AAton Cantar-X1 User manual

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Aaton Cantar-X1&2
firmware v2.44
•ultra precise
auto-slate p.23
•mix to track-7
boom to track-8 p.28
•'tape-ref' goes
to ltc u-bits p.32
•'wild' 'all' and 'trio'
pdf-reports p.38
•editor friendly
rotate1 & 2 p.39
•stereo monitoring
soundfield-b p.44
•playback, adr, remix
play&rec p.48
•internal backup
to CF card p.54
tarkan
Cantar's mirror, v1.14 p.51

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Keep in Touch
Manuals & software p.3
Cantar User's List, Photo Gallery p.3
The PostChain p.3
Software versions p.3
Cantar-X1 to X2 p.3
Description
Permanently accessible faders p.4
Bottom connections p.5
Swiveling front panel buttons p.6
In-Grids and Out-Maps p.7
Pan-pots p.7
Circular modulometers for T1–T6 p.8
Rectangular screen p.8
Triple crown p.9
Operating positions
MainSelector 'West' p.10
MainSelector buttons p.10
STOP Power
Starting and stopping p.11
Twin battery safety p.11
Minimum/Maximum voltage p.11
Battery check p.11
Power Consumption p.11
Lithium-Ion batteries p.11
Flight restriction rules p.11
STOP Files
Error-free filing system p.12
Project creation p.12
Workday p.12
Filename p.12
Operational Problem p.12
STOP Time & clocks
Calendar Time & Sync Time p.13
Internal Free-Run master-clock p.13
Do not power down the master p.14
Internal Record-Run clock p.14
Internal clock & clapstick p.14
Slaved to an external clock p.14
Sampling Rate vs. Audio-TC p.15
On planet Earth p.15
On the 'Slow-planet' p.15
A for Avid v11 p.15
B for Barebone p.15
C for Compensated (Fake) p.15
TEST
Mic Phantom power p.16
Limiters, Inversion p.16
Filters and attenuators p.16
Differential delays p.16
Mic & Line linking p.17
Stereo pairs & Surround p.17
Tuning the balances p.17
Mixer panpots and faders p.17
Mixer miXa miXb outputs p.17
M/S monitoring p.18
Track disarming p.18
Headphone level p.18
Line-out/Foldback level p.18
Check In-Grids & Out-Maps p.18
Play&Rec rehearsal p.18
PPR Pre-Post-Record
Pre-recording buffer p.19
Sc&Take, Track-names p.19
TapeRef, Post-rec metadata edit p.20
File splitting p.20
Last take erasure p.20
False start (trash a file) p.20
Remote Roll by LTC p.21
Remote control PDA/keyboard p.21
REC Record
Modulometers p.22
Solos of the inputs and tracks p.22
Locking the faders p.22
Reference Tone generator p.22
Talkback mic p.22
Warning beeps p.22
Take-gender p.22
Record tally p.23
AutoSlate p.23
Markers p.23
Record & Play p.23
PL AY
Commands p.24
LTC for VTR chase p.24
Play-card creation p.24
BROWSE File handling
Find a file p.25
Edit Metadata p.25
Trash/Revive a file p.25
Index a Play-le p.25
Wake up HD! p.25
Operand positions
MainSelector 'East' p.26
Rectangular screen rows p.26
ROUTINGS
Set T1 > > T6 In-Grids p.27
Set T7•T8 In-Grids p.28
AES sample rate converters p.28
16-Track by Word-clock p.28
Play&Rec In-Grids p.28
Create Out-Map banks p.29
Digi1 to Digi8 outputs p.30
AUDIO/TC
Audio parameters p.31
Timecode parameters p.32
TECHSET
Save and transfer Setups p.33
Software install p.35
SESSION
Project selection/creation p.36
Formatting HD, CF & DVD-RAM p.36
Sound-Reports: CSV, ALE, PDF p.37
BACKUP
At Call, Idle Bckp, Idle Polys p.39
Treatments p.39
File rescuing p.41
Tutorials
Backup & Report (Avid>ProTools) p.42
Drives and Media p.43
Surround, Onboard mixer p.44
Camera sync p.46
REC with simultaneous PLAY p.48
Companions
Tarkan p.51
CantaRem p.53
Compact Flash Caddy p.54
Arcan-w p.55
OriginC, GMT p.56
Majax, Indaw, PostChain, Titan p.57
Annex
Connectors & Accessories p.58
Batteries and Chargers p.59
Quick guide sheets p.62
Dimensions p.64
CONTENTS

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User manual
The latest User Manual is on: http://www.aaton.com/prod-
ucts/sound/cantar/usermanual.php ; to read it on iPhones,
use FileMagnet: http://magnetismstudios.com/FileMagnet
Note: iPhone v2.2.1 supports all PDF's.
Software
Cantar, Arcan, Tarkan, Majax software can be download-
ed from: http://www.soft.aaton.com/swcantar/
• first visit: click 'create an account', enter your details, don't
forget the country. After a few seconds, you will receive an
email with your password. Enter this password with your
email address in the login page.
• next visits: forgotten password? Click 'lost password',
it will be sent to your email address.
Cantar software is accessible to registered owners only; beta
versions are not to be used for commercial assignments.
Cantar Users' Group
Exchange tips with other cantarists:
http://ulysse.aaton.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/cantar-users
Pictures on the road
Send us your 'Cantar at work' pictures, we will put the best
ones on the gallery: http://www.aaton.com/gallery/
Post Production helper
Spread the 'CantarPostChain' tutorial around:
http://www.aaton.com/documentation/
KEEP IN TOUCH UPDATES
Cantar-X1 vs X2
• Wider FPGA Motherboard (CM-5). • A-to-D (AD-5) provide
85ms @48kHz delays. • 100BaseT Ethernet Board (ET-1).
• Play&Rec, Ethernet, Differential analog delays, Track-AutoSlate
and Wordclock sync require X2 hardware.
Ray M. Owen's last review: v2.44 (r8)
Firmware history – for X1&X2, + for X2
v2.44 Nov 2011 – Corrected take length in ALE lists allows for Mono-
phonic import with all track names and full comments into Avid MCs..
v2.43 May 2011 – Bug fix correcting MonoRotate Idle backup on CF,
Ext. HD and DVD-RAM. – PPR keyed 'TapeRef' HEX char. can go to
LTC-Out U-bits. – U-bits manually entered, p.32. – Backup to internal
CF caddy, p.54. – [eye] button in Backup.06 & .14 displays the media
remaining space.
v2.37 Dec. 2010 – 'Xa mix to T7, Mic1/Mic5 to T8, p.28. – SoloMidPan
middle position enables buttons 1–6 trigger solos of L1 to L4 and T7-T8,
p.4. – Line-out & Foldback mute in TEST, p.31. –Creation date set by
Cantar if incoming user bits are all zero. – Sc&Take/Filetag display pref.
stored at power-off. – HD1080 flag in ALE header. – Bug fix on PLAY LTC-
out 'Off' at file end. + Play&Rec stiky BLUE over TEST, PPR and REC.
v2.36 May 2010 – Error fix on DVD Rotate2mono sound-report with long
names. – Rotate1&2mono respectively stored in .AAL & .AAM folders.
– Track-names stored as "aTRK#=name" for Avid MCs' monophonic import
(v4 & up). – Track-names inserted in T1–T8 columns of ALE lists.
v2.30 Sept. 2009 – Line-out & Foldback mute in PLAY. –Up to twenty
stored setups. – Take-gender resets to 't' after scene ID change. – MS jog
pan direction identical to others. – 250MB auto jump keeps eight track polys
under 2GB. –Wrong play-LTC after pause, fixed; Cantarem accidentally dis-
arming T7-T8, fixed. +Operands accessible from Tarkan. +Tarkan's 'Virtual
Cantarem' gets access to Cantar's gain controls.
v2.28 Aug. 2009 – Absolute-TC [shift eye] displayed in PLAY; back to
elapsed upon exit. – Cantarem mixes T1–T7 to Xb (T8), or T1–T8 to Fb, Line-
out & Phones. –ALE incremental 'Index' replaced by 'SqScTk'; first AutoSlate
TC stored in Mark-In column. – Fudge in 'AUDIO/TC.14' adds 60ms to the
file's TC. – BattAlert extended to 15V for Li-Ion batt. –Improved SATA disk
manager. –No more freeze when playing 'Majax cantarized' foreign files.
v2.26 Feb. 2009 –Idle Bckp can be interrupted while saving T7T8 after
a T1---T8 Rotate2poly. –Mic3 master of Mic4 & Mic5. – Direct PLAY of the
take preceding a deleted one. – Fat-32 formatting of CF cards. – SoundReport
generated once backup At Call is completed. +Tarkan v1.11 adds CSV to
PDF SoundReport. +Tarkan completion menu fits WinXP netbook screens.
v2.24 Nov. 2008 –PCs handle 'unmounted' internal drives. – Simultaneous
internal/external, PATA/SATA drives. – Line-in links for Soundfield ST350.
–Rotate poly by one or two ranks. –T8T8 backup. –False-start: take-gender
keeps same # for next take. –Trash/Revive files in BROWSE. –Swift access
to ROUTINGS with no PLAY/BROWSE triggering. –Thumb-free check/select
In-Grids and Out-Maps. –All letters for seq./scene. –Delayed Idle Bckp
activation. –DVD-RAM exact space is displayed. – Erratic behaviour after PDF
creation, fixed. +Linking-Trios in the CSV SoundReport. +Tarkan v1.09 brings
pan-pot control, T7T8 settings, metadata editing and PDF generation.
v2.15 March 2008 –In-Grids to T7T8 displayed with T1–T6 banks.
–Mixdown w/T7 into T8. –Line-out/Foldback gain adj. in TEST. – 'So'
monitoring of the mix in TEST, REC and PLAY: Xa (center), Xb (center), Xa Xb
(center), Xa Xb (left/right). –One hand Solo/Filter adjust. –3sec+ press pro-
tects limiter activation. –Storage of project's sound-report headers with 'save
setup'. –Same clockwise jog for TC and operands.
v2 .11 Jan. 2008 –New PLAY commands. –Creation of 'play-cards' with
in/out marks. +Play&Rec plays up to six tracks while recording nine analog
inputs to eight internal tracks. +ADR for 'hear it, say it'. +Remix with dynamic
mixdown and new commentary. +Re-recording, up to eight track.

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Permanently accessible faders
The Cantar interface is the easiest to use under the most
technically demanding conditions: • It offers the largest
display surface of all portable recorders, which simultane-
ously shows every critical recording parameter. • The high
contrast displays remain viewable under bright light (sun,
sand, sea, snow, storm), and at low temperatures too.
• The swiveling front panel always provides the best view-
ing angle for both on cart and over the shoulder work.
• The large MainSelector eliminates diving into sub-
menus. • The three-crown turret gives instant access to all
recording and monitoring configurations while wearing
heavy winter gloves. • Nine rotary faders (analog in-
puts) plus six linear faders (mixdown) devoted to one spe-
cific task are faster to handle than multi-function knobs.
• For desert or high seas work, all of the mechanical
actuators are sandproof and waterproof.
DESCRIPTION TOP VIEW
1
[lim-inv] Mic limiter ON/OFF.
[shift] [lim-inv] Input signal inversion.
2
[fil-tom] Filter, solo and balance access.
[shift] [fil-tom] Phantom 48V ON/OFF.
3
[link-lock] Leftside, Mixer faders locking.
Rightside, Mic/Line faders locking.
[shift] [link-lock] Mic linking.
[SoloMidPan] pulled to the Operator side
+ [routing] displays the outputs to mOnitors
+ [track-solo] 1 – 6 activate T1 to T6 sOlos
[SoloMidPan] put in the middle
+ [track-solo] 1 – 4 activate Line-in1 to Line-in4 solos
+ [track-solo] 5 & 6 activate T7 T8 solos
[SoloMidPan] pushed to the bAttery side
+ [routing] displays the inputs to trAcks
+ [track-solo] 1 – 6 show track pAn-pots
Headphones
fader
Track
(dis)arming
& solos
HD
access
Five mic
faders
Four line
faders
SoloMidPan
in & out
routings
1 limiter/inverter 2 lter/phantom
Shift
Ethernet
RJ-45
3 link/lock
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Protected ins & outs
To complement the waterproof design, all audio sockets are
pointed toward Earth, the same direction that rain falls. This
concept has the notable side effect that no plugs protrude
from the sides; this allows third party designers to build very
narrow 'Made for Cantar' carts!
•• the SubD15 (p.58) is used to connect CantaRem (p.53)
or a USB-PS2 keyboard adapter .
•• the SubD25 (p.58) is the AES in/out connector which can
externally loop playback signals in "Play&Rec" mode.
•• the 3/8” screw is placed between three rubber pads, it
is used to secure Cantar onto a cart.
•• the weep hole, underneath the phone-jack socket, is
a drainage port for water that has entered through the
phone-jack.
•• the backup caddy is protected beneath the swiveling front
panel. To remove the DVD caddy, remove retaining screw 'A'
(picture below), introduce a ball pen into hole 'B' and push it
toward the front opening where you can grab the caddy. The
CF caddy is held by spring tension only and the 'A' screw is not
used.
DESCRIPTION BOTTOM VIEW
Rules about FireWire (FW) connection
•• the cable retainer should be used at all times (gaff-ta-
pe if your Cantar is not equipped with it) to avoid intermit-
tent contact or sudden cable pull-out. An intermittent FW
connection induces 'bus hangs' and can stop recording on
both the external and internal drives.
•• considering the above, when (un)plugging an external
FW device, disconnect the cable from the device side, not
from the Cantar side.
•• never plug a cable into the FW socket while Cantar is
powered; the 6-pin socket has a hot +12V in it for powe-
ring accessories. If the plug enters at an angle, it will
produce a short between the +12V pin and the in/out pins
and blow up the internal FW driver.
•• for the MacBookPro 800 FW socket, use a 9 to 6-pin
cable (IE9496-3).
•• only use ferrite choke ring equipped high quality FW
cables, not the cheap skinny ones.
FireWire
socket
Timecode
Headphones
Foldback
Cable retainer
Ident label AES in/out
3/8" cart holder
Line-out
phones' jack
water exhaust
dvd burner
extraction
'options'
Bluetooth Tx
AB
DVD burner screw
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Front panel buttons
[routing] [SoloMidPan] battery side: In-Grids.
[routing] [SoloMidPan] Operator side: Out-Maps.
[esc] pause/restart from there.
[shift] [esc] in PL AY, continuous play of files toggle.
in PPR, 'comment' line erasure.
[<] [>] prev/next play-card (p/n file if no card)
in 'Operands', other parameter value.
[shift] [<] [>] prev/next play-file.
[ok] start/stop playback; in 'Operands' push
focus to bottom row; value validation.
[shift] [ok] digitization parameters and TC fps view.
[eye] toggles T5T6/T7T8 on right side modulo.
displays help screen in 'Operands'.
[shift] [eye] toggles 'filetag & duration' / 'scene & take'
(stored preference)
[TC jam] in PLAY, shows absolute TC; in TEST,
a 3 sec. press sets Sync clock to incoming LTC.
[shift] [TC jam] in TEST, stops the 'int c' reminder blinking.
[batt L] or [R] short pressure displays battery voltage;
long pressure puts battery on duty.
[shift] [batt] in STOP, turns 'OFF' Cantar.
Headphones
1/4" jack in an isolated compartment. To facilitate extraction
of a right angle 1/4” jack plug, the phone socket is slanted
toward the bottom of the machine. The stored output level is
protected by the [shift] button.
Talkback mic
Nested near the MainSelector, the automatic gain talkback
mic can be routed to line-out, foldback and tracks (p.10).
Circular and Rectangular screens
Always visible under the brightest light (p.7, p.8).
TripleCrown and MainSelector
Easy to manipulate with winter gloves on, they give ac-
cess to all operating/operands actions (p.9, p.10, p.26).
Mixer's faders
Dustproof and waterproof, they are magnetically driven.
The black or colored fader caps can be instantly replaced.
Backup caddy
The DVD and CF caddies are easily swapped (p.43, p.54).
DESCRIPTION FRONT VIEW
SoloMidPan Mixer faders
Talkback mic
Shift
TC jamEsc < - > Eye
Batt1(L), Batt2(R)
Headphones MainSelector
Ok
Line-in faders Mic faders
Routing
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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 (line1– 4, mic1–5) 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
[SoloMidPan] 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 [SoloMidPan] 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 [SoloMidPan] 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)

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4 modulometers
Cantar's large circular modulometers, visible under the bright-
est light as well as in the dark, converting levels into angular
values, are the most accurate metering tools found in any
portable recorder. They feature a non-linear scale with in-
creased resolution (1dB) in the most important range: -55 to
-40dBFS (5dB per segment); -40 to -32dBFS (2dB / seg-
ment); -32 to -12dBFS (1dB / segment); -12 to 0dBFS
(3dB / segment).
The peak level segment hold duration is adjustable from one-
half to five seconds in TECHSET.13 (p.34).
The tracks are grouped into 'natural' pairs: T1T2, T3T4,
T5T6. When a track is momentarily dis-armed, its modulom-
eter appears dashed.
5 Monitoring physical status
The center of each circular screen continually displays the
status of the main recording elements:
• activity of the internal HD ('three-platter' icon on the left
screen), the external HD ('three-platter' icon on the middle
screen), and the DVD ('one-platter' icon on the right screen).
Disk activity is highlighted by the presence of the track IDs
recorded on it.
• sync clock mode: either master int c or slave ext c.
• mic preamplier status: Limiter 0n/0ff, Direct/Invert, Phan-
tom 0n/0ff.
• the current monitor map name (sent to the phones too) is
constantly displayed by large alphanumeric characters.
• the activation of the mixdown recording on T7T8 is indi-
cated by the 'mix' icon next to the T7 & T8 track IDs.
note: the screens are visible in very bright sunlight; to save
backlight power, see TECHSET.05 'Backlight' (p.33).
Rectangular screen
• Operating positions (p.10)
In STOP
top row: batt-L & batt-R voltage
middle row: system time
bottom row: system date.
In TEST or REC
top row: T7T8 modulometers in
dBFS: -50 -45 -40 -38 -36 -34
-32 -30 -28 -26 -24 -22 -20 -18
-16 -14 -12 -9 -6 -3 0 Clip.
To display T7T8 levels with higher precision, press the [eye]
button, this will swap T7T8 with T5 T6 on the right circular
screen.
The [jog] overwrites the T7T8 bargraphs with battery volt-
age, available disk space, or remaining recording time cal-
culated from the current track count, bit-depth and sample
rate.
middle row: the source and the TC stamped in the audio
files: 'Atc' (ASCII-TC), 'Ltc' (jam from LTC), 'Stc' (from the sys-
tem calendar), 'Otc' (Operator entered TC), 'Rtc' (Record-Run
TC), and 'Etc' (slaved to an external clock).
bottom row: (in TEST) current project name; (in REC) 'filetag &
duration' or 'scene & take' by [shift] [eye]. While adjusting a
pan-pot, the track rank, plus the maximum gain value of the
whole mixer panel (0dB or +6dB)
are displayed.
In PPR or BROWSE
scene, take, track-names, com-
ments, Sound-Roll/Shoot Day, for
their editing (p.19 & p.25).
In PLAY
player's position, cue points, ab-
solute time, 'filetag & duration' or 'scene & take' (p.24).
• Operand positions (p.26)
In AUDIO/TC, TECHSET,
SESSION and BACKUP
the pathtree of each parameter:
top row: the 'Operand', e.g. AUDIO/TC. middle row: pa-
rameter name, e.g. Sample-Rate. bottom row: parameter
value, e.g. 48048.
DESCRIPTION RECT. SCREEN
left screen
Internal HD
right screen
CD/DVD
middle screen
External HD
AUDIO/TC 01
SampleRate
48048
NEXT AX0490
Seq Sc Tk
121R/a12t06
A00* >00:00
02:15 02:17
CC2165 03:32
V16.2 V14.8
Sys 12:45:22
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In TEST, PPR and REC, depending on the [SoloMidPan]
slider position, the [routing] button displays the input routing
templates called In-Grids or the active output routings called
Out-Maps.
The large all weather triple crown is used to check and select
the routings with only one hand.
note: to create routings, see p.27 to p.30.
Monitor Crown
1So mic, line, digi-ins, active tracks and combinations of
the mixer outputs directly sent to the headphones as 'solos'.
2Ph seventeen user configurable maps (A to Q) plus the
stereo mixer output to headphones.
3Lo nine user configurable maps (R–Z) plus the stereo
mixer output to dual line-out (XLR 5).
4Fb nine user configurable maps (R to Z) plus the stereo
mixer output to dual foldback out (mini XLR3).
5Do nine user configurable maps (R to Z) plus the stereo
mixer output to digi-out on AES7&8.
The headphones also receive the signal sent to the output
being selected/configured.
Config Crown
In-Grids
To check and select the In-Grids, PUSH the [SoloMidPan]
slider to the battery side and press or click-in/click-out the
[routing] button. The silver [config] crown gives sequential
access to fifteen In-Grids, the last in use is displayed first.
Out-Maps
To check the Out-Maps for each Ph, Lo, Fb and Do outputs,
PULL the [SoloMidPan] slider to the Operator's side, and
press or click-in/click out the [routing] button with the thumb
and rotate the black [monitor] crown.
To browse the Out-Maps and select another one, rotate the
silver [config] crown, the active map will be the one displayed
when closing the [routing] command.
note: selecting a different Out-Map while recording doesn't
affect the recorded signal.
Jog Crown
The [jog] is used: to move the cursor in the routing circu-
lar screens; to edit scene, take and comments; to select
high-pass filters; to adjust the backlight's intensity; to con-
trol the pan-pots; and to scrub the player in fast forward/
reverse.
Both the [jog] and [config] crowns increment time and operand
values while rotating clockwise.
note1: [shift] [jog] accelerates the speed 10x.
note2: the Operand's middle and bottom rows of the rect-
angular screen can be browsed by the [>] [<] arrows just as
easily as withthe [jog].
DESCRIPTION TRIPLE CROWN
config
jog
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OPERATING WEST POSITIONS
MainSelector positions
The [MainSelector] is easy to manipulate even while wear-
ing heavy winter gloves; it gives direct access to all essential
functions.
The OPERATING (West) positions control the recording, an-
notation and playback of audio files.
To get access to the Play&Rec 'BLUE' positions, press and
hold the blue [shift] button while rotating the [MainSelector]
to the next Operating position (p.48 & p.49).
The OPERAND (East) positions, which establish Cantar's oper-
ating parameters, are described on p.26.
Standard positions Play&Rec positions
REC •BLUE-REC
PPR
(
BLUE-PPR
TEST I I BLUE-TEST
STOP IIII
PLAY >BLUE-PLAY
BROWSE I<BLUE-BRWS
MainSelector buttons
[silver] in REC, inserts a marker on-the-fly.
in TEST, after [routing] opens routing creation (future)
in PLAY, goes to Operator's record-markers.
[shift] [silver] in REC, triggers AutoSlate detection.
in PPR, toggles take editor (PREV/NEXT take).
in TEST, opens LEVEL&DELAY menu.
in PLAY, goes to AutoSlate marker.
[black] in REC, PPR, TEST, talkback mic activation. (p. 31)
in PLAY, inserts a play mark.
[ok] starts/stops from the play mark (p.24)
in BLUE-PLAY, inserts a cue-in.
in IN-GRIDS, links an input to a track.
in OUT-MAPS, connects sources to outputs.
[shift] [black] in REC, PPR, TEST talkback mic to active tracks.
in PLAY, plays from start of take.
[red] in REC, PPR, BROWSE, changes take-gender.
in BLUE-PLAY, inserts a cue-out.
in IN-GRIDS, unlinks an input from a track.
in OUT-MAPS, disconnects sources from outputs.
[shift] [red] in TEST, PPR,REC, triggers 1kHz reference tone:
'OFF' at [red] release, remains 'ON' if [shift] is
released first, [shift] to turn 'OFF'.
in BLUE-PLAY, hides play-card from Play&Rec lis
[red] [silver] [black] [red] [silver] [black]
Contactless MainSelector
(zero maintenance)
Mechanical MainSelector
[shift]