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Cantar-X User Manual v2.44 (r14) 2013 March 21
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Cantar full remote
Cantar-X2 only
Installed in a netbook (minimum 1024*600 pixels), Tarkan
controls all of the Cantar's audio flow, edits metadata, and
generates PDF & CSV sound-reports. Get TAW (Windows)
or TAM (OS-X) on
http://www.soft.aaton.com/swcantar/
.
starting-up
Cantar side:
Turn 'OFF' Cantar, plug a straight or cross-wired
CAT-5 cable into the RJ45 socket, hold the cable in the
canyon shaped clamp.
Laptop side:
Connect the CAT-5 cable (no TCP/IP activity
but Cantar's is tolerated, see TCP/IP next page). Turn 'ON'
Cantar. Launch the Tarkan application and
wait
for the
connection (see tips next page). Click the upper/left 'start'
icon.
Main screen
The screen is made of three layers: the first one displays the
audio flow from the digi/mic/line inputs (with their settings),
to the tracks (IN-GRIDS) and to the monitors (OUT-MAPS),
the second layer handles the mixer with its faders (carrying
the track-names) and panpots, the third layer (not represented
here) displays the modulometers over the tracks.
In-Grids
The analog inputs (1a) go down, the digital and mixer inputs
(1b/1c) go up to the track cross points (2). To set the inputs
for T1––T6, go to ROUTING IN-GRIDS (8), click on the
desired cross point, it turns blue; double click to deactivate.
To set the inputs for T7T8, first click the desired T7 cross
point, it turns yellow as well as the other possible choice(s),
click the other one: they both turn blue.
To turn 'OFF' T7T8, double click the cross point routed to T7.
Armed tracks (5) are high-lighted in deep blue.
Out-Maps
The tracks go to the 'Left-Center-Right'
track monitoring
switches (6). Analog and digital inputs go directly to the
"
input monitoring
" switches (7). Both (6) and (7) go to the
monitoring crown (9).
Mixer
The mixer's faders (3) and pan-pots (4) generate the mix-
down input (1c); In PPR, TEST and ROUTING (IN-GRIDS),
twenty-six pan-pot configurations can be stored in Tarkan.
• During the creation of a pan-pot config, either on Cantar
the usual way, or on Tarkan with successive clicks on the
colored beans (100% left/right with [ctrl] [click]), the back-
ground of the pan-pot 'crown' (10) becomes
red
. Once
done, a [ctrl] [click] in the middle of the crown stores the
config in Tarkan's memory and pushes it into Cantar where
it becomes the active mixer pan-pot, as indicated by the
crown background which turns
gray
.
• Labeled from a to z, all the pan-pot configurations are
stored in Tarkan memory where they are displayed against
a
green
background. Browse them by cliking the left or right
half-moon. A [ctrl] [click] in the middle of the crown pushes
the selected config into Cantar: becoming 'active', it turns
from green to gray.
COMPANIONS
TARKAN [1]
7
1b
1c
1a
6
9
11
1c
8
10
4
3
2
5
1b
1c
1a
8
