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Operator Interface

Circular displays  3
Data panel  3
Main selector  4
Push buttons  5
Three-crown-turret  5

Power

Power on/off  6
Battery check  6
Mini/Maxi Voltages  6

Files

Project name  7
Working day  7
File names with Filetags  7

Time

Calendar clock  8
Sync clocks  8
Fps and sampling rates  9
LTC-out generator  9

Test

Connect inputs  10
Dynamic or Phantom  10
Limiter, filters, attenuator  10
Mic Coupling  10

PPR

Pre-record buffer  11
Enter-edit Sc & Tk IDs  11
File shortening  11
Last file erasing  11

Rec.

Disk(s) detection  12
Modulometers  12
Instant solos  12
MixDown  12
Pan-pots  12
Tone generator  12
Slate mic  12
Warning beeps  12
Headphones level  12

Play

Files of the day  13
Play-marks  13
Backward/Forward Scrub  13
LTC-out frame rate  13

Browse

All days 13
All projects 13

Mon-outs

Monitoring banks  14
Check & create grids  14
AES-out  14
Powering AES in-out  14

Route-ins

Create/Modify dispatches  15
MS track declaration  15
Direct to disk AES  15

Audio set

Tone slate

AES activation  16
Precord adjust  16
Mic Preamp ganging  16
Line-out, Foldback levels  16

Tech set

Unmount Hdd  17
Calendar reset  17
Software install  18

Session

Project name  19
Hdd internal, external or both  19
Disk formatting  19
Delete a file  19

Push backup

Conversions  20
Short/Long Filenames  20
DVD±R  21
DVD-Ram mirroring  21

new!

Pull backup

Mac/PC through Cantar 21
Mac desktop direct to Hdd 21

Tutorials

Work-Flow 22
Majax & AutoConfo  23
Surround 5+1  24
Routing scheme  24

Connectors

Audio in/out 26
Remote, Power, TC 26

v.1.29 user-manual

see ‘keep in touch’ on back cover

Summary of Contents for Cantar-X

Page 1: ...ks 13 Backward Forward Scrub 13 LTC out frame rate 13 Browse All days 13 All projects 13 Mon outs Monitoring banks 14 Check create grids 14 AES out 14 Powering AES in out 14 Route ins Create Modify dispatches 15 MS track declaration 15 Direct to disk AES 15 Audio set Tone slate 16 AES activation 16 Precord adjust 16 Mic Preamp ganging 16 Line out Foldback levels 16 Tech set Unmount Hdd 17 Calendar...

Page 2: ...Cantar v1 29 user manual 2004 Sept 28 p 2 Operator Interface ...

Page 3: ...n the tracks to which they are routed Rotating the Configuration crown you get instant access to the up to fifteen preset Route ins 3 Mon outs tracks to outputs Press the monitoring button Mon outs and rotate the configuration crown up to twenty six preset grids are monitored both visually and in the head phones Stereo left outputs show on the left ear circular dis play monos on the central displa...

Page 4: ...5 Foldback level 6 TimeClock source 7 Ltc rate camera 8 Ltc out generator 9 Sc Tk templates 10 Track7 8 use 11 AES power activation 12 PreRecord lenght 13 Balance fader lock 14 Mic fader Linking Tech 3 o clock page 17 1 Unmount Hdd 2 Backlight brightness 3 View Fader dB 4 Rec Beep 5 Clip Beep 6 Beep Level 7 Meter balistics 8 Batt Alert voltage 9 System day 10 Syst time 11 Hdd power dwn 12 Serial c...

Page 5: ...c coupling Three crown turret In sound recording operation the large all weather crowns are constantly used to check and select the various monitor outs and route ins configurations with one hand only Monitoring crown 1 Solo the 5Mic 4Line in 6AES inputs and active tracks are sent to the phones 2 Phones the mixer output the 7 8 tracks the A to Q configs are sent to the phones 3 Line out 4 Foldback...

Page 6: ...the twin battery system you will never be taken by surprise Working on a cart from a cable connected mains powered or heavy duty supply ALWAYS leave one battery onboard and activate both supply inputs The onboard battery will buffer the possible mains power voltage drops or cable bad contacts fur thermore Cantar on STOP moving the cart and unplugging the power cable it will run the TCXO sync clock...

Page 7: ...ge The working day is not related to the actual time of day tracked by syncing clocks it is an interpretation of the human day See time next page 3 File Name see tutorials also Made of filetag take descriptor status the Cantar file names instantly show the main para meters attached to a take ST1254 123a 14R_12 PX wav auto filetag the never twice the same auto filetag ST1254 is the base of the Aato...

Page 8: ...ing day is not related to the actual time of day tracked by the syncing clock it is only an interpretation of the human day Thus if you stop working at 2am one day the audio files are still part of the technically previous day folder Conversely if you want to start a new working day right after midnight you only have to switch off the battery and immediatly switch on then answer Yes to the start n...

Page 9: ... catastrophy for audio quality Cantar always works from its internal clock not from external AES clocks like other recorders do Each and every AES input is rephased by its own sample rate converter to the point it is possible to enter non synced AES sources e g both from aYamaha console and an AES mike All AES inputs are realigned to an exact non jittering 48k before going to the tracks There is n...

Page 10: ...dphones The same limiting signal is applied to ganged preamps Filters and Attenuators The high pass filter default setting is linear on all mic inputs Press the mic fader button 2 and rotate the jog to select a corner frequency slope A first bank shows in the message panel it goes from 60Hz 6dB to 180Hz 12dB and LFA a second bank identical to the first one activates a 10dB attenuator which con ver...

Page 11: ...ng descriptors after Rec Once the recording is done move the main selector back to PPR The Scene Take IDs and the filename of the future recording show Press shift central button the data panel displays Edit plus the file name and the Sc Tk IDs of the last recorded file Press OK and use arrows and Jog as explained in the preceding paragraph Press OK to confirm then shift central button to close De...

Page 12: ...gi mixer buttons become track solo actuators Maintening pressure on a button and then pressing another one makes the first button send the track to the left ear and the second one send the track to the right ear Mixdown pan pots put the SoloMixPan selector in Pan Each track can be sent to the left T7 or right T8 track Press the linear fader button of the track to be pan poted and jog the marker to...

Page 13: ...ten instead of a one second jump LTC fps in Play When playing back a recorded file the frame rate of the LTC sent to the Lemo 5 is the one which has been applied during the recording of this file not the frame rate Cantar is currently set to If you switch to REC the LTC out instantly comes back to the frame rate setting of the current project Browse 7 o clock This main selector position opens acce...

Page 14: ...eft center and right channels provide a quick overview of the mon itoring grids without affecting the ongoing work Create Modify a grid Main selector on MON OUTS create an headphone hA grid in which track 3 goes to the ear track 4 to the right and tracks 1 2 to the center mono Put the monitoring crown in pos 2 Ph shows Rotate the conﬁg crown to hA The selection cur sor blinks near the star sign of...

Page 15: ...xample to route Mic 1 to track 1 jog ﬁve positions up to put the blinking cursor on the mic segment 1 then press the main selector black button to validate to route Mic 3 to track 5 and Mic 4 to track 6 jog the cursor through tracks 2 3 and 4 until you land on track 5 odd tracks are on the outer circle even tracks on the inner circle Go to the pixel op posite Mic 3 validate black button and so on ...

Page 16: ... ScTk tmplt nnnX nnX tnn xxxxxxxx xx European or US type scene descriptor templates 10 t7t8 use Mixdown Line 3 4 Aes 7 8 The signal recorded on tracks t7 t8 is coming from either one of these sources Line input 3 4 Aes input 7 8 or mixdown from the six fader mixer The mix sign appears to the right of the track 7 and track 8 squares of the circular display Note on Mixdown Film directors and image e...

Page 17: ...p Beep On Off 6 Beep Level 0dB 6dB 36dB 7 Meter Speed 1 Fast 3 Med 5 Slow Should be Slow in low temperature conditions 8 BattAlert 10 8 Volts 13 2 Volts see p 6 Auto switch over is done 300mV below the opera tor set BattAlert It allows the use of either 12 5V NiMH 10 8V alert 10 5V switch over or 14 4V Li Ion 12 7V alert 12 4V switch over 9 System Day 2004y04m22d The System Calendar Day is used to...

Page 18: ... Cantar Hdd then dump the disk icon out of your computer desktop and disconnect the Firewire cable Remount the Cantar internal Hdd by rotating the main selector to any other position thanTECH Once the Hdd shows the leftmost disk icon is no longer blinking go to TECH Software Load OK Yes OK If several versions are present on the Cantar disk choose the latest and press OK All Cantar controls are out...

Page 19: ...non blink ing in the central circular display then go to HD Int Ext If Cantar still doesn t see the ext Hdd most of the time it is because the disk has not been FAT32 formatted on a primary partition Format it on Cantar 4 FAT32 formatting Ext Disk Shift Red The internal Hdd is IEE 1394 connected External disks should preferably be LaCie FireWire Hdds size up to 120GB When buying an Hdd ask your ve...

Page 20: ...BA1234 123A 12R w14 _1 wav Long filenames give direct access to scene take descriptors on PC desktops and editors timelines the text between signs can be freely modified by the editor If you back up on an external Hdd the file names are forced to short since long filenames are not supported on Cantar recorded Hard Drives Note that the Majax software can later extracts the scene and take descriptor...

Page 21: ...port power up Cantar After a few seconds the center modulometer displays the drive icon In the SESSION position select Int Ext HD The LaCie 1x recording speed currently limits the real time mirroring to 6 tracks at 24 bit 48kHz e g 4 track plus mixdown going to both drives When you stop recording the REC indicator remains on for a few seconds This corresponds to the activity light on the drive its...

Page 22: ...3 Sebskytools InDaw MX Fairlight Sadie v5 1 Pyramix v4 2 6 Titan 3 1 CMX EDL snd roll ST1254 monophonics 16 24 bit ST1254_1 wav ST1254_2 wav ST1254_5 wav ST1254_8 wav DVD R CD R HDD CD R DVD R DVD Ram ST1254 123a 14R_12 PX wav polyphonic 16 bit 2 track Prootols SD Vitc HD Vanc video Transmit this page to your post production manager it shows how the Aaton InDaw audio syncing station solves ALL the...

Page 23: ...nced to 16bit po lyphonic bwf extension ﬁles they should have been OMF converted through AtonXfer 3 On the Avid before performing a group sync paste the Snd TC values into the Aux TC column in order to match the film TC moved in its own Aux TC column too 4 Copy the shoot date column of the bin into an Aaton date column in which wrong date entries can be corrected place this column before the Aux T...

Page 24: ...R 5 goes to the 3 4 mic inputs Routed to tracks 3 and 4 which should be MS declared the output is automatically left right decoded for monitoring The track 3 4 digi faders being at 100 the front stereo is heard The XLR 3 goes to the 5 mic input and is routed to track 5 the pan pot of this track should be put in central position mono listening The track 3 digi fader being at 0 and the digi fader 5 ...

Page 25: ...to 5 Digit 1 to 6 Line 1 2 Line 3 4 Digit 7 8 MIXER with Pan and MS dec R to Z R to Z R to Z A to Q OR T7 T8 Mode HARD DISK Int Ext Digit 1 to 6 Line Out XLR5 FeedBack jack3 5 Phone jack6 35 Digit 7 8 OUTPUTS INPUTS Routing Monitoring 5 6 2 2 5 6 2 2 6 6 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 6 6 MS MS MS MS ...

Page 26: ...n XLR 5 Symetrical 10dBu out 18dBFS track Channel one Left in a stereo pair 1 Gnd 2 Hot 3 Cold Channel two Right in a stereo pair 1 Gnd 4 Hot 5 Cold FOLDBACK on Mini XLRTA 3M 1 Gnd 2 Left 3 Right FOLDBACK on 3 5mm Mini jack PHONES on 1 4 jack 2Vrms down to 16Ohms Ground Left Right Line out two channel isolation transformer and 12dB gain 18dB track level 0dB out 1 2 3 4 5 1 2 3 1 2 3 4 5 1 2 3 4 5 ...

Page 27: ...word Installation The Cantar softwares are acces sible to owners only If you rent a Cantar please ask the owner to download and install the latest version for you warning No Firewire connection should be done from G3 G4 G5 Mac desktops to Cantar ﬁrst extract the internal hard drive and connect it to the MacIntosh see Cantar Hdd outside end of the Backup pages This doesn t apply to laptops Sharing ...

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