Quickstart Guide : Overview
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Conventions
Conventions used in Pyramix documents:
Names found on Pyramix screens and menus are shown in bold. E.g.
Information & Settings
Menu and sub-menu selections are shown like this:
View > Tracks > Show all Tracks
Which means:
Go to the
View
pull-down menu, mouse down to the
Tracks
sub-menu and choose
Show all Tracks
.
Where a dialog box has several
Pages
,
Tabs
are used to ‘turn’ the pages.
Tab page
selection is shown thus:
Settings > Keyboard Shortcut Editor : Active Machine
Which means:
Go to the
Settings
pull down menu, choose
Keyboard Shortcut Editor
then click on the
Active machine
tab.
The Pyramix
Settings > All Settings
dialog Has its own hierarchical tree structure in the left hand pane with fold-
ers leading to pages.
Native, Card and Software Set or Pyramix Turnkey?
Your
Pyramix Virtual Studio
will have been supplied in one of three forms:
Pyramix Native (or Media Bundle), Pyramix Card and Software Set or
Pyramix Turnkey
.
Pyramix Turnkey
systems are complete, ready to go, rack-mounted PCs with the Pyramix Card and Software Set
already installed and properly configured at the Merging
Technologies factory. As such, no user installation or
configuration is needed. You can connect audio sources and destinations (and sync and TimeCode if appropriate)
and launch and run Pyramix immediately.
Pyramix Card and Software Set
consists of the
Mykerinos
hardware and the
Pyramix
software
ONLY
. You must
provide an appropriate computer platform and software environment in which to install the board and software,
and install these yourself. Guidelines for an appropriate Pyramix system environment can be found in the follow-
ing section.
Pyramix Native
(or
Media Bundle
) comes with software and USB Security Key only. You must provide an appro-
priate computer platform and software environment, and install these yourself. Guidelines for an appropriate
Pyramix system environment can be found in the following section.
Future Expansion
is of course, possible, whether you start with
Turnkey
or a
Card and Software Set.
Pyramix Versions
Pyramix Virtual Studio
is a powerful and flexible Digital Audio Workstation (DAW) integrating hard disk record-
ing and editing, digital audio mixing, effects processing, machine control, video, and CD-R mastering.
There are now several versions of Pyramix. Pyramix Native, Pyramix Native Media Bundle, Pyramix LE and Pyramix
Virtual Studio Core. Numerous options and option packs are also available. This guide covers all versions of Pyra-
mix and many optional functionalities and features.
Note:
Depending on the version and options purchased, some of the functions and fea-
tures detailed in this manual may not be available in your version of Pyramix or may vary
in capacity.
The
Pyramix
software runs Native, using the host CPU and soundcard and on the
Merging Technologies Mykeri-
nos
hardware platform, depending on the version purchased. Each
Mykerinos
board is capable of up to 128
channels of 24-bit digital audio, 64 recording and 64 playback. External access to these 128 channels is deter-
mined by your choice of physical inputs and outputs to the
Mykerinos
board. In XDTDM mode the total number
of
Live
inputs and outputs plus
Internal Busses
is 128 in and 128 out. In HDTDM mode these numbers are halved.
