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Cantar-X User Manual v2.44 (r14) 2013 March 21
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Three Circular screens
These are the largest, easiest to read screens found on any
audio recorder. They provide the user with ongoing data
concerning every aspect of the machine's operation.
It takes a few moments to get used to the display paradigms
but thereafter you will be driving the fastest machine you
have ever had in your hands.
• input grids
links from nine analog inputs and six digital
inputs to the recording tracks are graphically displayed.
• output maps
three screens emulate the left, 'both' and
right ears.
• pan-pots
the continuously variable contribution of each
track to the mixdown has never been so clear.
• modulometers
their circular shape makes the signal level
easy to evaluate in a wink.
• physical status
permanent control of the tracks, and setups.
1 Input grids
Analog sources
(line 1– 4, mic 1– 5) can be sent to any one
of the T1–T6 tracks conveniently grouped in pairs T1/T2, T3/
T4, T5/T6.
Digital sources
(digi-in 1– 6) can be sent to any one of the
T1–T6 tracks.
To
create
inputs-to-tracks
In-Grids
, read p.27. Fifteen
In-Grids
can be stored in three banks to help you sort and memorize
your routing configurations, e.g. A1 to A5 for mic only set-
ups, B1 to B5 when some line-inputs are used, C1 to C5 for
setups that include digi-ins.
To
display
the
In-Grid
in use, even while recording, the
[SoloMid
Pan
] slider being pushed toward the battery,
press the [routing] button top-left of the swiveling panel.
The [config] crown gives instant sequential access to all
of them.
note:
the [routing] button must be pressed to change the
out-maps
; as a protection against wild modifications
in-
grids
can't be changed in the course of a recording.
2 Output maps
The Cantar's three screen 'mapping' is self explanatory. Au-
dio signals going to the left ear appear on the left screen,
signals to be listened to in mono appear on the middle
screen and those going to the right ear appear on the right
screen. All inputs, recorded or not (useful in Play&Rec), and
all tracks can be monitored along different configurations for
each of the eight independent output channels:
Ph
Phones,
Lo
Line-out,
Fb
Foldback and
Do
Digital-out. Twenty six dif-
ferent 'output routing' maps are available; the black [monitor]
crown gives instant access to all of them (p.29).
With the [
Solo
MidPan] slider pulled toward the Operator's
side, press the [routing] button to instantly display the cur-
rent configurations (successively displayed by the 'monitor'
crown).
3 Pan-pots to mixdown
Push the [SoloMid
Pan
] slider toward the battery side, press
the [track-solo] buttons #1 – #6 to verify and [jog] the
pan-pot positions of the T1–T6 tracks. The rank of the pan
activated track is displayed in the central screen.
The black dots graphically indicate the tracks' contribution
to the
Xa
(left) and
Xb
(right) mixdown channels, while the
dBFS value of each track contribution is successively dis-
played in the rectangular screen (p.8).
DESCRIPTION
CIRC. SCREENS
The middle screen displays
In-Grid A4
, the current preset in use
In this
Ph d
example, T5 goes to the left ear, T1 T2 go to both ears,
and T6 goes to the right ear.
T1 to Xb (left) T3 to Xa & Xb T5 to Xb (left)
T2 to Xb (left)
(active) T4 to Xb
T6 to Xa (right)
