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Cantar X2 - English V2.28 - Audio Services Corporation (Canada) Ltd.

1. Current folder date not modifiable Select a file in above folder BLUE BRWS 12 Arch Drive lt External BLUE BRWS 13 Arch Pject lt NeuArchv BLUE BRWS 14 Arch folder lt 2000 01 01 BLUE BRWS 15 Index G lt E1234 ok ok gives it the A index SE1234 ok BLUE BRWS Index H SE1205 ok BLUE BRWS 05 Index B lt Select a file in above folder SE1205 ok ok gives it the B index BLUE BRWS Index I SE1206 ok BLUE BRWS 06 CCD folder lt 2008 01 31 Select a folder date from the project BLUE BRWS 18 Index J lt SE1104 n a BLUE BRWS 07 lt Select a file in above folder ok gives it the C index BLUE BRWS 19 Index K lt BLUE BRWS 08 Index D lt SE1104 ok Select a file from the folder ok gives it the D index BLUE BRWS 20 Index L lt SEQ 98 ok BLUE BRWS 09 CEF folder lt 2007 12 24 Select a folder date from the project BLUE BRWS 10 Index E lt SEQ 987 ok BLUE BRWS 21 TC mode lt Select a file in above folder ok gives it the E index BLUE BRWS 11 Index F lt SEQ980 ok BLUE BRWS 22 Select a file in the folder AES loop lt Internal ok gives it the F index e Clone A gives access to one Play file the recording will use the date time and metadata of the selected file note Cantar left on STOP the HDD goes to sleep after a time interval set in TECHSET 16 Going to REC the pre record buffer compensates for the disk spin up
2. CantarX User Manual v2 28 rl 2009 Aug 12 p 31 AUDIO TC 2 LTC 12 Rec by LTC Inactive Active see Remote Control p 21 In PPR LIC input running Cantar checks the TC coherence tor three seconds then goes to record While checking the validity of the LTC signal the audio is kept in a buffer the audio file begins right on the running LTC It the LTC input disappears recording is maintained no risk of interruption caused by radio transmission drop outs Only a frozen LTC input can stop the recording 13 TC Source Int Clock ExtClock Int Fudge Ext Fudge On Internal Clock Cantar is the masterclock On External Clock Cantar is slaved to another timecode source p 14 On Fudge the time stamped on the recorded tiles compen sates for a flaw of some HD cameras This fudge which puts on recordist s shoulders the correction of a camera flaw is not saved in Cantar preferences TC Source toggles back to Int or Ext clock each time power is switched off As a reminder the Atc ELtc or Stc flag becomes Atc Etc or Stc To avoid the TC difference which would jeopardize the tinal mix autocotormation iso tracks and backups are both tudged by the same 6Oms offset Sony HD cameras stamp their files without taking into account the latency of the internal image treatment e g an image shot at 12h05mOls OOms is stamped as 12hO5m01s 60ms 14 LTC Rate 24FPS 25FPS 29 97DF 30FPS 23 98NDF 29
3. Connection to Cantar or CantaRem 2 to 1 e The CantaRem USB socket max 80mA 5V can t power a PDA it is made to feed a PS2 keyboard only But you can use the 12V delivered by the Fischer4 socket terminate the PDA carlighter 12V to 5V voltage converter cable with a FischerA plug pin 1 Gnd pin 4 12V RemFaders assignment e f AUDIO TC 20 CantaRemCom is set to Inactive AU DIO TC 21 36 assignments are not accessible to modify them before hand set AUDIO TC 20 to Active To modity assignments with CantaRem press one of the ctrl keys Assign appears on the top row of the Cantar rectangular screen press and hold a RemFader key 1 to 8 the RemFader s number is displayed on the middle row use the jog or gt to browse the Cantar faders displayed on the bottom row 33 4 7642 9550 Www aaton com p 53 unused micl mic2 mic3 mic4 mic5 linel line2 line3 line4 trackl track2 track3 track4 track5 track line out foldback The assigned fader is the one displayed just before releasing the key note Cantarem no longer links linesl 2 or lines3 4 a great er choice is offered in AUDIO TC 09 e To control several mic or line input faders trom the same actuator link them in the usual Cantar way see AUDIO TC 08 09 and assign the actuator to the master only The slaved mic faders can be used for the balance whereas the slaved line faders totally deactivated duplicate t
4. Gnd 2 nc 3 Bot Cantar gt 268 4 Batt Battery wiring Aaton Li lon 14 8V out to Pin3 and through an internal power diode NiMH charger protec tion to Pin4 Aaton NiMH 12 5V out to Pin4 Remote amp Sync SubD15 socket as seen from the outside Ary 7005 2 ASClkin with motherboard CM2 6 3 LiGtGen it ON in AUDIO TC 15 4 Wordclock Cantar X2 only 9 Batt Out 133V polytused 250mA 11 Record Tally closure to ground p 23 33 4 7642 9550 Www aaton com AES in out SubD25 ERRA starn irom Ue pasit Ta TOSS standard Accessories Line out Booster 12 Two 12dB gain transformers make the line out deliver OdBu at 1 8dBFS track level ref 20 270 50 USB PS2 to SubD 15 Ad Line out Booster 12 i USB PS2 to SubD 15 Converter featuring a regulator max 6Q0mA 5V and an RS232 translator for PS2 keyboards w USB like plug ref 59 68 1 91 Only use a QWERTY US English PS2 compliant keyboard such as the Cherry G84 4100 PTM EU http www cherry de english products keyboards_ 984 4100 htm The Virtually Indestructible Keyboard is not recommended because of its improper tactile keys 8to8 bridge for non SL equipped Cantar X 1 Eight 26dBu 10k ohm transformer isolated balanced line inputs to Cantar mic line inputs See tutorials on htto www sott aaton com sweantar AATOMN 8tog Internal DVD RAM drive An Aaton deliverable mu metal plate must be loctite fas
5. Mac PC laptops supply a safe 12V FILE RETRIEVAL the disc s FAT is saved every ten seconds In case of power interruption the audio is playable but TC and comments are not saved use Majax to reconform it see p 56 In case of disk crash or accidental erasure do not continue to use it do not try any recovery pro gram this will destroy any audio that could have been otherwise saved Instead contact Aaton 33 4 7642 9550 Www aaton com CantarX User Manual v2 28 r1 2009 Aug 12 p 41 TUTORIAL 1 BACKUP amp REPORT p 42 Where and when storing the SoundReport Three possibilities 1 Backup call a when BACKUP 14 Run backup is completed the SoundReport is systematically stored with your audio tiles on the backup media DVD RAM DVD CD Ext After the backup is done it is still possible to make some metadata changes on the discs HDD etc selected in BACKUP O6 b the SoundReport carries the treatment of the files themselves i e Direct mono poly Native poly Rotate or miX as selected in BACKUP O4 05 2 Snap report a triggered by BACKUP 11 Snap report the SoundReport goes to the HDD disk s used for Iso record ing i e Int HDD Ext HDD or BothHDDs as selected in SESSION O3 It can t go to the DVD RAM b the selected SoundReport treatment i e Direct mono poly Native poly Rotate or miX can be different from the one selected for other purposes 3 Idle report a triggered by BACKUP 12
6. column prior to the import B Extract TC During the import digitization Avid MediaComposer XPressPro and Apple FCP w AUXTC FCP can extract the Audio IC from A3 or from A2 on a two rack only consumer camera The Audio IC correlated to the Video IC doesn t occupy an audio track of the NLE system It will be used to Autosync imported iso tracks and to construct the Audio EDL Edit Decision List Read the PostChain http www aaton com documentation C Differentiate TCs e editing with the Cantar iso tracks No problem here each audio file carries its own filetag in which it is impossible to tind two identical TC h e editing with the camera mixdown There are no tiletags in the camera recorded mixdown the only link with the Cantar iso tracks is the AudioTC But because the CMX Audio EDls generated by NLE systems don t carry the Audio TC d date the AudioTC h every day shows the same working hours it can t offer a solid lauto conform path trom the edited mixdown to the original Cantar iso tracks CantarX User Manual v2 28 rl 2009 Aug 12 p 46 TUTORIAL 4 CAMERA SYNC 2 The User s TapeRef solution The trick invented by the video people to hide this failure is to differentiate identical TC h by manually entering the camera s VideolapelD into the editing databases and they now try to impose this old fashioned cassette minded system to the audio file sorting too notel To avoid this m
7. Idle Report the SoundReport goes to the media previously selected in SESSION O6 tor the idle copy this is done while in TEST or STOP e f your backup has been done on CD or DVD R you can t insert any corrections Redo the burning on virgin media e f the backup has been done on a DVD RAM or an Ext HDD it is possible to modify it FIRST select Idle copy in BACKUP O1 and the drive to be corrected Go to BROWSE and modity the metadata stored on the Int HDD Once done go to TEST the corrections are trans tered from the Int HDD to the backup drive If for some reason you forgot to first select idle copy before your corrections go to BACKUP O1 Idle copy select the backup drive and go to TEST As soon as the drive icon appears in the modulometer s center it can take up to 20sec for a DVD RAM the corrections are transferred trom the Int HDD to the backup drive positions It is possible to make a second backup of the workday b Idle report adopts the same BACKUP 04 05 treat on DVD or Ext HDD if you have done an idle copy DVD ment selected for the idle copy of the audio files i e RAM during the day Direct mono poly Native poly Rotate or mix REMINDER You must manually execute BACKUP 12 Idle Report BEFORE you disconnect or eject the idle copied drive Meaning of the audio folders AAD AAR AAN AAX suffixes e while recording the audio tiles on either the internal or external HDD or both
8. Push the SoloMixPan to PAN battery side press the track solo button and jog the pan marker toward the left or right side of the circular screen p 7 The value in dBFS of what is left to the other side is displayed on the rectangular screen When a track pair is declared m s its pan markers go to the middle the M amp S signals are recorded as they are but they are L R decoded into the mixdown and the phones For the line out foldback and digi out see M S monitoring p 18 Faders The pan pots being set each iso track s contribution to the mix is adjusted with the faders The maximum gain can be either 6dBu or OdBu see AUDIO TC 05 MixGain Max p 3 Outputs Recorded on T7718 or not Xa Xb left right can be sent to the external world by selecting the XX CutMap in the Ph Lo Fb and Do positions of the monitor crown Recorded on T7T8 or not the Xa center Xb center Xa Xb center Xa Xb lett right mixer outputs can be phone monitored in TEST REC and PLAY in the So position of the monitor crown their level is displayed on the central circular screen BORERERRREEEa E r note when the Xa Xb mix RLC 1H EI CONTOR er outputs are recorded on TZT8 their levels are dis played on the rectangular screen bargraphs p 8 CantarX User Manual v2 28 rl 2009 Aug 12 p 17 TEST 3 OUTPUT LEVELS Track dis arming An advantage of the monophonic multitrack file recording is to not waste disk space by record
9. VTR GPS etc Cantar on TEST press TC jam for more than two seconds this makes the entered SMPTE LTC jam the Cantar TCXO clock Jte Yammed TC is displayed in the rectangular o TC initialization screen TC jam has no effect if there is no valid timecode on the LTC inputs Jam Failed No LTC appears in the rect angular screen and the int c icon continues to blink e ASCII initialization from Aaton OriginC Cantar on STOP its TCXO clock is set by an Aaton OriginC which also initializes cameras and GMT generators Ate ASCIITC appears in the rectangular screen CantarX User Manual v2 28 rl 2009 Aug 12 p 13 STOP 4 TIME amp SYNC Cantar becomes a master clock As soon as the inte icon stops blinking Cantar starts generating timecode This timecode is based on a TCXO Temperature Compensated X crystal Oscillator accurate to one frame in nine hours 1 ppm This high accuracy makes Cantar THE timecode reference on set If you turn ON the LTC generator output in AUDIO TC 15 ITC Gen Out the LTC output can be used to continuously sync all equipment through cable or RF You can also initialize several Aaton GMTs low power high accuracy timekeepers attach them to the cameras and digi slates and have TC that matches the Cantar s TC Do not power down a master clock Being on a job on which the free run time ofday TC is the essence AatonCode camera HD camera with GMT refer ence generator sm
10. amp clocks TEST Mic Phantom power p 16 Limiters Inversion p 16 Filters and attenuators p 16 Differential delays p 16 Mic amp Line linking p 17 Stereo pairs amp Surround p 17 Tuning the balances p 17 Mixer panpots and faders 6 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 amp Out Maps p 18 Rec amp Play rehearsal p 18 PPR Pre Post Record Pre recording buffer p 19 Sc amp lake Tracknames TapeRet p 19 Postrecording metadata editing p 20 File splitting p 20 Last take erasure p 20 False start trash a file p 20 Remote Roll by LTC p 2 Remote control PDA keyboard p 2 REC Record Modulometers p 22 Solos of the inputs and tracks p 22 Locking the faders 6 22 Reference Tone generator p 22 Talkback mic p 22 Warning beeps p 22 Take type p 22 Record tally p 23 AutoSlate ope Markers p 23 Record amp Play O26 PLAY Commands p 24 LTC for VTR chase p 24 Play card creation p 24 BROWSE Find a file Edit Metadata Trash Revive a file Index a Play file Wake up HDD www aaton com File handling p 25 LI p 25 p29 p 25 p 2 Operand positions MainSelector East p 26 Rectangular screen rows p 20 ROUTINGS Create In Grids p 27 AES sample rate converters p 28 16 Track by Word clock p 28 Rec amp Play In Grids p 28 Create Out Map banks p 29 Digil to Digi8 outputs p 30 AUDIO TC Audio parameters 0 31 Timecode parameters D092
11. dis arming amp solos SoloMixPan in amp out routings Limiter inverter 1 l lim inv Analog limiter ON OFF shift lim inv Input signal inversion 2 sofil tom Solo amp Filter Balance access shift so fil tom Phantom 48V ON OFF 3 link lock Leftside un locks Mixer faders Rightside unjlocks mic line faders shift link lock Links mics 33 4 7642 9550 Www aaton com p 4 MainSelector eliminates diving into sub menus The three crown turret gives instant access to all recording and monitoring contigurations while wearing heavy win ter gloves Nine rotary faders analog inputs plus six linear faders mixdown devoted to one specific task are taster to handle than multi function knobs An important consideration for desert or high seas work all of the me chanical actuators faders sliders buttons selectors are sandproot and waterproot Four line faders Headphones fader Five mic faders Shift iiaj m liil Wh UTTER URL Solo filter phantom 2 Link lock 3 SoloMixPan routing pushed to the bAttery side displays the inputs to trAcks track solo end of fader button shows pAn pots SoloMixPan routing pulled to the Operator side displays the outputs to mOnifors track solo end of fader button activates track sOlo p 4 CantarX User Manual v2 28 rl 2009 Aug 12 DESCRIPTION 2 BOTTOM VIEVV Protected ins amp outs To complement the wate
12. l Go to BLUE PLAY see p 10 then with shift gt choose a Playfile among the A to L 1 displayed top left of the rectangular screen 2 With lt or gt select an empty card among the AOO A51 1 cards The factory AOO card contains the entire playtile it does not store cues in entered for test purpose the non modifiable cue out is the take duration 3 To fill an empty card e g AOI scrub the audio time line 4 by jog press the black button to set a cue in 3 scrub turther and press the gold button to set a cue out 7 a half second mute is inserted at the cue out to let you fine tune its AQ 1 gt 01 45 02 15 02 1718 CCAS position The last entered cue in or cue out points replace the former ones Once a cue in is entered cue out not necessary an empty card becomes a play card The cue points are stored in the iXML ot the file and will only be removed by erasing the play card to do so jog to 00 00 and press gold To hide a play card without erasing its cues press shift gold tagged with a the card is no longer visible in the BLUE TEST BLUE REC play list shortening it 4 With gt select a play card and press ok to play it trom its cue in If there is no cue out or if you want to stop the playback before reaching it press ok Press ok again to restart from cue in Press esc to pause press esc to resume play note when going t
13. ok to create a NEW project 8 aloha numeric char a triangle points at the character to be set jog to select a character then press gt or x to go to the next letter Project name entered press ok then go to REC to write a short validation file 03 HDD in Use Int HDD Ext HDD Int Ext HDD Audio files can be recorded on internal or external HDD or both simultaneously If Int Ext HDD is selected recording ot 24bit Q6kHz is limited to six tracks When listening to recorded files only the internal drive plays To listen to files on the external drive switch to Ext HDD and don t forget to switch back afterward note the message panel displays the lowest remaining disk space in Mega Bytes FAQ select SESSION O3 Int Ext HDD connect an external HDD and wait for its activity LED to turn green but it doesn t Wait for the three platter icon to stop blinking f Cantar still doesn t see the disk most probably it is not in the middle circular screen then go to Int Ext HDD FAT32 One Primary Partition formatted see below 04 Disk Format HDD SSD CF DVD RAM Almost identical operations for hard drives and DVD RAM optical medias 33 4 7642 9550 Www aaton com p 36 HDD SSD CF formatting Cantar HDD SSD CF do not use a proprietary format they are FAT32 One Primary Partition formatted directly acces sible by both Mac and PC Internal Open the disk compartment and unscrew the disk
14. on a keyboard To stop before reaching the card s cue out press ok To replay from the cue in press ok To pause press esc to resume press esc To reach the next card two possibilities I browse the view tagged play tiles with shift gt then select the desired tagged play card with gt 2 connect a PS2 keyboard and type the successive card IDs B12 F45 AO8 then enter Tarkan p 51 can be of tremendous help here ADR 1 same as above The actor listens to the play card contain ing the lines to be replaced A buzz is heard in the head phones at the play card s end to warn him to start talking Without stopping the live recording the operation can be repeated again and again to satistaction CantarX User Manual v2 28 rl 2009 Aug 12 p 49 TUTORIAL 5 REC amp PLAY 3 Clone recording Select Clone in BLUE BRWS 21 Copy Remix amp Translate To copy an audio file with an updated iXML chunk for the archives select In Grid RPA p 28 To redo a mixdown with the onboard mixer select In Grid RPM p 28 in which the Xa Xb mixdown goes to 1778 You can add a simultaneous translation of a scene by ei ther routing two digiins to the same track and sending the translation mic to the treed track or selecting RR7 in which mic5 Xb records the translator s mic on TZ and the mono mix on 18 The selected play card plays at BLUE REC start Pte Play back TC replaces Ste on the control
15. will hear the track s audio in both ears While main taining pressure on a solo button press another one You will hear the first soloed track in the left ear and the second in the right ear Use this feature to compare track levels phases or differential delays When a tracksolo is activated the selected track s modulometer is differentiated trom the others by a dashed appearance Locking all Faders Press the link lock 3 button between mic 1 amp mic 2 faders to dis able the mixer s linear faders press the linklock 3 button between mic 3 amp mic4 faders to dis able all rotary 33 4 7642 9550 Www aaton com p 22 faders Any action on a disabled fader causes the rectan gular screen to display Locked Fader instead of its gain value To prevent inadvertent un locking the button must be pressed for a full second for the action to occur Reference Tone generator In TEST PPR or REC shift gold sends a IkHz tone to the tracks modulometers and mixdown 18dBFS or 20dBFS is selected in AUDIO TC 03 Tone Level Releasing shift before gold locks the tone ON pressing shift turns it OFF Talkback mic In TEST PPR or REC press and hold the black button to send the talkback to the left channel see AUDIO TC O4 TalkbackMic quickly press black then press and hold it to send the talkback to the right channel Press shitt black to send the talkback to all
16. 4 jack plug the phone socket is slanted toward the bottom of the ma chine beware this makes a long straight plug hit the cart desk Line out and Foldback levels In TEST open IVL amp DELAY with shift silver The line out and foldback levels are jog adjustable trom O to 94dB and Mute A I8dBFS tone deliv ers a 1OdBu line output compat LVL amp DELAY 1 LineOut lvl 20 dB to line out and foldback level command too p 53 A two ible with HD cameras line inputs CantaRem faders can be assigned channel 12dBu transformer accessory is available p 57 note insert a 12k ohm resistor in the input path of the Sen heiser transmitters to avoid oscillation and noise generation 33 4 7642 9550 Wwww aaton com p 18 Check and select the routings In TEST PPR and REC depending on the SoloMixPan slider position the routing button activates the display of the input routing templates called In Grids or the output routing templates called OutMaps This is done by continuously pressing the routing button or by a short click to open another click to close this later method liberates the _ thumb to better grip the crowns In Grids To check and select In Grids PUSH the SoloMixPan slider to the battery side and press the routing button The silver contig crown gives sequential access to fifteen In Grids the last in use is displayed first To protect the recording s integrity you can t chang
17. At startup you will notice a blinking inte or extc icon depending upon the master internal clock or slave external clock mode selected in AUDIO TC 13 TC Source This blinking icon reminds you to verity that the same timecode is running in all of the camera s and audio recorders 33 4 7642 9550 Www aaton com p 13 Four syncing methods can be used Method 1 int c internal Free Run master clock Set AUDIO TC 13 TC Source to Int Clock The internal TCXO 1 ppm clock keeps the time accurate to within tone frame in nine hours this time is used to stamp the sound tiles with the very same TC as the one stamped on the camera s images This is the AatonCode method In the video world they called it the free run mode Once initialized four ways Cantar behaves as an independent masterclock e System Calendar initialization At startup Cantar uses the System Calendar date and time to immediately initialize its internal high stability opm TCXO Sync clock Stce SystemC is displayed in the rectangular screen To remind you to sync other equipment around to the Cantar Sync clock the int c icon keeps blinking until you press shift TC jam Confirm Sys time is displayed e Operator initialization In case you don t want to use the calendar date and time the TCXO clock can be set by the operator see AUDIO TC 18 Operle Init Otc OperatorTC is displayed in the rectangular screen trom Camera
18. INS field inserts an empty placeholder blank that can be filled with a specified field other fields are pushed to the right provided there is at least one none column on the far right Track rank represents track 1 through track 8 Sound Report Files PDF Portable Document Format Three independent PDFs are created All contains all of the towan taketypes Wild extracts the w takes Trio displays the takes carrying one or more Linking Trios see 0 48 The PDF tiles are named using the calendar date followed by the take selection A W or T AIl Wild Trio and the tile treatment D N R or X Direct multitmono Native poly Rotated poly mix poly e g O81224AR pdt 081224TD pdf The comment field max 200 char is used as the take separator Disarmed tracks carry no trackname Paper size is unified 21x272 cm to fit both A4 and Letter formats 33 4 7642 9550 Www aaton com p 38 note on some Mac firmware you must open the PDFs with Preview Aper u since Adobe Reader or Acrobat can t directly print them properly CSV amp ALE Avid Log Exchange A CSV tab delimited table for spreadsheet applications as well as an ALE list tor editing machines are systematically generated with the PDF These tiles are named using the month and day numbers followed by the treatment D N R or X and the page num ber e g MMDD_R ale A new page is opened each time a new
19. Yes ok is not the same as the actual time oFday as defined by the sync clocks it is an interpreto tion of the human day see next page The Cantar recorded files are vi3 5 V13 9 Sys 12 29 14 2005 03 22 multimonophonic i e indepen dent files stored in a workday folder That folder is auto matically created at the start of each day and is named for the date e g 20041206 AAD see Calender Time p 13 It the iso tracks must be interleaved before import into crip pled editing machines in need of polyphonic tiles Cantar builds an AAP suffixed provisional folder to momentarily store them see BACKUP 13 Erase Polys p 41 33 4 7642 9550 Wwww aaton com p 12 3 Filename In 1997 the Aaton Indaw multitrack digital recorder intro duced the Aaton filename system Each filename consists of a unique filetag an optional descriptor that displays the scene take type and take a suffix that indicates the type and sequence of the file The aim is to perform these tasks while remaining compatible with EDL standards which only handle 8 3 DOS filenames and with Mac OS9 limited to 31 characters e The filetag six character automatically incremented index ie AD1234 differentiates 6 7 million takes a sound mixer s lifetime Indaw generates a 3 letter and 3 number tiletag tor 17 6 million takes The filetag must remain untouched all the way through the final mix Each Take generat
20. a pencil or tooth pick into the DVD extractor hole to push the drive out of the Cantar housing see the DVD burner extraction arrows on the picture below o Headphones Ny Foldback Line out options 3 8 cart holder a AES in out It the plug enters at an angle it will produce a short between the 12V pin and the in out pins and DESTROY the Cantar FireVVire driver Please follow the HDD formatting instruc tions 1 36 eo For 15 MacBookPro with 800 FireWire socket only use an 800 to 400 cable google ie9496 3 ee Only use ferrite choke ring equipped high quality FireVVire cables not the cheap skinny ones CantarX User Manual v2 28 rl 2009 Aug 12 p 5 DESCRIPTION 3 FRONT VIEVV SoloMixPan Mixer faders sa Ej Fh fa Fj agg tht e ja al mieg a Routing Esc lt gt Eye Front panel buttons routing SoloMixPan battery side In Grids routing SoloMixPan operator side OutMaps esc pause restart from there shift esc in PLAY continuous play of files toggle in PPR comment line erasure lt gt prev next play card p n tile it no card in Operands other parameter value shift lt gt prev next play tile ok start stop playback in Operands push focus to bottom row value validation shift ok digitization parameters and TC fps view eye in Operatings toggles 516 17718 on right screen in Operands Help shift eye toggles rectangu
21. a to z all the pan pot configurations are stored in Tarkan memory where they are displayed against a green background Browse them by cliking the lett or right haltmoon A ctrl click in the middle of the crown pushes the selected contig into Cantar becoming active it turns trom green to grey j m ee au i Fi Dit AN a Nagi Se en a iyi te 4 iia a a a HETE o a hii pie a CantarX User Manual v2 28 r1 2009 Aug 12 p 51 COMPANIONS TARKAN 2 Remote To get access to all of Cantar s functions physically set the MainSelector to PPR then click on the desired position of the VirtualSelector yellow circle turns red 11 Rec amp Play The VirtualSelector turns blue when a Rec amp Play BLUE function is called by pressing the keyboard or Cantar shift button The panel 12 is used to select and activate the play cards metadata screen For paradigm consistency metadata are presented in the same lay out as the Cantar SoundReport except that the most recent takes are on top of the page They are either abad UF E hi on fina eek Pm beer Pango et mamm omen ey a nanan i a ee a LE nS a Fl oe chard a ath Syd i Binal Scr Pomel Nepean rei ined toes earl m D I er hah moe erg etme anti agha cic te ls Buia aay ml AI Jor Moeata njapa immediately written in the open audio files REC black char acters on yellow background PPR orange backg
22. and trash It need be you can rescue them later from the day s folder still stored on the internal drive Rec amp Play sample rate Rec amp Play only works at 48kHz 0 1 If there is a dis crepancy between the play tile sample rate and the Cantar recording sample rate a message e g PF 47952Hz Rec A8000Hz is displayed You can nevertheless proceed to BLUE REC the playback tiles will be played at the Live recording sample rate inducing a speed change which can be quite useful on filmed music shows transferred to NTSC CantarX User Manual v2 28 rl 2009 Aug 12 p 23 PLAY SEI PLAY CARDS Play commands ok starts stops amp sends to cue in shit ok displays digitization parameters and TC fps lt gt go to prev next play card or file if no card shift k gt go to prev next play file esc pause resume shift esc toggles continuous tiletottile play in PLAY only black cue in volatile in PLAY shift black sends player to start of take gold cue out in BIUEPLAY erases cues jogked to 00 00 shift gold hides play card from Rec amp Play list silver sends player to record entered markers shit silver sends player to AutoSlate marks jog scrubs audio shit jog accelerates scrub 10 x eye displays tracks 5 6 or 7 8 on tight screen shift eye toggles tiletag duration scene take pref stored until Cantar is turned OFF N A in BLUE PLAY TC jam displays
23. anything until Success Press Shift is displayed 9 Press shift to finish the installation and shut down Cantar Set the MainSelector to STOP and restart 10 Cantar is protected from the installation of corrupted software Go to TECHSET 25 Softwr Ver if the new ver sion doesn t show up that s all the message you will get something went wrong re download the software trom the Aaton site and re install Software Installation from an external disk Connect a go between disk to your laptop and copy can xxx fl to the disk root Unplug it and hook it up to the Cantar FireWire port Activate both onboard fully charged batteries by simultaneously pressing the battl and batt buttons then follow steps 7 through 10 above This method works because Cantar while installing software first looks for flb files in the root of the external disk CantarX User Manual v2 28 rl 2009 Aug 12 p 35 SESSION 1 FORMATTING O7 Full Title 13 Picture Format O1 Select Project Name Q2 Create New Project O3 HDD in Use 14 Column layout OA Disk Formatting 15 AColumn 02 O5 Scan Disk 29 AColumn 16 Q6 Erase Day 01 ProjectName AACANTAR EDENWEST Max eight characters It the disk has been erased by the rental facility No Project is displayed Going directly to REC creates a detault AACANTAR project folder 02 New Project SHADOWS2 The bottom line of the rectangular screen displays the proj ects already stored Press
24. but going directly to BLUE BROVVSE causes Cantar to display asleep no disk and apply a hide tag to all your unseen play tiles To avoid this mishap first go to TEST wait for the three platter icon to show up then go to BLUE BRWS p 25 Archive folder OPERANDS EAST POSITIONS MainSelector East positions The MainSelector easy to manipulate even with heavy winter gloves gives direct access to all essential func tions The OPERAND positions establish Cantar s operating pa rameters with no deep diving into sub menus p 26 MainSelector buttons Routings black creates gold removes links Rectangular screen rows Operands are displayed in a way which always indicates their pathtree Parameters labels and values are browsed by jog and or gt k arrows Top row Operand Parameter Middle row Parameter Label O3 Ret tone selection OA Talkback mic routing O5 Mixer gain max O6 Pre record duration TECHSET mee Ol Disk un mount O2 Digi in out AES power 03 04 Save load Setup O5 Backlight O6 View Fader dB O7 Record beeps SESSION 5 30 01 02 Select Create Project Q3 HDD in Use BACKUP p 39 Ol Save mode Q2 Day to copy O3 Track selection 33 4 7642 9550 BACKUP archiving audio files Ih SESSION projects disks and Sound Report 2h TECHSET dayin day out use 3h AUDIO TC audio parameters TC management 4h AUDIO TC 01 IN GRIDS inputs to tracks In Grids 5h sa
25. carrying shuttle Following the instructions below connect it to Cantar through a FireWire cable as an external device This is protection trom accidental erasure by idle tingers External FireWire connected Cantar formats it up to 127GB which is Microsoft s commercial limit for FAT32 To format a larger disk see Tutorial 1 Disks p 43 Instructions please read completely before proceeding 1 With no external Device plugged in go to SESSION O4 Disk Format ok Shift Gold is displayed 2 Press and hold the shift gold buttons while connecting the external Device to Cantar continue to press them until Formatting is displayed on the rectangular screen then release both To avoid mishaps plug the FireWire cable into the rear socket while Cantar is not powered hold it with the retain ing screw p 5 later while the shift gold buttons are pressed connect the other end of the cable to the Device for CF cards see note2 3 Done is displayed when formatting is finished A three platter icon appears on the middle circular screen Go to STOF notel most HDDs are consumer products and their life span ranges from one to three years Formatting a disk doesn t protect you trom dead clusters Regularly scan your drives see below SESSION OS5 Scan HDD Even if there is only one detective cluster immediately discard the drive note2 you can leave the CF card converter permanently conn
26. center both ears and track6 goes to the right ear With the SoloMixPan slider pulled toward the operator side pressure on the routing button instantly displays the current monitor contiguration note the routing button is required to change from one grid to another it is a protection against wild and lethal changes but it is not required to change from one map to another in the course of a recording 3 Pan pots to the mixdown Push the SoloMixPan slider toward the battery side press the track solo button next fo the mixer linear fader the pan pot of this track goes under jog control and indicates its left right contribution to either channel of the mixdown T1 amp T2 left T3 center T4 left 5 left T6 right The spatial position of all pan pots is visible on the circular screens while the dBFS value of the selected pan pot is dis played in the rectangular screen see next page CantarX User Manual v2 28 r1 2009 Aug 12 p 7 DESCRIPTION 5 RECT SCREEN 4 Circular modulometers Cantar s large circular modulometers visible under the brightest light as well as in the dark are the most accurate metering tools found in any portable recorder They feature a non linear scale with increased resolution 1dB in the most important range 55 to AOdBFS 5dB per segment 40 to 32d BFS 2dB segment 32 to 12dBFS IdB segment 12 to OdBFS 3dB segment The peak level segment hold duration is adj
27. converters translate any incoming AES sample rate e g 44 1kHz to Cantar s selected sampling rate e g 48000Hz Sixteen Tracks needs two Cantar X2s To impose the same sampling rate and phase and get a sixteentrack machine enter a Wordclock signal on the SubD 15 Pin 4 and select a VVC prefixed sampling rate in AUDIOC TC O1 Sample Rate If you select the wrong sam pling rate Wordclock SampleRate mismatch is displayed on the rectangular screen If the Wordclock reference is missing Wordclock input missing is displayed Rec amp Play In Grids see Rec amp Play p 49 Here is a list of T1 T6 amp T7T8 In Grids for most Rec amp Play Sessions e to perform a Remix select RPM B2 see below amp 02 see opposite table e to perform an Archive file update RPA B2 amp 44 e to perform an eighttrack Re recording RRI Al amp Ol RR2 A2 amp Ol RR3 A3 amp Ol RR4 A4 amp Ol RR5 A5 amp Ol RR6 BI amp Ol RRZ B2 amp ll RR8 B2 amp 45 T1 T6 setups p 27 Al mic5 T1 A2 mic5 T2 digil T1 A3 mic5 T3 di gil T1 digi2 T2 A4 mic5 T4 digil Tl digi2 T2 digi3 T3 A5 mic5 T5 digil T1 digi2 T2 digi3 T3 digi4 TA Bl mic5 16 digil T1 digi2 T2 digi3 T3 digi4 T4 digi5 T5 B2 digil T1 digi2 T2 digi3 T3 digi4 T4 digi5 T5 digi6 T6 With TECHSET O3 p 33 save these Al B2 setups and name them Clonel loading them for your next cloning sessio
28. front yellow red labels XLR3 M 1 gnd 2 M rear 3 M rear grey Routing The XLR5 goes to mic 3 4 routed to T3 and T4 m s declared their monitoring output is automatically lett right decoded The XLR3 goes to mic5 routed to 15 panned to center See Mic Links 3 gt 4 5 p 31 Monitoring T3 and T4 mixer faders at 100 you listen to the front stereo T3 mixer fader at O and TS fader at 100 the monitor output becomes the sum of the S figure oteight on T4 a a and of the M rear mic on T5 you listen to the rear stereo It is thus easy to alternately listen to the tront or rear M S or both with 5 1 double capsule headphones Mixing Launch Pyramix and make two M S strips one for the front one for the rear lay down the three track media on the M S tracks the Pyramix CVV copy track2 S front to track4 which becomes S rear reinject M front onto the surround of the M S front You can also make an extraction for the sub here is your 5 1 sound Soundfield B Format Four channels X tront back tigure oreight Y left right figure By Phil Vandendriessche Belgium ofeight W omnidirectional Z top bottom figure ofeight seldom used for now since 5 1 is horizontal only The Cantar onboard mixer handles the B Format stereo monitoring with adjustment of the pattern and width 33 4 7642 9550 Www aaton com p 44 Routing Connect the Soundfield ST350 X output to linelsT5 Y to
29. indicates the number of samples digitized in a slow second i e 48048 the Time stamp is the number of samples since mid night using the 48048 value of the Format stamp Introduced for the AvidMC v11 3 2 the A mode is fading away See Avid Recording Rates in Aaton tutorials htto www aaton com documentation B Barebone 23 98NDF B 22 97NDF B In a tile digitized at A8kHz the B Format stamp indicates the number of samples digitized in a real second i e A8000 the Time stamp is the number of samples since mid night using the 48000 value of the Format stamp While images and timecode are beating the slow second the audio remains on Earth Since modern postmachines e g Indaw perform high quality realtime sample rate con version Barebone and 48kHz should have been THE only choice but unfortunately some other manuatacturers decided differently see below C Compensated F Faux 23 98NDF C 29 97NDF C The C mode is made for challenged postmachines In a tile digitized at A8kHz the Format stamp value indicates the real number of samples per realsecond i e 48000 and the Time stamp is the number of samples since midnight as if the digitization was done at 48048 Hence the F name for Fake or Faux given by Fostex and FCP to this mode This is the mode selected by most US productions If it is O2hOOmOOs on Earth at the start of take the Time stamp value is 345 945 600 samples 02h x 3600s
30. lin2 gt T6 T5 amp T m s declared and W to line3sT4 panned to center The Mic or Line in gains 1 gt 2 3 ganged are adjusted to the halt dB p 17 Monitoring Faders T5 X and T Y at 100 level makes for a Blumlein stereo pair two coincident figure ofeight microphones angled 90 adding some T4 W to the mix transforms the tigure oFeight components to cardioid coinci dent XY stereo pair Faders TS X and T4 W panned to center at 100 level and T6 Y at 0 you listen to the lett component of the stereo pair T6 Y and T4 W at 100 and 15 X at 0 you listen to the right component The head rotation simulation in stereo will come in a future version Put the monitoring black crown to B To listen to the front select Fs To turn the head 90 right select the Rs contig inverted Y in the mix to turn the head back select Bs inverted X amp Y in the mix to turn the head 90 left select the Ls inverted X in the mix htto www soundtield com soundtield technology php Mixdown with decoded M S or not The mixer faders and pan pots feed the mixdown Xa Xb tracks The inputs are routed to the six tracks an M S pair is connected to mic3 amp mic4 and routed to track5 amp track 6 m s declared The Mand S signals are recorded as metered on the T5T6 modulometers and stereo decoded into the mixdown output It the editor prefers not to get stereo signals in his reference sound pan th
31. of these fields individually 08 Production max 30 chars 09 Director max 25 chars 10 Sound Mixer max 25 chars 11 Location max 25 chars 12 Day s Topic max 19 chars 13 Pic Format PAL NTSC HD1 HD2 Built in easy to read and print PDF report CantarX User Manual v2 28 rl 2009 Aug 12 p 37 SESSION 3 SOUND REPORT 2 Sound Report Columns User contigurable columns carry the take specitic data 14 Col Layout Layout A Layout B Layout C Three custom operator maintained layouts are available they are stored in Cantar s memory and can be modified by jog ing through the column tield linking positions see SESSION 15 below The first letter identities which layout A B or C the selected column is modifying e g A Col 12 B Col 12 C Col 12 15 Col 02 to 29 Col 16 A Bor C INS field DEL field Blank Filetag Seq Scene Take TCStart TCEnd Duration TCSlateA TCSlateB TCSlateC Track rank Tracks used FileSize User bits Column Ol displays the recording order it is not modifi able To assign a different field to columns O2 to 16 press ok and with gt lt select one from the available list above DEL field eliminates the field assigned to the selected col umn and shuffles the fields on the rightside to the lett none is displayed on the last column If you want to activate a none column press ok to change it to blank then select any field for it
32. parameter value fps sample rate etc appears in the sound report header note not yet reading the iXML chunk embedded in the BVVF tiles Avid MCs only have access to the first 40 characters of the comments stored in the aNote of the BVVF descriptor Originally CSV stood for Comma Separated Values they are now most of the time using tabs instead Sound Report Generation For the latest entries of the day to be taken into account the last report overwrites the former one It takes a little more than one minute to build a twelve page sound report e Any time Go to BACKUP 11 Snap Report select the Dir Nat Rot miX status of your choice Press ok to send the Sound Report to a YYYYMMDD AA folder on the drive s in use as selected in SESSION O3 note to redo a Sound Report for a preceding day e g edited with Majax or Cantar set BACKUP O Save Mode to Backup Call then BACKUP O2 Day to Copy to the date then BACKUP 11 Snap Report etc e After IdleCopy Before ejecting the DVD RAM or removing the external HDD set BACKUP 12 Idle Report to Yes The Sound Report is sent to the YYYYMMDD AA folder where it car ries the same Dir Nat Rot miX status as the backup files e After Backup Call Set BACKUP 14 Run Backup to Yes The Sound Report is created when the backup is completed it is sent to the YYYYMMDD AA folder where it carries the same Dir Nat Rot miX status as the ba
33. position is unique to Cantar it offers three essential functions pre record buffer activation meta data entering editing and last take erasure Pre record buffer While the MainSelector is on PPR the pre record buffer stores the audio in a FirstIn FirstOut FIFO butter memory and dumps them to the HDD as soon as REC is activated The erec icon blinks under the disk s selected for record ing Once the butter is full up to 13 sec 48kHz it starts discarding the FirstIn audio the middle platter of the three platter icon disappears this is a way to verity the selected butter length AUDIO TC 06 PreRec Dur p 31 Pre Rec metadata entry NEXT take While in PPR enter edit the scene ID take commments tracknames and Audio Ref of the NEXT take then press ok to validate Two remarks the use of Arcan Tarkan or keyboard considerably speeds up metadata entry shift jog accelerates letter scrolling 10x 1 Scene and Take The first screen displays Seq Scn Tak Press ok to go down to the bottom line and use gt or k to scroll along the characters and modify them with jog Press ok to store and exit e The default template is nnnA nnA nn for sequence scene taketype and take Sequence three digits followed by one character Scene two digits followed by one character space A to Z a to z O to 9 Take type t time synced p pickup w wild tr
34. puts PULL the SoloMixPar slider to the operator s side and press or clickin click out the routing button with the thumb and rotate the black monitor crown To browse the OutMaps and select another one rotate the silver contig crown the active map will be the one displayed when closing the routing command note selecting a different OutMap while recording doesn t affect the recorded signal 33 4 7642 9550 Www aaton com p 9 Jog Crown The jog is used to move the cursor in the routing circular screens to edit scene take and comments to select high pass filters to adjust the backlight s intensity to control the pan pots and to scrub the player in fast forward reverse Both the jog and contig crowns increment time and operand values while rotating clockwise notel shift jog accelerates the speed 10x note2 the Operand s middle and bottom rows of the rect angular screen can be browsed by the gt lt arrows just as easily as with the jog monitor contig CantarX User Manual v2 28 rl 2009 Aug 12 p 9 OPERATING VVEST POSITIONS MainSelector positions The MainSelector is easy to manipulate even while wear ing heavy winter gloves it gives direct access to all essential tunctions The OPERATING Vest positions control the recording an notation and playback of audio tiles To get access to the Rec amp Play positions press and hold the blue shift button while rotating the
35. screen There can be only one TC stamp per tiletag if you want to Remix a portion of the original tile go to BLUE PLAY create a play card then return to BLUE REC which creates a new filetag To abort the cloning go to PPR and erase the file see last take erasure p 20 You can continue to record ofter the end point of the cloned tile but there is a risk that this tail generates a timecode over lap with the next original take To get a clone of the same exact length as the original same srart and stop TC go to BLUE PPR and trigger the recording with the keyboard crtl alt r it will stop on the original file s end point To avoid later auto sync contusion between an original recording and its remixed clones they all share the same TC amp Date go to BROWSE and trash them all but the best remix to be sent to the editing room Since they are kept hid den in the day s folder you can revive them later 33 4 7642 9550 Www aaton com ADR 2 While listening to the cloned guide track s and watching the images of the original shoot Pic Play TC is used to sync a chasing VTR by LTC the performers re record their dialog on a new set of tracks Re Recording Under In Grid RR see In Grids p 28 record your first track in normal REC Go to BLUE BRVVS O4 and put the tiletag of your best trackl recording not always the latest one under Index A Select Clone A in BLUE BRWS 21 then under In Grid RR2 go
36. search Do not forget to send your original files to the editor Because of the Linking Trios subframe accuracy and the command to play zero delay Cantar outperforms the Exter nal Player Music Slate couple Clone mode In clone mode a new filetag is attached to the live tile you will never run the risk of erasing the master The play back and the live tile will carry the same TC and metadata We have identified three main applications for the clone mode e Remix make a copy of the original iso tracks and perform a new mixdown with the onboard mixer or the Cantarem This also lets you insert a simultaneous translation of the dia log 33 4 7642 9550 Www aaton com e ADR 2 while listening to the guide track text or prere corded music the performers record their dialog or song alongside the guide track on the other tracks The TC of the played file can be sent through the LTC output to a video camera or chasing VIR e Re recording with its short 0 4 msec Mic to Phones la tency Cantar is good at incremental recording i e adding one track while listening to the previous track s to produce packs of eight tracks which are easy to stack later because of their identical TCs Rec amp Play steps to perform l choose the HDD fint or ext and the project folder contain ing the files to be played 2 attach an index A to l to your selected playback files 3 create play cards up to 51 in each in
37. the Avid 0 47 Post Rec metadata entry PREVIOUS take After REC stay on PPR the metadata to be used for the next take is displayed If you want to modify the just recorded take s metadata press shift silver The rectangular screen displays EDIT press ok then gt lt or jog to edit the PREVious scene ID take and take type gold button of the previous file as explained in 1 4 above Press ok to confirm then shift silver to close Pazienza paciencia patience When editing metadata entries you are modifying the native files stored in the internal HDD If you are working in simultaneous mirroring mode these moditications are imme diately applied to the external drive tiles as well But if you are working in IdleCopy mode they will only be applied later when Cantar is in TEST or STOP position So at the end of the session remember to not unplug the external HDD nor to remove the DVD RAM disk in haste Wait until IdleCopy finishes its revamping work Manual file splitting To divide a tile into shorter segments quickly go trom REC to PPR and back to REC A new file is created it carries the same scene ID and the take is incremented You will not lose a single audio sample A short pre silence is added at the head of the new tile to ease the splicing work in Post By setting the PPR butter to a long enough duration you can even enter new scene and take IDs and comments 33 4 7642 9550
38. the TC by using the latest valid timecode so as to eliminate spurious transmission errors and false camera starts If there is no external timecode signal an LTC Not Detected warning appears in the rectangular screen and a phone beep is triggered every four seconds The beep is muted during w wild track tagged takes see Waring beeps p 22 Nevertheless the external TC is grabbed if it is received before the take s end note external LTC breaks can be used to slave the REC start and stop see Record by LIC p 21 CantarX User Manual v2 28 rl 2009 Aug 12 p 14 STOP 5 SPLITTING THE SECOND Sampling Rate Camera fps Audio TC These parameters are not correlated The number of audio samples per Earth second Hertz is called the sampling rate e g 48000 is 48kHz The camera trames per second value should have no influence at all on the audio sample rate frequency unfortunately some vintage NTSC postmachines still impose the use of the disgraceful 48048 or 47952 sample rates to sync real time audio with drifting time images The trame rate used to express the audio time can be 30 while images are filmed at 24 or 25fps On the planet Earth Timecode handling is simple at integer soeeds such as 24 25 and 30tes at 22 9 7DF Drop Frame the frame count jumps over two images every minute except for every tenth minute to keep the count in line with Earth s time Stored in the tile metadata the camera fps is a simpl
39. to BLUE REC and record track2 las many times as needed then go to BLUE BRWS O4 and put the filetag of the best recording under Index A and so on up to RR8 You get an eighttrack incremental recording in the last recorded filetag CantarX User Manual v2 28 rl 2009 Aug 12 p 50 COMPANIONS TARKAN 1 Cantar full remote CantarX2 Installed in a laptop or netbook notel p 52 through Ethernet Tarkan v1 11 controls all of the Cantar s audio flow edits the metadata and generates PDF CSV sound reports starting up Cantar side Turn OFF Cantar plug a straight or cross wired CAT 5 cable into the socket in the HDD housing The cable must be held tightly by the canyon shaped clamp Laptop side First eliminate any other TCP IP activity note2 Connect the CAT 5 cable Turn ON Cantar Launch the Tarkan application and wait trom 10 sec Mac OS X to 60 sec Win XP to allow Tarkan to assign an IP address to Cantar Click the upper lett start icon to activate the controls main screen The screen is made of three layers the first one displays the audio flow trom the digi mic line inputs with their settings to the tracks In grids and to the monitors OutMaps the second layer handles the mixer with its faders carrying the tracknames and panpots the third layer displays the modu lometers over the tracks In Grids The analog inputs la go down the digital and mixer inputs 1b 1c go up to the tra
40. tracks Warning beeps The beep level is set in TECHSET 11 Beep Level One beep record start O7 clip detection 08 Two beeps record stop or low priority problem such as low battery voltage the Lack of external clock 09 is automatically disabled on w wild track takes Three beeps high priority problem e g unplugged external HDD Take type Press the gold button to scroll the t p wan taketype list t fime sync audio p pickup w wild track a an nounce n ignore The n takes are greyed in the PDF sound report and aborted take false start appears in the comment line note in case of false start stay in REC press gold select n in the towan list then and only then go to PPR the next take will carry the same take as the ignored one Going to PPR p 20 you could open the PREVious edit process to do the same and even erase the take to save disk space but this takes more time and this is not recom mended in the high pressure short time interval following a false start CantarX User Manual v2 28 r1 2009 Aug 12 p 22 REC 2 BLUEREC Record tally amp SD remote In REC the SubD 15 pin 1 is grounded by an open collec tor transistor max 40mA Do NOT use a coil activated device on pin 11 the flyback voltage would kill the transistor Use an opto coupler see drawing to avoid ground loops 82 K pin9 Batt A 1N914 E pin11 Tally B 7 SubD 15 NEC PS 2502 1 Rl af
41. 3 CantarX User Manual v2 28 rl 2009 Aug 12 p 34 TECHSET 3 SOFTVVARE 21 System Time 00h32m24s Enter the time trom your watch five minutes especially it you just started working in a new time zone The system s date which relies upon hour and minutes around midnight is used to sort the workdays it should not be confused with the timecode which is used for syncing picture and audio 22 System Date 2004y04m22d The system date is used fo create the folder name YYYYMMDD containing the tiles for that workday Note that the workday folder can contain hours past midnight it the recording session is not interrupted e g turning OFF the Cantar The workday is also used to fill the default MMDD name of the TapeRef field 23 Hardwr IDs SN 0520 MoBo CM5 CM3 Preamp SLI SLO Ether ET none Conv ADS AD3 Cantar s Serial number Motherboard Preamps Ethernet interface A D converter versions Keep these labels in mind when contacting Aaton s technicians 24 License Key Unlimited 24 Days Protection against unauthorized use Cantar goes to general freeze after a given number of calendar days The key can be activated or deactivated by a CMU software key emailed by Aaton If Unlimited appears go no further your Cantar is set fo work forever 25 Softwr Ver v2 11 v2 15 The current software copy is stored in Cantar s EEPROM no need to keep it in the HDD You should not keep more than three ver
42. 97NDF In the NonDropFrame 0 1 slow second world an A B or C time stamping method must be selected see p 15 15 LTC Gen Out On Off In PLAY the LTC out carries the TC and fps of the played tiles not the project s ones It can control a chasing VTR while Rec amp Play is used for Remix and ADR type2 16 LTC Ubits Iso Date Filetag TapeRef Freeform MDY Date are not yet available The Iso Date is Year Month Day 33 4 7642 9550 Www aaton com p 32 17 RecRun Init O1hOOm00s The RecRun clock jumps one hour at each rectangular screen bottom line opening Rtc record run is activated for the recording session and stays there until another TC Source is selected in this case the clock goes back to its default tree run mode 18 Opertc Init O1hOOm00s The operator TC becomes the next recording session refer ence Otc is displayed in the rectangular screen lt is disabled as soon as free run TC from an external source jams the internal clock 19 Digi 1 8 Out T1 16 amp Do M1 5 L1 amp Do e The Digil 6 AES outputs either transmit the T1 T6 recorded iso tracks or the mic 1 5 linel signals p 30 They are automatically devoted to output the Rec amp Play play back tracks it BLUE BRWS 22 AES loop is set to external e The Digi7 8 outputs transmit the Do routed signals p 3Q 20 CantaRemCom Inactive Active Forced Active makes CantaRem p 53 control Cantar un
43. Day is stored in nom volatile memory resulting in a nevertwicethe same date trom a given GMT Remote roll GMT u only e Whatever the initialization mode pressing the GMT u white button for more than three seconds makes the LTC output freeze on the last TC value the four frame rate LEDs blink A short push on the white button untreezes the LIC Sent by wire or radio this signal stops and starts the Cantar recording p 21 Technical Specifications e 150 gr 63x123x26mm OV battery e to 18 VDC ext supply OmA consumption ppm clock Cut 20 to 6OdBu amp TIL FPS 150 hours working CantarX User Manual v2 28 rl 2009 Aug 12 p 55 a SMPTE LTC signal to be recorded on an unused audio track Select 24 25 30fps SMPTE ITC out press 4 then to contirm Technical Specifications e pom TCXO 1 2 frame shift after four hours Six hour aufomatic shutoff 150 hours on a Lilon YV battery 180x90x20mm 3 5gr Order an Aaton 1L5 XLR3 SCH cable for connection to LTC XLR 3sockets Lemo 5 plug ref PHG OB 305 CLLD42 l Gnd 2L1C out 3 ASCIl in out ANC SUC in selector 1 24 2 25 3 29 97 DF 4 30 selected tos LED flashes 5 23 98NDF 24 O 1 6 22Y NDF 30 O0 1 three LEDs other than the selected fps flash Connections Momentary initialization is done through the Lemo5 socket GMs delivered lemo5 cable Gnd blue Cad white LIC TTL red Perman
44. ENON firmware v 2 28 eultra precise auto slate p 23 any input to t Z monomix to t8 p 28 save and reload all settings p 33 e wild all and trio pdf reports p 38 eeditor friendly poly rotate p 39 estereo monitoring soundfield b p 44 eplayback adr remix rec amp play p 48 tarkan p ol cantarem p 53 arcan w p 54 majax p 56 Aaton Cantar 33 4 7642 9550 www adton com CantarX User Manual v2 28 rl 2009 Aug 12 82 CONTENTS Keep in Touch Manuals amp software Cantar User s List Photo Gallery The PostChain Software versions CantarX1 to X2 Description Permanently accessible faders Bottom connections Swiveling tront panel buttons In Grids and OutMaps Pan pots Circular modulometers for T1 T6 Rectangular screen Triple crown Operating positions MainSelector VWest MainSelector buttons STOP Starting and stopping Twin battery safety Minimum Maximum voltage Battery check Power Consumption Lithium lon batteries Flight restriction rules STOP Errortree filing system Project creation Workday Filename Operational Problem STOP Calendar Time amp Sync Time Internal Free run master clock Do not power down the master Internal rec run clock Internal clock amp clapstick Slaved to an external clock Sampling Rate vs Audio TC On planet Earth On the Slow planet A for Avid vl B for Barebone C for Compensated Fake 33 4 7642 9550 Dd p 3 one SRS Time
45. MainSelector p 48 amp p 49 The OPERAND East positions which establish Cantar s oper ating parameters are described on p 26 MainSelector buttons black silver and gold buttons can be activated by the thumb while the blue shift button may be pressed by the indextinger silver in REC insert a marker on the tly in TEST after routing opens routing creation coming soon in PLAY go to operator s record markers shift silver in REC trigger AutoSlate detection in PPR toggle take editor PREV NEXT take in TEST open LEVEL amp DELAY menu in PLAY go to AutoSlate marker black in REC PPR TEST talkback mic activation in PLAY inserts a play mark in BLUE PLAY inserts a cue in in IN GRIDS links an input to a track in OUT MAPS connects audio sources to outputs 33 4 7642 9550 Www aaton com Standard positions REC PPR lies STOP PLAY BROWSE shift black gold shift gold CantarX User Manual v2 28 rl 2009 Aug 12 Rec amp Play positions BLUE REC BLUE PPR II BLUE TEST E gt BLUE PLAY k BLUE BRWS in REC PPR TEST talkback mic to active tracks in PLAY plays trom start of take in REC PPR BROVVSE changes take type in BLUE PLAY inserts a cue out in IN GRIDS unlinks an input from a track in OUT MAPS disconnects sources from outputs in TEST PPR REC 1kHz reference tone OFF at gold release remains ON if shift released first
46. O HEJ421010G9SA00 100GB 4200RPM Hitachi Travelstar 5K320 HTS54321619A300 120GB 5400 RPM When replacing an HDD verify the static electricity ground ing path between the disk housing and the Cantar chassis is within factory specs 120k ohm 20 Internal SSD SATA OCZ Vertex SS2 120GB OCZ Agility OCZSSD2 IAGT 120GB Samsung PB22J MMCRE28G5MxXP OVB 120GB not yet available External HDD or SSD For an external disk larger than 120GB use Partition Magic htto www symantec com norton partitionmagic to format a small FAT32 primary partition e g 40GB and the rest under NTFS e g 210GB Record the workday onto the AOGB partition and later transfer the files trom the FAT32 to the NTFS partition with your laptop Hot HDDs are unreli able use a well ventilated enclosure Only firmware v2 24 can handle a mix of internal exter nal PATA SATA drives Flash cards For idle backup the best is to use SDHC cards sturdier design than CF write protected MacBookPro 2009 com patible Insert a SD to CF adapter lt www semsons com sdtocttyiiad html gt or lt www delkin com products adapters sdto ct sdto cf html gt into a Firewire to CF converter such as Sandisk SDDRX4 CF 901 or Lexar Pro UDMA FireWire 800 To erase a card do NOT DELETE the files reformat it with Cantar see p 36 note not featuring the SSD s wear leveling spread of the workload to all cells CF and SD cards hardly survive the man
47. ROWSE Only tiles located in the Current project folders or Archive folders can be indexed e Current project folders A B indexes see opposite column are applicable to the current project current day folder C D E F indexes are ap plicable to the current project any day folders e Archive folders G H IJ K L indexes are applicable to one of the Archive fold ers An Archive folder is a One drive one title one work day folder containing music songs wild tracks Play tles whatever their internal date and time of origination To be Cantar playable audio files must contain iXML v1 50a headers any digital recorder read the Majax imanual page 4 notel to convert 44 1kHz MP3 or FLAC into 48kHz VVAV tiles use Sound Converter htto www dekorte com proj To Cantarize WAV files coming trom ects shareware SoundConverter note2 to update iXML headers recorded in a pre v2 11 Cantar clone it under an RPA In Grid p 28 or use Majax Live or clone In BLUE BRVVS 21 TC mode e Live gives access to all available Play files The recording session uses the date time and metadata of the live action 33 4 7642 9550 Www aaton com Current folders CantarX User Manual v2 28 rl 2009 Aug 12 BLUE BRWS Q1 Drive Internal BLUE BRWS Q2 Project Shadows BLUE BRWS Q3 CAB folder 2008 03 14 BLUE BRWS 04 Index A lt Drive set in SESSION not modifiable Project set in SESSION not modifiable
48. Sample Rate bottom row parameter value e g 48048 AUDIO TC 01 SampleRate 48048 CantarX User Manual v2 28 rl 2009 Aug 12 p 8 DESCRIPTION 6 TRIPLE CROVVN In TEST PPR and REC depending on the SoloMixPan slider position the routing button displays the input routing templates called In Grids or the active output routings called OutMaps The large all weather triple crown is used to check and se lect the routings with only one hand note to create routings see p 27 to p 30 Monitor Crown 1 So mic line digi ins active tracks and combinations of the mixer outputs directly sent to the headphones as solos 2 Ph seventeen user configurable maps A to Q plus the stereo mixer output to headphones 3 Lo nine user configurable maps R Z plus the stereo mixer output to dual line out XLR 5 4 Fb nine user configurable maps R to Z plus the stereo mixer output to dual foldback out mini XLR 3 5 Do nine user contigurable maps R to Z plus the stereo mixer Output to digi out on AES7 amp 8 The headphones also receive the signal sent to the output being selected contigured Config Crown In Grids To check and select the In Grids PUSH the SoloMixPan slider to the battery side and press or clickin click out the routing button The silver contig crown gives sequential access to fifteen In Grids the last in use is displayed first Out Maps To check the OutMaps for each Ph Lo Fb and Do out
49. T 60O0mA AES Off Phantom Off Heater Off REC 650mA AES Off Phantom Off Heater Off AES 100mA Phantom 10 to 20mA per mic 60mA total Heater 500mA until screens reach 4 C Ethernet 50mA Lithium lon batteries The 14 8V 4 2Ah Aaton lilon RCells are more powerful and lighter than their NiMH equivalent 61Wh vs 45VVh and 560gr vs 695gr To avoid their destruction by NiMH chargers the XLR4 pin 4 is protected by an 80V reverse voltage diode pin 3 is directly connected to the cells e Charger LED status red orange two hour charge to 85 capac ity amber three hour topup green charged Before connecting a battery reset the Mascott charger 9940 Li 4 cell 2A 14 8V by tuming it OFF for four seconds e Supply pin out Batt current is either flowing through the pin4 diode to film cameras and Cantars under 268 or through pin 3 to Cantars having an XLR4 socket with pins 384 tied together IMPORTANT NOTICE e Flight rules NO lithium on batteries in stowed luggage Under 8g of lithium content carry on as many as you want within size and weight limits Between 8gr amp 25gr cary on no more than two bat teries with a total lithium content between them of 25gr max At 5 8gr Aaton R Cells tall within the first category CantarX User Manual v2 28 rl 2009 Aug 12 p l 1 STOP 2 FOLDERS amp FILES Project Day amp Files Error free filing with NO disk partitioning When you cold start Cantar it assumes you wa
50. T8T8 of interest if T8 carries a mix down TI I6 TZT8 later TrackSelect T1 T8 T7T8 04 TI Ix Trtmt for T7T8 alone see BACKUP O3 MonoDirect PolyNative PolyRotate e MonoDirect leaves the iso tracks in their original form AB1234_1 ABI234_2 and puts them in an AAD folder identical to the Cantar HDD one NEW Important Because the Avid NIEs were unable to create automatic links between the iso tracks of a group it was recommended to import polyphonic BWF P conversions not BWE M tiles With the introduction of a new import functionality in MC Symphony v3 5 MonoDirect is now the best choice e PolyNative makes long BVVF P poly files AB1234 PN by interleaving the iso monotiles while keeping their rank then stores them in an AAN folder PolyRotate2 moves the tracks two ranks up the T1 T6 BACKUP 04 isos go to positions T3 T8 while TZT8 are sent to TIT2 then it makes a poly file AB1234 PR stored in an AAR folder PolyRotate2 solves the former T1 T8 Trtmt PolyRotate2 Avid MCs inability to put tracks where desired e g when importing a mixdown the MC puts it on the timeline Al A2 unfortunately it will also put the TIT2 iso tracks of a multi track recording there too CantarX User Manual v2 28 rl 2009 Aug 12 p 39 BACKUP 2 TREATMENTS Consequently if the editor later decides to import the original TI 18 tracks the MC will kill the mix tracks he has been using from day one Thanks to PolyRotat
51. TECHSET Save and transfer Setups one 6 Software install 6 35 SESSION Project selection creation 0 36 HDD formatting p 36 DVD RAM formatting Scan disk p 37 Sound Reports CSV ALE PDF Da7 BACKUP IdleCopy Backup Call PolyStore p 39 File treatments p40 File rescuing p 4 l Tutorials Backup amp Report p 42 Drives and Media p 43 Surround Onboard mixer p 44 Camera sync REC with simultaneous PLAY 3 by Companions Tarkan Cantakem Arcan w OriginC GMT Majax IndawPass PostChain Titan 3 Annex Connectors amp Accessories Quick guide sheets CantarX User Manual v2 28 rl 2009 Aug 12 Bol DJ p 54 S p 56 p 56 SESA D38 KEEP IN TOUCH RELEASES 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 htto 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 sott aaton com swcantar e 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 e next visits forgotten password Click lost password From Cantar X1 to X2 All CantarX1s can be upgraded to X2s e Motherboard CM 5 carries a more powerful FPGA Field Programmable Gate Array Ato D conve
52. WSE while going to ROUTINGS the triggering of these two functions is slightly delayed T1 T6 can receive any one of the inputs micl 5 linel 4 and digil 6 Fifteen In Grid configurations are stored in three groups Al A5 BI B5 C1 C5 these IDs are dis played on the central screen note To learn the process create an In Grid from scratch erase an existing one by pressing the gold button while jog ing through the three circular screens linear Example Select the ID to be moditied created a blinking cur T7T8 on sor awaits your orders near the on the lett circular ecules screen To route micl to T1 jog tive positions up and put the blinking cursor facing the mic 1 segment then press the black button to accept it to route linel to TS jog the cursor through T2 T3 and T4 until you land on T5 odd tracks are on the outer circle even tracks on the inner circle Go to the position opposite linel accept with the black button clear with the gold button linel_line2 33 4 7642 9550 Www aaton com Input pairs p20 3 p 27 9 analog inputs to 9 permanently active rotary faders no trims gt t 9 ee 4 seventeen inputs routed to T1 T6 and 1718 p 27 Bluetooth ITITI lt NI N N AY a 6 pan pots and 6 mix faders A MW UUA Xx X Oo Q Tee KAUNIS UULIULLULLLULLLLLULULUL 4A a T1 16 on 6 circular modulome
53. Www aaton com p 20 Automatic file splitting If you need to record audio during very long periods with out interruption but you don t want tiles larger than 4GB Cantar automatically closes the tile and starts a new one four settings are available 260MB e g 1 track for 30 min 24 bit A8kHz 690MB ZOOMB CD R capacity 2GB default setting 4GB FAT32 max filesize The tiletag is incremented but the scene and take IDs remain the same Last take erasure To save disk space Cantar lets you erase the last take e g a false start or aborted remix In PPR press shift silver to open Edit prev ok select Erase Take toggle trom No to Yes ok For protection the latest position must have been REC and the power must not have been turned OFF The next take will carry the same take ID as the erased one False start If you are under pressure and not willing to risk an unfor giveable mistake do not erase a false start as described above stay in REC press the gold button until n for ignore trom the taketype list t p w a n is selected then go to PPR The next take will carry the same take as the ignored one Takes with a take type of n are greyed in the PDF sound report and carry an aborted false start header in the comment line CantarX User Manual v2 28 rl 2009 Aug 12 p 20 PPR 3 REMOTE CONTROL Record by LTC This function is also called Remote Roll Auto l
54. Xb The two foldback channels go to a Mini XLR3 Foldback level p 18 Lo Line out Nine user created R to Z maps and XX miXa mixXb The two line out channels go to an XLRS5 Line out level p 18 Ph Phones Fifteen user created A to Q maps and XX miXa mixb The two phones channels go to a 1 4 jack p 57 Headphone level p 18 So Solos Solos connect the headphones to each of Cantar s ins and outs M1 M5 L L4 T1 T8 and to the mixer generated signals XA miXa center XB miXb center XC miXa mixXb center XX miXa mixXb left right The modulos of miXa and miXb appear on the central screen CantarX User Manual v2 28 rl 2009 Aug 12 p 29 ROUTINGS 4 DIGI 1 8 OUTS So is close to the Ph position for a good reason the last activated solo map is kept in memory and immediately sent to the phones when toggling between Ph and So see an application below The So position monitors the dynamic mix of the PLAYed tile like in TEST or REC As an operational PLAY tip you can instantly compare your recorded mixdown Ph A T7T8 center and So XC by toggling between Ph and So this is used fo evaluate the necessity of a remix either with Canttar Rec amp Play or later As an alternative to the So position the mic inputs can be instantly solo ed by pressing their sotiHtom buttons and the tracks by pressing their tracksolo buttons notel the XX selection lets you output miXa and miXb whet
55. aborted is displayed 06 Erase Day No Yes To reduce disk fragmentation file erasure is performed on full workday folders only Select Day ok jog to select a day ok the bottom line displays ScanningDay then the cursor jumps to Day Eraser jog to select Int HDD or Ext HDD ok jog to Yes nnnMB ok Once the day s tiles have been erased No Files Found is momentarily displayed then the bottom line changes to No O0 OMB ok returns to Select Day esc goes back to SESSION O1 ProjectName where another project can be selected Reminder when trashing an individual tile its wav extension becomes rip It is hidden but not erased from the workday folder p 25 33 4 7642 9550 Www aaton com p 37 Sound Report Headers Eight header items FileType TapeRef ToneLevel Sample rate Bit depth FPS Date and Media are automatically tilled with the recording parameters while seven others see O8 to 14 below carry operator entered data Multiple changes to each header item are allowed per workday If one header item changes a new PDF and ALE page is started with this information 07 Project Full Title For consistency the 8 character Project name is automatically inserted in the header betore the operator entered Full Title max 39 characters All of the header entries below are automatically recalled when re opening the project note shift esc clears each
56. ack a announce n ignore keeps the take for the next tile This list tpwan is scrolled with the gold button Take two digits e An open CCCCCCCC CC template is also available see AUDIO TC 10 ScTk Templt p 31 At each new take the sequence amp scene is maintained and the take is incremented by one Moditying the sequence or scene causes the take to reset to 1 The rectangular screen displays the tiletag of the NEXT recording 2 Comments jog to Tk Comment and press ok to activate the bottom line where the former comment appears Characters max 33 4 7642 9550 Www aaton com p 19 200 can be entered with lt gt and jog but it is much easier to use a keyboard or a remote PDA with Arcan Depending upon the keyboard insert key toggle status a flickering square insert or a flickering pipe overwrite is dis played Enter your comments and press ok to validate note to erase the comment line inherited trom the preceding take press shift esc 3 Track names jog to TrackName 1 ok to go to the bottom row shift jog or keyboard s shift up down arrows show the available list of track names Trackname completion relies upon a library of the last thirty tracknames in use This automatic process speeds up track naming by letting you pre store the names of the film s main actors and swiftly recall them by their first two letters Press ok or enter and jog t
57. art digi slate never power down Cantar during the workday to avoid the loss of its 1 pom reference time While the internal HDD is in sleep mode the total power consumption is a mere 2 OmA Set TECHSET 16 HDD Pwr Dwn to Aftr 5min to have the HDD sleep five minutes after STOP If you still want to power down Cantar at lunch time the blinking int icon at power up will remind you to reinitialize all other timekeeping machines on the Set Method 2 int c internal Record Run driving clock Go to AUDIO TC 17 RecRun Init ok 01 00 00 is pro posed as the first TC of the day it can be modified From now on at the beginning of each audio file Cantar will stamp a startTC incremented by two seconds later than the preceding take s end TC This clocking called Record Run produces audio tiles which appear as if they have been recorded in continuity If for some reason Cantar is turned OFF the rec run TC must be initialized again To prevent any TC overlap Cantar proposes to start on the next hour integer e g if the last recorded take has been closed at 01 34 15 the next start TC proposed to the operator will be 02 00 00 The Cantar recordrun mode lets you use the pre record butter without creating TC overlaps For example if the preceding take ends at 01 45 00 and the pre record but fer is set at thirteen seconds the next audio file will start at JATO 33 4 7642 9550 www aaton com p 14 two second gap b
58. audible at specitic relationships between pairs of microphones and at a specific balance between them usually a 50 50 balance as with boom and radio mic If three mics are open the phase interference is a result of only one of those mics in reference to the other two Assuming am mixing to a mono track with one boom and one radio and ot a certain point there is phasing would be rocking the mix back and forth favoring either the boom or radio It the phasing occurs when both mics are at unity then never allow unity to occur As a wired actor walks into a room and comes forward ap proaching a boom mic would be favoring the radio until the actor steps into the sweet spot of the boom at which point would crosstade potting down the radio as pot up the boom 33 4 7642 9550 Www aaton com p 45 This does not necessarily mean that completely turn off either mic at any time but only prevent the 50 50 balance of the two from occurring or maybe once the actor reaches the boom sweet spot and stays there for the rest of the take then perhaps slowly fade out the radio mic completely to prevent clothing rustle or some other physical noise Same thing if mixing two actors on radios with no boom and as they turn to face each other there is a phasing tak ing place between them then would be crossfading the balance between them back and forth favoring the mic of the actor that is speaking again never allowing the 50 50 balanc
59. ax power supply NEVER use a battery charger its idle voltage can go up to 24V a Cantar killer While working on a cart from a mains power supply leave a battery onboard and activate both inputs the battery wil butter possible mains power problems e g power cord acci dently disconnected and it will supply the 4A surge at Cantar s startup ott duty the rest of the time thanks to the power supply higher voltage Voltage Minimum Each battery socket Lett amp Right gets its own Batt Alert level TECHSET 14 15 0 34 This allows the simultane ous use of a NiMH battery with alert set to 10 8V and a Li lon battery with alert set to 14 0V Alert level reached a two beep alarm is sent to the headphones the rectangular screen displays BATT L R LOVV When the active battery drops 300mv below the alert level both are put on duty 33 4 7642 9550 Www aaton com p 11 Maximum 16 6V is the maximum sustained voltage on any socket including the FireVVire socket Never connect a FW cable coming trom a desktop e g MAC G3 4 5 delivering 30V Extract the HDD it can sustain up to 4OV and connect it directly to the desktop Laptops deliver a safe 13V on their FW sockets Battery check In TEST jog to display the battery voltage it also appears whenever you press the battL or battR button pressing for more than two seconds puts the battery on duty Power Consumption STOP 270mA sleep mode 420mA HDD running TES
60. ck cross points 2 To set the inputs tor T1 T6 go to ROUTING In Grids 8 click on the desired cross point it turns blue double click to deactivate To set the inputs for T7T8 first click the desired TZ cross point it turns yellow as well as the other possible choices click the other one they both turn blue If you want to turn OFF T7T8 double click the cross point routed to TZ Armed tracks 5 are highlighted in deep blue 33 4 7642 9550 Www aaton com ine a la LELEL para le oan ofl chi olf ole CT T k ks ry HiU imme eee ee ee O S 4 sm I i re ie ay p a Ic amp Out Maps The tracks go to the LeftCenterRight track monitoring switches 6 Analog and digital inputs go directly to the input monitoring switches 7 Both 6 and 7 go to the monitoring crown 9 Mixer The mixer s faders 3 and pan pots 4 generate the mix down input Ic In PPR TEST and ROUTING In Grids twenty six pan pot contigurations can be stored in Tarkan e During the creation of a pan pot contig either on Cantar the usual way or on Tarkan with successive clicks on the colored beans 100 left right with ctrl click the back ground of the pan pot crown 10 becomes red Once done a ctrl click in the middle of the crown stores the contig in Tarkan s memory and pushes it into Cantar where it becomes the active mixer pan pot as indicated by the crown background which turns grey e labeled trom
61. cked before its one platter icon appears in the right circular screen be patient Cantar handles both FAT32 and UDF1 5 formatted DVD RAM For MAC PC compatibility see SESSION O4 Disk Format 0 36 and Tutorial 2 Drives amp Media p 43 07 Burn Mode Burn Only Burn Check Check Only Checking a DVD takes just as much time as burning it 33 4 7642 9550 Www aaton com p 40 08 FilesToCopy Unarchived All Select Unarchived before starting a CD DVD mid day copy this causes the software to look at the Archived flag on the files Previously copied archived tiles tlagged as such will not be copied again All is used to make a sec ond batch of DVDs with all files previously saved or not 09 File Name FiletagOnly With Sc Tk Filelag only BA1234_1 wav With Sc Tk BA1234 123A 12R wl4 _1 wav this brings the scene and take to the editor s desktop e Backup on CD DVD select With Sc Tk since long names are supported by ISO and UDF1 5 formats e Backup on ext HDD filenames are forced to FiletagOnly long names are not supported by the basic FAT32 format note Majax extracts Sc Tk IDs trom the metadata con tained in the iXML and can add them to the files en route to Post on FAT32 formatted HDDs 10 Media Label CD 1 of 2 The number of disks needed for the backup is displayed Press ok select the one to burn shift eye displays the Media Label created for the disk CD MXD_2 5 m
62. cks in double solo see Soloing tracks p 22 An ear protecting mute is applied during delay modifications CantarX User Manual v2 28 rl 2009 Aug 12 p 16 TEST 2 MIXER The value of the longest delay is applied to all channels except for the one being set example a digital wireless lava lier 3 8ms processing delay feeding linel must be in phase with a boom at 6m distance 18ms sound propagation time feeding mic5 set mic5 at 18ms and linel at 3 8ms All ana log inputs are buffered by 18ms linel by 18 3 8 14 2ms and mic5 by O Oms Since the delays can go up to 85ms two film frames the TC stamp in each audio tile is corrected accordingly for this reason each input delay is noted in the iXML chunk and the CSV Sound Report file Gain values Set TECHSET 06 Display dB to ON whenever you adjust a fader all inputs for that type line mic are displayed in dBFS on the rectangular screen Mic links The links are preselected in AUDIO TC O8 Mic Links p 3 Stereo pairs pre select 1 gt 2 amp 3 gt 4 Surround sound pre select 1 gt 2 3 4 5 Double M S pre select 3 gt 4 5 p 44 To active the preselection press the shift linklock button AUDIO TC 08 to the right of the master fader a IMI appears between the Mic Links 1 gt 2 3 4 5 Phantom Limiter and Highpass filters are applied identically linked mic figures in the bot tom of the circular screens to the linke
63. ckup tiles D N R or X CantarX User Manual v2 28 rl 2009 Aug 12 p 38 BACKUP 1 TRACK SELECTION Ol Save mode O8 Files to copy 02 Day to copy O9 File name O3 Track selection 10 Media label OA T1 IX treatment 11 Snap Sound Report O5 Mixdown treatment 12 Idle SoundReport O6 Media type selection 13 14 OZ Burn and Check Erase Polys Run Backup 01 Save Mode IdleCopy Backup Call PolyStore e IdleCopy This mode can be activated any time the earlier in the day the better Parameters excluded by an operator s previous choice are flagged as N A When the internal HDD is not occupied by any other task i e in TEST or STOP Cantar incrementally copies the files of the day onto DVD RAM external or internal CF card or external HDD By the end of the day most audio tiles are copied This is an alternative to the simultaneous recording on both the internal and exter nal HDDs IdleCopy updates archived files if you modify the metadata of a take its copy is erased and re saved To interrupt the process go to PPR or press esc until IdleOp Stop is displayed the unfinished tile copy is erased The operation will resume upon entering TEST or STOP Note that a five second delay lets you go to PLAY through these positions without triggering the process Once IdleCopy has completed the backup disk goes back to sleep DO NOT remove the external HDD or DVD RAM until the IdleCopy job has completed see Pazienza p 20 Toggl
64. closes itself Three banks are displayed in the rectangular screen they otter the same corner trequencies slopes trom 6OHz 6dB to 18OHZ 12dB and LFA e g F ee A 1 r Me bid i PE F To avoid mic preamp saturation by non audible ultra low frequencies always insert a high pass filter when a bass sensitive mic such as an MKH8050 is installed on a mov ing boom the use of a very efficient wind jammer is paro mount eMic Level default for all mic inputs High Level an 8dBu command offset puts the fader knobs in the same angular position as when a standard sensitivity mic is used eLine Level a 24dBu attenuator converts mic to line inputs available on SLI preamplifier Cantars from 268 Differential delays CantarX2 Delays inherent to sound propagation 3 ms m or induced by signal processing up to 3 8ms in a digital wireless kit can induce phasing interference between mics placed at different distances or time from a sound source In some instances it is advisable that all other audio inputs contributing to the onboard mixdown wait in a butter for the late sound arrival In TEST press shift silver to open IVL amp DELAY jog from O3 micl LVL amp DELAY 03 delay to 11 lined press ok mici delay 78 8mS ments i e 5 audio samples 1 ms increments by shift jog on the one to set jog from O O to 85 0ms delay in O 1 ms incre Fine tune the delay by listening to the tra
65. d faders Phase inverters remain independent The slave tuning range is 12dBu of its master s value Whenever you adjust a fader the master slave status is displayed on the rectangular screen as II Il for the master Il for each slave coming soon All of these links remain active when the onboard faders are taken over by the CantaRem RemFaders Protecting the balances To protect the balancing faders against flying fingers set AUDIO TC O7 Balancelock to Locked balance modifica tions will be unlocked while press ing the sofiltom button 2 The slaved gain value is displayed MicX Lokd dB 22 14 1il16 gt 21 lt 151 which direction you should rotate the fader to avoid any sud with lt I gt signs showing in den level change when unlocking the balance key 33 4 7642 9550 Www aaton com p 17 Line links The links are selected and armed in AUDIO TC O Line links 9 31 For Surround sound AUDIO TC 09 Line links 1 gt 2 3 recording with a Soundfield ST350 use the linel fader as the master of the two other line inputs set Line Links to 1 gt 2 3 Line X Slaved line faders I have no dB 141141141 22 balancing activity they get their gain value trom the master lll The T1 T6 Mixer The mixer s pan pot and fader controlled outputs are called Xa left and Xb right Pan pots Each recorded iso track can be sent to Xa or Xb or both
66. dates While using a Mac laptop you must install WriteUDF to be able to modity the metadata on a DVD RAM disk in the Cantar burner see Majax p 56 WARNING before disconnecting the FireVVire cable FIRST eliminate the disc icon trom the PC or Mac desktop THEN disconnect the cable Ignoring this rule will trigger a warning message but it will be too late the audio files may already be corrupted ir MAC OS Ejecting the Cantar Disk WINDOWS 02 Digi Power Off On Digiloop Orn saves 110mA 48kHz 200mA 96kHz The digi to digi icons of the circular screens blink as a reminder to turn On the sample rate converters that have been routed but not powered up Digiloop triggers the powering of the AES converters and dis ables the Rec amp Play playbacktrack to digi in internal connection when using the Aaton AES Mixer accessory Dec 2008 33 4 7642 9550 Www aaton com p 33 03 Save Setup No Yes All of Cantar s physical settings In Grids OutMaps TECHSET and AUDIO TC parameters mic filters etc are saved in XML files on the external HDD or the internal HDD it there is no external drive connected To ensure a unique all user settings name for each group of settings called Setup it is named by the last recorded tiletag e g ABI234 A xml As many Setups as desired can be saved keep them in the internal HDD Since they can be used in another Cantar copy them onto a lapt
67. dexed file play cards are sections of the playback file 4 prepare the Routing route your analog inputs to the tracks as well as the playback sounds which are internally sent to the Digi inputs and routed as such see Rec amp Play In Grids p 28 5 test each routing and each play card selection by going to BLUE TEST before the real Play amp Rec done in BLUE REC Playback file indexing CantarX amp X2 Go to BLUE BRVVS see p 10 select the audio files needed for your Rec amp Play operation and convert them into Playback files by putting them under indexes A to L p 25 A B indexes are reserved for the current day folders of the current project tiles C D E F are reserved for any day of the current project G H IJ K Lare reserved for archives e g wild BLUE BRWS 08 tracks music etc stored on external or Index D lt internal HDD SE1104 n a Please note that archive play files must be grouped on the same drive most of the time an external drive same project same day Play tiles which are no lon ger available e g files stored on a disconnected external BLUE BRWS 211 disc carry an n a suffix instead of ok TC mode lt Go to BLUEBRWS 21 TC mode select Clone CA Live prior to a live mode session or se lect Clone A from A to L prior to a clone mode session CantarX User Manual v2 28 rl 2009 Aug 12 p 48 TUTORIAL 5 REC amp PLAY 2 Play card creation Cantar X1 amp X2
68. diting Scene take taketype com ments and tracknames with auto completion and memorized text insertion are edited in REC PPR and BROWSE To erase older comments go to the bot tom lett field toggle trom Pen to Trash your stored com ments appear over a red background click to erase Prog GAELLE tel Tat HD aniy TA i 6 a o es A M See S p A en E J Brie g e D page a new CSV page and a 5 Sound Report editing Arcanw is a great helper to enter and modify the Sound Report s headers Several entries per day are allowed A new ALE new Sound Report page is opened anytime a header item is changed See the complete Arcan w user s instructions on http www aaton com products sound arcan index ohp CantarX User Manual v2 28 r1 2009 Aug 12 p 54 COMPANIONS ORIGIN C amp GMI E z Dmpit Grace Stiup amp Aril cameos thoes ft Smpne coma ice Amah neacker Depe pa sebeetion ie H RI Fi OriginC master clock sets cam eras and recorders TC Start OriginC by pressing the key Enter all of the Prod ID digits Date and Time Press to scan through the display All fields being set press to start the clock To shutdown press for five seconds until Stopped appears ASCII initialize Cantar or other machines with ASCII an fps cameras selector under cover gt LEDs flash on frame OO three but the one in 0 1 NTSC lo
69. ds v2 11 Jan 2008 Creation of play cards with cue in out from current and archive play tiles Rec amp Play plays up to eight tracks from int or ext HDD w nine analog inputs while recording eight tracks on the int HDD Remix of a recording with dynamic mixdown and addition of a commentary ADR for hear it say it dialog correction Up to eight track incremental re recording v2 06 Dec 2007 Talkback mic sent to line out and or foldback left e g boom or right e g director Double beep at REC stop Two PDF Sound Reports ALL for t p w a n amp WILD for w takes ALE and CSV lists added to backups Up to 85ms delay on analog inputs differential alignment and TC compensation Ray M Owen s last review v2 26 2 2 b 33 4 7642 9550 Wwww aaton com CantarX User Manual v2 28 r1 2009 Aug 12 p 3 DESCRIPTION 1 TOP VIEVV 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 simulta neously shows every critical recording parameter The custom designed high contrast displays remain viewable under bright light sun sand sea snow storm and at very low temperatures too The swiveling front panel always provides the best viewing angle for both on cart and over the shoulder work The large twelve position Ethernet RJ 45 HDD ACCESS Track
70. e In TEST or REC top row T7T8 modulometers in JBP 50 45 A033 36 64 53220028 20 24 22 20 18 16 14 12 9630 Clip To display T7T8 levels with higher precision press the eye button this will swap T7T8 with T5176 on the right circular screen BERGGHRREEREE 8 BRRRRGEREEREE 1 The jog overwrites the T7T8 bargraphs with battery volt age available disk space or remaining recording time cal culated trom the current track count bitdepth and sample rate middle row the source and the TC stamped in the audio tiles Atc ASCIFTC Ltc jam trom LTC Ste trom 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 tiletag amp duration or scene amp take by shift eye VVhile adjusting a pan pot the track rank plus the maximum gain value of the whole mixer panel OdB or NEXT AX 49 Seq Sc Tk 121R a12tQ6o 6dB are displayed In PPR or BROWSE scene take tracknames com ments Sound Roll Shoot Day for their editing p 19 amp p 25 In PLAY player s position cue points ab AQO gt 00 00 02 15 02 17 CC2165 03 32 solute time tiletag amp duration or scene amp take p 24 e 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 po rameter name e g
71. e the original mix down tracks T7T8 rotated to TIT2 will replace the 16 bit poly mixdown with the 24 bit originals while the native iso tracks T1 T6 pushed to T3 T8 will gracefully fall into place e PolyRotatel performs the same operation as PolyRotate2 but pushes the tracks by one rank only TI T7 go to 2 18 while T8 the Xb mixdown is sent back fo T1 05 MxDwn Trtmt MonoNative PolyNative Polyl Trunc Poly16Dith Only applicable it T7T8 appears in BACKUP O3 This treat ment can perform the reduction trom 24 bit to 16 bit convert the T7T8 mono file pairs into poly tiles and finally store them in an AAX folder e MonoNative 16 amp 24 changes nothing relative to the original 16 bit or 24 bit tiles PolyNative 16 amp 24 interleaves T7T8 at native bitdepth e Polyl Trunc interleaves 1778 and truncates 24 bit to 16 bit T718 Trtmt e Polyl6Dith interleaves 1778 Poly16 Dith and dithers 24 bit to 16 bit note dithering offers a slightly better quality than plain BACKUP 05 truncation but the process requires twice as much time note2 treatments automatically convert Q6kHz to 48kHz note3 treatments 04 amp 05 and track selection O3 are recalled trom one recording session to the next they are lost as soon as the 03 menu bottom row is opened 06 Media Type CD R 700MB Ext HDD DVD RAM DVD R 4 7GB DVD R 8 5GB It can take more than twenty seconds for a DVD or DVD RAM media to be che
72. e In Grids while in REC but you can do it with a trick go to PPR press the routing button rotate the silver contig crown to the desired In Grid release the routing button and go back to REC the pre record buffer gives you up to thirteen seconds to act not one single audio sample will be lost between the two audio files Out Maps To check and select the OutMaps for each Ph Lo Fb and Do outputs PULL the SoloMixPan slider to the operator s side press the routing button and rotate the black monitor crown To browse the preset OutMaps and select one ro tate the silver contig crown the active map will be the one displayed when closing the routing command You can select different Out Maps while recording this doesn t affect the recorded signal note in PLAY the active OutMap can t be diplayed verity it on the MainSelector ROUTING position Rec amp Play rehearsal read p 48 amp p 49 In BLUE TEST the playback tracks Tol Tp8 are sent inter nally to the digil 8 inputs trom where they are routed the standard way By pressing touting select the In Grids and OutMaps tailored to the job Rehearse the BLUE REC navi gation and with the analog faders adjust the levels between the digital play cards and the live analog inputs The last BLUETEST played card is the first to be called when going to BLUE REC CantarX User Manual v2 28 rl 2009 Aug 12 p 18 PPR 1 BUFFER amp METADATA The Pre Post Record
73. e M track to one side or the other the S track will disappear trom the mix Documentary style with M S background The boom mic on M5 in its island naturally falls under the right hand The active RF mics go to M1 M2 on the front row and the peaceful RF mic goes to Ll The M S pair on M3 amp M4 routed to T516 is displayed on the right screen shared with the T7T8 mixdown Boom gt M5 T1 RF calm mic L1 gt T2 RFI active gt MI gt T3 RF2 active gt M2 gt T4 L or M mic gt M3 gt T5 R or S mic M4 gt T6 Cantar X User Manual v2 28 rl 2009 Aug 12 p 44 TUTORIAL 3 ONBOARD MIXER 2 The boom and RF mics The boom connected to MS is directly routed to TZ see Create 1718 IN GRIDS p 28 The RF mics routed to TI T6 panned to the right go to miXb on T8 Proper Mixing The following communication sent to the Cantar User s Group by Marc Weber is a must read Date Sat 3 May 2008 To Cantar Users Group lt cantarusers aaton com gt Subject Proper mixing Are you all saying that we should not be mixing just because we are providing isolated tracks on mono files As a mixer it is my assumption that my job is to mix so that phase anomalies are not occurring and mixing out unwanted open mics so that a usetul production mix is always present and it post wants isolated mic tracks then that is what de liver on top of the mix What am missing here Phase interferences are only
74. e analog inputs are recorded in the stan 33 4 7642 9550 Www aaton com p 23 dard way To launch the first play card press ok if you are using a keyboard press space To stop before reaching the cue out press ok To replay trom the cue in press ok To pause press esc to resume press esc To reach the play cards two methods are available e the bare bone where shift gt browses the play files and gt browses the play cards e the easiest connect a PS2 keyboard type the card IDs B12 F45 AQ8 and enter Or use Tarkan p 51 Rec amp Play Clone Remix ADR 2 and Re Rec Don t forget to route the digital input s carrying the play see p 48 back signal s Go to BLUE REC the last selected play card of the Clone X Play tile starts playing To abort the on going cloning go to PPR erase the file Last take erasure p 20 and return to BLUE REC Continuing to record live audio after the end point of the cloned take generates a tile which is longer than the original mother file at the risk of overlapping timecode with the next take To get a clone of the same length as the original i e same start and stop TCs go to BLUE PPR and trigger the clon ing with the keyboard crtl alt r the recording will stop on the original file s end Bad remixes You can hide unsatisfactory remix es as well as the original tile and only send the good one to the backup media go to BROWSE edit
75. e reminder and can be changed later and then applied to the audio LTC used in some audio post sync operations U Universal 24 00 25 00 30 00 29 97DF In a file digitized at 48kHz the Format stamp indicates the number of samples per realsecond i e 48000 the Timestamp carries the number of samples since midnight using the sample rate value found in the Format stamp the same logic is used in the Barebone mode B for slow planet recordings On the slow planet Unfortunately NTSC compatible 23 976fos HD cameras cannot use the anti dritt drop frame system because nobody found a way to emulate the counting drops invented for 2997tps In this environment the slow second the time it takes to shoot 30 frames of NTSC video i e 1 001 Earth second imposes its rule As soon as you enter Camera fos 23 98NDF or 292 97NDF you are on the slow second planet with its lazzy 24 aka 23 98tes on Earth or lazzy 30 aka 29 97tps on Earth The Cantar s TCXO clock switches to a slower beat and TC separators change trom to e g 12 45 36 Many nights of engineers time have been spent trying to tind a universal method to sync sound and images on the slow second planet but nothing came out In the U S you must ask your posHacility which one of these three sample stamp modes is requested 33 4 7642 9550 Www aaton com p 15 A Avid vll 23 98NDF A 29 97NDF A In a file digitized at 48kHz the A Format stamp
76. e to occur but always keeping both mics open un less some action creates a problem like someone pounding themselves on the chest where the mic is placed Always 60 40 or 75 25 or whatever works Maybe as the two actors stand very close to each other one of their mics may work to cover both of them Now if mixing to two tracks and splitting boom away trom the radios then monitor the split track mix in mono and do all the same things as mentioned above so that if the two tracks are summed together by telecine for dailies or else where in post the resulting mono mix works perfectly hate to allow post the opportunity to screw up my mixes so always try not to give them the option If there is no reason to split tracks then do not do it Mark Weber C A S Sound Specialist Inc Miami Florida CantarX User Manual v2 28 r1 2009 Aug 12 p 45 TUTORIAL 4 CAMERA SYNC 1 On location To later reunite images and sounds a common TC must be stamped on both 1 Activate the Cantar AutoSlate the clapstick sound is detected and given a TC displayed on the sound report this TC keyed by the editor on the image of the clapstick will then be used as if the camera was timecoded This is the simplest and most accurate method ever invented You can also use a SmartSlate the recorder sends its TC to a display filmed at the head or tail of each take but this is not as accurate as the AutoSlate 2 Send the camera VideoTC to the rec
77. eans CD R Mixdown Xa Xb Disk 2 in a 5 disk group The remaining data volume to be burned is displayed The large file case The length of a take can make it impossible to copy it entirely onto one CD For instance if a 2OOMB long file comes in with its five brothers a sixtrack take a 1 2GB CD is required In this case Cantar separates the take into its individual tracks while minimizing the number of CDs or DVDs The label becomes CD_2_DO 72 where CD is the media _2 the track and D072 the last four characters of the filename Example of a CD DVD label An ISO volume label is limited to 31 characters Cantar Project Date Archiv Tag type or 2 099 AAAAAAAA YYYYMMDD x CD_TF6_901 CantarX User Manual v2 28 rl 2009 Aug 12 p 40 BACKUP 3 REPORTS The archive flag is either a space or a to show if only un archived tiles have been burned a way to know why some files probably burned on another media are missing Tag typel general mode for DVD burning CD_T1 6_001 T1 6 six mono tracks from the AAD folder T1 8 eight mono tracks trom the AAD folder MXDN monophonic stereo mixdown from the AAD folder MXBN poly stereo mixdown trom AAX folder MXBC poly stereo mixdown with 24 bit to 16 bit reduction OO to 999 the media rank Tag type2 CD_TK1_001 used if the files must be separated because their group is too large to be burned on a single 69OMB CD TK1 is the track number and OO1 the m
78. ected and introduce the card while the shitt gold buttons are pressed p 36 CantarX User Manual v2 28 rl 2009 Aug 12 SESSION 2 SOUND REPORT DVD RAM formatting UDF 1 5 Cantar can record onto FAT32 formatted DVD RAMs but tor Mac PC interchangability it only formats them under UDF 1 5 Instructions please read completely before proceeding 1 With Cantar powered go to SESSION O4 Disk Format press ok Shift Gold is displayed 2 Insert a DVD RAM in either the external or internal burner and before the one platter icon appears press shift gold together Keep them pressed until the Formatting message is displayed on the rectangular screen 3 Done will be displayed when the format has finished The one platter icon appears on the right circular screen to indicate the DVD RAM is ready for use Go to STOP note To work with a DVD RAM on a Mac see p 43 To play it on a DVAO 824 contact Aaton 05 Scan HDD Int HDD Ext HDD Scanning an 80GB HDD may require two hours to com plete At the end of the scan the message should be No error If One error appears immediately copy all of your files and discard the disk Remember that a hard jolt can force the disk heads to crash and scratch the surface resulting in one or more dead clusters If for some reason you must perform an urgent REC while scanning the internal disk abort the scan by pressing esc for a few seconds until
79. edia name rank 11 Snap Report None Direct mono poly Native poly Rotate miXdwn Snap immediately stores the day s Sound Report into a YYYYMMDD AA folder Dir Nat Rot miX which car ries the same status as the backup files p 38 based on the SESSION O3 selection the report is sent to the intHDD ext HDD or both HDDs 12 Idle Report No Yes When the BACKUP idle copy is performed you must trig ger the SoundReport transter to the idle copied disc since Cantar has no means to know when you are about to disconnect the disc Idle Report copies the Sound Report to a YYYYMMDD AA folder Dir Nat Rot miX which carries the same treat ment as the backup files p 38 REMINDER perform Idle Report before eject ing the DVD RAM or removing the external HDD 13 Erase Polys No Yes This operation erases all of the previous day s Poly tiles result ing trom intermediary treatments stored in the internal HDD Obviously it you later have to deliver another backup copy containing Poly tiles the Backup Call will take longer since it will have to recreate the erased tiles As a precaution only the Poly files of preceding workdays can be erased p 41 14 Run Backup No nnnnMB Yes nnnnMB The default is No with the size of the files to be saved This allows you to quickly visit BACKUP 14 and immediately leave using the Run Backup Yes 300MB lt same ok button RunBackup systematically i
80. een the actuators O to 9 scale is only a quick positioning aid CantarX User Manual v2 28 r1 2009 Aug 12 p 53 COMPANIONS ARCAN VV Functions e Remotely controls Bluetooth equipped Cantars in TEST PPR and REC Sets input and output routings Displays modulometers and fader gains Edits scene take take type comments and tracknames Arcan VV runs under Windows Mobile 5 not Mobile 6 Arcan P for Palm OS is no longer maintained i e the remote record function has not nor will it be implemented in this application Installation The Win Mobile5 PDA must feature a VGA screen 640x480 not a QVGA screen 320x240 and an MS Blu etooth stack not a Broadcom stack e g Qtek 9000 DEIL AximSlv HTC X 500 Fujitsu Loox N560 Download rean_214 cab trom the Aaton web site to a PC or Mac and copy it through USB into a folder of the PDA Then open this tolder and execute rcan_214 cab Connection to Cantar Cantar side Set TECHSET 17 Serial Com to Bluetooth The 3m range Cantar transmitter is low power Idle O 1mA Connecting 4mA and may remain active at all times PDA side Click Arcan s icon in the PDA programs screen 1 Select a Link Bluetooth 2 Search found Bluetooth devic es are shown in the Pick eran oa E culla Ad 1 Pick ne a one pulldown menu clic sama aaa the ID for the Cantar you 5 Seana ruu OO want to store in the PDA Daren i A eo oasis m
81. elapsed time or absolute TC Rectangular screen 1 A01 play card label hidden trom Rec8 amp Play list 2 gt normal speed I gt pause gt non stop play ml user record marker sA autoslate marker ill stop end of file 3 cuen volatile in PLAY 4 scrub position jog 5 player pos or absolute time TC jam 7 cue out or take shifi eye nofes e the displayed mmiss time is relative to the start of file the tile absolute TC appears by pressing TC jam in PLAY and XOQ 1 the cuein 3 is volatile ie not stored when exiting the outpoint 7 is the end of file ie the duration e in scrub each jog tick moves the player by one second delivering very intelligible forward and reverse dialogue e fo edit scene amp take entries scrub over the autoslate mark listen to the announce then go to BROWSE e fo read the size of one track of a group go to BROWSE e the LIC output carries the TC amp fps of the play tle not the project TC it can be used to slave a chasing VTR Reminder when going to PLAY or BLUE PLAY take your time while passing over STOP if the message you were too fast appears go back to STOP for one second 33 4 7642 9550 Www aaton com 02 15 02 17 8 p 24 Play card creation I Go to BLUEPLAY notel then shift gt to choose a Play tile among indexes A to L the tile index is displayed in 1 read p 48 amp p 49 2 With x or gt se
82. eliver six iso tracks and a mixdown on two extra tracks This mixdown is also sent through Line out or Digi out to the camera s Al A2 audio tracks to let the director immediately verity the last take and to later look at the day s rushes Because of a MediaComposer limitation which forces the editor to make a drastic preliminary choice between using or not the camera recorded mixdown the successive states 33 4 7642 9550 Www aaton com Tools Toolset p 46 of the postchain must constantly deal with this duality A Import audio e editing with the Cantar iso tracks Demanding editors work with all of the iso tracks including the mixdown to insert wild tracks or emphasize the pres ence of an audio event left unheard within the mixdown In this case the video material should be imported under the V A3 mode not V Al A2 A3 which would import the camera recorded mixdown thus preventing later import and autosync of the iso tracks Once editing is done the Audio EDL TC sorting will be done with Filetags the assistant editor must put them in the Avid soundroll column prior to the import e editing with the camera recorded mixdown It the editor prefers to work with the camera recorded mix down the import must be done under V Al A2 A3 the audio is coming from Al A2 and the Audio IC trom A3 Once editing is done the Audio EDL TC sorting will be done with TapelDs the assistant editor must put them in the Avid soundroll
83. emory 3 Pick one the 7 list of Cantar IDs in mem ory is shown click the desired one 4 Connect the latest Cantar ID will show at next connection 5 Status for main tenance engineers Working Screens Arcan w displays the modulometers prefader and mixer gains plus the mic preamp settings It sets the ins and outs routings and enters edits scene take taketype tracknames and comments 33 4 7642 9550 Www aaton com nE Mik rel b Hh eeeoceoc BV ECE o dy 1 13 a amp i na D 3 7 cha 7 ii 4 f of noon Bon 0000 08000 00000 dwi GOOG 0000 0000 in STOP position a EB ee Ld LHD pat esd eth J hi5an hy Lim Pha i eter oe mi oo of e IBF m ol r LFA d mI oof of BOHt de db m of of a LAA 8 mm on oF Linear D Roe Ce Gb Thee M4 p 54 1 In Grids track disarming file rank becomes light grey m s status inputs to tracks rout ings can be modified in STOP position 2 Out Maps recorded signals appear in green the non recorded sent directly to outputs ap Outputs mapping can be moditied pear in black 3 Physical parameters top battery voltage sam ple rate and bitdepth inter nal external disk recording time middle phantom limiter phase high pass fil ter in STOP position tader mixer gains in TEST PPR and REC bottom date tiletags scene take and take type 4 Metadata e
84. ent LTC generation to a video camera should preferably go through the Fischer4 which lets the camera 12 be used instead of the internal 9V battery GMT u delivered Fischer4 cable Gnd blue TCadj white Powerin red Lemo5 l Gnd ZLC in 3 ASCII in out ATC out adj level 5 LTC out TTL level Fischer 4 GMT u only l Gnd 2 White button 3 TC out adj 4 Power in Fischer4 plug ret SIO2ZA053130 COMPANIONS MAJAX amp INDAVV PASS Majax A tree Aaton ap plication tor OSX and Windows XP devoted to the treatment of Cantar files http www aaton com documentation Plays ten tracks edits metadata converts WAV e Through the laptop builtin audio card Majax plays ten tracks with 12dBu level and pan adjustments with M S to L R decoding and solo listening e Edits the scene take taketype tracknames DayStamp audio reference and recordist s comments within the Broad cast Wave metadata iXML fields e Plays trom Autoslate marks and user s tabs e Mixes eight monophonic tracks into two rotates and inter leaves them into polyphonic files e Converts any WAV file into a Cantar Rec amp Play compat ible tile see p 25 e Helos you correct Cantar audio tiles which have been aborted by a power interruption Generates frame accurate Sound Reports Gathering the iXML metadata generated by Cantar and ed ited by the operator Majax builds a SoundReport saved in PDF format to be mailed to the Post Pr
85. ent 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 htto ulysse aaton com cgi bin mailman listinto cantar users Pictures on the road Send us your Cantar at work pictures we will put the best ones on the gallery htto www aaton com gallery Post Production helper Spread the CantarPostChain 26 tutorial around http www aaton com documentation e Interface board ET 1 brings 1OOBaseT Ethernet through an RJ45 socket Same software but some functions require X2 s power Rec amp Play Ethernet Differential analog delays AutoSlate on line inouts and tracks VWWordclock sync Maps All letters available for seq scene Delayed IdleCopy activation DVD RAM exact backup space is displayed Erratic behaviour following PDF creation fixed Linking Trios in the CSV SoundReport Tarkan v1 09 brings pan pot control T7T8 set tings metadata editing and PDF generation v2 15 March 2008 In Grids to T7T8 displayed with T1 T6 banks Mixdown 17 to T8 Line out Foldback gain from 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 delay protection of limiters Storage of project s sound report headers with save setup Clockwise jog for time and operan
86. ers a one second pressure must be applied While the limiter is turned ON a triangle is displayed below the mic num lf the signal level reaches acne oe e o the limiter zone 8dBFS the triangle will start blinking In 24 bit recording mode it is ber on the left circular screen common practice to adjust the input gain so that a normal signal does not go over the 2OdBFS level Limiter activated the 32dBu head room above the 8dBFS kickin point gives 24dBu above the no imiter full scale The operator can count on a 44dBu reserve over the normal 2OdBFS level It the signal does reach the IdBFS level a clip icon appears at the end of the modulometer scale and a beep can be sent to the headphones TECHSET O8 Clip Detect To maintain equilibrium between linked channels the same limiter com mand is applied to ganged preamps Inversion Press shift lim inv 1 to invert the phase of a mic signal a triangle appears below the concerned mic number on the middle circular screen 33 4 7642 9550 Www aaton com p 16 High pass filters and line attenuators Click the so fil tom button 2 of a mic to open the filter selection screen another click on any so fil tom button closes it In between these two clicks you can jog through the filter selection screen Continuously leaving the finger on the so fil tom button simulates both clicks when you remove it the filter screen
87. es a tile group sharing the same scene ID take and filetag the tiletag uniquely identities and reunites the native iso tracks tiles e g ADI234 is the unique filetag of AD1234_1 to AD1234_8 of their associ ated polyphonic file ADI234PR and of their poly mixdown AD1234PX e The descriptor displays the scene taketype and take e g scene Al8 2a taketype t take 04 e The suffix is used to flag the nature of the file either multi monophonic _ _8 or interleaved poly Native PN or interleaved poly Rotate PR or poly miXdown PX Examples A short filename AD1234_1 wav A long filename AD1234 A18 2a t04 _1 wav questionable file AEren eRe Va Access to their tile repair FTP site EN eVe Hp Client download the Mac OS levee Wel from hito cyberduck ch S REAA A KE hito www smartitp com perational problem Comm aSns a0 Save Setup and create a Setup Hesene ELA Cantar support aaton com this will REENE 761 problem Cantar X User Manual v2 28 rl 2009 Aug 12 p 12 STOP 3 TIME amp SYNC Calendar and Sync Times Time is the essence of a digital audio recorder Cantar uses two kinds of time CalendarTime organizes folders and tiles SyncTime links audio and picture Calendar Time System date and time run on a medium precision clock which automatically creates the workday folders This clock is powered for four to six years by a user replaceable 3V Lithium CRI220 button battery loca
88. eters use the horizontal arrows to select the parameter value press enter for ok escape for esc CantarX User Manual v2 28 rl 2009 Aug 12 p 21 REC 1 SOLOS amp BEEPS Recording In REC a ree icon is displayed under the active disk drive and a red LED lights up underneath this icon While in REC both batteries are paralleled for additional satety Iso Track modulos In REC PPR and TEST the modulometers display the level of the signals to the tracks The circular modulometers resolu tion is 1dB in the 35dBFS to 12dBFS working zone The rect angular screen modulometers resolution is 2dB in the same zone The ballistics emulate needle modulometers The decay time can be adjusted in TECHSET 12 Meter Speed trom 1 Fast to 5 Slow In a low temperature environment 5 Slow is recommended The default is 3 Med The peak meters are always active and their hold period can be adjusted trom one half to tive seconds TECHSET 13 Soloing inputs To monitor a questionable input rotate the monitor crown to So and select the desired input You can also directly monitor a microphone by pressing its so tittom 2 but ton or make a short click to umer JL turn it ON another click turns iia it OFF While sofiltom is enabled its filter setting can be modified using jog Soloing tracks Pull the SoloMixPan slider to Solo operator side Press a tracksolo button you
89. ft black continuous mic goes to all tracks 33 4 7642 9550 Www aaton com p 31 05 MixGain Max OdB 6dB Mixer s faders top position gain In 6dB mode the OdB mark is the indentation in the linear faders guide rails 06 PreRec Dur 1 to 35 sec Pre record buffer duration Up to 35 seconds 8 tracks 24 bit 48kHz Up to 17 seconds 8 tracks 24 bit Q6kHz 07 BalanceLock Unlocked Locked Slaved fader status see Mic links p 17 08 Mic Links I gt 2 amp 3 gt 4 152 3 1 gt 2 3 4 152 3 4 5 1 gt 2 amp 3 gt 4 5 The sleeping mic link presets are activated with the button between the faders MI amp M2 and M3 amp M4 The master is to the left the slaves control the 12dBu balance 09 Line Links Off 152 amp 3 gt 4 152 354 152 3 1523 4 Contrary to the sleeping mic inks linelinks are immediately activated trom the selection menu Slaved faders have no balance function they get their gain value trom the master The 1 gt 2 3 choice is to be used for the Soundfield ST350 line level outputs see Soundfield B Format p 44 10 ScTk Templt nnnA nnA nn CCCCCCCC CC The nnnA nnA nn template fits the mostly used Sequence Scene system The all C tem AUDIO TC 09 plate is totally open giving the Line links 1 gt 2 amp 3 gt 4 operator maximum flexibility see Scene and Take p 19 11 Slate Chanl Off micl mic5 line 1 line4 track 1 track8 CantarX2 only See AutoSlate p 23
90. he MMDD ot the shooting day followed with an import arbitrary incrementing User s TapeRef final mix side e To perform the auto conforming of the Cantar iso files to the edited mixdown Titan 3 p 56 first sorts them by com paring the leading MMDD four characters 0418 of the EDL s TapelD or SoundRoll column with the User s TapeRef found in the audio files metadata then uses the timecode in and outpoints to finish the job with Pyramix you don t even need to use Titan 33 4 7642 9550 Www aaton com Tools Toolset p 47 D Autosync e editing with the Cantar iso tracks Correlated to the Video TC of the images the Audio IC is used to autosync the imported Cantar iso tracks and the video pictures Both TC h and TC d must match e editing with the camera mixdown Autosync is not applicable since the mixdown has already been linked to the images during their import E EDL generation e editing with the Cantar iso tracks Once editing is done before triggering the Audio EDL generation the editor selects Filetags tile names as the tile sorting mode e editing with the camera mixdown Once editing is done before triggering the Audio EDL gen eration the editor selects the classic TapelD or SoundRoll as the tile sorting mode notel A demand to be resisted some producers ask sound recordists to enter the camera cassetie IDs in the User s TapeRef field this is no good 1 quite often the
91. he gain of the master e The last assignment of a CantaRem RemFader previously linked to another Cantar fader cancels the former link All Cantar physical faders are re enabled as soon as CantaRem is disabled by setting AUDIO TC 20 CantaRemCom to In active or by unplugging the cable Stored assignments are displayed on AUDIO TC 21 to 36 e To activate the solo monitoring of a mic line or track press the key of the RemFader controlling it e The 0 6 second delay of Cantar s line faders is more ap parent when they are driven by linear actuators which un like the Cantar onboard faders can be swept trom O to 60d BFS in a wink e Put Cantar s MainSelector on STOP to initialize its clock by ASCII trom an OriginC e Cantar remote MainSelector on PPR set AUDIO TC 20 CantaRemCom to Active Press both ctrl keys and press 2 TEST 8 PPR or 4 REC When CantaRemCom is set to Forced 1 STOP is also available Design considerations e Since Cantar is the only audio recorder featuring a wire less PDA link there is no need for a replica display nor a builtin keyboard on CantaRem e CantaRem s Penny Gilles faders are teathersmooth but not as resistant to the elements as Cantar s magnetically driv en faders That is why CantaRem is built with structural trans parency allowing sand and water to treely flow through e The precise gain value of each fader is displayed on Can tar s rectangular scr
92. her or not they are recorded on 1778 note2 Ph Q adds miXa and miXb to the operator s se lected OutMap eg the L R decoded miXa miXb of M S pairs recorded on T1T2 T3T4 TST6 can be added to the T7T8 OutMap AES power reminder As soon as you select an OutMap with digi out the track icons start flashing in the circular screens to remind you to turn the AES interface ON This interface consumes 110mA at 48kHz and 200mA at 9O6kHz if it is not in use turn it OFF in TECHSET O2 Digi Power 33 4 7642 9550 Www aaton com p 30 Digi 1 8 out AES 1 8 The use of the AES outputs is recommended to send audio signals to the external world totally transparent no interfer ence prone cables Connect them to video cameras featuring AES inputs such as the Sony HD Cam F900 SR or to an SDI camera equipped with a miniature AES o Analog converter The eight AES outputs are separated into two groups e the Digi out 1 2 3 4 5 6 pairs transmit tracks 1 6 or micl 5 amp linel The micl 5 amp linel option lets you use Cantar s high qual ity preamplitiers limiters to send audio signals to an external mixer and re enter them through the digi 1 to digi 6 inputs to record them e the Digi out 7 8 pair transmits either tracks 7 amp 8 or a Do selected OutMap including the stereo mix See AUDIO TC 19 Digil 8 Out p 32 CantarX User Manual v2 28 rl 2009 Aug 12 p 30 AUDIO TC 1 MIC LINE LINKS AUDIO TC O1 Sample
93. ing between TEST and STOP is the way to display the remaining disk space in Gigabytes If at the end of your next recording the tile is too large to be idle copied within the available backup disk space IdleCopy Full appears Atter you eject the DVD RAM or remove the CF card insert an empty one the backup automatically continues from where it previously stopped e Backup Call Opens access to the parameters requested for BACKUP 14 Run Backup If you copy your files onto an external HDD only trigger Run Backup at the end of the day modifying a file s metadata after you have saved the file during the day would not resave the updated file s with the next Run Backup of this day It is preferable to use IdleCopy which resaves files that have been updated 33 4 7642 9550 Www aaton com p 39 e PolyStore To speed up the end of day Run Backup PolyStore copies onto the int HDD the provisional polyphonic tiles resulting trom the treatments done during idle periods or during Run backup on DVDs From time to time flush out these poly tiles from the HDD see BACKUP 13 Erase Polys 02 Day to Copy 2007 02 18 The current day is selected by default Previous days can be selected too To simplity archive creation and retrieval Cantar only copies one day per CD DVD Several days can be copied onto an external HDD each day in turn 03 TrackSelect TI 16 T1 T8 TI T8 T7T8 BACKUP 03 t1 18 TeT8 T7T8
94. ing empty tracks as is the case with polyphonic files It is wise to momentarily disarm a track when there is no use for it In TEST press shift track solo of the unwanted track lts monitor is muted and as a reminder its track icon blinks and its modulometer is dashed Disarmed tracks are not inadvertantly rearmed by going to PLAY or BROVVSE you must go to the ROUTING position and back or turn OFF the power M S monitoring The m s declaration of a track pair IN GRIDS p 27 causes them to be decoded as m s m s i e L R stereo in the phones and mixdown If on top of the phones you want an M S recorded track pair say T516 to be sent as L R stereo to the lo Fb Do outputs create an OutMap in which T5 goes to the lett and T6 to the right Cantar will automatically decode these M S tracks as L R This applies to the TIT2 and T3T4 pairs too alone or together Panning the M track to the left or right makes it go there and the S signal disappears from the mix That is a way to mono monitor the M signal eg Headphone level we x The headphone level is protected by shift and is displayed on the rect screen Rotating the fader makes lt and gt appear There is no level change if shift re activation is done while the fader is put back in its pipe position The headphone amplifier can drive 8 ohm speakers a helpful feature to send playback tracks to the stage To facilitate extraction of a right angle 1
95. inking cursor to the TS square press the black button to link track 5 to the lett ear press the gold button to unlink the blinking frequency increas es to acknowledge the link do the same for T7 middle screen jog the black blinking cursor to T1 press the black button to link track 1 to both the left and right ears same for T2 right screen jog to 16 press the black button to link track 6 to the right ear same for 18 33 4 7642 9550 Www aaton com p 29 If you want an m s recorded track pair say TS T6 to be sent as L R stereo to the Lo Fb Do outputs create an OutMap in which T5 goes to the left and T6 to the right Cantar will auto matically decode these M S tracks as L R This applies to the T1T2 and T314 pairs too alone or together e Inputs to outputs Any input micl 5 linel 4 digil 6 can be sent to the outputs VVhile the blinking black cursor jogs on the inner ring of the circular screen it points out the input to be pos sibly routed to the lett both right ears link the desired input by pressing the black button Out Map banks Rotate the black monitor crown over the Do Fb Lo Ph and So positions then rotate the silver contig crown to display the OutMaps of each Do Digi out Nine user created R to Z maps and XX miXa mixXb The two digital out channels go to the AES 7 amp 8 ports p 57 Fb Foldback Nine user created R to Z maps and XX miXa mix
96. isfortune Cantar reintroduces the TC date that CMX s EDLs killed by replacing the arbitrary VideolapelD entries with the automatically generated MMDD User s TapeRet no longer bothering the sound recordist with video cassette or P2 IDs this eliminates fattinger errors and furthermore takes care of multiccamera shooting User s TapeRef Cantar side Using the workday which gives a name to the Cantar fold ers the MMDD month day is automatically stored in the User s TapeRet metadata field of each audio file As an alternative to the absolute date some productions do preter to enter manually incremented shooting days this is not a good idea see note2 User s TapeRef Camera side The camera operator writes the six character VideolapelD on the video cassette compactflash or disk like in the good old times but instead of an arbitrary name he writes MMDD CamID Cassette Date April 18 Camera A Cassette 9 gt 0418A9 Date April 18 Camera B Cassette 1 gt 0418B1 The 1 to 9 then A to Z last character can identity 35 cas settes per day per camera long working hours User s TapeRef NLE side The assistanteditor keys in the six characters of the standard VideolapelD when preping the digitization of the cassette they will appear in the TapelD or SoundRoll column of the bin Please note that if the VideolapelD sticker is lost or not exixting it is easy for the assistant to replace it by writing t
97. isk Format jog to Yes Hold shift gold and connect the FireWire cable into the HDD When Formatting is displayed release buttons This opera tion may take 60 seconds p 36 24 Tracks 7 8 in IN GRIDS 5 o clock press ok to access routings jog to select ok to accept p 28 25 Sound Report on Int HDD Before copying tiles from the Internal HDD go to BACKUP 1 o clock jog to 11 Snap Report Press ok p 41 26 Sound Report on Ext Device Before ejecting the DVD RAM or disconnecting the Ext HDD go to BACKUP 1 o clock jog to 12 IdleSndRpt Press ok Select Yes then ok p 41 27 Right Modulometer Source n TEST PPR or REC the eye button toggles between tracks 5 6 or tracks 7 8 tor display p 8 28 Change Rectangular Screen Top Line in TEST or REC use the jog to select battery levels avail able recording time remaining storage space or mixdown modulometers p 8 29 Input Grids In TEST or PPR push the SoloMixPan slider toward the battery Press routing then rotate the sil ver contig crown p 9 to select a preset Press routing to retain the choice p 18 33 4 7642 9550 Www aaton com p 59 30 Output Maps In TEST or PPR pull the SoloMixPan slider toward the operator Press routing then rotate the black monitor crown p 9 to select which output to view Rotate the silver contig crown to select a preset Press rout ing to retain the ch
98. k WA i91 AATON CANTAR 0 SUB15 SD SERIES AutoSlate This is the most precise and simplest method ever invent ed to sync images and sounds p 46 In AUDIO TC 11 select the slate detection channel While in REC press shift silver within six seconds after a clapstick the most plosive event preceding shift silver creates a Slate Mark The successive slates generated by a multiccamera shoot are labeled SA SB SG the slate TC is displayed in roman characters in the Sound Report The clapstick quality is displayed in the rectangular screen 25 should be a minimum at 75 score you can congratu late the slateman If you forget to press shift silver AutoSlate detects the most plosive sound of the take with a 95 chance ot selecting the clapstick in this case the Sound Report s Slate TC appears in Italic to show it must be either confirmed or ignored While in PLAY shift silver starts the playback two seconds before the slate mark Majax displays an upright slate icon on startslates and a bottom up icon on tailslates click the icon to listen to the slate announce User s markers Press the silver button to create tabs labeled UMI UM2 UMIO on wind clicks boom noise dialogue slip etc While in PLAY they are accessible with the silver button BLUE REC Rec amp Play Live see p 48 e Standard Playback and ADRI Don t forget to route the digital input s carrying the play back signal s th
99. l fo aaton support aaton com By their very nature the Aaton filetags eliminate all TC overlaps and this is a huge advantage over all other refer ences note Titan 3 does generate sample accurate audio con formation lists provided the FixSync process is performed immediately atter the EDL driven FlashContorm operations 33 4 7642 9550 www aaton com CantarX User Manual v2 28 r1 2009 Aug 12 p 56 ANNEX 1 CONNECTORS amp ACCESSORIES Connectors Mic XLR3 F Symmetrical transformer OdBu 24dBu w pad on mic micz MES on ALR 3 Gnd 2 Hot 3 Cold Mic XLR5 F Symmetrical transformer OdBu 24dBu w pad on mic 3 Left or M 1 Gnd 2 Hot 3 Cold mic 4 Right or S l Gnd A Hot 5 Cold Line in XLR 5 F Asymmetrical 4 4k ohm 1OdBu on linein amp linein 3 l Gnd 2 Hot 3 Cold line in 2 amp linesin 4 l Gnd 4 Hot 5 Cold The Cold to GND link is done at the line amplifier IC level and should not be duplicated anywhere else Line out XLR 5 M Symmetrical 1OdBu out 1 8dBFS on track digital camera line in level practice is 1OdBu not OdBu line out 1 stereo Left Gnd 2 Hot 3 Cold line out 2 stereo Right Gnd A Hot 5 Cold Foldback TA 3 M Mini XLR3 l Gnd 2 left 3 Right 3 5mm Jack on earlier Cantars Gnd Left Right Phones 1 4 jack 8 ohm speakers up to 2Vrms Timecode in out LEMO 5 F l Gnd 2 ITC Ihn 3 ASCII 4 nc 5 LTC Out Power XLR4A M max 16 6V
100. lar screen bottom row between tiletag amp duration and scene amp take oreterence stored until Cantar is turned OFF TC jam in PLAY shows absolute TC in TEST a 3 sec press sets Sync clock to incoming LC shift TC jam in TEST stops int c reminder blinking batt L or R short pressure battery voltage long pressure battery on duty shift batt in STOP turns OFF Cantar 33 4 7642 9550 Www aaton com Line in faders TC jam p 6 Mic faders _ lt HP S t T T T _ inl 57h og eB By m Tis z 7 Al Headphones MainSelector Talkback mic Batt L Batt2 R Headphones 1 4 jack in an isolated compartment The headphone am plitier is powerful enough to drive loudspeakers down to 8 ohms The stored output level of the headphones 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 amp p 8 TripleCrown and MainSelector Easy to manipulate even with winter gloves on they give access to all operating actions and operands p 9 p 10 amp p 26 Mixer s faders Dustproof and waterproof they are magnetically driven The black fader caps can be easily replaced with colored Ones DVD burner The burner is protected by the swiveli
101. las selected in SESSION O3 they all are stored inside AAD folders as ISO tracks i e monophonic files e when backing up the files by any method whatever the selected media they are stored in different folders depending on the treatment they received Direct mono go to AAD poly Native go to AAN poly Rotate go to AAR and miX go to AAX p 39 amp p 4Q 33 4 7642 9550 Www aaton com e DVD in the evening go to BACKUP 06 Media type and select DVD then in BACKUP 08 File to copy select All to allow Cantar to burn the already archived files again Then go to BACKUP 14 Run backup e Ext HDD in the evening go to BACKUP 06 Media type select Ext HDD Then go to BACKUP 14 Run backup No Store appears in the rectangular screen It reminds you that BACKUP O1 PolyStore has been activated but you forgot to select a poly treatment in BACKUP 04 05 note End Stor trtmt tells you the poly treatment has been successtully stored in a folder of the recording HDD waiting for your end of day backup call From time fo time flush out these provisional files trom the HDD see BACKUP 13 Erase Polys CantarX User Manual v2 28 r1 2009 Aug 12 p 42 TUTORIAL 2 DRIVES amp MEDIA The FAT32 can handle up to 21B but Microsoft lets it be universal below 120GB Cantar formats HDD and SSD to this value Internal HDD PATA Seagate EE25 2 ST980818AM 80GB SATA Hitachi Endurastar JAK1O
102. lect an empty card e g AOI among the fifty one cards per file AOO the factory card is not empty it contains the entire play tile it can t store a cue in its cue out 7 is the duration of the take 3 To fill an empty card scrub the audio with the jog 4 press the black button to set a cue in 3 scrub further and press the gold button to set a cue out 7 a half second silence is inserted AQ 1 gt 01 45 at the cue out to let you detect COZeS and fine tune its position The last entered cue points replace the former ones Once a cue in has been entered a cue out is not necessary an empty card becomes a play card The cue points are stored in the XML chunk of the tile and will only be removed if you erase the play card to do so jog to 00 00 and press gold To hide a play card without erasing its cues press shift gold Tagged with a character the card is no longer visible in the BLUETEST BLUEREC play list shortening it r ANANN n a e rtr A n AA ana Play file A from the current project containing five play cards Note their chronological placement suitable for an ADR session Fo P aA a A a r a A ey a Pl E15 Play file E from the archives containing six play cards Note their free and overlaping placement suitable for playback 4 With gt select a play card and press ok to play it from its cuein If there is no cue out in this card or if you wan
103. mpleRate OUT MAPS outputs to monitors OutMaps 6h 48048 ROUTING owes O1 In Grids AUDIO TC p 31 O7 Balance tader lock O1 Sample rate 08 09 Mic Line fader links O2 Bitdepth 10 Sc amp lake template 11 AutoSlate channel 12 Record by LTC 13 TC source 14 LIC rate O8 Clip detection beep O9 lack of ext clock beep 10 11 Beep routing level 12 Meter speed 13 Peak hold duration 14 15 BatL BatR alert 16 HDD Power Down O4 HDD amp DVD format O5 Scan disk Q6 Erase Day 04 05 Tl Ix TZT8 treatment O6 Media type O7 Burn and check O8 Files to copy e Bottom row Parameter Value Q2 OutMaps 15 LIC gen output 16 LTC Userbits 7 Rec Run TC init 18 Operator IC init 19 Digil 8 Out 20 CantaRem com 21 36 Cantakem assign 17 Serial Com port 18 Factory Reset 19 Max File Size 20 Temperature Control 21 22 System Time Date 23 24 Equipmt Ds License key 25 26 Software version Load O7 to 13 Sound Report headers 14 Column layout selection 15 to 29 AColumns 02 to 16 09 10 File name Media label 11 12 Snap Idle Sound Report 13 Erase stored poly tiles 14 Run Backup www aaton com CantarX User Manual v2 28 r1 2009 Aug 12 p 26 ROUTINGS 1 11 16 IN GRIDS The Cantar eight monophonic iso tracks are sepa rated into two groups T1 T6 on the circular screens and T7T8 on the rectangular one Create T1 16 In Grids Rotate the MainSelector to five o clock note to avoid spurrious activation of PLAY and BRO
104. n Remote Roll by LTC It is also a means to tell your boom to keep the mike in the same position since you are still recording the background noise after the director s CUTI 08 Clip Detect Beep On Beep Off 09 No Ext TC Beep Off Activated if the external clock is missing while in External Beep On Clock mode The beep is automatically disabled while recording w wild track takes 10 Beep Route Phones Ph Line out Ph Foldback Ph Lo Fb 11 Beep Level OdB to 60dB 12 Meter Speed l Fast 2 3Med 4 _ 5 Slow Select 5 Slow in low temperature conditions 13 Peak Hold 0 5 sec to 45sec peak hold duration 14 Bat L Alert 15 Bat R Alert 10 8 Volt to 15 0 Volt Each battery socket can be set to its own alert level auto matic switch over occurs 300mV below this level Once a battery drops below its alert level a two beep alarm is sent to the headphones NiMH battery alert should be set to 10 8V 10 5V switch over and Cantar R Cell Li lon battery alert should be set to 14 2V 13 9V switch over 16 HDD Pwr Dwn Aftr Imin to Aftr 255min In STOP the HDD eats halt of Cantar s power it is wise to put it to sleep While in sleep the three platter icon blinks Go to TEST to wake up the HDD it will be up to 33 4 7642 9550 Www aaton com p 34 speed within three to ten seconds the prerecord buffer hides this speed ramp up Cantar s cold start from a totally un powered machine to recording is a blazi
105. n will be a great time saver CantarX User Manual v2 28 rl 2009 Aug 12 p 28 ROUTINGS 3 OUTMAP BANKS The 3 Screen paradigm Here is where the Cantar screen lay out is at its best signals going to the left ear are displayed on the lett signals to be listened to in mono are displayed on the middle and those going to the right ear are displayed on the right The middle screen does not represent a wired output but the mono ef fect resulting from the routing to both the left and right ears Create Out Maps Rotate the MainSelector to six o clock note to avoid the activation of PLAY and BROWSE while go ing to ROUTINGS the triggering of these two functions is slightly delayed Grouped in banks accessible trom the black monitor crown Ph d T5 T7 left T1 T2 both ears mono listening T6 T8 right miXa left miXb and line3 right nine OutMaps are shared by digi out Do foldback Fb and line out Lo and eleven are devoted to the phones Ph The eight tracks the miXa and miXb outputs the nine ano log and the six digital inputs recorded or not are indepen dently routed to the outputs which are treated in the same manor since they all carry a lett and a right channel The Ph d example below is applicable to any output Tracks to outputs Rotate the monitor crown to Ph the left circular screen displays Ph Rotate the config crown to get d on the middle circular screen left screen jog the black bl
106. ne amp take pret stored until Cantar is turned OFF N A in BLUE PLAY TC jam display player s relative TC or absolute TC CantarX User Manual v2 28 r1 2009 Aug 12 p 59
107. ng front panel to re place it see p 5 p 43 amp p 57 The currently installed Mot shita UJ 85 DVD RAM R burner is a slot machine Status light Eject p 6 CantarX User Manual v2 28 rl 2009 Aug 12 DESCRIPTION 4 CIRC SCREENS Circular screens These are the largest easiesHto 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 hours getting used to them since five display paradigms are used for the many functions they handle Once you are familiar with these functions you will be driv ing the fastest machine you have ever driven T input grids The six iso tracks graphically display their links at the push of a button even while recording 2 output maps Thanks to the three screen layout emulating the lett both and right ears the monitor maps are immedi ately understood 3 progressive pan pots The contribution of each track to the mixdown has never been so clear 4 circular modulometers Their round shape makes the sig nal level easy to appreciate in a wink 5 monitoring physical status Permanent control of the disks tracks and setups 1 Input grids The available Inputs are shown in each circular screen line to line4 mic 1 to mic 5 digi 1 to digi The six tracks to which they can be connected are grouped in pairs e g TIT2 T3T4 T5T6 on the three screens The method to create routing c
108. ng two to three seconds note during IdleCopy the HDD doesn t go to sleep 17 Serial Com Factory Bluetooth Factory for maintenance techs Bluetooth for PDAs only note on CantarX2 the Ethernet interface is permanently active 18 FactryReset No Yes All menu parameters are reset to their factory default 19 MaxFileSize 260MB 690MB 2GB 4GB The current file is closed and the next one opened when the set limit is reached without losing a single sample Four lengths are available 260MB 1 track for 30 min 24 bit 48kHz 6QOMB for ZOOMB CD Rs 2GB FAT32 basic limit 4GB Indaw max file size You also have the choice of triggering the jump by swiftly changing trom REC to PPR and back to REC 20 Show Temp Temperature is displayed on this screen until you exit this item e Lcd 02 The heater option displays the circular LCD s temperature that the heaters control It takes about fifteen minutes to reach the 2 C to 4 C equilibrium in a 15 C environment To save power Cantar should be in a carrying bag prefer ably with insulation Also it is recommended that you set TECHSET 12 Meter Speed to 5 Slow e Hdd 12 This is the Cantar internal temperature Below 5 C it is recommended to replace the standard Travelstar HDD with a low temp disk such as the 4OGB Hitachi Endurastar or a Solid State Disk SSD below 15 C or higher than 5 000m altitude or very bumpy environments use an SSD p 4
109. nge ok to accept new value You can activate Tone or use the Talkback Mic while making adjustments p 18 18 Lock Unlock the Faders For 5 seconds press each linklock button between the Mic and Mic 2 faders and the Mic 3 and Mic 4 faders Watch the rectangular screen This will reset upon power down or rotating the MainSelector past the 6 position p 22 19 Pre Record Metadata entry n PPR jog to each metadata item ok to enter ok when done to accept new data shift jog accelerates letter scrolling x10 p 19 20 Post Record Metadata entry Don t rotate the MainSelector past PPR while in PPR press shitt silver to get to PREV or EDIT jog to each metadata item ok to enter ok when done to accept new data shift jog accelerates letter scrolling x10 p 20 CantarX User Manual v2 28 r1 2009 Aug 12 p 58 ANNEX 2 QUICK GUIDE 2 21 Playback Last Take In PLAY using jog you can fast forward and rewind through the take shift silver starts the playback at the slate marks shift jog acceler ates speed x10 p 24 More commands on p 58 22 Formatting DVD RAM UDF1 5 In SESSION 2 o clock jog to 04 Disk Format jog to Yes Hold shift gold and insert the DVD RAM disc VVhen Formatting is displayed release the two buttons This operation may take 60 seconds p 37 23 Formatting HDD SSD FAT32 n SESSION 2 o clock jog to 04 D
110. nserts the three forms of the Sound Report ready to print PDF tab delimited CSV list and ALE list for editing machines once the backup is completed p 38 Example of a standard backup Select T1 T8 7 8 in 03 mono Direct in 04 Polyl Trunc in O5 Ext HDD or DYD RAM in 06 you get a Polyl bit mixdown plus all the native 24 bit monophonic tracks on an external HDD or DVD RAM The several disk case Go to BACKUP 10 Media Label select the disk you wish to burn ok BACKUP 14 Run Backup ok Yes ok Go back to Media Label choose the next one and so on You can interrupt the process between two disks and return to it later Don t forget to write Cantar ID Project name Dote and Media label onto the CD DVD as it comes out so as not to waste time looking for the ones you haven t done yet Upon completion of writing the disk will need to be manu ally ejected When the green indicator starts blinking press the burner s eject button Direct backup from a Mac or PC Once TECHSET O1 has Unmount ed the internal HDD is no longer under Cantar s control but is still powered a FireVVire connected MAC PC sees the Cantar HDD as any other HDD and can copy the files perform selective erasure and edit the metadata with Majax Warning To prevent destruction of the FireVVire input max 16 6V by the Mac GX 33V open the disk cover take out the HDD and connect it to the GX its FireWire input handles up to AOV
111. nt to con tinue working on your latest project which is displayed at the bottom of the rectangular screen When you rent a Cantar its project memory should be empty the rectangular screen should display No Project Once created a project name regroups all data related to it such as the days of recording the tracks and the disks used This name is stored in each audio file there is no risk of a tile getting lost in a maze of terabytes Unlike other machines the Cantar tile sorting system doesn t rely on disk partitions Instead it uses the Project Work Day Filetag path tree which allows for the intuitive and sate retrieval of any audio file on unpartitioned disks anywhere along the PostChain It is not operator error prone 1 Project If you are in a bind and have no time to select a project in SESSION O1 ProjectName p 36 go directly to REC your audio files will be stored in a project named AACANTAR later with Majax you will move these audio files out of the AAACANTAR folder and into the project directory you would have created in the mean time note in their iXML chunk the moved files still hold AACANTAR as the Project Name You will need to manually replace that provisional name with the correct name 2 WorkDay folder At startup Cantar asks New Workday giving you the possibility to say NO Note that going to TEST or REC is a way to say YES The workday New Workday No esc
112. o TrackName 2 etc Tracknames are moditiable at all times and are stored in each and every audio file this means that an isolated file carries its own tracknames Library cleaning By jogling past TrackName 8 you reach Del TrkName ok select the trackname to be erased ok If you decide not to erase it press esc In a bind and no time to name the tracks of the next take it is better to remove the former take s tracknames than to carry incorrect ones in the next take Go to the trackname editing line any track will do and press shift esc the following generic names will replace them T1 to T8 on native monophonics ms M and ms S on M S tracks MixRight and MixLeft on mixdown tracks Press a track solo button to display that track s name in the rectangular screen notel to allow for a possible entry from a PDA the generic tracknames above are only recorded upon completion of the take note2 the default entry mode is overwrite if you change it by selecting insert on the keyboard it will revert to over write on the tenth character since track names are limited to this number CantarX User Manual v2 28 rl 2009 Aug 12 p 19 PPR 2 METADATA amp FILES 4 User s Tape Ref You can overwrite not recommended the automatic Cantar generated MMDD Usr TapeRef with either the project s incremental Shoot Day Number or something like the Videolape ID later called Roll Number on
113. o BLUE PLAY take your time while passing over STOP if the message you were too fast appears go ro A R oe ee ee T O be a a Te E T P Play tile E from the archives six play cards E34 hidden Note their overlaping placement suitable for classic playback back to STOP for one second note The Rec amp Play metadata is stored in an iXML vl 50a chunk compliant with Cantar v2 11 or later To update old style files see p 25 33 4 7642 9550 Www aaton com Rehearsal As soon as BLUE TEST is activated the playback tracks Tp to Tp6 are internally sent to the digil 8 inputs trom where they are routed the standard way see Rec amp Play In Grids p 28 Adjust the relative levels of the digital inputs To tracks and analog inputs then rehearse your intended BLUE REC navigation see Playback below the last BLUE TEST selected play card is the first to be played TIP in BLUE TEST you can go swiftly from one play card to the next to let the tilm director verity the hilited segments of a take without scrubbing through the entire tile note Rec amp Play works at 48kHz 0 1 The play tiles are played at the live recording sample rate quite useful on filmed music shows transferred to NTSC To import MP3s into your archives see p 25 Live recording Select Live all in BLUE BRWS 2 Playback In BLUE REC the analog inputs are recorded the standard way To play the first play card press ok or space
114. o select the filetag p 25 9 Erase comment line Press shift esc p 6 10 Choosing Take Type T Sync d Take P Pickup W Wild A Announce N No Good The choice can be made with the gold button while in PPR or REC p 19 11 Arm Disarm a Track n TEST pull SoloMixPan to the operator Press shift a tracksolo button above the track fader you want to Arm Disarm p 18 33 4 7642 9550 Www aaton com p 58 12 AutoSlate Press shift silver within six seconds atter each slate clap The slates generated by a multicam era shoot are labeled SA SB SC etc up to 7 p 23 13 Tone In TEST PPR or REC press shift gold and release shift first To cancel press shift p 22 14 View Record Time or Scene Info while in REC press shitt eye to toggle rectangular screen bottom row p 8 15 Slate Mic n TEST PPR or REC press black for left channel double press black for right channel or press shift black for all armed tracks and outputs p 22 16 Adjusting Line out Level n TEST press shift silver to access the IVL amp DELAY menu ok to access current value jog to change ok to accept new value You can activate Tone or use the Talkback Mic while making adjustments p 18 17 Adjusting Foldback Level In TEST press shift silver to access the IVL amp DELAY menu jog to Foldback Ivl ok to access current value jog to cha
115. oad or Remote record depending on the country and manufac turer Select AUDIO TC 12 Rec by LTC p 32 Cantar starts recording upon receiving running LTC in and stops recording upon receiving frozen LTC in generated by a video camera or an Aaton GMT see Remote roll p 55 note the source for timecode stamped in each audio file is either the Cantar s master TC int c or the remote master clock s TC ext The remote LTC can carry a continuous record run TC or a discontinuous free run time otday TC No time overlaps are created on the breaks since Cantar waits for three seconds to validate the new LIC then goes to REC while splicing the preceding three second audio stored in the prerecord buffer If you want to continue the recording knowing the video camera is about to stop swiftly switch from PPR to REC Remote by Aaton accessories Tarkan Ethernet connected Mac or PC CantarX2 p 51 CantaRem eight linear fader surface p 53 Arcan w Bluetooth connected PDA p 54 33 4 7642 9550 Www aaton com p 21 Remote by keyboard In PPR Cantar can be controlled by a PS2 keyboard through a USB PS2 to SubD 15 converter p 57 Simultaneously press crtl alt and one of the following ir REC g IN GRIDS p PPR m OUTMAPS if TEST fa AUDIO TC s STOP k TECHSET l PLAY c BACKUP Copy b BROWSE J SESSION Use the vertical arrows or the numeric pad to scroll the param
116. oduction team Majax also builds an ALE Avid Log Exchange tile which can be opened in any spreadsheet application note to edit UDF formatted DVD RAM discs with a Mac install SottArch s WriteUDF htto www softarch com OS X 10 4 only to get a 10 5 update mail to support sott arch com In a Mac equipped with an E SuperDrive replace it with a genuine Matshita UJ 875 or connect a standalone DVD RAM burner or use the TECHSET O1 Unmount ed Cantar internal DVD burner itself p 56 IndawPass Tell your Post Production manager that Aaton s IndawPass is the fastest Tape to Tape and Audio Video Sync machine in the industry when it comes to syncing audio tiles to DPX HD and SD images htto www aaton com products post indaw index php Fps agnostic IndawPass solves all the problems postproduction facilities may encounter in the maze of audio videotilm speeds and standards Transfer list cleaner IndawPass also rejuvenates the ALE transfer lists sent to the Avid with better Keycode matching than the telecine origi nals The PostChain Distribute the Cantar Post Chain to the Post people it will help them considerably htto www aaton com documentation 5 Nuendo t N go Protools l a LLI NID z O 5 Nas Titan 3 For autocontorming with Titan 3 FlashConform and FixSync using the Cantar filetags get the cantar tsc rules trom Synchro Arts htto www synchroarts com or send an emai
117. oice p 18 31 Setup Files Save a configuration setup on the HDD for each of your regular workflows e g video film EFX etc to attach an auto label to the file you will re label it when Go in and out REC right after the setup saving the HDD is mounted to your Mac or PC Setup tiles can be emailed and used in any Cantar p 33 32 Tarkan Turn off Bluetooth WiFi and Firewall quit Skype and Widgets on your PC XP Vista or Mac OSX 10 44 In PPR connect CAFS R 45 cable and wait for up to 60 seconds on PC or 10 seconds on Mac before clicking the Tarkan connect button p 51 33 Help Press the eye button while in any menu for a description of its features 34 Playback Commands p 24 ok start stop amp send to cue in shitt ok display digitization parameters and TC fps k or gt go to prev next play card or tile if no card shift k or gt go to prev next play tile esc pause resume shift esc continuous fileto tile play not in BLUE PLAY black cue in volatile in PLAY shift black send player to start of take gold cue out in BLUE PLAY erases cues jog ed to 00 00 shitt gold hide play card trom Rec amp Play list silver send player to userentered markers shift silver send player to AutoSlate markers gl scrub audio shift jog accelerate scrub x10 jo shift eye toggle tiletags amp duration vs sce
118. ontigurations by linking inputs and tracks is explained in the section Routings p 27 With the SoloMixPan slider pushed toward the battery the routing button top left of the swiveling panel instantly displays the inputs to tracks grid even while recording In the picture above the middle screen displays A4 the routing in use Fifteen preset routing grids are stored in three banks Each bank holds tive grids to help you sort and memorize your configurations e g Al to AS for mic only setups BI to BS when some line inputs are on duty Cl to C5 for complex setups that include digi ins The contig crown gives instant sequential access to all of them 33 4 7642 9550 Www aaton com p 7 2 Output maps Here is where Cantar s three screen mapping is at its best Audio signals going to the lett ear show on the left screen signals to be listened to in mono show on the middle screen and those going to the right ear are on the right screen All inputs recorded or not very useful in Rec amp Play 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 26 different out put routing maps are available the black monitor crown gives instant access to all of them p 29 In the example above the Ph d phone routing indicates track5 goes to the left ear track 1 and track2 go to the
119. op before returning a rented machine next time you will re import them and be ready to go a great timesaving operation And think about tthe time you spent setting the RRI RR8 re recording In Grids p 28 save them forever On an internet browser provided you keep the xml exten sion you can replace the latesHtiletag name with a more personal name e g CustomO1 xml or Rereclng xml note in case of an operational problem perform a Save Setup attach it fo your mail to cantarsupport aaton com explaining the problem This will help Aaton engineers pro vide you with a solution 04 Load Setup No Yes Opening Load Setup makes Cantar look for xml suffixed tiles in the external and internal HDDs Select the setup to load e g CustomO ok Press shift to reboot 05 Backlight 0 to 100 In bright sunlight save power by turning OFF the backlight To insure visibility whatever the startup lighting environment the rectangular screen doesn t go down to 0 this offset is maintained throughout the adjustment range 06 Display dB On Off While adjusting a fader its dBFS value is displayed with the other faders found in the same mic line or mixer bank CantarX User Manual v2 28 rl 2009 Aug 12 p 33 TECHSET 2 BEEPS 07 Record Beep None Start only Start Stop Single beep on start double beep on stop The double beep is useful to warn you when the video cam era stops while recording i
120. order set in Ext Clock mode and record slaved by LTC breaks p 21 This method is seldom used since it can t work on multi cam era shoots and relies upon a cable or radio link 3 Install an Audio TC generator Ambient or Denecke with tri level sync to replace the camera s internal VideoTC with an external free run Audio IC identical to the recorder s TC This method is not applicable to all video cameras it doesn t let the camera generate a continuous Video TC something necessary to some editing systems It will work perfectly the day all video cameras and NLEs are designed for it 4 Record the TC of the audio recorder on one audio track of the camera s preferably A3 on a two rack consumer camera record audio on Al and TC on A2 listen to the Al audio with a mono jack The TC can be sent by cable clumsy but cheap by radio beware the interferences or locally delivered by a generator such as a GMT p 55 attached to each camera use a line input turn OFF the automatic gain if you use a mic input Method 4 works on all types of cameras gives total freedom of movement for multicamera shooting and leaves the continuous Record Run Video TC different in each camera untouched This is of great value when it comes to batch digitize videotapes under the Optimize tor Speed mode In the edit suite This tutorial is dealing with on location Method 4 only When using a multitrack recorder the common practice is to d
121. press shift fo turn OFF in BLUE PLAY hide play card trom Rec amp Play list p 10 STOP 1 POVVER Starting amp Stopping To turn ON Cantar set the MainSelector to STOP press the batt L or batt R button for a couple of seconds The rectangular screen lights up to confirm that Cantar is pow ered On the left circular screen the three platter icon blinks for three to five seconds the time it takes the disk to wake up it is surrounded by the icons of the currently routed tracks The rectangular screen displays battlL and battr voltages plus the system day and time To shut down Cantar set the MainSelector to STOP main tain pressure on the blue shift button and batt L or batt R until AU REVOIR is displayed As a safety measure if you are not in STOP nothing happens Reminder while in STOP internal HDD sleeping the current drain is a mere 270mA To keep the internal sync clock run ning do NOT turn OFF Cantar during the workday Twin battery safety Cantar s low power consumption electronics otter the longest operating time of all portable eighttrack audio recorders With a single set of onboard Li lon batteries the eighteen hour Cantar outperforms all other recorders And with the twin battery system you will never be taken by surprise While in REC both batteries are permanently put on duty in case you unplug one by mistake Mains power supply Only use a low ripple 15V 2A 16V m
122. rate 2 Record by LTC O2 Bitdepth 3 TC source O3 Ref tone select A LTC rate OA Talkback mic routing O5 Mixer gain max 5 LC gen output 6 LTC User bits Recckun IC init 8 Operator TC init 9 Digil 8 Out 20 CantaRem com 21 28 CantaRem 1 assign 29 36 CantaRem 2 assign O6 Pre record duration OZ Balance fader lock O8 Mic fader links O9 Line fader links 10 Sc amp lake template 11 AutoSlate channel 01 Sample Rate 44100 47952 48000 48048 88200 95904 96000 96096 For CantarX2 wordclock slaving select the WC prefixed values e g WC 48000 which are the same as the non WC rates see Sixteen tracks p 28 02 Bit Depth 16 bit 24 bit Select 16 bit if you know the final mix will be done in 16 bits Dither or truncate to 16 bit from native 24 bit tracks is available when backing up the mixdown see BACKUP O5 MxDwn Trtmt p 40 03 Tone Level 20dBFS 18dBFS Off See Reference Tone generator p 22 04 TalkbackMic Off Line out Foldback Lo Fb On top of these three routing choices lett right selection is made with the MainSelector black button in TEST or PPR black continuous talkback mic goes to left channel s e g the boom operator black short then black continuous mic goes to the right channel s e g the director and script supervisor shift black continuous mic goes to both left and right for talking to both boom operator and director in REC shi
123. rintables Cantar burns all DVDs at 4x to improve their lifespan DVD RAM Panasonic 3x LM AF 120LE CD DVD Disk Handling 98 of all media failures are caused by poor handling A dirty fingerprinted DVD can still be played but is unuse able for recording Open your thumb and indextinger in a U shape and hold the blank disk by its opposite edges Do NOT clean it with a cloth in a rotary motion best way to destroy a complete track but by successive radial strokes DVD RAM amp the MAC see Majax p 56 DVD RAM disks are read only on Macs this prevents modi tication of the file s metadata You must install WriteUDF htto www sottarch com and use the Cantar DVD RAM burner in its TECHSET O1 Unmount ed state The Cantar disk shuttle must be equipped with an Aaton FireWire to SATA bridge CantarX User Manual v2 28 rl 2009 Aug 12 p 43 TUTORIAL 3 ONBOARD MIXER 1 Surround 5 1 For Schoeps x2 M S mics or SoundField there is no need for decoding accessories The onboard mixer has it all Double M S By Fr Musy and Gab Hafner Switzerland Microphone wiring The Schoeps double M S LC R SL SR head is made of two cardioid and one figure oFeight microphones it comes with an XLR7 cable to which a home made XLR7 to XLR 5 XLR 3 Y cable should be connected XLRZ F 1 gnd 2 M front 3 M front 4 S front 5 S front 6 M rear 7 M rear XLR5 M 1 gnd 2 M front 3 M front A S front 5 S
124. round or stored in a buffer memory if the files are closed or inac cessible red characters on grey background waiting to be pushed to the connected Cantar in physical or virtual BROVVSE positions OFF Canter A NH PE pa Hue ii aie erie mna a aa e Ctl races ea wae ad a Steg la q i er T Ein ere ie Teles Access to the Metadato screens is allowed on the positions where the MainSelector bottom becomes dark grey double click on the selector itself p 52 operands screen This screen displays the AUDIO TC TECHSET SESSION and BACKUP parameters TECHSET Save Setup stores the saved parameters in the Cantar memory mises he aii teenies notel Download TAW111 WinXP or TAMI11 OS X from the Aaton software site Tarkan s display needs at least 1024 600 pixels e g netbook screen note2 Disable the firewall Consult your Mac manual since the procedure is different for OSX 10 4 Tiger and 10 5 leopard Either allow all connections or allow spe cific i e Tarkan Before launching Tarkan make sure that no TCP IP activity is occurring turn OFF your Bluetooth and WiFi apps quit Skype your e mail client all widgets and anything else that is scanning the internet Tip by Tim White If you are using your usual laptop for Tarkan instead of turning off internet scanning apps set up another user which you log in as just for a Tarkan session with all the correc
125. rproot 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 trom the sides this allows third party designers to build very narrow Made for Cantar carts e The SubD 15 p 57 is used to connect CantaRem p 53 or a USB PS2 keyboard adapter e The SubD 25 p 57 is the AES in out connector which can loop playback signals when in REC amp PLAY mode e The 3 8 screw is placed at the center of gravity Timecode o FireWire Cable retainer Ident label Bluetooth Tx Rules about FireWire cables ee The cable retainer screw should be used at all times use gatttape if your Cantar is not equipped with it to avoid intermittent contact or sudden cable pull out An intermittent FireVVire connection can induce bus hangs and can even stop recording on both the external and internal disks ee DO NOT plug a cable into the Cantar FireWire socket while it is powered The FireVVire6 socket that powers external disks and burners has a HOT 12V pin in it 33 4 7642 9550 Www aaton com p 5 between three rubber pads and is used to secure the Can tar onto a cart eThe weep hole underneath the phone jack socket is a drainage port for water that has entered through the phone jack eTo extract the internal DVD DVD RAM burner first remove its lateral retaining screw Aaton ref 20 110 45 then intro duce
126. rters AD 5 pro vide nine audio delays up to 85ms 48kHz New Features X1 amp X2 X2 only v2 28 Aug 2009 Absolute TC permanently displayed shift eye in PLAY back to elapsed TC when getting out Cantarem can mix T1 T7 into Xb T8 or TI T8 to Foldback Line out and Phones The ALE incremental Index is replaced by ScTk and the first autoslate TC is stored in the Mark In column Fudge in AUDIO13 TC Source adds 60ms to the file s TC No freeze when playing Majax cantarized foreign tiles BattAlert range extended to 15V Improved SATA disk management Mixer levels visible trom Tarkan v2 26 Feb 2009 Idle backup can be interrupted while saving TZT8 after a T1 T8 polyrotate Mic3 master of Mic4 amp MicS Direct PLAY of the take preceding a deleted one Fat32 for matting of CF cards SoundReport generated once backup calll is completed Tarkan v1 11 adds CSV to the PDF SoundReport Tarkan completion menu fits WinXP netbook screens v2 24 Nov 2008 Windows PCs handle unmounted internal drive Simultaneous recording on a mix of internal external P ATA S ATA drives Line in links for Soundfield ST350 PolyRotate by one or two ranks T8T8 backup False start take type n keeps the take for the next Trash a tile Revive files in BROWSE Swift access to ROUTINGS with no PLAY BROWSE triggering Thumb tree check select In Grids and Out p 3 it will be s
127. sions erase the old ones To install a new version see below 26 Softwr Load No Yes As a registered Cantar owner get the latest version trom new software installation http soft aaton com sweantar Put the file can xxx tlb on your Mac PC desktop 33 4 7642 9550 Www aaton com p 35 Instructions please read completely before proceeding 1 Connect a cable to the Cantar FireWire socket while it is unpowered p 5 2 To avoid any power interruption during the following oper ations ACTIVATE BOTH ONBOARD FULLY CHARGED BATTERIES by simultaneously pressing the battl and battR buttons for three seconds A loss of power wil prevent Bios reinstallation ERROR Num 1B XILINX will be displayed meaning Return Cantar fo the factory 3 First unmount the HDD in TECHSET O1 Disk un mount then connect the FireWire cable to the computer The Cantar HDD icon will be displayed on the computer s screen A Copy the can xxx tlb file to the root of the Cantar HDD NEVER install a version lower than 1 78 5 Dump the Cantar HDD icon out of the computer then dis connect the FireVVire cable see the warning in TECHSET Ol Disk unmount p 33 6 Set TECHSET O1 to Mount the internal HDD this is done when the three platter icon is no longer blinking 7 Set TECHSET 26 Softwr Load to Yes 8 Select the desired version ok For satety all controls are disabled during this one minute operation Do NOT touch
128. sound recordist is warned too late of the camera cassette change over 2 with video cassettes being replaced by cards it becomes almost impossible to keep track of them 3 on a multicamera shoot there is no provision to enter double or triple camera cassette IDs into the metadata 4 like any manual operation done in a hurry on location this is error prone and induces contusion and delays in Post note2 The Shooting Day Rank manual entry increases the risk of human error it you nevertheless use it instead of the absolute date go to the Tape Ret field following Comments in PPR edit First thing in the morning right atter accepting a new day go there and overwrite the MMDD month day with the day rank e g day twentytive DO25 On the camera side the assistant writes DO25 Bl instead of OA18 B1 on the video cassette note3 With Majax you can batch modify the User s TapeRef field by highlighting all the concerned tiles and entering the new value in the bottom right field It is record ed in the iXML metadata and insures that whatever happens to your files e g mono to poly mixdown gathering in a different folder copy to DVD they will keep their User s TapeRef CantarX User Manual v2 28 r1 2009 Aug 12 p 47 TUTORIAL 5 REC amp PLAY 1 To activate the Rec amp Play BLUE functions press the blue shift button while transitioning to a new MainSelector position hold it for one second after
129. t parameters and log back in as the usual user for normal use Tip by Jean Casanova Every time your laptop wakes up it takes a few seconds to get a dynamic IP to avoid this assign it a fixed IP Open the local network properties enter Tarkan Connection instead of Default Local Connection Double click Internet Protocol TCP IP Address 169 254 213 29 Network Mask 255 255 0 0 leave the rest blank It takes 4 seconds for Tarkan to talk to Cantar note3 A PDF CSV sound report builder is implemented PDFs from Tarkan save time at wrap up 33 4 7642 9550 www aaton com CantarX User Manual v2 28 r1 2009 Aug 12 p 52 COMPANIONS CANTAREM Connections It the Cantar motherboard is CM 2 6 the ID appears under the white sheet in the HDD housing and in TECHSET 23 Hardwr IDs the CantaRem to Cantar ASCII connection is insured through the Cantar s SubD15 pin 2 Use a SubD15 to Lemo8 cable ref 594 4090 If the motherboard is earlier than CM 2 6 the SubD15 pin 2 is not internally connected to the ASCII port you must use a SubD 15 to lemo 8 lemo 5 Y cable fref 594 4191 and connect the lemo 5 plug to the Cantar timecode in lemo5S socket e To gang two CantaRems use the Fischer4 Lemo8 cable ret 594 4092 The Fischer4 plug goes to the first Canto Rem the lemo8 plug goes to the second one A Lemo5 ASCII LTC In Out B USB PS2 keyboard C Fischer4 PDA power or CantaRem 1 to 2 D Lemo8
130. t to stop the playback before reaching the cue out press ok Press ok again to restart from the cue in Press esc to pause press esc to resume play there is NO delay between play and the audio output notel to get access to the BLUE PLAY position press and hold the blue shift button while rotating the MainSelector to PLAY CantarX User Manual v2 28 rl 2009 Aug 12 p 24 BROWSE INDEX FILES Find a file By default BROWSE opens access to the Inter nal HDD and the Current Project tiles to reach tiles located elsewhere first select Ext HDD in SESSION O3 then a proj ect in SESSION O1 Select a Day by jog amp ok the last take s filetag is displayed search other tiletags by jog and ok The displayed MB is the size of only one of the tracks of the group Edit metadata Scene take taketype comments track names and tape ret can be edited through shift silver ex actly like in PPR p 20 An individual file can be trashed its wav extension becomes rip latin requiescat in pace it disappears trom the backup list but remains in the day fold er from where it can be individually or batch revived from BROWSE or by computer changing rip back to way BLUE BROWSE Create Play files Rec amp Play p 48 For Rec amp Play to play a file it must have been indexed as a Play file in BLUE BRVVS To get access to BLUE BRVVS press and hold the blue shift button while rotating the MainSelector to B
131. ted below the HDD compariment In STOP the system date and time displayed on the rectan gular screen must be checked for a five minute consistency with the time zone you are working in think of it when you get off of a three hour flight This clock is very important for file management go to TECHSET 21 System Time and press ok a triangle points to the moditiable digit Using jog select the desired value then press the gt or lt to move on fo the next column and so on ok to exit Power OFF Cantar then back ON for the CPU to use the new system time The Workday is related to the date defined by the calendar clock but not totally a clone ot it The workday is an interpre tation of the human day its duration can be trom 6 AM in the morning to 3 AM in the deep night next day If you turn OFF the batteries after midnight Cantar thinks the operator has gone to sleep But it your workday is continued into the wee hours after a midnight snack you would probably not want it to be considered a new workday That is why Cantar displays New Workday giving you the opportunity to say NO Note that going to TEST or REC is a way to say YES Thus if you stop working at 2 AM one day the audio files are technically still part of the previous workday Conversely if you want fo start a new workday right after midnight just turn OFF Cantar then back ON and answer YES or go lo TESI Sync Time
132. tened on consumer DVD RAM drives installed in preSN 240 Can tars not equipped with a builtin magnetic shield To extract the drive see p 5 CantarX User Manual v2 28 rl 2009 Aug 12 p 57 ANNEX 2 QUICK GUIDE 1 This quick guide originally compiled by Scott J Farr should be kept in the Cantar bag O Terminology for New Cantarites In followed by STOP TEST PPR REC PLAY BROWSE OUT MAPS IN GRIDS AUDIO TC TECHSET SESSION or BACKUP means to turn the MainSelector to that position p 10 amp p 26 1 Power On Press either batt button for 3 seconds To switch batteries press a batt button for 3 seconds To acti vate both batteries press both batt buttons for 3 seconds 2 Power Off In STOP press the shift batt buttons for 3 seconds 3 Check Battery Anytime Momentarily press the batt button for the battery you want to check 4 Clear flashing intc Press shift TC jam p 13 5 Jam to External TC Press TC jam p 14 6 False Start Take Erasure Don t rotate the MainSelector past PPR while in PPR press shitt silver then jog to Erase tile Press ok then jog to Yes and press ok p 20 7 No Good Take Vvhile recording repeatedly press the gold button until n No Good is displayed This file is stored in the trashcan The next take will have the same scene and take p 22 8 Revive Trashed Files In BROWSE jog to select TRASH jog t
133. ters monophonic 8 tracks T7178 M S Declaration If two tracks carry an M S pair entered on say mic3 and mic4 use the black button to activate the m s icon at tached to these two tracks while passing over it Being m s declared these files are monitored as L R ste reo tracks in the outputs and the mix see Pan pols p 17 Aaton Majax p 56 can decode and replace M S pairs with L R pairs for editing machines which can t decode M S stereo The suffix of the files carrying M S tracks carry a hyphen instead of an underscore Titan3 p 56 the auto contorming tool must carry the cantar tsc file to handle these hyphen flagged suffixes CantarX User Manual v2 28 rl 2009 Aug 12 p 27 ROUTINGS 2 1718 IN GRIDS Create T7T8 In Grids without Cantarem Rotate the MainSelector to tive o clock Originally devoted to recording the mixer s output the TZT8 In Grids continue to be handled separately trom T1 T6 IN GRID 12 T7 T8 m5 Xb lt gular screen Pressing the ok button causes the jog to scroll through forty five In Grid pairs see table below e No No 01 TZT8 are disarmed to save disk space e Xa Xb 02 the TI 16 mixer outputs are sent to T7T8 a mix icon appears in the left circular screen e In amp Xb 03 a mic line or digi in e g boom goes to TZ and the mix of T1 T6 auro panned to Xb goes to T8 e In amp Xb 04 the sign shows that TZ is inserted at i
134. the position has been reached In BlueRec p 23 Cantar plays up to eight tracks from the internal or external drive while it records a selection of these tracks routed through the digital inputs along with the live audio coming through the analog inputs Two operating modes are available in the BLUE BRWS 21 menu Live mode The TC scene amp take IDs comments and tracknames are those of the live take We have identified two main appli cations for the live mode e Classic playback telephone call background music or wild sounds stored in play cards p 24 are played and re recorded or not during the live recording e ADR 1 known as hear it say it this function lets the ac tor record his replacement dialog right after listening to his former lines followed by a say it buzz In live mode the live file the one being recorded and the playback file carry a different TC and a link called a Link ing Trio is created between the two files This Linking Trio is stored in the iXML of the live file It stores the TC 1 and the tiletag 2 of the play back sound along with the current TC 3 of the live file Linking Trios are used later in the Avid MC to link amp syne the playback sounds with the live ones A message Played filetag s AB1234 XY9753 appears in the comment line of the PDF Sound Report and helps the editor find the original tracks by supplying the filetags to be used in the file
135. til its cable is disconnected trom the SubD15 ASCII port Forced allows CantaRem to control the STOP TEST PPR and REC functions when the MainSelector is physically set to the PPR position AUDIO TC 28 21 RemFader Al 28 RemFader A8 The assignment of the CantaRem RemFader A8 line in 4 RemFaders to the mic and line in rotary faders to the mixer linear faders to the line out and foldback levels can be per formed trom either the CantaRem keys or trom the AUDIO TC 21 to 28 menus 29 RemFader B1 36 RemFader B8 Available when two CantaRems are connected CantarX User Manual v2 28 rl 2009 Aug 12 p 32 TECHSET 1 SAVE LOAD SETUPS O1 Disk un mount 14 15 Bat L Bat R alert O2 Digi in out power 16 HDD Power Down 03 04 Save load Setup 17 Serial Com port O5 Backlight O6 View Fader dB O7 Record beeps O8 Clip detection beep O9 lack of ext clock beep 10 11 Beep routing level 12 Meter ballistics 13 Peak hold duration 8 Factory Reset 9 Max File Size 20 Temperature Control 21 22 System Time Date 23 Equipement IDs 24 License key 25 Software version info 26 Software install 01 Disk Status Unmount Mount Two CPUs can t simultaneously control Cantar s drives Unmounting the internal HDD and DVD RAM drives puts them out of the control of Cantar s CPU while keeping them powered A FireWire connected PC or Mac can then see them as standard devices on which to edit the audio tiles and transfer software up
136. ts nominal level into the Xb dynamically controlled mono mix e In pair 37 a mic line or digi pair goes to T7T8 e digi7 mic5 45 tailored for the last track recording of an eighttrack Re recording session see RR8 below T7T8 In Grid table The T7178 signal levels are displayed on the rectangular screen bargraphs and on the right circular screen by pressing the eye button with Cantarem Thanks to the eight sliders of Cantarem it becomes possible to modulate the TZ and T8 contribution to a mix e Select an In amp Xb setting e g 03 O5 35 above and devote the Cantarem slider 7 to this input you record it on TZ and the dynamic mix of T1 T7 Xb on T8 e Select an In pair e g 37 44 above and devote the Cantarem sliders 7 and 8 to this pair you record them on T7 and T8 and send the dynamic mix of TI T8 no longer to Xb to the Phones Line out Digi out or Foldback note the panpot of TZ or T8 done by pressing the Cantarem solo button is displayed on the rectangular screen 33 4 7642 9550 Www aaton com and are displayed on the rectan p 28 M S Declaration TZT8 can t be m s declared AES power As soon as an AES digi in is selected in the routings the digi 1 6 input icons start flashing to remind you fo turn the AES power ON AES converters consume 11OmA at 48kHz and 200mA at 96kHz if they are not in use it is wise to turn them OFF in TECHSET O2 Digi power The AES
137. ustable from one half to five seconds see TECHSET 13 The tracks are grouped into natural pairs TIT2 T1314 T5T6 When a track is momentarily disarmed its modu lometer appears dashed 5 Monitoring physical status The center of each circular screen continually displays the status of the main recording elements e activity of the internal HDD three platter icon on the left screen the external HDD 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 F i 4 D wk GS amp B BEG lt pa ba S86 oa Ox left screen middle screen right screen Internal HDD External HDD CD DVD e sync clock mode either master int c or slave ext c e mic preamplifier status Limiter On Off Direct Invert Phan tom On Off e the current monitor map name sent to the phones too is constantly displayed by large alohanumeric characters e the activation of the mixdown recording on T1778 is indi cated by the mix icon next to the 7 and 8 black squares note the screens are visible in very bright sunlight to save backlight power see TECHSET OS Backlight p 33 33 4 7642 9550 Www aaton com p 8 Rectangular screen e Operating positions p 10 In STOP V16 2 V14 8 top row battl amp battR voltage Sys 12 45 22 2007 11 24 middle row system time bottom row system dat
138. ut the LTC emitted by the generator to the camera when hitting REC will be 01 45 15 While Cantar is in Rec Run mode its reference TC must be continuously sent to all cameras on the set by wire or RF nofe in TEST and PPR the LTC output is trozen on the end TC value it can thus be used as a master TC to start and stop another Cantar see Record by LIC p 21 Method 3 int c internal clock AufoSlate on clapsticks If the same TC is not running in Cantar and cameras the only way to sync pictures and audio is to use clapsticks for get digi slates they have too many drawbacks The Cantar AutoSlate sample accurate clapstick detection function puts a timecode crown over the simplest piece of wood p 23 Method 4 ext c slaved to an external clock An externally slaved Cantar stamps the audio tiles with the same TC as the one running in the video camera This requires a link trom the camera to Cantar Set AUDIO TC 13 TC Source to Ext Clock exte blinks in the circular screen meaning that Cantar is waiting to be slaved to an external LIC e g a video camera Cantar while set to external clock will only jam when you go to REC pressing the TC jam button will do nothing Cantar is usually in REC before the camera so it monitors the Lemo 5 SubD 15 incoming LTC and grabs it when coher ent TC is received That is why ext c keeps blinking until the camera is up to speed Before closing the audio file Cantar stamps
139. w battery white three second push freezes LTC out GMT 1 ppm low power LTC genera tor for SD HD cameras Momentarily initialized from an ASCII masterclock or any ITC source whatever its frame rate and attached to a camera its internally adjustable level LTC out is sent to the A3 audio track This bonds the VideoTC of the camera to the tree run Audio TC also running in Cantar and other cameras on the set During image import the NLE extracts this AudioTC to qutosync images and audio p 46 Emergency master clock Turn ON GMT press the white button to initialize the clock from hour O1 The date 33 4 7642 9550 9V battery and fps rotary www aadton com agnostic protocol plug the Lemo 5 into the LIC socket of the machine press Praer oft OriginC s answer back should be good 00 0 ASCII check a camera Origin displays good tair bad or difftime ise Se Em fre 12 H far Fre clock press followed by the amount of drift in frame tenths LTC init a machine with SMPTE LTC simultaneously press 0 Get or check LTC generated by a WVS TC Fostex PD6 etc or to simply read external timecode press 2 Send continuous LTC to a non TC recorder press 1 OriginC generates generated by a brand new GMT starts at Y92 MO1 DOI it is incremented by one day at each power ON followed by a white button initialization The Year Month
140. x 48048 Summary Cantar set at 23 976NDF or 29 97NDF select A mode Actual recording sample rate 48K Sample rate noted in the file 48048 Time stamp calculated using 48048 B mode Actual recording sample rate 48K Sample rate noted in the tile 48K Time stamp calculated using 48K C mode Actual recording sample rate 48K Sample Rate noted in the tiles 48K Time stamp calculated using 48048 CantarX User Manual v2 28 r1 2009 Aug 12 p 15 TEST 1 PREAMPS Audio inputs Analog inputs symetrical transformer isolated mic XLR3 mic2 XLR3 mic3 amp mic4 XLR5 mic5 XLR3 and asymetrical line in amp line in2 XLR5 line in3 amp line in4 XLR5 AES inputs w individual sample rate converters digi in to digi in8 Tascam SubD25 see p 57 Microphone preamps Cantar s mic preamps offer such a wide dynamic range in one single stroke that they don t need any pre conditioners or trims VVhenever you adjust a fader all inputs for that type line mic are displayed in dBFS on the rectangular screen Phantom power Press shift so fil tom 2 to toggle that mic s Phantom 48V power ON OFF The default setting is ON turn it OFF while using a dynamic microphone The preamp gain will be boosted by 12dBu and the triangle below the mic num ber will disappear from the right circular screen Limiters Press lim inv 1 for one second to toggle the limiter ON OFF to protect the limiters trom mistaken fing
141. y read write cycles of audio file recording External Device rules Connect the drive while Cantar is OFF see p 5 Oil bearings of unused HDDs become stiff run them every six months imagine the fate of your archives it you don t stick to that recommendation 33 4 7642 9550 Www aaton com p 43 CD DVD Burners All former CD DVD burners should be replaced with the Panasonic Matshita UJ 85 current P ATA or UJ875 future S ATA which burn DVD RAM and accept 16x DVDR Internal To install a new CD DVD burner see p 5 When Cantar goes to REC the DVD RAM burner closes its untin ished idle copy task and generates magnetic interference for a few seconds that is why it must carry an Aaton mu metal shield plate in Cantars 001 to 240 see p 57 Setting TECHSET O1 to Unmount opens access to the Cantar DVD RAM internal burner through the FireVVire socket this allows you to edit metadata with Majax External Cantar determines whether an external burner is FireVVire connected if it contains a blank disk and if the internal burner is empty it will choose the external burner to run the backup CD DVD Disks never use supermarket branded media CD R Made by Taiyo Yuden Maxell Pros are the best DVD R Ask the Post Production supervisor what is his preferred flavor or Taiyo Yuden 8x are the best but difficult to find to print labels use their Watershield disks they are more water resistant than normal white p

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