Version 7 Archive

Q-SYS Designer Software: Support Policy

Q-SYS strives to bring new software solutions and features updates to better service our customers. To maximize business performance, you are encouraged to transition your systems to either the latest Q-SYS Designer Software release or the latest long-term support release.

Q-SYS will provide technical support on the most recent prior release of Q-SYS Designer Software (annotated as “End of Life – Supported”) for a period up to twelve (12) months. During this support period, Q-SYS will deliver a commercially reasonable effort to assist our customers experiencing problems with a system. After the twelve (12) months period, the prior software version will no longer be supported by Q-SYS.

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Featured Updates

Q-SYS Designer Asset Manager* – Download and install the latest versions of QSC-authorized assets, including third-party plugins, without having to wait for new Q-SYS Designer Software releases.

New Design Components – Speed up design creation and reduce need for custom scripts with Value Stepper, UCI layers control component, Time/Date component and more.

Expanded USB Device Support – Plug USB connected speakerphones and headsets directly into the Core 110f processor, I/O-USB Bridge or TSC-7t for simple and cost effective audio in small rooms.

New Network Services Manager – Improves system security by toggling network services per network port on Q-SYS Core processors.

* Requires license activation to deploy a design with plugins & scripting elements onto a Q-SYS Core processor. Visit the Q-SYS Scripting Engine product page for licensing details.

[NEW] – Introduced the Q-SYS Asset Manager, available via the Tools menu, to allow for easy installation of new plugins and updating of plugins directly from within Q-SYS Designer.
[NEW] – Introduced the Network Services manager on the Q-SYS Core, accessible via Configurator or web browser, allowing system administrators to disable unused network services on a per-network adapter level, which can increase the security of the Q-SYS system and help to satisfy customer-specific security requirements.
[NEW] – Added new External USB Audio Device inventory components, enabled via properties for the Core 110, TSC-7t touchscreen, and I/O USB Bridge, allowing you to connect a standard USB headset, speakerphone, or similar to a compatible Q-SYS device and process the incoming and outgoing audio streams in the Q-SYS audio DSP.
[NEW] – Added the Date/Time control component, allowing you to insert a date/time text box into your design. This is especially useful for adding the local date and time to a user control interface (UCI).
[NEW] – Added the Selector control component, allowing you to easily switch between a number of configured values to send to a downstream component.
[NEW] – Added the Value Stepper control component, allowing you to easily increase or decrease values of a downstream component in either gain or percentage terms.
[NEW] – Added the UCI Layer Controller control component, allowing you to show or hide individual layers in a specified UCI and page.
[CORE] – To make Q-SYS Cores less vulnerable to network attacks, the FTP Server on the Core has been removed. If you use FTP (implemented in custom software or a standard FTP program, such as FileZilla) to upload or download media files to or from a Q-SYS Core, QSC recommends that you wait to upgrade to version 7.1 until you can update your client software to use either HTTP or HTTPS. As a more secure alternative to FTP, use HTTPS.
[INVENTORY] – The Loudspeakers > Custom Voicing component now supports FIR filtering, adding highly accurate and complex EQ processing when using CXD-Q and DataPort-enabled amplifiers with 3rd party manufacturer loudspeakers.
[INVENTORY] – CXD-Q 4-channel amplifiers now support up to 1024 FIR taps.
[INVENTORY] – The Touchscreen Status / Control component includes a new 'Touch Activity' control, which illuminates whenever the touchscreen is actively being touched.
[SOFTPHONE] – The Status/Control component includes a new Tone Control > Force Local Ringback option, which forces the selected Ring Tone file to be played and overrides any audible tone sent by the remote party.
[SOFTPHONE] – In Administrator, you can now optionally set the expiration interval, in seconds, for the registration at the VoIP PBX.
[SOFTPHONE] – In Administrator, you can now configure a Softphone as a SIP trunk on a PBX.
[CAMERAS] – The PTZ-12x72 and PTZ-20x60 camera Status/Control components and USB Video Bridge have a new Recall Speed control, allowing you to adjust the speed of camera motor movements when recalling PTZ coordinates in a saved Snapshot.
[CAMERAS] – In Administrator, the new Exiting Privacy Image option allows you to set a custom image to display when the camera transitions out of Privacy Mode.
[BLOCK CONTROLLER] – A new System block can be used to return a selected Q-SYS environment variable, including the complete Q-SYS Designer version string (Version), individual components of the version (Major Version, Minor Version, Build Version), and whether or not the design is emulating (Is Emulating).
[BLOCK CONTROLLER] – A new trigger control block can be used to trigger a defined control when, for example, a condition is met.
[BLOCK CONTROLLER] – A new after time block can be used to create a single event or a series of events that execute after a specified period of seconds.
[QSD] – Moved the ‘Disable PTPv2 on LAN B’ option from the Design Properties to the new Network Services manager. (See the Release Notes for details.)
[QSD] – Moved the toggle to enable or disable HoverMon audio from the Q-SYS Designer Preferences menu to the new Network Services manager on the Core. (The audio driver is still configured in Preferences.)
[QSD] – For external control and scripting, added an option to easily obtain a list of all controls for a named component (Tools > View Named Component Info).
[QSD] – Added the ability to set zoom levels for individual schematic and UCI pages using the new "Zoom to" control at the bottom of the main window.
[QSD] – Added the ability to select UCI elements and move them to the horizontal center or vertical center of the canvas (Tools > Align > Center Horizontal in Page and Center Vertical in Page).
[QSD] – Added the ability to enable and disable configured Hard Link IP addresses in the Designer Preferences menu and UCI Viewer.
[UCI] – Moved the Clean Screen Button, Log Off Button, Navigation Button, and URL Button components from Components > Layout > UCI in the schematic library to Components > UCI Buttons.
[LUA] – Added HttpClient functions, allowing you to combine URL components into a complete encoded URL string, encode a comma-separated list of parameters, and encode and decode strings.
[LUA] – Added Notifications functions, allowing you to subscribe to a notification, publish a notification with specified data, and unsubscribe from a notification. (This allows scripts running within the same Core to communicate with each other.)
[LUA] – The former Qlib functions have moved to new Crypto and Network categories. (See the Release Notes for details.)
[LUA] – Added System functions, which can be used to return the Q-SYS environment version, including the complete Q-SYS Designer version string or individual components of the version.
[MISC] – Added optional Averaging Time Constant controls to the Responsalyzer component (enabled via the component properties).
[MISC] – Added a new LKFS Meter (BETA) component to Audio Components > Meters.
[MISC] – Changed the default 'Max slope' property for the Low-Pass Filter and High-Pass Filter from 48 to 24 dB/Oct.
[MISC] – Added optional 'Q-Factor' controls to the Parametric Equalizer component, selectable via the component properties.
[FIX] – DSP resource usage has been returned to values similar to version 6.2.
[FIX] – In Block Controller, using certain characters in a debug print string (for example, ' and \) no longer generates errors in Debug Output.
[FIX] – When configuring Block Controller to navigate layers in a UCI, the selected transitions for "Slide Top" and "Slide Bottom" are no longer reversed when running the UCI.
[FIX] – If you include a "TSC set page" block in your Block Controller configuration, it no longer converts to Uci.SetScreen code in Lua, and no longer results in an error in the Debug Output window.
[FIX] – If you deploy a design containing the IIR Custom Filter component to a Core, the component's Response controls (Magnitude, Magnitude/Phase, Impulse, Load Coefficients) are no longer missing from the control panel.
[FIX] – I/O-8 Flex Mic Detection has been restored to the Flex In component control panel.
[FIX] – Script "total load" percentage no longer can exceed 100% in the Inspector.
[FIX] – In a redundant network configuration, audio over core-to-core Q-LAN streams no longer temporarily drops for two to five seconds on both LAN-A and LAN-B if either LAN interface is disconnected.
[FIX] – If a button is set to an image, and the image does not have square dimensions, the image is displayed properly in a UCI.
[FIX] – You can now group a selection of UCI elements containing a hidden group.

Release Notes & Online Help

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Featured Updates

[NEW] - Q-SYS Feature Licensing introduced to allow simple deployment and activation of Q-SYS software based features. View here for more information or contact your QSC Sales Representative.
[NEW] - To coincide with Q-SYS Feature Licensing, Q-SYS Designer will now show notifications when using features that require licensed features.
[NEW] - Added new visual scripting tool, the Block Controller component.
[INVENTORY] - Added support for the expanded line of TSC-G2 controllers with screen sizes now ranging from 4.7” to 11.6” diagonal.
[INVENTORY] - Added support for the new AcousticDesign Column loudspeakers (AD-S802T, AD-S162T) as well as the new E215 subwoofer.
[INVENTORY] – Added support for new cinema devices – Core 110c, DCIO and DCIO-H
[LEGACY HARDWARE] - Legacy Server Cores (Core 1000, 3000 and 4000) are no longer supported in v7.0 or higher software. Customers with design files based on these hardware models will need to update those designs to supported hardware for use with v7.0 or higher software.
[BACKWARDS COMPATIBILITY] - Any new Core 110 or Core 510 shipped with v7.x or higher firmware will require assistance from QSC Support to downgrade below v7.x. Existing Cores in the field that shipped with v6.2.1 or lower firmware can be upgraded and downgraded without issue
[HELP] - New Help File Viewer to improve navigation, search functions as well as better support for viewing on high resolution monitors.
[QSD] - Increased the number of Static Routes from 16 to 128 in Q-SYS Designer.
[UCI] - Support for user selectable fonts on Q-SYS UCI's.
[UCI] - Added the "Image" Button Style, enabling the ability to map user-specified images to individual button states.
[UCI] - Navigation buttons now support all button styles, including the new "Image" style.
[LUA] - Added 'dir' method to allow manipulation of directories in the Lua environment.
[LUA] - Changed /design directory access to read-only, /media directory has full read/write access.
[LUA] - Added base64 encode/decode functions to Lua.
[LUA] - Added Timer.CallAfter function to Lua
[PLUGINS] - Added support for tabbed pages within Q-SYS Plugins.
[PLUGINS] Newly added plugin supporting the Attero Tech unA6IO(v1.0.1)
[PLUGINS] Newly added plugin supporting the Attero Tech unA6IO-BT v(1.0.0)
[PLUGINS] Newly added plugin supporting the Attero Tech unAIO2x2 (v1.0.1)
[PLUGINS] Newly added plugin supporting the Attero Tech unAX4I (v1.0.1)
[PLUGINS] Updated version of the Attero Tech unD3IO (v1.0.2)
[PLUGINS] Updated version of the Attero Tech unAX2IO (1.0.2)
[PLUGINS] Newly added plugin supporting NEC MultiSync Displays

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