Calrec Apollo, Operator'S Manual

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4 APOLLO
Digital Broadcast Production Console
Alias mic bus 76
Enabling an alias file 76
Alias patching 76
Tone / Oscillator Controls 77
Oscillator Parameters 77
Tone Idents 78
External Tone 78
Tone Clear 78
Tone Patchable to Output Ports 79
Tone Troubleshooting & FAQs 79
Hydra2 Patchbays 80
HPBs and different sample rates 80
Port Sharing 81
Unpatching 81
Processing Audio 83
Channel Signal Flow 84
EQ and Filters 85
Dynamics 1 87
Processing order 88
Dynamics metering 88
Sidechain EQ 88
About Dynamics Sidechain & EQ 88
Dynamics Links 88
Dynamics 2 90
Dynamics 2 controls 90
Automixer 91
Assigning control 91
Gain reduction metering 91
Adjustment controls 91
Delay 93
Assignable Delay at different sample rates. 93
Individual Assignable Delay
93
Individual Path Delay 93
Delay Settings 94
Global Delay Settings 94
Stereo Width 95
Stereo/Surround Spill 96
Accessing the spill faders 96
Spill faders 96
Current spill panel assignment 96
Nudge 97
Changing the user section 97
Assigning paths on the spill panel 97
Main paths on Monitor/Joystick panel 97
Processing Independence 98
Processing independence 98
EQ independence 98
Dynamics independence 99
Independence status indicators 100
Inserts 101
Patching insert resources to ports 101
Inserts at different sample rates 101
Connecting insert resources to paths 102
Naming insert resources 102
Insert resource lists 102
Creating lists 102
Copying/moving insert resources to lists 103
Removing insert resources from lists
103
Renaming lists 103
Removing lists 103
Insert Order and Sets 103
Insert ON / OFF Control 103
VCA Groups 104
Creating and dissolving VCA groups 104
Group hierarchy 104
Fader status indicators 104
VCA group interrogation 105
Masters and slaves on the same fader 105
Fader level indicator 105
Nulling indicators 105
Preserving balance of slaves at low levels 105
5.1 Surround channels
105
VCA group protection 105
VCA Slaves move with VCA Masters 105
Autofaders 106
Assigning GPI’s to autofaders 107
Assigning autofaders to faders 107
Autofader levels 108
Autofader parameter settings 108
Global Autofader Bypass 108
Default Fader Interaction Mode 109
Routing Audio 111
Buses Overview 112
Setting bus widths 112
Admin protection for Bus widths 112
Buses at different sample rates 112
LtRt / LoRo downmixes 113
Pre-fader Aux send cut options 113
Making a Route 114
Using Assign Mode 114
Accessing Detailed Send Controls 114
Paging Through Buses 114
Using Strips or Wilds Mode 115
Protection against removing multiple
destinations
63
Mic Open field 63
Additional port info - Desc & Diag 63
Over-patching, removing & moving 64
Offline patching 64
Sources used in multiple locations 64
Returning outputs to input channels 64
Hydra2 Patchbays 64
HPB’s at different sample rates 64
Alias patching 64
Patching inputs directly to outputs 64
Patching Shortcuts 65
Custom fader labels 66
Ability to Receive External Source Labels via
SW-P-08
66
Source Label Hierarchy 66
Input Controls 67
Inputs 1 and 2 67
Mic/Line gain 67
±6dB coarse gain 67
Input trim 68
Linking Input Trims 68
Tone 68
Input delay 68
48V 69
Polarity inversion 69
Input balance 69
L>B and R>B 69
M-S 69
SRC 69
Signal flow 69
Replay 70
Adding Paths to the Replay Set 70
Activating Replay 70
Input Port Protection 71
Controlling a Protected Input Port 71
Loading Shows/Memory/Alias Files 71
Dolby E Decoding 73
Passing signals through decoders 73
Important - sample rate conversion 74
Important - synchronisation 74
Metadata 74
Passing encoded Dolby E 74
Alias Files 75
Editing alias files 75
Aliases at different sample rates 75
Alias groups 76