Calrec Apollo, Operator'S Manual

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Putting Sound in the Picture
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For Main outputs, delay can be assigned,
switched in and adjusted independently
for 5.1, stereo and mono, Desk and Line
outputs. When delay is assigned to
more than one of a buses’ outputs, Link
buttons appear to allow the controls to
track together. Select each output to
the same link bus in order for the delay
control to track on all when any of them
are adjusted. Linked delay can be offset
- if delay is adjusted before linking, the
difference in delay values is retained after
the link is made, the controls will track
together whilst maintaining their offset.
Pressing and holding down a rotary delay
control sets the delay value to 0.
The amount of delay is displayed in either
milliseconds or video frames.
The +/- buttons above the rotary controls
allow the user to step up or down the
delay amount by a preset quantity as an
alternative to using the rotary control.
Selecting the >Show Settings>General
Settings page of the main application
allows the delay display default to be
selected as either milliseconds or video
frames, the number of video frames per
second to be selected to match the format
of video being used, and the +/- delay
button step size to be selected.
Output Patching Shortcut
From V6.0 the Output Focus window at
the bottom of the Buses & Outputs page
has an Output Patching button added to
speed up the patching workflow as shown
in Fig 1, for more details on this see
“Patching Shortcuts” on page 65.
Outputs on Faders
As well as rotary level controls on the
OUTPUTS screen, Main outputs and
group buses can be assigned to faders
for level control, adjusting either the rotary
or the fader has the same affect and will
update each other’s display / position.
Main outputs can also be assigned to
the faders on the dedicated monitor and
joystick panels. When the fader area
of one of these panels is not displaying
surround in spill or downmix mode, mains
can be assigned to them in the same way
as to regular faders.
Using these faders for mains provides
a fader control that is close to hand but
separated from the regular faders. See
“Allocating Signal Paths to Faders” on
page 58
for more information on this
process.
Bus Output Delay
Available output delay resource, and delay
controls for Main, Aux and Track bus
outputs appear on the PROCESSING-
DELAY panel mode - select a bus output’s
assign button, either from the fader or
from the OUTPUTS panel (see previous
page) to display the delay controls for that
bus on the PROCESSING-DELAY panel.
A pool of 256 legs of output delay
resource is available across the console.
Being a pooled resource like input delay,
the resource needs to be assigned to
the path before it can be switched in.
The resource used and available are also
displayed on the PROCESSING-DELAY
panel.
Assignable Delay at different
sample rates
From version 8.0 the desk can be
configured to operate at different sample
rates such as 48kHz & 96kHz.
At the higher sample rate the pool size
for bus output delay is halved, meaning
that the pool of 256 mono legs worth of
bus output delay becomes 128 mono legs
of bus output delay for Apollo, however
the amount of delay per leg remains
unchanged at 2.73s.