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Author Topic: CP-650: Undocumented feature? Randy Stankey Film God Posts: 6539 From: Erie, Pennsylvania Registered: Jun 99 posted 04-06-2011 02:49 PM                     I was just working on my Dolby processor last night and I accidentally discovered something. If you are in the B-Chain adjustment mode, setting the EQ for each a given channel, you can spin the dial clockwise until the cursor goes off the end of the graph and, if you keep turning, the system will automatically EQ to the curve shown on the oscilloscope screen. I have read the instruction manual two times over but this feature is not documented. My system software version is 2.3.5.3. Maybe my manual is for a previous version? Regardless, it's cool!  |  IP: Logged Steve Guttag We forgot the crackers Gromit!!! Posts: 12814 From: Annapolis, MD Registered: Dec 1999 posted 04-06-2011 06:14 PM                     It is probably a form of "EQ Assist". That said, I was also unaware of this feature.  |  IP: Logged Randy Stankey Film God Posts: 6539 From: Erie, Pennsylvania Registered: Jun 99 posted 04-06-2011 07:05 PM                     It was after midnight. I had just finished installing new amps and was zeroing the EQ so that I could start fresh. (I know... not really necessary but,WTF, I did it anyway...) I spun the dial so as to start at the top of the scale and work downward. I didn't think anything of it. I just spun, figuring that the cursor would stop when it got to the end. Suddenly, the display started doing things by itself. I looked down at the scope and it was practically perfect according to the curve on the screen. I tried it again with the left and right channels. I was able to repeat the effect several times. I looked in the manual to see if this was documented. It is not. I checked again to be sure. Either this is a feature that's in my version of the software but not written in the version of the manual or else I have found an Easter egg. I'm just wondering if others already know about this or whether I really have found an Easter egg.  |  IP: Logged Steve Guttag We forgot the crackers Gromit!!! Posts: 12814 From: Annapolis, MD Registered: Dec 1999 posted 04-06-2011 08:03 PM                     Using the set up software...try EQ Assist and see if it does the exact same thing. -Steve  |  IP: Logged Randy Stankey Film God Posts: 6539 From: Erie, Pennsylvania Registered: Jun 99 posted 04-06-2011 09:18 PM                     Don't have the software. Tried to download it from Dolby but couldn't find it... Got an account. Logged in to the secured site. Searched around but wasn't able to locate. I would like to have that software because, not only would it make calibration easier, I could save my settings and have them available if needed. If the software allows you to access an "EQ Assist" feature then I must have found some way to access that feature from the face panel of the processor instead of through software. It helps just to know that. BTW: Where do I get the setup software for the CP650? Maybe I wasn't looking in the right place?  |  IP: Logged Steve Guttag We forgot the crackers Gromit!!! Posts: 12814 From: Annapolis, MD Registered: Dec 1999 posted 04-06-2011 10:07 PM                     If you have a Dolby Secure account...then go to the CP650 section and the "Software" tab. I believe the current version is 2.3.1.1  |  IP: Logged Randy Stankey Film God Posts: 6539 From: Erie, Pennsylvania Registered: Jun 99 posted 04-07-2011 12:24 AM                     I got an account at dolbysecure.com but when I go there and log in, all I get access to is digital cinema downloads. I don't see any links to CP650 software all all. Did Dolby change their website? Did I register for the wrong thing? Fucking digital video is for computers, not for theaters!  |  IP: Logged Steve Guttag We forgot the crackers Gromit!!! Posts: 12814 From: Annapolis, MD Registered: Dec 1999 posted 04-07-2011 02:08 AM                     Perhaps...I checked for myself and had no problem getting to the CP650 stuff (and DCinema).  |  IP: Logged Richard Hamilton Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1341 From: Evansville, Indiana Registered: Jan 2000 posted 04-07-2011 10:24 AM                     Randy, I sent you a link to the 650 software page on Dolbysecure, let me know if it works. Rick  |  IP: Logged Randy Stankey Film God Posts: 6539 From: Erie, Pennsylvania Registered: Jun 99 posted 04-07-2011 11:32 AM                     I can only get to this page: https://www.dolbysecure.com/cinematech/Default.aspx I can log in to the site but the only things I can see are digital cinema software that looks like video server updates, etc. I can not find anything on the CP650. Searching for "CP650" or "setup" or similar comes up empty. Perhaps, when I registered, I got approved for the wrong thing?... (Sorry about the disparaging comment above... It was late. I was tired and frustrated. )  |  IP: Logged Joe Redifer You need a beating today Posts: 12859 From: Denver, Colorado Registered: May 99 posted 04-07-2011 04:26 PM                        Will someone else just download the install file, ZIP it up and send it to Randy already?  |  IP: Logged Tony Bandiera Jr Film God Posts: 3067 From: Moreland Idaho Registered: Apr 2004 posted 04-08-2011 02:23 AM                     Randy, PM me with your address and I can send out the CD-rom with all the goodies on it for you.  |  IP: Logged Steve Guttag We forgot the crackers Gromit!!! Posts: 12814 From: Annapolis, MD Registered: Dec 1999 posted 04-08-2011 09:51 AM                     A LOT of email servers look in ZIP files for .exe files and some will not even be put off by changing the .EXE to a different extension. -Steve  |  IP: Logged Richard Hamilton Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1341 From: Evansville, Indiana Registered: Jan 2000 posted 04-08-2011 10:47 AM                     quote: Joe Redifer send it to Randy already? Downloaded and sent via e-mail. (not because Joe was pissed). Tony, there were only 3 files under the CP650 software link. I'm waiting to hear if the files I sent were what Randy wanted? I am not that familiar with the 650. I've installed about a hundred of the CP500, but only a couple of the CP650. Where is Lonny when you need him? (I lost his cell number) Rick  |  IP: Logged Tony Bandiera Jr Film God Posts: 3067 From: Moreland Idaho Registered: Apr 2004 posted 04-08-2011 01:19 PM                     Randy: Got your PM, disc is on its way to you. Rick: I don't recall how many files are on the Dolby Cinema resources disc but I think it includes DRAS and software for the CP500 as well. And the manuals are also included IIRC.  |  IP: Logged

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