Help: Contrio EC8BV to control input routing on Crown CDI amp
tgehman
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My goal is to use a Contrio EC8BV as a simple volume/source controller and it will be directly connected to a Crown CDi series 4 channel networked amp via a PoE injector. This has worked well for me in the past with the EC4BV but I'm struggling to set up the source selection feature in Audio Architect.
The amp is effectively a 4x4 matrix and all the EC8 needs to do is select a zone then tell the amp to send a specified input to a specified output using a button on the Contrio. The trouble is I can't seem to find a way to do it. The how-to guide in the amp manual stops short of what I'm attempting to do.
Unless I'm understanding it wrong, the "Trigger" function on the amp is global to the amp so if a trigger is selected, it controls any input associated with it. It works fine for one output but not for 4 outputs. Is there another way that I'm not realizing? Is there not a simple way to set "Input 1 > output 4" and so on?
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Dude, it seems that there are not many people in the forum, and the administrators have been drinking tea (for a long long long time). I went up today to see if there was any reply to my post, only to find that it has been so long and there is still no reply.
For your question, you can see the link I posted below. This is an unofficial reply. Good luck.
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In short no it’s not possible.
If I read you right you want to select each output of the amp to any input of the amp?
Ive managed:
dci8
Each output can toggle between 2 inputs (in this instance all outputs listen to the same 2 inputs playlist 1 or playlist 2, and control of each output volume.
Done this on an iPad direct to the amplifier.
It’s clunky, and was only done temporarily whilst their blu100 had a service to give them something rather than silence.
It’s toggling the input of the amp on a button
on is input x
off is input z