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To activate the Play&Rec BLUE functions, press the [shift] but-
ton while transitioning to a new [MainSelector] position, hold
it for one second after the position has been reached.

Reminder:

the BLUE status is stiky, i.e. coming from Blue-TEST

you don't have to press [shift] while going to PPR and REC.
Cantar

plays

up to eight tracks from the internal or exter-

nal drive while it

records

a selection of these tracks routed

through the digital inputs, along with the 'live' audio coming
through the analog inputs (p.23). Two different modes are
available.

Live mode

Selected for:

•

Classic playback.  

Telephone call, background music or

wild sounds stored in

play-cards

(p.24) are played and re-

recorded (or not) during the 'live' recording.
• 

ADR-1.  

Known as 'hear it/say it' ADR-1 lets the actor re-

cord his replacement dialog

right after

listening to his former

lines followed by a 'say it' buzz.

In this mode, the TC, scene & take IDs, comments, and track-
names are those of the 'live' take (the one being recorded).
Since the playback files carry their own TC, a link called
‘

Linking-Trio

’ must be created between the two files. Re-

corded in the iXML of the live file, it stores the TC and file-
tag of the play-back file along with the TC of the live file.
Linking-Trios are used later in the Avid MC to link & sync the
playback sounds with the live ones.
A message, ‘

Played filetag(s) AB1234, XY9753

’, appears in

the comment line of the PDF Sound-Report; it helps the editor
find the original tracks by supplying the filetags to be used
in the file search (don't forget to send your original files to
the editor!).
Because of the Linking-Trios sub-frame accuracy, and the
‘command-to-play' zero delay, Cantar outperforms the Exter-
nal Player/Music-Slate couple.

Clone mode

Selected for:

• Remix

Makes a copy of the original ISO tracks and

lets you perform a new mixdown with the onboard mixer or
Cantarem. Remix also lets you insert a simultaneous transla-
tion of the dialog.
• 

ADR-2.

While listening to the guide track (text or prere-

corded music), the performers record their dialog or song

(alongside the guide track) on the other tracks. The TC of
the played file can be sent through LTC-out to a camera or
chasing video player.
• 

Re-recording

. Thanks to its short 0.4 msec 'Mic to Phones'

latency, Cantar is good at incremental recording, i.e. adding
one track while listening to the previous track(s) to produce
'packs' of eight tracks which are easy to stack later because
of their identical TCs.
In this mode a new filetag is created for the new files (you
will never run the risk of erasing the masters). The played file
and the new file will carry the same TC and metadata.

Play&Rec, steps to perform

1- choose the HDD (internal or external) and the project fold-
er containing the files to be played.
2- attach an index (A to L) to your selected playback files.
3- create play-cards (up to 51) in each indexed file (play-
cards are sections of the playback file).
4- prepare the Routing: route your analog inputs to the tracks,
as well as the playback sounds which are internally sent to
the Digi-inputs and routed as such (see Play&Rec In-Grids,
p.28).
5- test each routing and play-card selection by going to BLUE-
TEST before the real Play&Rec, performed in BLUE-REC.

Playback-file indexing

Cantar-X1 & X2

Go to BLUE-BRWS (p.25), select audio files needed for
Play&Rec operation, and convert them into

Playback-files

putting them under indexes

A B

C D E F

indexes are reserved for the

current project

G H I J K L

are reserved for

archives