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Cantar-X User Manual v2.44 (r14) 2013 March 21
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Functions
• Remotely controls Bluetooth equipped Cantars • Sets input
and output routings • Displays modulometers and fader
gains • Edits scene ID, take-gender, take#, comments and
track-names.
Arcan-W runs under Windows Mobile 5 and 6. Arcan-P for
Palm-OS is no longer available.
Installation
The Win-Mobile 5/6 PDA
must feature a 640*480
VGA screen and an MS Blue-
tooth stack, not a Broadcom
stack.
e.g. HTC Universal i.e.
HTC X7500 / Qtek 9000 /
iMate Jasjar / O2 XDA Exec / Orange M5000. DELL Axim-
51v, Fujitsu Loox N560.
Download
'
rcan_214.cab
'
from the Aaton web site, copy it
into a folder of the PDA, and execute.
Connection to Cantar
Cantar side
Set TECHSET.17 'Serial Com' to '
Bluetooth
'.
The 3m range Cantar transmitter is low power (Idle: 0.1mA,
Connecting: 4mA) and may remain active at all times.
PDA side
Click Arcan's
icon in the PDA 'programs'
screen.
1. Select a Link:
Bluetooth.
2. Search:
found Bluetooth devices
are shown in the
'
Pick one
'
pulldown menu; click the ID for the Cantar you want to store
in the PDA memory.
3. Pick one:
the list of Cantar IDs in
memory is shown; click the desired one.
4. Connect:
the
latest Cantar ID will show at next connection.
5. Status:
for maintenance engineers.
Working Screens
See the complete Arcan-w user's instructions on
http://www.aa-
ton.com/products/sound/arcan/index.php
1 In-Grids
track (dis)-arming (file rank
becomes light gray), m-s
status, inputs to tracks rout-
ings can be modified in
STOP position.
2 Out-Maps
Left/center/right. Recorded
inputs appear in green cir-
cles; the non-recorded, sent
directly to outputs, appear
in black. Outputs mapping
can be modified in STOP position.
3 Physical parameters
•top:
battery voltage, sam-
ple rate, bit-depth, internal/
external disk recording
time.
•
middle
on STOP position:
phantom, limiter, phase, high-pass filter; on TEST, PPR, REC:
fader gains.
•
bottom:
date, filetag, scene ID, take-gender, take#.
4 Metadata editing
Scene, take, take-gender,
comments, and track-names
with auto completion and
memorized text insertion
are edited in REC, PPR
and BROWSE. To erase older comments, go to the bot-
tom-left field, toggle from 'Pen' to 'Trash', your stored com-
ments appear over a red background; click to erase.
5 Sound-Report editing
Arcan-w is a great helper
to enter and modify the
Sound-Report's headers.
Several entries per day
are allowed. A new .ALE
page, a new .CSV page and a new Sound-Report page is
opened anytime a header item is modified.
COMPANIONS
ARCAN-W
