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PM1D Fun

timcorder — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 03:46:40 +0000

A few days ago I received a fun email from the buyer of our PM1D system last fall…

“Tuesday night I received a call from our touring arena manager here at Penn State. They were in a bit of a bind, with 7k tickets sold for Chris Tomlin and one very dead pm5d-rh. Mind you this was 5:30 for a 7:00 curtain. Small negotiation later, they were mixing on our (your old) pm1d. Interesting, you may be able to take the console out of the church, but… you know the rest.”

Small world indeed.

ADK Lyve Tracker?

timcorder — Mon, 28 May 2007 23:20:57 +0000

Ran across an interesting press release from NAB last month…

ADK Lyve Tracker Supports Yamaha Digital Consoles
New York (May 2, 2007)– ADK’s LYVE Tracker, a rack-mounted, recording solution capable of recording of up to 192 simultaneous tracks, made its NAB debut at the Yamaha Commercial Audio System; the unit is custom designed for use with Yamaha digital consoles and is based on a Nuendo 3 or Cubase 4 audio engine.

The ADK LYVE Tracker recording system uses Intel’s new Core 2 Duo and RME MADI technologies and is equipped with removable hard drive bays and a DVD-RW for backup and archiving. The unit is offered in three models with capabilities of recording 64, 128 or 192 tracks respectively.

Available with a choice of Steinberg Nuendo 3 or Cubase 4 engines, the LYVE Tracker package includes a complete plug and play, one-cable MADI connectivity package. Cubase 4 natively records in broadcast wave format and can import and export OMF 1, 2 and AIFF which are compatible with Pro Tools, AVID, RADAR, Nuendo and other DAW and computer recording programs.

Here’s the link to ADK’s configuration page for the Lyve.
http://www.adkproaudio.com/systems/viewsystem.cfm?recordid=113

Could this be Yamaha’s answer to the tight integration of the Digidesign Venue & ProTools with a virtual soundcheck? Other than this press release, I’m not finding any more information online. Is there anything different using this solution versus just using a standalone Mackie/Tascam 24 track HD recorder other than track count in one box?

Time to talk to Mr Yamaha rep!!!

UPDATE: The press release mentions simplicity of connection with MADI connectivity. This connector doesn’t appear to be compatible with PM1D systems without some kind of MADI to AES/EBU or Optical converter. Hmmm…

Yamaha M7CL

timcorder — Mon, 28 May 2007 22:25:24 +0000

I’ve had the joy of spending some time on our M7 consoles that are used at the campuses and now in our chapel at Main Campus over the past few weeks and have really enjoyed it. For the money, it’s hard to imagine another console matching the performance/budget/usability factor.

There’s an interesting article on Yamaha’s website about the creation and engineering of the M7. If you’re like me, you might find it interesting.

Check it out…

PM1D Shortcuts

timcorder — Mon, 28 May 2007 22:09:08 +0000

MATRIX SENDS
Hold down the ‘SEL’ switch of a MIX bus or STEREO Master to see all the Matrix Send levels on the MATRIX encoders. The MATRIX channel name displays will flash ‘SEND’ during this time. Remember each time the ‘SEL’ switch for STEREO A or B is pressed, it swaps between the Left and Right channels, so the Left and Right send levels can be accessed separately. Alternatively, hold down the ‘SEL’ switch of a MATRIX channel to see the send levels from all the MIX buses to the selected MATRIX channel. All the MIX name displays will flash ‘SEND’ during this time.

CHANNEL MOVE
Select the source channel with its SEL switch, then press the CHANNEL COPY switch (in the relevant Input or Output SELECTED CHANNEL module). Then hold SHIFT and press the SEL switch of the destination channel and click ‘OK’ in the Dialog Box on the LCD.

EFFECT PARAMETER EDIT
Hold SHIFT and press one of the blue MIX LAYER keys (to the right of the MIX Master encoders) to edit the Effect parameters on the MIX encoders. The two rows of encoders correspond with the two rows of parameters on the LCD.

INPUT CHANNEL METERS
Hold SHIFT and press the MIX 25-48 METER switch (below the MONITOR level pots) to view the meters for Input channels 1-48 on the METER BRIDGE.
Hold SHIFT and press the MATRIX 1-24 METER switch to view the meters for Input channels 49-96 on the METER BRIDGE.
Hold SHIFT and press the MIX 25-48 and the MATRIX 1-24 METER switches together to view the meters for Stereo Input channels 1-8 on the METER BRIDGE.

MIX SEND JOB SELECT
This enables the user to quickly set multiple Mix sends to the same level, or to switch multiple sends On/Off or Pre/Post. This function only works on the CH to MIX page in the PAN/ROUTING menu. Highlight a parameter with the cursor (the cursor will turn yellow to indicate this shortcut is available). Then hold SHIFT and press ENTER. A JOB SELECT window will appear providing various copy options: to all Mixes or to all Channels or to all Mixes and Channels. This is very convenient when setting up many monitor mixes.

PAGE BACK
Hold SHIFT and press a LCD FUNCTION ACCESS switch to access the previous page in the menu.

Recall Safe on the PM1D

timcorder — Mon, 28 May 2007 21:56:39 +0000

I just learned an important note from reading archived posts on the Live Audio Board about the PM1D.

Since we upgraded to Version 2 of the console software, a feature supposed to be included was when you put a channel into recall safe, it puts the channel gain into safe mode as well. There is a setting on the recall safe screen to choose whether recall safe effects only channel settings or unit+channel.

The PM1D system’s scene recall function has three subsets of memories: Unit, Patch and Name.

The unit memory controls: gain, phantom power and whether the A or B input is used.

In the “Recall safe” page of the “scene” menu, you can choose whether to have all parameters recall safe or just a few of the parameters. Also you can have the unit assigned to an input in recall safe.

So when pressing the recall safe for a channel on the control surface, this only recall safes the parameters which are not controlled by the unit memory. To recall safe gain, phantom power and whether the A or B input is used you have to go to the “recall safe” page and make the “unit” for that particular channel recall safe.

I enjoy the level of reliability and control provided by the PM1D in our facility, but it is quite the task to stay on top of all of the usability quirks of the control surface/software combination!