Q-SYS Core 24f

The system processor shall provide up to 160 x 160 networked audio channels, individually configurable as either Q-LAN, AES67, or Dante formatted networked audio. Additionally, the system processor shall include 8 x 8 Software-based Dante network audio channels and is licensable for up to 64 x 64 Software-based Dante capacity. The system processor shall support 24 total analog I/O capacity and shall be presented in the following groupings: 8 Mic/Line inputs, 8 Line outputs and 8 Flex Channel I/O which shall be software definable analog inputs or outputs in single channel increments in any combination ratio. The system processor shall be capable of connecting to any host PC, Mac or embedded device via USB and will present itself as up to four virtual external sound devices, each offering Speakerphone (with or without Acoustic Echo Cancellation) or a Soundcard plus a single USB Webcam for Soft-Codec conferencing and other applications.

The system shall perform all its real-time audio, video and control processing using Intel processors running a purpose-built, real-time Linux operating system developed by QSC, LLC. The system processor shall operate natively on a standard gigabit Ethernet infrastructure available from a broad range of network infrastructure manufacturers, employing DiffServ quality of service, IGMP, IEEE 1588-2008 (PTPv2) precision time protocol, UDP/IP audio and video transport with floating-point format audio data representation. The system shall support 802.1x authentication. The system shall not require IEEE 802.1AS, IEEE 802.1Qat, or IEEE 802.1Qav support on the network infrastructure to function. The overall system latency from analog input to synchronized analog outputs anywhere on the network shall be 3.167 ms. The system shall also be able to achieve an overall system latency of 3.167 ms over Layer-3 routed network infrastructure without any additional hardware, software or connection services between subnets.

The system processor shall manage external control interfaces such as Touchscreen Controllers, Paging Stations, Networked Audio I/O Expanders, Network Connected Amplifiers, AV-to-USB Bridging interfaces and IP-based PTZ Conference Room Cameras. 

The system processor shall have the following front panel controls and indicators: Unit ID button, ID green LED, and Power On blue LED. An LCD display on the front panel shall provide access to the processor’s network configuration details, system status, active faults, firmware version, and other critical information. A web interface shall provide basic network, services, and security configuration, status, and log retrieval. The system processor shall be natively integrated into Q-SYS Designer Software for network discovery, real-time configuration, control, monitoring, supervision, and management.

On the rear panel, the system processor shall have two 3-pin RS232 Euro Block connectors, 2 USB Type-A Device ports to provide USB HID Bridging functionality, USB Type-C Device port to provide AV-to-USB Bridging capability, and four RJ45 connectors for Q-SYS Network functions.

The system processor shall offer up to 24 channels of built-in Acoustic Echo Cancelation at the default tail length of 200 ms, which can optionally be configured via software for 100 ms, 300 ms or 400 ms tail length affecting minimum and maximum channel capacity on a linear sliding scale.

The system processor shall natively offer up to 8 Softphone instances assignable to the built-in network interface ports.

The system processor shall include support for up to 4 tracks of audio recording and 16 tracks of audio playback. Audio playback capacity may be expanded by field application of software licenses to expand this capacity to up to 64 channels. The System Processor shall include a built-in SSD for Media File storage with a minimum of 100 GB of user-accessible storage.

The system processor shall store, and operate from, a single design that shall be comprised of audio, video, and control components, wiring, links, text, and graphics on a single or multiple schematic pages. Designs shall include any of the following audio DSP, video, test and measurement components, control components, and layout components: Acoustic Echo Cancellers, Audio Players, Audio Streaming components, Crossfaders, Crossovers, Delay components, Auto Gain control elements, Compressors, Gates, Duckers, Expanders, Ambient Noise Compensators, Limiters, Gain blocks, Graphic Equalizers, Parametric Equalizers, FIR Filters, All-Pass Filters, Band-Pass Filters, Band-Stop Filters, High-Pass Filters, Low-Pass Filters, FIR High-Pass filters, FIR Low-Pass Filters, Dual-Shelf Equalizers, Notch Filters, Meters, Matrix Mixers, Gain-Sharing Automatic Mixers, Gated Automatic Mixers, Signal Routers, Public Address Routers, Room Combiners, Signal Presence Meters, SIP Softphone instances, Tone Generators, Noise Generators, Dual Trace FFT Measurement Modules, Real Time Analyzers, Signal Injectors, Signal Probes, Logic, Value and Position control functions, Lua scripting components, Command Buttons and Triggers, Camera Router, USB Audio Bridge, USB Video Bridge.

The system processor shall be optionally enabled with a comprehensive control engine having user space access to a Lua programming environment and ability to host 3rd party plugin integrations via a field applicable software license.

The system processor shall support custom user control interfaces on either proprietary touch screen controllers, network computers utilizing a control application, iOS devices, or any device with a standard web browser. Custom control interfaces shall be capable of having multiple user-selectable pages with different controls on each.

The system processor shall be 1RU with an enclosure measuring 1.75" x 19" x 12" (44 mm x 483 mm x 305 mm).

The system processor and control engine shall be the Q-SYS Core 24f audio/video/control processor with integrated analog I/O.