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Cantar-X User Manual v2.44 (r14) 2013 March 21
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UPDATES
Cantar-X1 vs X2
• Wider FPGA Motherboard (CM-5). • A-to-D (AD-5) provide
85ms @48kHz delays. • 100BaseT Ethernet Board (ET-1).
• Play&Rec, Ethernet, Differential analog delays, Track-AutoSlate
and Wordclock sync require X2 hardware.
Ray M. Owen's last review: v2.44 (r8)
Firmware history
– for X1&X2, + for X2
v2.44
Nov 2011 – Corrected take length in ALE lists allows for Mono-
phonic import with
all track names
and
full comments
into Avid MCs..
v2.43
May 2011 – Bug fix correcting MonoRotate Idle backup on CF,
Ext. HD and DVD-RAM. – PPR keyed 'TapeRef' HEX char. can go to
LTC-Out U-bits. – U-bits manually entered, p.32. – Backup to internal
CF caddy, p.54. – [eye] button in Backup.06 & .14 displays the media
remaining space.
v2.37
Dec. 2010 – 'Xa mix to T7, Mic1/Mic5 to T8, p.28. – SoloMidPan
middle position enables buttons 1–6 trigger solos of L1 to L4 and T7-T8,
p.4. – Line-out & Foldback mute in TEST, p.31. – Creation date set by
Cantar if incoming user bits are all zero. – Sc&Take/Filetag display pref.
stored at power-off. – HD1080 flag in ALE header. – Bug fix on PLAY LTC-
out 'Off' at file end. + Play&Rec stiky BLUE over TEST, PPR and REC.
v2.36
May 2010
–
Error fix on DVD Rotate2mono sound-report with long
names.
–
Rotate1&2mono respectively stored in .AAL & .AAM folders.
–
Track-names stored as "aTRK#=name" for Avid MCs' monophonic import
(v4 & up).
–
Track-names inserted in T1–T8 columns of ALE lists.
v2.30
Sept. 2009
–
Line-out & Foldback mute in PLAY.
–
Up to twenty
stored setups.
–
Take-gender resets to 't' after scene ID change.
–
MS jog
pan direction identical to others.
–
250MB auto jump keeps eight track polys
under 2GB.
–
Wrong play-LTC after pause, fixed; Cantarem accidentally dis-
arming T7-T8, fixed.
+
Operands accessible from Tarkan.
+
Tarkan's 'Virtual
Cantarem' gets access to Cantar's gain controls.
v2.28
Aug. 2009
–
Absolute-TC [shift eye] displayed in PLAY; back to
elapsed upon exit.
–
Cantarem mixes T1–T7 to Xb (T8), or T1–T8 to Fb, Line-
out & Phones.
–
ALE incremental 'Index' replaced by 'SqScTk'; first AutoSlate
TC stored in Mark-In column.
–
Fudge in 'AUDIO/TC.14' adds 60ms to the
file's TC.
–
BattAlert extended to 15V for Li-Ion batt.
–
Improved SATA disk
manager.
–
No more freeze when playing 'Majax cantarized' foreign files.
v2.26
Feb. 2009
–
Idle Bckp can be interrupted while saving T7T8 after
a T1---T8 Rotate2poly.
–
Mic3 master of Mic4 & Mic5.
–
Direct PLAY of the
take preceding a deleted one.
–
Fat-32 formatting of CF cards.
–
SoundReport
generated once backup At Call is completed.
+
Tarkan v1.11 adds CSV to
PDF SoundReport.
+
Tarkan completion menu fits WinXP netbook screens.
v2.24
Nov. 2008
–
PCs handle 'unmounted' internal drives.
–
Simultaneous
internal/external, PATA/SATA drives.
–
Line-in links for Soundfield ST350.
–
Rotate poly by one or two ranks.
–
T8T8 backup.
–
False-start: take-gender
keeps same # for next take.
–
Trash/Revive files in BROWSE.
–
Swift access
to ROUTINGS with no PLAY/BROWSE triggering.
–
Thumb-free check/select
In-Grids and Out-Maps.
–
All letters for seq./scene.
–
Delayed Idle Bckp
activation.
–
DVD-RAM exact space is displayed.
–
Erratic behaviour after PDF
creation, fixed.
+
Linking-Trios in the CSV SoundReport.
+
Tarkan v1.09 brings
pan-pot control, T7T8 settings, metadata editing and PDF generation.
v2.15
March 2008
–
In-Grids to T7T8 displayed with T1–T6 banks.
–
Mixdown w/T7 into T8.
–
Line-out/Foldback gain adj. in TEST.
–
'So'
monitoring of the mix in TEST, REC and PLAY: Xa (center), Xb (center),
Xa Xb
(center),
Xa Xb (left/right).
–
One hand Solo/Filter adjust.
–
3sec+ press pro-
tects limiter activation.
–
Storage of project's sound-report headers with 'save
setup'.
–
Same clockwise jog for TC and operands.
v2.11
Jan. 2008
–
New PLAY commands.
–
Creation of 'play-cards' with
in/out marks.
+
Play&Rec
plays up to six tracks while recording nine analog
inputs to eight internal tracks.
+
ADR
for 'hear it, say it'.
+
Remix
with dynamic
mixdown and new commentary.
+
Re-recording,
up to eight track.
