happy to get you a quote.