Overview:
Q-Sys Integrated System Platform
- Q-Sys is the most powerful yet simple solution on the market for audio processing, control and management. It is designed and backed by the industry leaders of audio engineering and service.
A Completely new technology platform
- Q-Sys™ has no equal as an integrated, scalable audio solution. Built from the ground up on a powerful, open, IT-friendly foundation, the Q-Sys platform transcends the limitations in scope, performance, and usability that have kept previous networked audio control systems from reaching their full potential.
Innovation through technology
- Q-Sys represents the latest advance in QSC's long history of defining the state of the art in audio routing and control systems. As the world's first licensee of Cobra Net™, QSC created DSP-based audio processing products that enabled new capabilities in both commercial and performance sound reinforcement systems. As developments in IT continued to enhance the capabilities of CPUs and IP networking, we responded with new solutions offering far greater power and flexibility than the proprietary approach still being embraced by our competitors. That's the QSC way; Building on our heritage while constantly evolving through new technologies.
Q-Sys system elements
- The primary elements of a Q-Sys system are the Core, the Designer software, the Q-LAN network, and the peripherals.
- Q-Sys Core is the brain of the system, performing all audio routing, processing, and control functions.
- Q-Sys Designer software provides the interface for system design, configuration, and control.
- Q-LAN is the IP-friendly network that connects the system into an integrated whole.
- Q-Sys peripherals such as I/O Frames, I/O cards, page stations and touch screen controllers provide fully customizable, application-specific functionality.
I/O Peripherals
- Q-Sys I/O peripherals help connect the power of the Q-Sys Core processor to the outside world of audio. I/O cards provide connectivity to analog and digital sources and destinations, while the I/O-Frame and I/O-22 allow local or remote inputs or outputs anywhere that a standard Gigabit Ethernet network is available with connectivity back to the Core.
- It should be mentioned that Q-Sys paging stations are also considered a peripheral, but have their own section.
I/O Cards
- Q-Sys I/O cards allow integrators to bring audio into and out of a Q-Sys Core processor when installed directly in a Core or I/O-Frame remote I/O device. A variety of I/O cards are available to accomodate many different project requirements. The cards supporting analog audio are 4-channel devices, while the digital cards support higher channel counts.
Q-SYS CAES4 -AES-3 Digital Input/Output Card
– The AES-3 Digital Input/Output Card allows fourchannels of input and four channels of output simultaneously. So if you filledyour I/O Frame with four of these cards, you'd be able to achieve sixteenchannels of input as well as sixteen channels of output from a single I/OFrame.
Q-SYS CAES4 Features:
- 4 x 4 Digital audio channels
- Frequency Response +/- 0.2 dB
- 4 connectors
Specifications:
Performance:
Frequency Response
- 20 Hz - 20 kHz (typ): ± 0.2 dB
- Infinite Attenuation (via digital mute)
- Group Delay : < 13 FS (≈ 760 μs)at 48 kHz
- Connectors: Four 3-terminal Euro-style detachable terminal blocks
One important thing to note: Due to the chassis architecture of the Core and I/O Frame, you must fill all available card slots in the Core and I/O Frame. If you do not have the need to fill all of the slots with functioning cards, QSC offers BLANK non-functional cards to be used as placeholders