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Meridian Configuration Program Guide
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Preface
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Copyright and acknowledgements
Sales and service in the UK
Meridian Audio Ltd
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Cambridgeshire
PE29 6YE
England
Tel +44 (0)1480 445678
Fax +44 (0)1480 445686
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USA
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World Wide Web – http://www.meridian-audio.com/
Copyright © 2003-2004 Meridian Audio Ltd
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Meridian Lossless Packing, MHR, MHR Smart Link, the MHR
logo, and MLP are registered trademarks of Meridian Audio Ltd.
Microsoft, MS-DOS, Windows, Windows NT, and the Windows
logo are either registered trademarks or trademarks of Microsoft
Corporation.
Part no: MCP/2
This guide was produced by Human-Computer Interface Ltd,
http://www.interface.co.uk/
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Contents
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Contents
Getting started 1
Explains how to install the Meridian Configuration Program,
and gives a general overview of its key features.
Overview 1
Installing the Meridian Configuration Program 4
Quick tour 5
Describes how to create a complete configuration for a simple
system, and provides information about the more advanced
features of the Meridian Configuration Program.
Running the Configuration Program 5
Products: Adding a controller 7
Products: Inserting a source 11
Products: Adding speakers 15
Soft keys 18
Bass management 20
Speaker distances 22
Speaker calibration 23
Room correction 25
DSP presets 26
Tuner presets 28
Store settings 29
Finish 30
Room Correction 31
Explains how to run the Meridian Room Correction program
and create profiles for use with a digital surround controller.
Introduction 31
Auto Build 33
Viewing and repeating measurements 36
Viewing profiles 40
Editing filters 41
Changing settings at a later date 44
Troubleshooting 46
Control Window 49
Explains how to control a Meridian product from a PC via a
serial or USB cable.
Running the Meridian Control Window 49
Emulating an MSR+ or MSR 50
Using the Command tab 51
Index 53
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Contents
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Getting started
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Getting started
This chapter explains how to install the Meridian Configuration Program, and gives a general
overview of its key features.
Overview
The Meridian Configuration Program is a Windows application that
lets you design the configuration of your G Series or 800 Series
products to suit both your own personal preferences and the
particular configuration of other equipment in your system.
It uses an intuitive graphical interface that prompts you at every
stage for the information it needs to complete the system. When
you have designed the system to your requirements you can save
the configuration to the appropriate Meridian products in the
system via a serial link connected to the back of each product.
How it works
The Meridian Configuration Program reflects Meridian’s system
approach to designing audio products and presents a graphical
representation of your whole system. It allows you to create a
single configuration file representing the settings of each product in
your system and the way they are interconnected. This file is stored
in the controller of the system for future reference. As well as being
far more convenient than configuring each product independently,
this approach also enables the Meridian Configuration Program to
check that the settings you are proposing are appropriate for the
particular combination of products in the system.
The Meridian Configuration Program is structured as a wizard;
it leads you through a series of stages from the Welcome
page through to the Finish page, which is reached when the
configuration has been completed. A Breadcrumb Trail below the
toolbar at the top of the Meridian Configuration Program
window shows your current position in the sequence of pages and
allows you to jump back to an earlier page to check a particular
setting you made.
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Getting started
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Benefits of using the Meridian
Configuration Program
Configuring your system with the Meridian Configuration Program
offers several important benefits. In particular:
• You can configure the entire system in a single operation.
• It is more convenient and more intuitive than using the front-
panel menus.
• You have access to many advanced configuration options that are
not available from the front-panel menu.
• You can conveniently edit the names of sources, DSP presets, and
radio presets using the keyboard.
• You can edit the G Series soft keys.
• If your controller is a G68 or 861 you can take advantage of
Meridian Room Correction.
• You can set up multiple systems far more conveniently than by
manually configuring each product.
• You can keep a record of the configuration of your entire system
in a single document on your PC.
If you have made manual adjustments to the configuration of
a product from the front panel, you can fetch the product’s
configuration into the Meridian Configuration Program as the
starting point for the configuration of your system, in order to
retain the settings, such as calibration settings.
Meridian Control Window
The Meridian Configuration Program is supplied with the Meridian
Control Window utility, a separate PC application that allows you
to control any Meridian product via a serial cable (or USB cable
on certain products) using a simple push button interface that
emulates a Meridian MSR+ or MSR remote control. Alternatively it
allows you to submit commands by name, and supply parameters
for commands that take a value, such as the volume setting.
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Breadcrumb Trail
Information Bar
Toolbar
Tabs to add new products
Resource Bar
Controller
Sources Speakers
Getting started
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The Products page
The following illustration shows the key features of the Products
page, which lets you specify how your system is interconnected:
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Getting started
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Requirements
To use the Meridian Configuration Program you need:
• A computer running Windows 95, 98, 2000, NT 4, ME, or XP.
• 10Mbytes of free disk space.
The Meridian Configuration Program communicates with the
products you are setting up via a serial cable. The computer you are
using needs to have a nine-pin serial port available, or you can use
a USB/serial adaptor.
Alternatively some G Series products include a USB port, in which
case the Meridian Configuration Program can communicate with
them via a USB cable connected to the computer’s USB port.
The software requires a mouse or similar pointing device – it
cannot be operated solely from the keyboard.
To install the Meridian Configuration Program
• Insert the Meridian Configuration Program Installation CD-ROM.
The Setup program should run automatically when the CD-ROM is
inserted. If not, locate setup.exe on the CD-ROM and run it.
The Setup program Welcome page will be displayed.
• Follow the wizard.
On the Preferences page:
• Leave Install for all users selected, unless you want to restrict
use of the program to yourself on a multi-user machine.
Installing the Meridian Configuration Program
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Running the Configuration
Program
• Click Start, point at All Programs, Meridian, then click
Configuration Program:
T h e Welcome page will be displayed. This provides links to useful
information.
Using the Meridian Configuration
Program
The simplest way to use the Meridian Configuration Program is to
click the links in the Breadcrumb Trail and Information Bar at the
top of the window; for example:
The Breadcrumb Trail shows a sequence of hyperlinks to pages you
have already visited; this is indicated by the blue underline. Clicking
one of the links takes you to the corresponding page to allow you
to check your settings on that page, or make changes. The last
entry on the Breadcrumb Trail is usually Next, which takes you to
the next page.
The Information Bar provides help about the current page, and
tells you what to do next. The Information Bar contains two types
of hyperlink: definitions, prefixed by a question mark icon, which
display a pop-up window with a definition of the item, and jumps,
prefixed by an arrow icon, which perform an action or jump to
another page.
Quick tour
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Quick tour
This section gives complete step-by-step instructions for creating a complete configuration for
a typical simple system. Even if this does not correspond to your own system we recommend
you follow the tutorial to give you a quick tour of the Meridian Configuration Program.
At each stage the Quick tour shows information in grey tinted boxes about the more advanced
features of the program, and the additional options for configuring 800 Series products.
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Quick tour
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Starting a configuration
To start creating a configuration from the Welcome page:
• Click the Next link in the Breadcrumb Trail:
T h e Products page will then be displayed. This allows you to
define the products in your system and indicate how they are
connected together.
Getting help
For more detailed information about the Meridian Configuration
Program see the on-line help. To display the help:
• On the Help menu, click Configuration Program Help.
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