DREAM II Version 3.1 Software Release Information
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1. DREAM II Version 3 1 Page 21 Software Release Information IMPORTANT IMPROVEMENTS December 15 2010 Track Display When choosing a number of tracks to display the system no longer includes the video track in the calculation Previously you would get one less audio track if the video track was displayed Now the video track if one is loaded and displayed appears automatically when audio Track 1 is displayed New option in Setup General Preferences Called Display centers on current track This changes the track display selection Blue 1T 2T 4T etc so that it does not work in banks but instead centers the current track in the middle of the display This also affects the track selection buttons This option is disabled by default More work on the track display views the starting track in the track bank views is the same with or without a video track Improvement to the drawing of linked tracks Linked tracks no longer have the red line around the first and last tracks in the link as this got confusing with a lot of linked tracks Instead the track borders within the linked tracks are now a lighter colour There is also a new option in Setup gt General Preferences called Linked Clips drawn as single clip When this is on linked clips are drawn slightly thinner to make them stand out more clearly File Handling Preliminary Video tape mode Switched on using debug switch Tape Mode for video Currently works wit2. MIDI Events Play head Current length of MIDI clip being edited The Play Head is set to Unlocked when you enter the MIDI Note Editor This is to allow easy editing of MIDI events while in Play The lighter background shows the current length of the MIDI clip Notes can be outside this area if you have trimmed the original MIDI clip or copied its tail etc You can edit notes inside and outside the area The notes outside the area cannot be heard in the MIDI Note Editor or the normal Track Display Notes can be dragged horizontally in time or vertically in pitch Ranges of notes can also be selected with a mouse lasso marquee and dragged horizontally or vertically Notes dragged outside the limits of the MIDI clip will not be heard after editing but they are not erased The Note Editor Smart Pane PRPSPRODER Ce Eg ma m ajaja 13 HE ERPEPSENEL TS Commands in the Note Editor Smart Pane are issued by clicking on the buttons Notes can be selected by moving the transport over them like audio clips In addition you can select a range of notes in time and in pitch with the mouse lasso The commands are described in detail below DREAM II Version 3 1 Page 13 Software Release Information MAJOR FEATURES December 15 2010 EET sect Ps tL DL SL Sp oo Click to toggle the track display between the Piano Roll and normal tracks Click one of these three buttons to set the mouse click action It can
3. Now we have created a choice To detach Mix selection from Edit selection edit the System Variables file using Shift ctri u and look for Mix Follows Edit in the Desk Functions group Press OK to save your choice If Mix Follows Edit is ON pressing a track button in either edit or mix menus will select it for both If Mix Follows Edit is OFF pressing a track button only selects it for the current menu type Another option connected to this is call Follows Edit Mix ALL None This is available in the cai1 Menu found in the Setup Megamode This option controls what happens when you select a channel for mixing or editing For example if it is set to ALL selecting a channel for mixing or editing also makes it the current module or Called Channel so it appears in the Xynergi Pad the Fat Channel and other places How should you use this If you are running a standalone Xynergi systems it is easier to have Mix Follows Edit and Call Follows ALL This is the default setup and you are already used to using it If you are running an EVO system you might consider setting Call Follows NONE This will allow you to call channels from your faders without exposing them to edit commands or touch write It s a safe option But if you use touch write all the time you might want to set Call Follows Mix That way calling a fader makes it ready for your current touch mode By default Call is set to follows ALL if Mix Follows Edit and NONE otherwise
4. FAIRLIGHT www fairlightau com DREAM II Version 3 1 Software Release Information 15 December 2010 DREAM II Version 3 1 Page 1 Software Release Information INTRODUCTION December 15 2010 Introduction Version 3 1 software demonstrates some truly new directions for Fairlight including MIDI the Background Recorder and a new compound meter including PPM and Loudness metering Some of the features mentioned here were released as part of V3 0 software which was only distributed to EVO and XE 6 users If you are one of those you ll recognise some things For existing users some of the new features have been dongled and so require a license update in order to run Please contact your Fairlight Business partner for details This documentation is a brief manual for the system and a general overview about the new release We hope you enjoy the new features many of which were requested by experienced users of the system Once again we are indebted to our family of users for their creativity and for their patience DREAM II Version 3 1 Page 2 Software Release Information MAJOR FEATURES December 15 2010 Major Features Windows 7 64 bit The system can now run in Windows 7 64 bit This allows the addition of more RAM There is a minimum DREAM will not start with less than 4 GB of RAM under Windows 7 Note Windows 7 32 bit is NOT SUPPORTED More RAM means better video performance especially in HD o
5. Mode buttons Path EQ Dyn Aux toggle Zoom screens on and off This holds the Zoom Screen on indefinitely regardless of settings in the Utils menu The Zoom screen changes to follow the current Pad Mode Soft Pot Layout The Soft pot layout is delayed for a second to prevent it flashing when a toggle is intended Quick press and release toggles between Pan LR and the last other setting you used Pot button shows all options now includes all auxes and illuminates when switched away from Pan LR Clip Level Layout This is accessed by pressing clip Level a second time This layout is now recalled when returning to the Clip Level menu The 2db and 2db buttons were creating problems with fast operation so have been replaced with jog level and jog display To use either one hold down the button and jog the selected clip levels or displays up and down You can also use Numpad button e g hold down the button press lt Numpad gt 3 and release for a 3 dB boost hold down the button press lt Numpad gt minus lt Numpad gt 3 and release for a 3 dB cut Quick Edit menu The Quick Edit menu Shift Editor is now available in Record Megamode as well Shift Record Added Cut Head Tail and Copy Head Tail DREAM II Version 3 1 Page 25 Software Release Information XYNERGI XCS IMPROVEMENTS December 15 2010 Set source This layout is available when SEL is active 48 path display It allows quick patching of inputs or buses to sele
6. be used to select clicked notes add a note where you click or delete notes where you click Set the current Note Value used by Add Note Duration and Quantize Quantizes the elected note s to the current pna n m a a note value Shows These commands advanced act on the selected quantize note s They set options duration to the current note value or add subtract the note value s duration To set the velocity of the selected note s move the slider to show the required value then click Set To Trim the velocity of the selected note s move the slider to show a positive or negative value then click Trim To Trim the pitch of the selected note s move the slider to show a positive or negative value then click Trim Control how many octaves To change the MIDI channel of Set a playback loop and start the selected are shown on it Only MIDI note s move the piano events are the slider to played not show a channel Toggle the audio number then metronome click Set on and off Notes can be added To do this click the Select button in the Left Click group then click a note value from the array Now move the mouse cursor into the piano roll and you ll see the note length Click to create a note of any pitch at any position Deleting notes is done by selecting the Delete tool then clicking on individual notes DREAM II Version 3 1 Page 14 Software Release Inf
7. cards where graphics corruption could occur with the Dream II menus Fixed a crash that could occur in the following circumstances You have Scroller follows current track enabled A clip in the clipboard which is displayed on an audio scroller You are panning through the tracks Fixed a crash that could occur if you changed focus to another application while Dream II was in its initial startup Fixed a bug with Track Menu Numbers where could not swap link groups back again immediately after just swapping them without changing the track selection first DREAM II Version 3 1 Page 30 Software Release Information BUG FIXES December 15 2010 Fixed a bug where could not display video full screen on a 1920x1080 monitor when Display Mode was set to 16 9 Errors within the iXML chunk of BWF files rectified Clip EQ surface menu In Out sets all selected clips to be the same rather than toggling them individually Bugfixes in OMF export associated with multiple very short fades next to each other induced by translating the Dream II layering model into the OMF non layered model Previously MP4 files containing audio would go offline after an Undo Localising a reversed clip in DR2 removes the reverse ness Previously exporting a 32bit wav file not BWF resulted in distorted audio After performing a localize sometimes the user would get an erroneous message when trying to save the project Dream II now s
8. outputs to instruments use Setup Instruments on the Edit Screen Instrument Setup x Instrument MIDI Device In REAPER i zj Church Organ 2nd 1 xj Church Organ 2nd USB Audio Device Unassigned Unassigned Unassigned Unassigned Unassigned Patching is done in three steps 1 Load an instrument and patch a controller to it 2 Patch the instrument s audio outputs to tracks or lives so you can hear it 3 Patch a controller to be recorded on a track and patch the track s output to an instrument to play it Step 1 On the input left side load an instrument using the Add command Choose any of your installed instruments from the dropdown menu that is displayed The GUI for that instrument will appear on the screen Now assign a MIDI controller MIDI Device In and choose the MIDI channel or OMNI that the instrument will play it will not respond to other MIDI channels from the controller The MIDI controller you assign will play the instrument live Step 2 To hear the output of that instrument it must be patched to one or more Track or Live Feed inputs This is done on the Patch I O page in the normal way Step 3 The output right side shows all the tracks you have converted to MIDI Choose the MIDI controller MIDI Device In to be recorded on each track Normally this is the same controller for all tracks which would be your MIDI keyboard Patch the track output to any i
9. F is preserved when a clip is exported as BWF The default value for the BWF originator field can now be specified See Setup gt General Preferences gt Options When using Backup Project To Folder audio clips which are inefficient to backup are flagged and you are given the option to consolidate these clips fuf stuff or localize to make backup more efficient When using Backup Project To Folder if video media which is transcoded to a specific video format then all other versions of the video media is deleted to prevent multiple copies of the same video media Decklink video output jog performance improved when using PRO2 option While scrolling through the Audiobase list results with the jogger wheel you can now hold down the shift key to scroll through the results quicker Now it only takes one undo to put clips back where they previously were after being moved by the mouse An improvement has been made when creating a new project with a video track The system will now automatically create the same path structure on the video device instead off creating it later when some video has been recorded imported into the project This is useful so you can drag existing video files dealing with the project into this new folder when you have just created the new project In Loop menu the Pre Post Roll switch controls whether or not the system pre roll and post roll times are used by the Loop commands The switch is ON by defaul
10. Version 3 1 Page 32 Software Release Information BUG FIXES December 15 2010 Previously unable to add more than 6 VST instruments due to a graphics bug Several Bug fixes relating to changing the order of multiple plug ins within a path particularly on busses Resolved issue with Xynergi PAD metering of Studio Monitoring Previously exporting an 8channel or greater wave file with sample rate conversion didn t work Previously some projects exported to AAF files as the wrong layers Cleaned up the Automation Curves display when in Jog Mix Fix for a Xynergi Mix Save QWERTY Focus issue Fix for Fill Range logic reverting controls in Preview back to mix state Fix for incorrect warning message ADR_TREE and VIDEO_TRACK on AAF export Fix for project save getting out of sync between FMC and Dream II Fix for re ordering plug ins messing up the order and indication on re load of the project Fixed a bug that could occur if Track display follows undo is turned off and you add a video track This could cause the new video track to end up in the wrong spot after an undo was performed later DREAM II Version 3 1 Page 33
11. connected to the decklink card and warns if not so other PRO2 tweaks Reduced the timeout waiting for an AVI mpg frame to render Fixed an issue where AVI files could stick when trying to playback the last frame of some mpg files previously using 9pin control to control a Pyxis from a Dream with bi directional control switched on could intermittently jump out of jog to stop when jogging at slow speeds DREAM II Version 3 1 Page 22 Software Release Information IMPORTANT IMPROVEMENTS December 15 2010 Import When importing a project file containing more tracks than the current project the number of tracks will be automatically increased This applies only when importing into DR2 files and when importing Pyxis OMF AAF AES31 or Final Cut XML Load Speed Very large projects are loaded faster than previously Audio Scrollers Now display changed waveform when Clip EQ is applied Jump to Bar There is now a Bar selection in the Jump Menu This will cause the transport to jump to the next or previous bar line Tempos and bar lines are defined in the dialog setup Bars and Beats Setup This jump command works whether or not bars and beats are displayed in the timeline Localise After localizing media all clips that used that media are updated to access the new localized media straight away Previously it was necessary to close then reopen the project see the clips access the new localized media Clip Level a
12. cted tracks or lives Set source now has a NONE button for removing input patching to selected tracks or lives This layout now has VCA group selection for the selected tracks and lives Macro Improvements Holding down key 7 labelled macro in the top row next to Help will display three rows of macros allowing you to access them easily Release the button to return to normal Macro bank numbers are now preserved when changing to Mixer or Record MM Added optional Fast macro layout switching when holding down the macro button in row 5 This is available in the Edit Macro display press Macro in the Setup Megamode or BLUE macro any time When Fast is selected the 3 tier macro display will appear immediately the macro button is pressed More Xynergi Improvements Now handling AutoCurves Asserting any faderset now cancels Mixer Set in Xynergi Added Play button to GoTo layout to facilitate GoTo Play Added locate to Frame Edge from Xynergi REW FF keys above the Jog wheel use REW Clear or FF Clear In either case the transport rounds off its position to the previous frame edge Added access to Project Track Count from the Proj Megamode Implemented selection and double pressing of vcA masters These can be seen in the second bank of buses VCA Masters can now be isolated and made auto safe Added punch again button to the Record Megamode This allows you to initiate recording at the same place as last time but with no prog
13. d glide range mix copy operations and graphical edits made to the automation curves interleaved in chronological order with the clip edits Where automation changes were caused by following audio edits both data types are included in a single undo redo step When the list is open the Jog Wheel and buttons can be used to move up and down before pressing ENTER to execute up to the selected point Any point can also be executed by double clicking with the mouse Single step changes can be made with the Undo and Redo buttons both on the Xynergi Constellation surface and the screen The list can be left open all the time but the Jog Wheel and buttons will only work when the list has focus e g just after being opened or when clicked with the mouse Note that Automation Undo points are removed from the Undo History when a new mix is created or a mix is loaded Plug ins Added new Plug in Delay Compensation on busses This compensates for latency caused by inserting plug ins on the bus itself by advancing the playback of tracks assigned to the bus Since a track could be assigned to multiple busses with different plug in configurations there is a strict priority for determining the delay compensation on a particular track The priority goes Main Sub 1 Sub 2 etc Auxi Aux 2 etc This should compensate for the majority of stem mixing projects where each track is feeding a unique stem and these stem sub mixes are mixed to t
14. e a range and position the play head at a suitable sync point Press the Copy Mix soft key Now select the destination paths There can be any number of these and they need not be of the same module type e g you can copy from a bus to a track and so on Move the play head toa suitable sync point for the paste and press the paste Mix soft key If the number of destination paths exceeds the source paths the pastes cycle through the source paths in numerical order a bit like patching multiple paths on the Patch I O page Preview Menu Opens a new sub menu of the Mix Menu where some useful Preview commands have been collected Glide range This is anew command available only when Preview is on It takes the data at the beginning of the range and glides smoothly to the current control value fader or pot by the end of the range This action will affect all signal paths in Preview status on all enabled parameters Fill range Same as before When Preview is on you fill the range will the current control value of the enabled parameters Flood range This command copies parameters from one path and flood fills them into the automation on another path It is available in the Path Copy menu Mixer Megamode and works only when Preview is on To use make a range and select the source path Copy the mix parameters from the selected path by pressing the copy soft key Now select the destination path and press the flood range Soft key All the enab
15. e accessed via the Path Strip or the Channel page You can now double click within the buss assign area on the ILP2 screen and new mixer screen to bring up the bus assign window DREAM II Version 3 1 Page 24 Software Release Information XYNERGI XCS IMPROVEMENTS December 15 2010 Xynergi XCS Improvements Fader Sets Link Group markings are now shown when mapping Fader sets Fader sets can be changed safely at any point during mapping This allows mapping of multiple fader sets without leaving that layout Purple tally now shows fader being mapped i e path that will disappear if a different one is chosen Fast Mapping Holding ctri and pressing a path button Track Live or Bus will fill up the rest of the fader set in channel order Link Groups are mapped as one item This is a very quick way of mapping your fader sets after setting up Link Groups Individual Param Enables Parameters can now be enabled individually This is done in the param Enable layout accessed from Mixer Megamode when Mix ON is active Several of the buttons now contain red triangles indicating that they control more than one parameter Pressing the button toggles all the parameters Holding down the button causes display of the individual parameters in the top row of keys They can be toggled separately there The group button shows a half shading if only some of its parameters are enabled Zoom Screens In the Mixer Megamode double pressing Pad
16. elected channels will snap to 10 dB Move the faders playing if desired to establish the amount of trim you want Press the Commit P Trim soft key To escape with no change press the Cancel P Trim soft key Automation UNDO iS now multi step and is chronologically interleaved with audio edits in the UNDO list This means automation steps can be undone and redone with the regular Undo and Redo buttons Undo steps now include all write trim passes fill and glide range mix copy operations and graphical edits made to the automation curves Where automation changes were caused by following audio edits both data types are included in a single undo redo step Note that Automation Undo points are removed from the Undo History when a new mix is created or a mix is loaded Added Curves menu The auto Curves softkey in the Mix Menu in the Mixer Megamode for Xynergi users accesses another menu level where Curves functions are available on tactile buttons The Curves Smart Pane is also associated with this sub menu You can also hold down Auto Curves and touch any control in the Xynergi Pad to put its curve on all tracks selected for mixing Curve Target in the Mix Edit menu Curve sub menu Selects the Display button on the Curves Smart Pane allowing you to select the parameter for curves displayed on all tracks selected on the Edit Screen Safety Zone in the Auto Safe menu Use this to protect your automation data except for one zone where you wan
17. ets the embedded timecode for exported MXF files Previously the default Clip Eq was not fully loaded when the application started Previously undoing an apply clip eq would leave a clip with no eq but with the EQ icon showing The Clip EQ edit state was sometimes incompletely cancelled or not cancelled at all As a result the dialog surface menu and clips would disagree get into different states Now EQ edit is cancelled when the current track changes and after project load undo and redo Fixed a bug where illegal video playback advances could be entered into the combo box Localizing now no longer requires multiple passes to localize all media Additionally clips can now display an icon when the media they represent is not local Additional information available in Statistics Previously recording 96khz with rf64 wav file mode switched on could prematurely drop out of record with the error message Maximum File length reached Fix for the smart panes when Dream II is not run on the primary monitor Fixed a rare bug where some of the video window would be displayed over the status bar when it should not be being shown Fixed a bug where when adding a fade to multiple clips not all of them would always get a fade This issue occurred if you have the option to display clip time in the range display Fixes to RestoreChannels Previously it did not work with multiply selected clips Other tweaks and fixes to RestoreChannels Impor
18. ge number of armed tracks for example b disk bandwidth is used which may impact normal high track count recordings Of course you are using disk capacity as well so it s a good idea to remain aware when the recorder is on or at least to check on the holding tank now and then But by and large the recorder is self cleaning because it throws away old recordings when you click the Go button DREAM II Version 3 1 Page 17 Software Release Information MAJOR FEATURES December 15 2010 Dual Video Tracks 3D NOTE The Dual Stream 3D Video Option will not be included in the initial 3 1 software release Available within Q1 2011 A second video track can be added using the Add Pyxis Track command in the Track menu Note that 3D is an individually dongled item Part number 7CC1PT DUAL and will require an additional license in order to be configured When available Please contact your local Fairlight Business partner for further details System resources are affected strongly by adding a video track At the moment our recommendation is the following 1 For dual SD tracks it should be possible to work under the existing Windows XP implementation but contention for memory may bring it down if too many plug ins or QuickTime files 2 For dual HD tracks the system must be running Windows 7 64 bit We recommend at least 6 GB of RAM and a 1 GB graphics card Pyxis Track playback on the Dry Ice screen can be o
19. h uncompressed video only I frame Mpeg2 files and MVF files can now use the video pipeline feature by turning on video pipeline in Setup gt General Preferences gt Playback gt Compressed Video Pipeline Enabled Formats supporting pipelining include quicktime MPJPEG A mov quicktime DV50 mov quicktime DV100 mov mjpeg vmj prunus mpeg2 mvf I frame mpeg2 MXF files mxf If you turn video pipeline on these file formats will play more reliably on a network including HD files Orphaned media dialog restores clips from media which no longer have references This is found under the View menu above the Edit Screen Select the menu command to display a list of the media which have been orphaned during the current session Double click any piece of media to bring it back into the project Playback of Avid MJpeg MXF files Dream II now reads Xdcam HD long gop mpeg2 opatom files generated on Avid M C Long gop Mpeg 2 MXF files exported by Dream are now compatible with Sony XDCAM viewer and consequently they are now a lot quicker to drag and drop onto the timeline PRO2 decklink video output option tweaked and improved Requires Decklink V7 8 drivers which are now enforced PRO2 decklink video output option further tweaked to work with 2 x Decklink Cards Sometimes the decklink video output was 1 frame out of sync when enabled with PRO2 option PRO2 decklink video option detects whether a genlock video reference is
20. he main bus Note there cannot be compensation for Live Feeds or for tracks assigned to multiple busses unless all the busses have the same plug ins inserted New Plugins config menu Press the Plug in button in the Mixer Megamode once or twice to display the menu It allows you to load Plug ins delete them re order them and so on Added the ability to re order plug ins within a specific channel This is accessed via an insert button on the title bar of each plug in window next to the bypass This insert window also allows an overview of the plug ins on that specific channel Changed the Remove plug in logic to work on the currently active plug in within a path rather than the last Themes Graphical themes now available for Dream II A new darker theme has been added for Dream II and FMC called the EVO1 theme To change between themes there is a new tab called Themes in Setup gt General Preferences FMC will not respond to a change of theme until the application is restarted The colours for the track view are now defined in a new file called Track View Colours xml located in the Dream II theme folder DREAM II Version 3 1 Page 20 Software Release Information IMPORTANT IMPROVEMENTS December 15 2010 Mix and Edit Selection Prior to the appearance of Xynergi track selection for Mixing and for Editing were separate In Xynergi they were joined to make editing and mixing on a small surface easier For Constella
21. ia device was not persistent If you set it it would reset it self Same for the media type flag video audio both The new temporary clips were not being highlighted red when selected Also fades on temporary clips in non layered mode could be drawn not yellow Added a cancel of the AudioBase Search or QWERTY via the global ESC key Previously D10 MXF files containing frames that were too large could not be exported Now the larger than legal frames are truncated Previously selected File gt Export Video File would de select tracks if any tracks were armed making it difficult or impossible to specify which tracks were required for export Previously Auditioning blanked out the Decklink output Bogus error message Media FL_bounce identical to FL_bounce which appeared sometimes when bouncing audio Bug fix After Undo and Redo certain parts of the system forgot that tracks were armed Consequently some features did not work as expected for example the selection of armed tracks on entry to the Arm menu Fixed a bug with Audiobase audition where on some machines the audition was always occurring on the first audio track Importing of Quicktime files with the crop pad option was broken in v2 6 0b6 Now fixed Saving to MT project format neglected to require FUF stuffing for stereo audio referenced by mono clip s Bug fix Dream crashed when opening some OMF files Time remaining was calculated incorrectly when recording t
22. ips can t be pasted on to audio tracks or the video track Nor can the reverse be done Names can be added to the MIDI clips then changed if desired using either the Name Clip command from the Xynergi Editor Megamode or the Rename command in the screen Edit menu MIDI Note Editing The system will only note edit MIDI clips containing a single MIDI channel If you have recorded or imported notes from multiple MIDI channels into one clip you can separate them using the command MIDI gt Separate MIDI Notes by Channel The system creates one clip for each channel and places them on the tracks below the selected one For this to work there must be sufficient MIDI tracks to take all the clips MIDI clips can be edited in detail using MIDI Edit MIDI Notes Another way to do this is view Smart Pane MIDI Events then click the Edit Events button Either way one MIDI clip at a time can be edited the one on the current track blue name and blue tab at left under the cursor the clip must be red MIDI Note Editing opens a piano roll editor where each MIDI event note ON note OFF is shown as a clip like object Only mouse editing is available in this window Note NO AUDIO OR VIDEO PLAYBACK OCCURS WHILE THE MIDI NOTE EDITOR IS OPEN DREAM II Version 3 1 Page 12 Software Release Information MAJOR FEATURES December 15 2010 The Edit Events button toggles the Edit Screen between the MIDI Note Editor and the normal Track Display
23. led parameters will be pasted to fill the range with automation values from the source to the destination Live Preview This is a quick way of getting signal paths in and out of Preview status When Preview is toggled ON selecting any signal path puts it into Preview normally this would require selection and pressing the AUTO button on Xynergi or pressing the AUTO button on a fader Read to Preview Pressing this soft key while signal paths are in Preview status will load the current Read value of enabled parameters into the control fader or pot It can then be used to fill range glide range or as the basis for starting an automation pass Clipboard to Preview This is a way of copying automation data from any point to any other The clipboard is loaded in the Path Copy menu by pressing the COPY soft key Then in the Preview menu pressing the Clipboard to Preview softkey loads the copied value of enabled parameters into their controls fader pot or switch for all signal paths in Preview status From there it can be used to fill range glide range or as the basis for starting an automation pass Preview Trim This command can raise or lower fader levels within a range by a constant amount It can only be used with physical faders It requires Preview to be on and a range to be present DREAM II Version 3 1 Page 5 Software Release Information MAJOR FEATURES December 15 2010 Press the preview Trim soft key The faders of the s
24. nd EQ When editing clip EQ or Level whilst playing the playback responds much more quickly to the changes MIDI Machine Control Dream II can now interpret the MMC protocol as a receiver To achieve this a new type of Machine is available under machine control called MMCSlave Select and enable this machine You may also need to enable MTC generator for true MIDI bi directional control Can also interpret MMC Loop instructions Second Edit Menu As the edit menu was getting very long some of the menu items under it have been moved to a new menu called Edit Settings Anything that was not an actual edit operation but instead affected edit operations has been moved under this new menu Numeric Jumps Added new Jump control using the numeric keys These jump by the number pressed n and align themselves to the edge of the currently displayed timescale e g with H M S F timescale the jumps are aligned to the nearest Frame and move by n seconds The 00 key aligns to the frame forwards or backwards depending upon the Jump key pressed The and aligns to the frame regardless of the Jump key pressed For Bars Beats the units above are substituted with beats and notes defined by snap to Bars Beats also utilise the Subf Clear key to align to the nearest beat DREAM II Version 3 1 Page 23 Software Release Information IMPORTANT IMPROVEMENTS December 15 2010 ILP2 Mic gain control has been added to the ILP2 This can b
25. ngs for the loudness component include RMS Window The length of the momentary sliding window in ms Target Reference in LKFS Short Window The length of the short term sliding window meter integration time in seconds Integrated Gate An optional Gate can be applied to the Infinite programme integration The blue numbers give running reports on level according to ITU R BS 1770 1 standard as a referenced LKFS value LK They represent the subjective loudness of the audio program The right hand number gives a rolling average over the defined short term window length and the left hand number gives an average over the entire length of program i e since you last reset the meter You can reset the long term average infinite integration by clicking the number The long term average level can additionally have a gate applied in the meter preferences in order to allow it comply with the R128 EBU Standard DREAM II Version 3 1 Page 8 Software Release Information MAJOR FEATURES December 15 2010 MIDI This is a major new feature set in the Fairlight context Please note that MIDI is a dongled item Part of the Software Plus Pack Option and so requires an additional license in order to be configured Please contact your local Fairlight Business partner for further details The software can e Create MIDI Tracks e Record MIDI events in real time e Load MIDI song files e Cut and paste MIDI clips e Edit the con
26. now conform from EDLs which have mixed DF and NDF source timecodes Restore Project Dialog Now when you drag media onto the timeline it follows the same snapping rules as dragging clips around on the timeline with the mouse This makes it easy to drag some media onto the timeline and have it begin at the playhead or in line with some other clip Now displays the current time on the menu bar on the top right of the Dream II screen New video codecs Dream II and PyxisMT can now capture directly to these video codecs IMX 30 SD mpg IMX50 SD mpg Mpeg2 long gop SD mpg Mpeg2 long gop HD mpg Huffman codec 2 1 lossless HD vmh Huffman codec 2 1 lossless Encrypted SD or HD vmh The Fairlight MPEG dongle option is required to capture in any of the mpeg codecs Capture directly to Mpeg2 Long Gop requires a PC with sufficient CPU grunt The codec is chosen in the SetupVideoCapture dialog under General Preferences If you wish to capture to an encrypted format you also choose a password for capture The same password must be entered to unlock encrypted video media each time the project is opened New version of SX 20 Flash that work in Windows 7 64bit New menu item Edit gt LR Stereo Swap This edit function allows a quick way to reverse the left and right sides of multi channel stereo clips This feature is only available in DR2 projects New ability for razor operations It is now possible for razor to remove
27. nstrument you have loaded Metronome To set up a metronome use Setup Bars and Beats Setup DREAM II Version 3 1 Page 10 Software Release Information MAJOR FEATURES December 15 2010 Bars and Beats Setup The metronome is created by the Oscillator To hear it use the patch 1 0 page to patch the output of the Oscillator Noise channel to an open track or live feed Track 1 I Recording MIDI Clips Arm the MIDI track by clicking on the record button at the left of the screen Put it in record using the normal transport commands MIDI clips can be recorded on top of each other just like audio clips As usual the top layer is heard Fades and crossfades have no effect DREAM II Version 3 1 Page 11 Software Release Information MAJOR FEATURES December 15 2010 00 00 47 21 00 00 42 00 MIDI clips show black and white notes at their relative pitches Editing MIDI Clips MIDI clips can be edited using the Cut Copy and Erase menus just like audio clips Head tail clip and range are all understood in the same way The Trim head and tail commands plus the Slip Clip command work as expected In addition the clips can be mouse dragged individually or in ranges and edited with QWERTY shortcuts in the same way as audio clips Each copy of an original MIDI recording is independent so if MIDI Note Editing see below is used on one of them the other one will not change MIDI cl
28. o mjpeg quicktime format Fix for some graphics cards where you could get graphics corruption on the track name section when loading a new project Improved the finding of files via Audiobase using the returned path It can now find files via the new returned path on Audiobase drives that are shared not as the default administrator share i e E but as a shared name Fixed a bug where in non layered display mode reversed clips with a fade out could display the red offline line for the duration of the fade out when there should be no red line Improvement to the code that detects that a clip was accidently picked up in non layered mode with a left mouse click detected by the fact that the mouse is not moved much so that it now also works with multi channel clips Also fixed an issue that could occur when a single clip was picked up accidently and was reinserted at its old position Fixed a bug that could occur if Track display follows undo is turned off and you add a video track This could cause the new video track to end up in the wrong spot after an undo was performed later Fix for a case where track names in a link group could be changed by going into a library project and back again Or they could change if the track names in the link group are given a new name and then an undo is performed they would not all revert back to their old name Previously space evenly did not work correctly with stereo or multi channel clips DREAM II
29. on the ILP2 screen as red triangles beside the controls Evo Console It is now possible to change what is displayed in the top section of the ILP2 screens By default it displays the Ancillary display Automation and Bus meters on the first ILP2 and the track live meters on the second ILP2 screen To manually specify what is displayed at the top of each ILP2 section add the registry value DisplayMode to the ILP2Bay s registry location This is the registry location where you set the ILP2 screens up Valid values are 1 Ancillary Display 2 Track Live Meters The decklink output now supports SD NTSC 23 98 in both PRO and PRO2 modes In this mode feed 29 97 BnB to SX20 and the Decklink card DREAM II Version 3 1 Page 28 Software Release Information MISCELLANEOUS IMPROVEMENTS December 15 2010 Improved editing of group clips Now if you erase the head tail of a group clip and than ungroup the group clip it now only puts the section of the clips within the group clip that could be heard back onto the timeline That way ungrouping a group clip does not change how the timeline sounds if the length of the group clip had been changed This also fixes the issue if you have split a group clip and than later ungroup a side as that would return clips from outside the group clips range Wave Render menu now uses the plugin selection dialog rather than just presenting the list of plugins Undo surface menu Playhead Follows softkey has the
30. ormation MAJOR FEATURES December 15 2010 Background Recording Intro Background recording is a major new feature in Version 3 1 software Please note that the Background Recorder is a dongled item Part of the Software Plus Pack Option and so requires an additional license in order to be configured Please contact your local Fairlight Business partner for further details In brief it allows you to make continuous background recordings of the Main Bus and or the armed tracks independently of all other activity in the system The background recordings can be brought into the current project as clips at any time Uses Recording the Main Bus can be useful for creating sound effects using real time controls on the system For example you can jog or shuttle the transport to create a speeding up or slowing down effect and this will be captured into the background recorder Recording the armed tracks means that you will capture every sound made by artists in your studio even if they enter early play a miraculous phrase that could never happen while the red light is on or crack a wonderful joke while you are listening to the creative director s opinion of the last take Looped or Linear Recording The background recording process has two recording modes Linear Just like a normal recording it captures everything from GO to STOP Looped Records an audio loop on the disk whose length you can control For example if you se
31. ouble click on the EQ Dynamics Pan Aux graph to display the corresponding zoom page to close it right click anywhere on it or left click on the close box in the upper right corner e Double click the input slot to display the Patch I O page e Double click any occupied plug in slot to display its GUI page e Single click the Bus Assign numbers or Main to toggle them on or off e Right click to bring up Plugins page DREAM II Version 3 1 Page 4 Software Release Information MAJOR FEATURES December 15 2010 Automation Update Note EVO and XE 6 users already have these features from the V3 0 update Jog Mix Until now automation could only be read and written in Play Mode Now it can be read and written in any forwards transport mode To do this toggle the Jog Mix button ON in the Mix Menu Mixer Megamode Any forwards movement can be used including Jog Shuttle Play FF Jump GoTo Locate or right button drag with the mouse Any speed is OK though of course the data resolution will be very low if you go fast Even if you press stop the system stays in write this allows you to adjust control values before moving forward again As soon as you move more than one frame backwards the system will switch to Read Copy Mix Allows any range of automation to be copied between paths with an offset To use select source paths tracks lives buses groups and enable the parameters you want to copy Mak
32. plied to another codec Previously while changing the clip level on clips if you than changed to another mode which cancelled the operation it could put the transport into stop This has now been fixed Previously the timecode embedded into Quicktime mjpeg mov files could be incorrect upto 1 frame in NTSC Previously the long gop mpeg compressor generated incorrect mpeg files in 29 97DF Previously some projects exported to AAF files as the wrong layers Previously some Blackmagic 10 bit quicktime movies would fail to be read correctly and could cause a crash Previously natively recorded QT MJPEG files would indicate an incorrect length when viewed in quicktime player Previously dropping a 10 channel WAV file caused DREAM to generate an exception and then hang Previously changing the undo follows settings needed Dream II to be restarted to take affect they now take affect after pressing the okay button Previously if you shut down the PC while Dream II while was still running the next time you ran Dream II it would report that an exception had occurred It no longer does this If you muted a clip and then pressed undo you would not hear the clip straight away as the track cache was not being flushed in this case If you did a view hide Pyxis track it could increase the viewed audio tracks by one Fixed false video reference not connected messages for Decklink Studio and Studio 2 cards Fixed an issue with ATI 5000 series
33. ptioned to show one track or the other a split view or both side by side This is selected in view Multi Video Monitor 00 00 37 04 Dream II is now capable of playing out 2 video streams when used in conjunction with Black Magic Design HD Extreme 3D card This would enable Dream II to play 3D footage NOTE BMD 7 9 drivers or later required DREAM II Version 3 1 Page 18 Software Release Information MAJOR FEATURES December 15 2010 In addition to proper licensing in order to use the second video track the system must also be started with the 3D option To do this edit the shortcut used to start the system If you are using a desktop icon to start the system add the phrase 3D to the target field it will then look something like this C Program Files Fairlight Dream II Dream II exe 3D If you are using the Xynergi X button to start the system you need to edit the file C Program Files Fairlight Xynergi Layouts Dream II layout txt The first line should become APPLICATION app Fairlight Dream II Dream II exe 3D If you are using a Decklink card you will also need to add the PRO2 to the startup string DREAM II Version 3 1 Page 19 Software Release Information IMPORTANT IMPROVEMENTS December 15 2010 Important Improvements Undo List The Undo list is now a menu which opens and closes using ctr1 Undo BLUE undo or by holding down undo Undo steps now include all write trim passes fill an
34. r with multiple QuickTime files It also means better plug in performance and snappier all round behavior This new operating system is recommended for anyone dealing with sluggishness in their system Fairlight is issuing an upgrade document for moving from XP to Windows 7 This is ESSENTIAL READING for those upgrading their systems because your Fairlight hardware panels must be reprogrammed BEFORE you update the operating system Ignoring this will cost you a lot of time It is recommended that you contact your local business partner anyway in order to talk through any specific aspects of your setup and PC configuration DREAM II Version 3 1 Page 3 Software Release Information MAJOR FEATURES December 15 2010 New Mixer Screen Note EVO and XE 6 users already have this feature from the V3 0 update A new EVO Mixer Screen is now available It shows a row of mixer strips with mouse active faders and status displays including plugins aux sends dynamics EQ panning input plus active mute solo arm and bus assignment buttons Every channel includes metering with Link Groups showing multi channel meters Operation is fairly intuitive so I won t give a detailed description here though one will be developed for the User Manual The system allows a choice of FMC old mixer screen or EVO Mixer Screen V3 1 software enables this new mixer screen by default however it can be specifically enabled or disabled from
35. rammed punch out In Record Megamode after pressing disarm ali go straight to Editor Megamode and the previously armed tracks will be selected user request Link Group markings now displayed for Armed Thru Solo Mute and for Live Feeds DREAM II Version 3 1 Page 26 Software Release Information MISCELLANEOUS IMPROVEMENTS December 15 2010 Miscellaneous Improvements Dream now always chases stationary LTC if Chase stationary LTC parameter is on Previously Dream would only chase stationary LTC if it was in a particular transport mode If RelinkMedia Tool fails to find any new media then the project is not re scanned and re opened Improvements to the H M S F timeline ruler When it cannot draw every mark type at a certain zoom level causing it to skip marks the divisions it chooses are no longer arbitrary For minutes it draws a mark for every minute or if not enough room every 2nd or 5th minute For seconds it draws a mark for every second or if not enough room every 2nd 5th or 10th second For frames it draws a mark for every frame or chooses divisions that are divisible by the current frame rate Now shows the Background tasks window automatically if audio had to be FUF stuffed for a MT format save Some track names are now not imported from omf and aaf files because they dont make sense and are distracting e g a track named Track 3 will not rename the existing track The description field inside a BW
36. rce Main Bus Send You may select the Looped or Linear checkbox for Main Bus Send In either case the system will be ready to record the output of the Main Bus one recording stream for each element of that bus If you select Looped the last few minutes of audio will be continuously stored on disk controlled by the Loop Length slider If you select Linear the Main Bus output will be recorded continuously from the time you press Go until the time you press Stop Armed Tracks Harvest You may select the Looped or Linear checkbox for Armed Tracks In either case the system will be ready to record the inputs to a number of armed tracks as described under Armed Tracks Slider above one recording stream for each track This is used to get access to the material stored by the background recorder When you press Harvest the current contents of the destination holding tank are moved to the project s media folder The media folder is opened so you can see the new recordings From there you can drag them into the project or just leave them for later use If background recording was in progress when you clicked Harvest the current recording is terminated to allow its media to be moved and a new recording started immediately DREAM II Version 3 1 Page 16 Software Release Information MAJOR FEATURES December 15 2010 Clipboard This is the same as Harvest except that it also puts the recorded material into clips on the Res
37. see above and on the ILP2 screen if you have one General Preferences Options Audiobase Playback Video Scrollers Meters Themes Watermark Compound Meter Bar Graph Enabled v RMS Window Scale Peak Target Reference Short Window Integrated Gate Scale The compound meter contains 2 individual components a BarGraph and a Loudness meter The compound meters source can be selected as either the Control room source pre volume control or fixed to the main meter from the Source selection in the meter preferences The Width of the individual components is defined by the source and so if for example you have the control room selected as the source and change the monitoring source between a 5 1 main and a stereo sub bus the compound meter source and format will follow DREAM II Version 3 1 Page 7 Software Release Information MAJOR FEATURES December 15 2010 The Bargraph can be chosen from several scales Peak PPM BBC PPM DIN RMS The Bargraph can also be individually disabled if this component is not required The Loudness meter component offers BS1770 1 compliant loudness metering consisting of simultaneous momentary short term and infinite integration RLB2 weighted meters These meters are referenced to a target LKFS value and offer either a standard 18 9 LU scale or an optional 36 18 LU scale for material with a wider dynamic range e g long form Setti
38. sing AES3 encoding for compatibility with Quantel systems After performing a razor operation the range now reduces in length which helps emphasise the time that was removed AES31 and AAF project exports now export the name of the tracks DMD AAF plugin 2 0 1 12 or later is recommended Added in place SMPTE positional information to the offline VST render process in order to extend the feature set 9pin bi directional control significantly improved DREAM II Version 3 1 Page 29 Software Release Information BUG FIXES December 15 2010 Bug Fixes Previously not all Machine Control setups were saved and restored Now machine offsets LTC MTC generator switches and In stop parameters are saved and restored Video Arming is a special parameter in that most people will not be over recording video onto tape and as a safety feature must be re enabled each time you turn the system on if required Setup gt General Preferences gt Options gt Multiple Workspace options are no longer greyed out in MT projects Video locator tiles are redrawn if necessary when encrypted video is unlocked Various old bugs fixed in legacy FMC code that failed to recognise Record amp Rehearse transport modes The current playlist is now recalculated after exiting from Setup gt General preferences to ensure that the new value of soft edits is reflected in the playlist Resolved an issue with rendering video with frame rate processing ap
39. standard toggle key behaviour It can be explicitly turned On or Off by using Shift or Ctrl Useful in macros The track bank display in the status bar now displays when you are in the first track bank Previously it only displayed text when a higher track bank NOTE This is for non Xynergi users only Now displays the max peak level text of multi channel meters which means there is always a max displayed when there is a lot of meters displayed As the meters were to thin to have individual peak text representations Also when the peak text is above zero is now red MXF compatibility issues with Ardendo AAF Tools generated DV video files addressed MXF compatibility issues with Ardendo AAF Tools generated DNxHD video files addressed MXF compatibility issues with Ardendo AAF Tools generated audio and imx mpeg video files addressed Vastly Improved Clip Level editing response Vastly Improved Clip EQ editing response when in loop jog Dream II will now read the Avid specific Start time parameter on MXF files generated on Avid systems and use this to set the clip birthday so that it can be resunc Dream II will also read Avid clip name details Dream II can now export Opla AVCi MXF files Descriptive information is displayed on the decklink output on bootup in PRO2 mode much like PRO mode Clip EQ now works on all selected clips not just the clip on the current track AVCi MXF opta files are now exported with 4 channels of audio u
40. t This gives the same behaviour as previous releases AES31 and AAF project exports now export the name of the tracks DMD AAF plugin 2 0 1 12 or later is recommended When importing a project containing audio if there are insufficient tracks then tracks are added as required This applies only if the current project is DR2 format Implemented when importing Pyxis DR2 project OMF AAF AES31 FCP XML Dream II can now interpret MMC loop instructions After localizing media all clips that used that media are updated to access the new localized media straight away Previously it was necessary to close then reopen the project see the clips access the new localized media Auto call of the Studio Monitor when selecting studio sources and speakers Improved the load speed of some very large projects greater than 10 000 clips and files DREAM II Version 3 1 Page 27 Software Release Information MISCELLANEOUS IMPROVEMENTS December 15 2010 Previously if a DR2 project contained temporary audio media it was necessary to localize that media before the project could be saved Now if a DR2 project contains temporary audio media located on a temporary device it is suggested that you localize the media but the user may choose not to and the project will be saved as is As Noted this applies only to DR2 projects When editing clip EQ or Level whilst playing the playback responds more quickly to the changes The EDL tool can
41. t the length to 10 minutes the recording always contains the last 10 minutes of source audio User Interface To control background recording open the Background Recorder using the following command Setup gt Background Recorder DREAM II Version 3 1 Page 15 Software Release Information MAJOR FEATURES December 15 2010 Options Destination Displays the holding tank folder where background recordings will be temporarily stored Click the button to browse to the folder you want to use Click the Reveai button to open the destination folder in Windows Explorer Loop Length Controls the amount of storage used when in Cached mode see above Armed Tracks Slider Choose the number of armed tracks you want to record in the background If you choose a number higher than the actual number of armed tracks the system will record the number of files shown in the Armed Tracks box The actual armed tracks will occupy as many of these recordings as they need and the other recordings will record zeroes but are ready for you to arm at any time whereupon their inputs will be switched into the recording tracks If you choose a number lower than the actual number of armed tracks the system will record the lowest numbered armed tracks You can change the number of tracks to be recorded while a recording is in progress To do this move the slider then click the Apply button where Go and Stop usually are Record Sou
42. t to work Create a range using the rn and our soft keys in the Auto Safe menu Note this is NOT the same range used in any other commands the Pad shows the timecode values of the safety zone while this menu is selected Now enable by toggling the safety zone button ON While the safety zone is on the mixing software does not see any timecode outside the zone So all Mix data outside the zone is protected from change This also means you cannot set ranges in Mix menus nor use the Locators except within the zone There is also now an automatic update of the Insert state within the active mix when a plug in is added i e if Insert is off in the Automation the insertion of a plug in will override this This prevents the situation where you insert a plug in after starting to automate your mix and find that it doesn t seem to work DREAM II Version 3 1 Page 6 Software Release Information MAJOR FEATURES December 15 2010 Compound Metering The system offers a new compound meter including PPM and Loudness metering as well as stereo Phase indication Note that the Compound metering is a dongled item Part of the Software Plus Pack Option and so requires an additional license in order to be configured Please contact your local Fairlight Business partner for further details To enable it click setup General Preferences Meters Enabled Now you will see the new meters if you are using the new EVO Mixer Screen Mixer Screen
43. tents of MIDI clips Setup You will need a MIDI controller keyboard or other and at least one MIDI instrument VSTi or rewire device to play out These must be installed before starting Dream II software File Compatibility IMPORTANT Project files containing MIDI tracks CANNOT BE LOADED by earlier software Project files created by v3 1 software that do not contain MIDI tracks can be loaded by earlier software If all MIDI tracks are converted back to audio tracks losing all MIDI data the project can be saved and then loaded into earlier software NOTE v3 0 software had a prototype version of MIDI tracks using the Add MIDI Track command in the Track Menu This is incompatible with the MIDI implementation in v3 1 and you are advised NOT TO USE IT Convert Tracks to MIDI Each non video track in the system is either audio or MIDI By default all tracks are audio You can convert from audio to MIDI or vice versa by selecting tracks in the Editor and issuing the command Tracks Convert to or From Midi Tracks If you select some audio and some MIDI tracks before issuing the command all the selected tracks will end up the same majority rules The audio and MIDI tracks are distinguished visually by a new pair of icons in the bar at the left e MIDI Audio DREAM II Version 3 1 Page 9 Software Release Information MAJOR FEATURES December 15 2010 Patching to MIDI Tracks To patch MIDI inputs to tracks and their
44. time before the playhead to the left instead of after the playhead to the right To switch between razor working to the left or to the right of the playhead hold down the Razor On key on the TUI On the soft menu keys you can choose between Leading Clips and Trailing Clips where Trailing Clips is how razor has always worked A new section has been added to the status bar to display which TUI edit menu is currently enabled or which Xynergi mega mode the Xynergi is in if not in an edit mode For Xynergi s the track bank status bar display has never displayed anything as this does not apply to Xynergi s Instead for Xynergi s this area now displays if you are in Multi Mode It is displayed with a red background to help the user know they are currently in Multi mode also Aux To Main Assign The bus to bus resources are currently shared and so when this enabled it is possible to run out of the 64 bus to bus channels This means that out of the 72 possible busses the last 8 are unable to be assigned to the main Added the ability to be able to edit what is contained within a group clip To do this double left click on the group clip you would like to edit This will change the timeline to show just what is inside the group clip You can than edit these clips the same as editing any other clips To exit editing the group clip either press the Esc key or double left click on the timeline ILP2 screens Now shows touch enabled
45. ting of Quicktime files with the crop pad option was broken in v2 6 0b6 Now fixed Importing of some Quicktime files without crop pad option was broken in v2 6 0b6 Now fixed Incorrect text displayed whilst scanning an MP2 file fixed Previously 8bit export was broken Previously some mpeg files mpg and mvf would snap to 1 frame too early on the timeline Previously the progress bar would not update appear to be frozen when backing up a project with dv25 chosen as the destination format Previously video capture could go out of sync if video capture mode was turned on and left on whilst closing opening or making a new project DREAM II Version 3 1 Page 31 Software Release Information BUG FIXES December 15 2010 Previously you could not load a MT format project from a read only device e g a DVD then perform a save as to writeable device e g local disk Some HD RGB encoded avi files could crash Dream when imported and resized to a smaller size When importing omf files some stereo audio was mistakenly misinterpreted as mono Bug introduced in 2 6 692473 omf clips are now no longer imported onto safe tracks A bug related to media filename confusion with filenames which had a dot as part of the filename e g FL_ gloves on new 01_a1 9Y4J86D4QNJM9 wav Further improvements to using 9pin control to control a Pyxis from a Dream with bi directional control switched on Previously the read only flag on a med
46. tion XT users however the two remained separate Then we introduced Constellation XCS and this inherited the Xynergi behaviour More Explanation There are really four kinds of selection in the Dream system Edit Selection may be multiple tracks or Lives and buses Mix Selection may be multiple tracks or Lives and Buses Current Track one track only the last one that was selected for Editing Current Mix Module one path i e Track Live Bus Group or Monitors This is the called channel When a track is selected for editing it will be affected by commands like cut clip and fade head Pressing a track button when an edit menu is selected will toggle that track in or out of the edit selection The last track you selected for editing is the Current Track That one is affected by Clip EQ it used for display of tracks on screen and other things When a track is selected for mixing it will be affected by commands like IN and OUT it will be available for Touch Latch or Snap and so on Pressing a track button when a mix menu is selected will toggle that track in or out of the mix selection When a path is the Current Mix Module it appears in the Xynergi Pad the EVO Channel layout the old FMC Fat Channel and so on To call a path you can press the Call button on its fader or use the Call Menu in the Setup Megamode or use several other menus like Insert Config Direct Config Path Copy and so on What to Do
47. within the Themes setup dialog in Setup gt General Preferences gt Themes EVO Mixer Screen V Monitor Index 2 v To enable EVO Mixer Screen ensure that its checkbox is selected and choose the desired monitor Now you may restart Dream II The EVO Mixer Screen screen will appear on the nominated monitor EVO Mixer Screen was originally designed to work on a 1600 x 900 monitor displaying 40 faders If your monitor is taller than 900 pixels the faders will be taller but everything else will look fine If it is narrower or wider than 1600 pixels it will display fewer or more faders The bus meters in the upper right of the screen are sized to fit Only active buses ones with non zero format are shown The fewer buses you have displayed or the more pixels across your monitor the more details you will see For the current version there is a limit to the number of masters displayed depending upon the individual bus widths The operation of EVO Mixer Screen is mostly straightforward but here is a brief list of things you can do e Use the scroll bar at the bottom to display a different set of channels e Click on any channel s name to make it the current channel e Double click on the channel name to display the Virtual Channel e Drag faders up and down with the mouse e Double click on a fader for 0 dB e Single click Arm Mute Solo and Insert to toggle them e Single click on the Pan graph to toggle Pan on or off e D
48. ync Paste clipboard one clip for each recording You will see the ghosts of the recorded clips hovering over the selected tracks This is the same as Harvest except that it also attempts to put the recorded material directly onto the timeline at the record point in the case of Armed Tracks or the playhead position at the start of the last loop point in the case of the Main Bus Send This places a copy of the clipboard at the current cursor position It s exactly the same as pressing the Enter button when you are in the Cut or Copy menu Go Stop button Go Stop Apply Starts the background recording This button is only available when the background recorder is stopped If there is a recording already in the destination holding tank it will be discarded This could happen if you are recording then click Stop then click Go without using Harvest or Clipboard in between Stops the background recording This button is only available when the background recorder is recording Applies any changes made to the background record settings whilst the background recorder is active If there is a recording already in the destination holding tank it will be discarded Notes about the Background Recorder It uses system resources a the audio channels are sent to the disk via AudioBridge channels so those channels are no longer available to plug ins or virtual instruments Please bear this in mind when choosing a lar
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