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M7CL Quick Start Guide Part 2

 

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The virtual rack; Mounting units in the virtual rack.

 

The default Scene 000 has four effects and four GEQ selected. There are always eight virtual rack units, even if 
some are blank or unused.

 

Only units 5-8 can be selected as effects. Any of the units can be GEQ or Flex15GEQ. To change the selected unit 
from its current state to one of the other states, press the [RACK MOUNT] button. This brings up the RACK 
MOUNTER pop-up window for the selected unit.

 

 

 

Press [RACK MOUNT] to open the Rack Mounter popup 
and choose the kind of unit you want to mount.

 

 

 

 

 

And remember to press [OK] before closing 
the popup!

 

 

 

Newly mounted rack units are not patched. See page 7 
to patch a new effect or GEQ.

 

 

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If all eight units are mounted as Flex-15 GEQs then

 

the rack can contain 16 GEQs; great for monitor mixing 
with wedges.

 

 

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GEQ parameters are part of scene memory.  If you

 

don’t want the GEQs changing with scenes then press 
[SAFE] below the Rack Mount button. This will “SAFE” 
the patching and the fader settings against scene recall 
changes.

 

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Summary of Contents for M7CL series

Page 1: ...uide to the M7CL group of consoles including features included in Version 3 Firmware and the M7CL 48ES hardware These guides are for people about to use the M7CL for the first time or for experienced users requiring some tips and tricks for better understanding of M7CL and its PC based software partner the M7CL editor USO RESTRITO ...

Page 2: ...PC based software for remotecontrol and setup Studio Manager and M7CL Editor M7CL 48ES users may also wish to look at Yamaha s EtherSound Setup Guide This explains the basic principals of designing an EtherSound network Table of Contents The virtual rack 3 Effects graphics EQ and VCM processors 3 Mounting units in the virtual rack 4 Effects Selecting editing and storing the effect you want 5 Effec...

Page 3: ...type multi effect units or VCM processors Any one unit can be a single 31 band GEQ or 2 x flex 15 GEQ The traditional analogue rack is replaced by the Virtual Rack This is the VIRTUAL RACK EXTERNAL HA screen for controlling external headamps Either AD8HR type or SB168 ES This is the VIRTUAL RACK GEQ EFFECT screen for se lecting and controlling GEQ and effects EXT ES HA view in M7CL 48ES EXTERNAL H...

Page 4: ... RACK MOUNTER pop up window for the selected unit Press RACK MOUNT to open the Rack Mounter popup and choose the kind of unit you want to mount And remember to press OK before closing the popup Newly mounted rack units are not patched See page 7 to patch a new effect or GEQ Tiipp If all eight units are mounted as Flex 15 GEQs then the rack can contain 16 GEQs great for monitor mixing with wedges T...

Page 5: ...rack screen press the centre of the virtual rack mounted effect This brings up the EFFECT param eter pop up To select another type of effect either press the coloured effect image to reveal the EFFECT TYPE pop up or press the LIBRARY tab button at the top of the pop up and use the EFFECT LIBRARY Press the Library tab or coloured icon Recall a new effect or save your edited effect from this popup R...

Page 6: ...ound of openreel tape recorders Because of their ability to smooth out peak levels and tidy up the response many high end record ing studios still maintain open reel recorders to be used to provide tape compression at the mastering stage Different types of tape new old etc are also selected and used according to the unique sounds they produce The Open Deck provides models of four ma chine types Sw...

Page 7: ...t there is no reason why the operation shouldn t be approached the other way from the selected channel choose an effect to feed it This is often the way to un patch unwanted returns T Ti ip p when choosing to return the effect to a different channel the original routing to the Stereo input chan nel is not lost You should reassign the Stereo channel either as unassigned or to its associated rear pa...

Page 8: ...lex 15 GEQ are selected and edited in the same way An AVAILABLE BANDS count down is displayed From the GEQ parameter pop up press the GEQ im age with the frequency range you want to edit For example 200 1K The faders and tab will turn white and the faders of the Centralogic section will move to match the chosen frequency range Moving these faders will edit the GEQ curve Press different areas or ta...

Page 9: ...when saved to the library they will copy and paste together Use any encoder below the screen to scroll through the 199 library locations Then press the RECALL or STORE button Pressing the COPY button stores the displayed GEQ curve into a temporary copy buffer If anoth er GEQ is selected to the screen then pressing the PASTE button will change that GEQ to match the copied source Ti ip p You can use...

Page 10: ...n switch off the default STEREO L R feed to the monitor bus or replace it with one of the other outputs or a ST IN rear panel socket As well as the headphones the MONITOR sec tion can output via an OMNI socket on the rear This patching is also accessed from the MONITOR pop up T Tiip p Use this to create a monitor out for a listen wedge or monitor engineer IEM pack N N oott e e Don t select the C b...

Page 11: ...differing level and delay to reduce the number of matrix channels needed for complex output distributions Press the Mode button to toggle be tween no fader Pink and Yellow faders It is not possible to have two outputs controlled individually by two faders Use the Mono Monitor key if you are us ing a single listen wedge and have any stereo or panned sources T Ti ip p If you mix FOH using Stereo and...

Page 12: ... SETUP pop up press the SETUP button in the Function Access Area Then press the USER SETUP button If this does not show the USER DEFINED KEYS use the tab at the bottom of the pop up Key 1 Enter Sends on Fader Mixes Key 2 Enter Sends on Fader Matrix Key 3 8 Page Bookmarks Key 9 Mute Group master 1 Key 10 Mute Group master 2 Key 11 Home Key Single or 8 CH view Key 12 Talkback ON N No ot te e Other P...

Page 13: ... Mode to Mute using the on screen buttons to the left N No ot te e Only input channels can be included in a DCA but In and Output channels can be in a mute group T Ti ip p When the DCA Navigation key is pressed and the Centralogic faders are working as DCAs just double click the SEL key to short cut to the DCA Mute Assign popup N No ot te e Channels muted in a mute group are indicated by a flashin...

Page 14: ...button on screen or the STORE key on desk and the scene is stored The scene number shows in the Function Access Area and the goes out until another desk change is made To recall a scene use the up down keys to find its number and then press the RECALL key The desk will reset itself to the chosen scene You cannot recall empty scenes with no data stored in them If you want to start from a fresh clea...

Page 15: ...ays backup before loading Individual scenes can be extracted and loaded separately but only by using the M7CL Editor as part of the Studio Manager host program This is covered in Part 3 of this guide There are 302 memories Read only Scene 000 300 user scenes and the current edited scene Not included in scene recall User defined keys Preferences Monitor level pot Headphone level pot Front panel tal...

Page 16: ...of these and recall Scene 000 again See page 5 for details of things not reset by scene 000 The fader has stopped working Is SENDS ON FADER active this means you are pushing up an aux send and not the channel master You can tell easily when you are in sends on fader mode because all the green SEL indicators are on except the selected channel In normal mode the SEL indicators are off and the select...

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