User Guide
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Customizing Your RC9500
If your entire system is new to you, practice using the RC9500 manu-
ally for a few days before programming any macros. You’ll find that
your home theater requires many operations that require multiple
steps to do. You have to decide whether to use a:
Macro - The entire operation happens in an automated sequence
when you touch one button.
Help List - The operation happens manually but is prompted by large
sequentially numbered buttons with friendly labels on one sequence of
pages linked together.
Some multiple step operations require you to make decisions before
you proceed. An example is turning on a non-Marantz home theater
system. Many components turn on and off with a single “Power” but-
ton. Before you press a “Power” button, the manufacturer expects you
to look at the component to see whether it is on or off. If you want it
on and it’s off, you press the “Power” button. If you forget to look, and
it is already on, you will turn it off when you press the “Power” button.
The Remote cannot “look” at your components to see if they are on or
off. So, if you recorded a macro intended to power up a non-Marantz
home theater, it wouldn’t be very reliable.
Hereís an example:
Your spouse goes out to the local video store and rents a video tape.
When he/she gets home, they pop the tape in the VCR (most VCRís auto-
matically turn on when a tape is inserted). Your spouse touches the macro
button you programmed to power up the system. The recorded sequence
of ìpowerî buttons is played back. Unfortunately, since the VCR was
already on, it is now off and everything else is on. Your spouse sees no
picture, assumes the macro didnít work, so he/she touches the button
again. This time, the macro turns the VCR on and every thing else off.
Frustrating!
Marantz builds components that are “macro-friendly”. Instead of a sin-
gle “power” button, the remote controls have a discrete “On” and a
discrete “Off” button. With a Marantz system, you can record a Macro
that is very reliable from a series of “On” commands. Take a look at
the example ALL ON and ALL OFF macros preprogrammed in the
default configuration.
3. Complex Operation? Macro or Help...
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