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1. BUTTONS amp KEYS depth TC numeration shifteesc opens a help on the M amp D bottom line routing in Rec shows the current Ins Track config on the circular displays The recording is not affected by this command Keyboard On a cart it Is easier to enter scene take IDs and notes with a keyboard Only use a QWERTY US English PS 2 compliant keyboard connect it to the Cantar subD 1 5 socket through the Aaton USB gt PS2 gt subD 5 active converter see Accessories Cherry Ref G84 4100 PIM EU USB PS2 type plug www cherry de english advanced line advanced_g84 4 00 htm Grandtec Virtually Indestructible FLX 500U www grand tec com vik htm in PPR Sc amp Tk with the right arrow select Scene on the M amp D display line 2 enter The left right arrows browse the sc amp tk characters the vertical arrows select the desired value enter Notes with the right arrow select Notes on line 2 enter The cursor being on line 3 key your notes under the Cantar text editor control enter in AUDIO TECH etc with the right arrow or typing the parameter number select the desired parameter on line 2 e g 05 Shmilb enter the cursor goes down to line 3 select the para meter value enter Note the keyboard enter and the Cantar ok the key board and Cantar lt gt have the same action lt Cherry G84 4r00 Dt S S gt amp Cantar v1 5
2. The following pages deal with the Operands which are The parameter shows on the middle line directly accessible through the to 6 o clock main selec The value of the parameter show on the bottom line tor positions These positions show on the rectangular panel top line No deep diving in sub menus Cantar v1 54 User Manual 2006 Jan 09 p 19 Ol Primary channels 02 XX channel routing see audio 2 03 AES power activation see audio 3 Routing the Inputs to 8 tracks 5 o clock Six primary channels C to C6 can receive any one of these fif teen Independant and permanent ly active Inputs line 2 3 4 mic 2343 FES 2345 6 Fifteen Ins Track grids can be cre ated by the operator and stored They are instantly recalled through the swiveling panel routing button and the config crown a one hand operation The primary channels are moni tored by pairs on the circular screens Two eXtra channels Xa Xb receive the reference sounds out of the built in digital mixer These reference sounds are clearly sepa rated from the Cl to C6 primary channels they are displayed on the rectangular display bargraphs They also can be displayed on the rightmost circular modulometer by pressing the EYE key When the Xa Xb channel pair is generated by the mixer they are sent to tracks 7 amp 8 and a mix icon shows on the circular displays When recording 8 tracks and no mix down the
3. REC 2 of 2 Headphones level The headphones level is protected by shift the stored value shows on the data panel Rotating the fader makes lt gt signs show up There is no sudden level change if re activation takes place when the fader is put back in Its pipe stored position between lt and gt Markers While in REC pressing the main selector red button toggles the take prefix between t sync w wild sound N no good p pick up Cantar v1 54 User Manual 2006 Jan 09 p 17 Play the day 8 o clock This position opens access to the files of the day only Note press shifteeye to replace filename and length by scene amp take in the message panel this helps find a file This preference is stored for the working day until you switch off the Cantar power supply Files of the Day Main selector on PLAY the last recorded file is played Arrows can be used to browse the files of the day Once selected a file is immediately played press the white central button of the main selector to stop tt On the message panel play mark set by the black button or scrub Jog 2 play status sq stop by the white button gt play at sync speed by the white button X 2x speed by shifte gt Back to x by shifte lt gt continuous play by shifte ok CT 2 Q shifteeye toggles filetag amp length into scene amp take 6 4 3 elapsed time fr
4. to 6 tracks are routed the standard way and the 7 amp 8 tracks directly receive the signals selected in AUDIO 2 i e Line in 3 amp 4 or Mic3 amp 4 or Aes in 788 INPUTS to TRACKS of 2 9 analog inputs to 9 permanently active rotary prefaders i amp O direct to Xa QM ETE tw L Mer R pease ive me AT i NON NMN nine prefaders outputs and eight AES are routed to channels C C6 AAAARANAUTONANANONEENENE N Xa Xb channels AA TON A d ee D CI to C6 ch on on 2 linear 3 6 circular modu modulometers lometers Xa Xb AltoA8 tracks Mic Line Digi Digi l to5 3 amp 4 to 6 7 amp 8 5 2 6 gt 2 Fifteen inputs to six channels 2 HARD DISK Int amp Ext 6 Digi Ito 6 Ei Di AES out Mix R to Z configs Digi 7 amp 8 ee Ge a iim 5 Fb Foldback Mix R to Z configs ire o e a E Lo Lin out Mix R to Z configs p 1 O Cantar v1 54 User Manual 2006 Jan 09 p 2 Create Modify Rotate the main selector to INS TRACK Inputs gt Chnl Fifteen routing grids can be set and stored in three groups of five Al A5 BI B5 Cl C5 The config crown gives sequential access to all of them in a wink The last configuration in use is displayed Select the configuration to be modified a blinking cur sor awaits your orders near the star icon of the leftmost circular display For your learning tests it s easier to create a configura
5. DVD R first ask your post prod supervisor which is the R flavor to select most Avid can only play DVD R The Sony Accucore DVD R is excellent Taiyo Yuden is the best Maxell will make a DVD R Broadcast version end of 2005 CD R the Maxell CD R Pro works best It is made by laiyo Yuden which may be available if the Maxell version is not Burning failures They all come from bad handling a dirty DVD can sometimes be played but a finger printed DVD is unus able for recording Open your thumb and index in a U shape and hold the blank disk by its opposite edges If there is some dust on a recorded DVD do not clean it with a cloth in rotary movement best way to destroy a complete track but by successive radial strokes 250GB 6TB BigDisks Since FAT 32 controls up to 27GB only the simplest solution to use a BigDisk Is to format it under NTFS or Mac HFS With a computer extract the audio files out of the FAT 32 Cantar Hdd and copies them onto the BigDisk To do so connect a Firewire cable from your laptop to the BigDisk which must be two Firewire socketed and powered by its own supply and from the BigDisk another cable to Cantar With a PC another solution is to use PartitionMagic to make one 2 GB FAT32 primary partition and format the rest under NTFS Cantar has direct access to the FAT 32 partition on which it makes its backups a PC laptop later transfers the files from the FAT32 to th
6. HEKE Cantar v1 54 User Manual 2006 Jan 09 p 34 Latest news To get the current manual and software for Cantar Ma jax and Arcan visit www soft aaton com swcantar your first visit click CREATE ACCOUNT key in your details don t forget the country enter After a few sec you receive a mail with a password key in this password and your address in the login page your next visits If you forgot your password click LOST PASSWORD key in your email address As soon as it is found in the Cantar base your password is sent to your address key in the password Firmware updates Cantar firmwares are accessible to owners only If you rent a Cantar ask for the installation of the latest version Beta versions are not to be used for professional work vl 45 wl Arcan vi li I Formats DVD Ram under UDF only and Hard drives under FAT 32 Records UDF amp FAT32 formatted DVD Ram Panning an MS M channel to full right or left eliminates the S channel from the mix A channel recording can be instantly dis armed by Shift solo button still monitored in TEST it is not monitored in REC The backup menu mode offers three options Backup at end Idle copy Idle convert Idle copy can be done on an external or internal DVD Ram burner in this later case only use Aaton mu metal shielded UJ 845 85GB double layer DVD R burning is available Scandisk is performed by Cantar itself RecRun Rtc mode and Free
7. amp slate 24 Xa Xb routing 24 Precord adjust 25 Mic Preamp ganging 25 Rec run and Operator TC 25 Tech Unmount Hdd 26 Calendar reset 26 Pda connect 2 7 Save Load user s setup 27 Temp compensation 27 Software install 27 Session Project name 28 Hdd int ext or both 28 Format disk scan 29 Delete a file 29 Backup Idle backup 30 Short Long Filenames 30 new All Master trackstMix 30 DVD R DVD Ram_ 3 Backup w laptops 31 Tutorials Surround 5 32 Labeling DVDs 32 Video cameras w GMT s 33 Sound report w Majax 33 Slate sync w Indaw 33 Connectors Audio in out Accessories 34 Cantar v1 54 User Manual 2006 Jan 09 p ERGONOMICS 9 permanently active no trim prefaders 6 permanently active Se oe HY mixer postfaders E Xa Xb channels on CI to C6 channels on 2 linear modulos 6 circular modulos m Permanently accessible nine rotary prefaders plus six linear postfaders devoted to one specific task each The Cantar interface is the easiest to use in the most difficult missions e because the largest display surface of ER four PEORES all portable recorders simultaneously jT magnetically held instantly show every critical recording param removable knobs eter e because the custom designed high N headphone level contrast LCD displays remain visible NOQ OEY under bright sunlight and at very low Wn of shift key temperatures too and because the f swivel
8. and audio recorders To ensure image and sound syncing many different methods are in use while we prefer the real time Clock A method some other people work differently hence the three clock types offered by Cantar Clock A the internal TCXO Ippm time of day clock keeps the time with virtually no drift this time is used to stamp the sound files to the very same TC as the one stamped onto the images by TCXO equipped came ras In the video world this is called the free run mode Cantar behaves as a master clock Clock B the internal Cantar clock generates a TC which is two second incremented over the stop TC of the preceding take This semi continuous clocking requires a wired or wireless link to transmit the Cantar generated rec run timecode to cameras and _ digislates around Clock C the externally slaved Cantar clock ensures that sound files are time stamped by the very same tc as the one running in the companion video camera This requires a wired or wireless link to transmit the Camera generated timecode to Cantar Next page you will find how to work in these three clocking styles Cantar v1 54 User Manual 2006 Jan 09 p 9 Sync Clock A internal real time master clock int c The internal TCXO clock can either be initialized by Cantar itself Calendar init pressing and holding Shift then TC jam in that order for more than two seconds pushes the calendar days and hours into the internal TCXO m
9. Tk and Notes can be entered through a USB PS2 compliant keyboard connected to the Options SubD 15 For better data protection the internal HDD unmount remount is manually KEEP IN TOUCH Sharing ideas Exchange tips and ideas with your peers propose Improvements on the Cantar users list http blake aaton com mailman listinfo cantar users Pics on the road Send us pictures of your Cantar at work Join the credits film title director etc we will put some of them on www aaton com gallery on location Help the post download print and give them the Cantar PostChain found on www soft aaton com swcantar reminder no FireWire connection should be done from G3 G4 G5 Mac desktops because of their 33V supply see Backup from Mac amp Pc page 31 done from the TECH OI position In unmount mode both the internal HDD and DVD burner stay powered this allows the use of Cantar as a DVD burner for a laptop In the same session Cantar handles idle copy on DVD Ram one platter icon right display and realtime cloning on both the internal and external HDDs 3platter icons left and central displays An aTYP descriptor flags the mixdown files MMDD replaces CANT in descriptors to ensure more reliable Avid Relinks User bits carry YYMMDDOO0 Figures can be entered in the Scene letter column of the Scene and Take IDs A Clip beep is triggered even if the saturation happens on anon display
10. blinks To awake it go to TEST the disk is up to speed within 3 to 0 seconds the prerecord buffer hides this speed ramp up Cantar s cold start to record is a blazzing 2 to 3sec Note during Idle Backup the Hdd can t powerdown l4 Serial Ext Com Pda Factory Select Pda for mobile touch screen remote operation I5 Factory Setup No Yes All tech parameters are reset to factory default 16 Save User s Setup XML No XML Yes The current physical setup e g routings and mike settings of the whole Cantar is saved in an XML file This file is stored onto the extemal Hdd if any or the internal Hdd if there Is no ext Hdd under the filetag A name of the last recorded file This name can be changed and provided you keep the XML suffix Cantar will retrieve it You can open the file and read the setups by dragging it on your internet browser 7 Load User s Setup No Yes Yes opens a Load Setup screen OK Cantar first looks for XML tiles into the ext Hdd if any Select the one you want to load into your Cantar in the list of setup IDs press OK Press Shift to reboot Cantar The new setup is active at next power on 18 File jump 206MB 690MB 2GB 4GB Closes the current file and opens the next one when a limit is reached Four file length settings are available 260MB 30min at 24Bit 48Ks s 690MB OOMB CD R capacity 20GB FAT32 standard limit 40GB InDaw maximum handling capacity 19 Temp C if the displ
11. by Cantar the realtime syncing has the big advantages to work in multicamera shooting to be low power and much more fail safe Furthermore compared to the use of the free run dis continuous audio TC in the video LTC reference track this method has the superiority to let each video camera use its own rec run continuous video TC something much appreciated by video post facilities The many post prod flow charts Please read and spread around you The PostChain a tutorial made for sound recordists editors and final mixers www soft aaton com swcantar gR Z U Y N O T Q 5 lt oO lt TUTORIALS 2 of 2 Sound Report by Majax A perfectly accurate sound report is generated by Majax an Aaton Mac PC free software made for Cantar recor ded files only plays ten channels ON wjt j7 an ordinary laptop with 2dB level and pan a adjustments plus MS Tes o edits scene take and D O E e o o o amp notes within the BYVF EEEE meas file and edit the name of each anne mixes eight monophonic channels into two and inter leave them into a polyphonic file generates an ALE list and the sound report of the day Prod PACHLI Media OVD R Sound mixer Fredenc Mangeat Cantar 27 Type Mono CANTAR SOUND REPORT Ref level 2008 ef ae oe el 7 dura 881414 1 1 29w Mx en 1 2 20 08 02 3 881415 23 tS Mx perch HF herad sarah goesl duras 29 Mo F herad sarah nelly du
12. crude truncature but makes the conversion last twice the time If All XXPoly is selected in Q3 All XXPoNat All XXPol6t All XXPol6d Same comments as above If the monophonic masters are successively recorded under 6 then 24bit dur ing the same day you can leave them at their original bit depth All XXPoNat or reduce them all to 6bit All XXPo 6 05 Media type CD R 700MB ExtHd DVD Ram DVD R 4 7GB DVD R DL 8 5GB It takes ten to twenty seconds for a DVD to be checked and validated before Its disk icon appears in the center of the rightmost modulometer The DVD Ram case Cantar can record files onto FAT 32 or UDF I 5 formatted DVD Ram medias UDF is better for Mac PC compatibility see SESSION 04 Most laptop DVD Ram drives are read only this makes them unable to let a PC modify the files Install the latest Dvd Ram Device Drivers found on http panasonic co jp psec sup Cantar v1 54 User Manual 2006 Jan 09 p 30 port dvdramilim eoem 06 Burn and check Burn Only Burn Check Note that checking a DVD lasts the same time as burn ing the disk 07 Files to Copy Unarchived files Force Copy All Default is Force Copy All select Unarchived before starting a CD DVD mid day copy this puts an archived stamp on the burned files to avoid twice copying already saved files at the end of day In incremental IdleCopy Cantar works in this mode too by putting an archived stamp on the saved Hdd files A
13. pots and scrub the player in fast forward reverse playback Note ShiftsJog 10x accelerates the jog speed Cantar v1 54 User Manual 2006 Jan 09 p 5 Buttons Mic Pre faders 1 limiter on off shifte phase invert 2 mic solo filter selection balance access shifte2 phantom 48V sup ply activation net E e shifte3 links faders 1 amp 2 m a e and 3 amp 4 Channel Post faders SoloMixPan C pAnpot jog setting slider on bAttery side SoloMixPan C sOlo MOnitoring slider on operatOr side Swivelling Panel batt selects battery shiftebatt in Stop position switches off the power eye toggles the rightmost display channel 5 6 modu lometers to X X formerly 7 8 shifteeye toggles the 3rd line of the X amp D display trom Sc amp Tk to Filetag Keeps the last selection as a preference for the working day During backup operations it tog gles the backup rank and the media labels jamtc for more than 2sec sets the TCXO clock to the LTC entering the Lemo 5 or SubD 15 shiftejamtc for more than 2 sec sets the TCXO sync clock from the calendar time arrows in Play next file of the day in Setting next topic or parameter in Routing next input ok makes the line 2 selected parameter set of values appear on line 3 then acknowledges the selection shifteok in Play continuous playback to next file esc shows the file characteristics sample rate bit
14. s grids to dual line out 4 Fb mixer and nine user s grids to dual foldback 5 Di mixer and nine users grids to dual digi out AES SELECTORS Note the phones receive an audio signal which is identi cal to the one of the output under configuration setting Config crown e While in REC press the mon outs button main selec tor central white button the monitoring pattern shows on the three circular screens which become a big Left Center Right display Since this doesn t affect the recording at all you can on the fly listen to and select another listening pattern by rotating the config crown In the same way by pressing the routing button top left of the swivelling panel you can swiftly verify the inputs to channels configuration in use To avoid catastrophic finger errors while perfor ming a recording the cur rent Ins Track config can t be modified in REC But there is a shortcut by quickly switching to PPR up to 35 second long you have plenty of time to select another Ins Track configuration and go back to REC not losing a single sample of sound e In TEST and PPR the config crown browses the fifteen Ins Track configs and activates the latest seen before the routing button Is released Monitoring crown Jog crown Config crown Jog crown The one finger jog is used to move the cursor in the message panel edit Scene amp Take select high pass filters modulate the backlight control the pan
15. trap in which 98 software geeks fell when they read Fat32 file attributes with a microsoft explorer earchived box ticked on to be archived not backed up files earchived box ticked off already archived successfully backed up Force Copy All is to be used if you want to make a second batch of DVD carrying already saved files i e stamped as archived 08 File names Short w Sc amp Tk e Short BAI234_I wav e Long wl Sc amp Tk BAI234 123A 2R wl4 _ wav Long filenames show the scene amp take IDs on desktops and timelines the text between signs can be freely modified with Majax If you back up on an external HDD the file names are forced to short since long filenames are not sup ported by the Cantar FAT 32 formatting If you backup on CD DVD you can select long file names since they are supported by ISO and UDF for matted CD DVD Note that Majax which runs under Windows and MacOS X is more powerful than Cantar it handles long file names on FAT32 formatted HDDs By extracting the Sc amp Tk from within the BWE files it can add them into the filenames going to the post chain 09 Media label CD of 2 The X amp D panel shows the number of disks needed to perform the backup Press OK and select the one to burn Shifte Eye shows the Cantar given MediaLabel of the disk CD_MXD_2 5 means CD R Mixdown channels XaXb Disk two in a five disk group The remaining data volume to be burned is displa
16. 4 User Manual 2006 Jan 09 p 6 Power supplies Main selector on STOR press either one of the front panel batt or batt 2 button for a couple of seconds All displays flash and the message panel lights up to con firm that Cantar has started correctly On the leftmost circular display the internal disk icon blinks for 3 to 5 seconds the time it takes for the disk to wake up It is surrounded by the icons of the currently routed chan nels At startup the message panel shows batt and batt 2 voltage plus the system day and hour To shut Cantar down put the main selector on STOR maintain pressure on the Shift fat blue key then batt Goodbye shows Important notice when in STOP the internal Hdd sleep mode makes the current drain be a mere 2 0mA To keep the high stability internal sync clock reference do not switch off Cantar during the working day The sleep mode activation can start one second after STOR see TECH chapter The twin battery safety The Cantar low power high efficiency electronics offer the longest working time of all portable 8 channel audio recorders With a single set of on board Li lon or NiMH batteries the 18 15 hour Cantar outperforms all others And with the twin battery system you are never be taken by surprise While working on a cart from a mains powered supply keep a battery onboard and activate both inputs the battery will buffer the possible mains power voltage drops or cable bad co
17. BROWSE Browse all days 7 o dock This position opens access to all the day folders of the cur rent project Note press shifteeye to replace filename and length by scene amp take in the message panel this helps find a file This preference is stored for the working day until you switch off Cantar Wake up Hdd When in STOP the disk goes to sleep after one minute or more see TECH 09 Hdd power down directly going from there to BROWSE or PLAY shows asleep no disk or back amp forth to reactivate the disk make a quick main selector back amp forth rotation Obviously this activation Is not necessary on the TEST PPR REC positions where the system Instantly wakes up in less than 2 seconds Other Days Go to BROWSE The current working day shows to go to other days press the OK button opening access to the bottom line and use the jog and arrows Validate by OK the cursor Jumps back to the middle line Jog to files and press OK The last file of the day is displayed on the bottom line browse the files by jog or arrows press OK to select a file You can now go to PLAY or to PPR to edit its scene amp take IDs Other Projects To explore the internal Hdd go to SESSION and successively select the various projects it contains then go to BROWSE All days To listen to the external drive files switch to Ext only and don t forget to switch back to Int amp Ext afterwards
18. Current pos June pos Ps phone SOLO 1 I So mic So mic2 So line3 So dig Able to reach all ins and outs of Cantar this crown posi tion opens instant access to a questionable port The last verified one kept in memory is instantly dispatched to the phones when coming back Mics are instantly solo ed also by pressing the mic filter button and Channels by pressing the postfader button Px phone XaXb 2 Px St Px C Px Xa Px Xb XaXb Stereo Xab Center Xa channel Xb channel Pu phone user s 2 3 Ph Mx Ph A Ph B Ph Q Mx seventeen user programmable A to Q grids Lo line out 3 ki LineO Mx LineO R LineO S LineO Z Mx nine user programmable R to Z grids Fb foldback 4 3 FIb Mx FIb R FIb S Fib Z Mx nine user programmable R to Z grids Di digital out 7 8 ports 5 6 Dig Mx Dig R Dig S Dig Z Mx nine user programmable R to Z grids MON OUTS of 2 04 Line out grids 05 Foldback grids 06 Digital out grids Create Modify a grid Twenty six MON OUTS factory grids are stored as start up templates to be modified to your needs Headphones Ph d grid Channel 5 goes to the left ear channels amp 2 to the center and channel 6 to the right ear Put the monitoring crown in pos 2 Ph shows on the left display Rotate the config crown until d shows on the central display The selection cursor blinks on the 50dB pixel of the leftmost display Jog the cursor to the channeld box o
19. Never ever connect a Cantar to a Mac G3 G4 G5 of which the FireWire 33V supply toasts the Cantar circuits Cantar only accepts 16 6 V max supplies This warning doesnt apply to Mac laptops nor PC computers which supply 2V only The Hdd being inside Cantar When unmounted the internal Hdd is no longer seen by the Cantar CPU but tt is still powered see I ECH Ol Through a Firewire cable simply connect a Mac Pc laptop which handles the Cantar Hdd as any other external disk The Hdd being extracted from Cantar To avoid the Mac Gx 33V mishapp above open the Hdd compartment two knobs disconnect the Firewire cable then connect the disk to a Firewire cable There Is no risk since the Hdd s FireWire to Atap bridge handles the 33V supply of Mac desktops Cantar v1 54 User Manual 2006 Jan 09 p 3 5 1 surround As experimented by Francois Musy and Gabriel Hafner NSM Switzerland Using SoundField or Schoeps mics there is no need for a special decoder Cantar has it all built in microphones With the Schoeps double MS I c rsl sr head made of two cardioid and one figure of eight microphones a decoding accessory Is not needed Schoeps delivers an XLR 7 extension cable to which a home made XLR 7 gt XLR 35 XLR 3 Y cable should be connected e XLR 7 female gnd 2 Mfront 3 Mfront 4 Stront 5 Stront 6 Mrear 7 Mfront e XLR 5 male gnd 2 M front 3 M front 4 S front 5 S front yellow
20. Run operator initialization Otc are activated 88200Hz sample rate is available EYE button toggles between C5 C6 5 6 and XaXb X X An XML chunk stores the channel descriptor e g Xa Xb Cl C2 C6 Notes can be entered via the Palm mobile touch screen The main switch being on STOP Ins to Tracks and Mon outs routings can be keyed from the Palm on the last selected configuration Peak level indicators can stay on from 0 5 to 5sec Modulometer levels are sent to the Palm vI I 1 eight bargraph display Note waiting for the amp 2 reshuffling to be field approved Xa and Xb channels are still stored into the 7 amp 8 files From v1 41 The Xa Xb channel levels appear on top of the rectangular data panel Eight channel modulometers are permanently visible in TEST and REC The maximum gain of the mixer postfaders can be set to either 6 or OdB The displacement gain law is more logarithmic n ignore is added to the w p t take gender markers The red button toggles these markers during REC too The slate mic output can be sent to Line out or Foldback or both The lack of external tc beep can be switched off Idle Copy in TEST and STOP the last recorded files are copied to external HDD or DVD Ram Idle Convert the conversion of the monophonic Xa Xb channels into polyphonic 24 or 6bit files is performed and stored to save end of day burning time Sc amp
21. To remind the operator there is something weird in his routing the disarmed track black square is blinking For added protection against possible channel non recorded by mistake all disarmed channels are rearmed when the main selector is passing through STOR or power down Cantar v1 54 User Manual 2006 Jan 09 TEST 2 of 2 p 13 Pre Post Record 1 o clock This position is unique to Cantar it gathers three essen tial functions prerecord activation take descriptor keying and file erasing Precording Buffer The main selector being on PPR the pre record buf fer stores the sounds in a First in First out Fifo buffer memory and dumps them to the Hdd as soon as REC is activated The REC icon blinks under the disk s selected for recording Once the buffer ts full and the FIFO starts emptying the first In sound the disk icon central platter disappears This is a way to check the pre record buffer length This length is programmed up to 35sec 48kHz in AUDIO Metadata entry R Can v1 12 use is recommended While the main selector is on the PPR position scene and take IDs comments and tracknames are entered before or after the recording of a given take e Scene and amp take The first screen shows Seq Sc Tk Press OK to go down to the bottom line and use the horizontal arrows to scroll along the characters and modify them with the jog Press OK to store and exit The default Sc amp Tk template offers Seq S
22. ace it B DVD Ram formatting UDFI 5 only Cantar formats DVD Ram medias under UDFI 5 for better compatibility with Mac and PC Fostex DV40 v 9 6 and DV824 are compatible read the tutorial DV40 Reads Cantar Files on www soft aaton com swcantar Cantar can nevertheless record audio files on FAT 32 formatted DVD Ram medias l Cantar powered go to SESSION 04 Disk Formatting press OK ShifttRed appears 2 Introduce a Dvd Ram media in either the exter nal or internal driver and a few seconds later before the disk icon appears press Shifte Red together Keep them pressed until Formatting shows 3 Formatting completed Done shows and the Dvd icon pops up on the rightmost display go to STOR Cantar v1 54 User Manual 2006 Jan 09 p 28 05 Scan Disk Int drive Ext drive Scanning a 80 GB disc can last for two hours If for some reason you must perform an urgent REC while scanning the internal disk you can abort the scan by pressing esc until aborted shows The end of scan message should be Zero error If One error shows immediatly copy your valuable files and no longer use that disc for new recordings 06 Delete files No Yes The well protected tile deleting works on entire work Ing days only Use a laptop for individual file deletion OK opens the DELETE AUDIO hidden Menu Day to delete OK 2004 06 xx shows select a day with lt gt then press OK to brow
23. another I C source AUDIO Cantar v1 54 User Manual 2006 Jan 09 2 of 2 p 25 OI Hdd status un re mount 02 Backlight brightness 03 View fader dB 04 Rec start beep 05 Clip detect beep 06 Lack extc beep O7 Beep level 08 Meter balistics 09 Peak hold 1O Batt alert voltage System time 2 Syst day Technical parameters 3 0 dock Parameters related to the recorder day in day out use Ol Hdd status Unmont Hdd Mount Hdd Two computers cant simultaneously control a Had Unmount the Cantar internal disk before connecting it to a laptop Unmounting the internal Hdd puts it out of the Cantar central processor control while keeping tt powered by the batteries This allows an external PC or Mac to see the Cantar Hdd as a standard external disk in which to drop new software versions Unmounting the Hdd keeps the internal burner powered too this makes Cantar into a CD DVD burner for a Firewire connected computer Jo avoid spurious data exchanges FIRST eliminate the Cantar disk icon from the PC Mac desk top THEN disconnect the firewire cable Not respecting this rule triggers a Mac Pc desktop warning but it is too late file corruption could have been done on the Cantar disk MACOS dump the Cantar Hdd out of the WINDOWS PC Mac desktop before disconnecting the Firewire cable 02 Backlight 100 65 30 Brightness adjustment of the displays In bright sunligt save power switch them off totally 03 View dB On O
24. ar v1 54 User Manual 2006 Jan 09 p Error free filing system When you cold start Cantar It assumes you want to continue working on your latest project which is there fore displayed at the bottom of the message panel When you rent a Cantar its project memory should be empty the message panel should read No Project Once created a project name regroups all data related to it such as the days of recording the channels and the disks used The project name is stored in each audio file there is no risk for a file to be lost in a maze of teraby LES Contrary to other machines the Cantar file sorting sys tem doesnt rely upon disk partitions Made of Project Working Day and Filetags it allows for intuitive and safe retrieving of the audio files along the post prod chain It is not operator error prone Project To give a new project a name eight letters and or num bers switch the main selector to SESSION 2 o clock Rotate the jog to New Project press OK A triangle points the character to be modified Run the jog to choose a letter then press an horizontal arrow to move on to the next letter Once the full name is entered press OK If you are In a pinch and have no time to create a project directly go to RECORD Your audio files will be stored in a project called AACANTAR Later on with a lap top you will move these audio files out of AACANTAR into the project directory you would have crea
25. ary of the last thirty tracknames in active use This automatic process speeds up the keying 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 to the next track In case you are in a hurry and no time to name the tracks of the next take it Is better to remove the former take track names than to write wrong ones to bulk remove them go to the track name editing line any track will do and press shift Esc When there is no operatorentered name on a track the following default names are inserted instead I to T8 on basic monophonic tracks ms M and ms S on ms tracks Mx Right and Mx Left on mixdown tracks In order to take care of a possible track name entries from a PDA these default names are inserted at the end of the take recording only Pressing a track solo button makes the name of the track show in the data menu esee Trackname list cleaning Jog to Del name press OK go to the name to delete from the trackname list then OK if at the last minute you change your mind and decide not to delete it press Esc Cantar v1 54 User Manual 2006 Jan 09 p 14 After Rec Recording done put the main selector back to PPR The Scene amp lake IDs and the filetag of the future record ing show Press shiftecentral button the data panel displays EDIT the PREVious filetag and Sc amp Tk IDs of the last r
26. aster clock Stc system tc shows in the message panel lf under high pressure you forget to press ShifteTC jam the calendar days and hours are nevertheless used by default Operator init in case you don t want to use the system calendar timekeeper the TCXO clock can be internally set from the time keyed by the operator in AUDIO 18 Otc operator s tc shows in the data panel or it can be initialized by a momentarily connected exter nal signal LIC init pressing TC jam for more than two seconds makes a Lemo 5 entered Smpte LTC jam the Cantar TCXO clock Jtc jammmed tc shows in the data panel If there is no coherent LTC while pressing TC jam failed shows and the int c icon keeps blinking ASCII init the TCXO clock is set by an Aaton OriginC used to set Aaton and Arri film cameras or video cameras recording free run TC from an Aaton GMT Atc asciil tc shows in the data panel In Clock A mode Cantar is THE time reference As soon as the int c icon stops blinking Cantar Is a master clock and generates a TCXO temperature compensa ted ppm accurate production timecode for eight hour shooting within one frame accuracy Switch on the Ltc generator in AUDIO 08 The Ltc out can be used to permanently sync equip ments around through cable or radio transmitter or to momentarily initialize several Aaton GM T s low power hi accuracy time keepers which attached to video came ras p
27. ay heater option is installed e Lcd 02 monitors the LCD temperature control activity 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 The position 5 of the meter balistics is recommended e Hd 12 monitors the internal temp Below 5 C it is rec ommended to replace the standard 80GB Travelstar HDD by a low temp disk such as the 20GB Hitachi Endurastar 20 Eqpmt Eq0456 TECH 2 of 2 21 License Key Unlimited 24 Days Protection against unauthorised use Cantar is disactivated after a given number of days The key can be activated or set forever by a CMU software emailed by Aaton 22 Software version v1 4l 1 45 The working version is stored in the Cantar RAM no need to keep it in the Hdd To install a new or old ver sion copy it into the Hdd and see below 23 Software Install No Yes Careful e Get the version can_ xxflb and put tt on the Mac PC desktop As a registered owner you can get it from http softaaton com sweantar e Plug and activate both on board batteries to be sure there IS NO power interruption during the following operations Simultaneously press batt and batt 2 buttons e Unmount the Hdd see I ECH QI then Firewire connect your computer the Cantar internal Hdd shows on the PC Mac laptop screen e Copy the can_lxxflb file to the root of the Cantar Hdd e Dump the Cantar disk icon out of your computer desk
28. c Type Take another one is available in AUDIO 1 e Sequence 3 figures tabc Seq derstand space e Scene 2 figures ab cde rs t space and O to 9 e Type w for wild sound p for pick up t for sync sound this 9th character is directly toggled by the main selector red button elake 2 figures At each new recording the Seq Scn of the preceding file Is maintained and the take ID Is incremented by one modifying the Seq Scn ID makes the take ID fold back to The message panel shows the filetag of the NEXT recording NEXT EA0180 Sc Tk 4 124a 12R t14 ee Comments Jog to Ik comments and press OK to activate the bottom line where the former comment appears 200 char max Characters can be entered with PPR of 2 arrows and jog but it much easier to use a Keyboard or a remote PDA Depending upon the keyboard insert key toggle status a flickering square insert or a flickering pipe overwrite shows Key in your comments and OK to validate eeefrackname entry see R Can v 2 also Jog to Irk name and press OK to activate the screen bottom line Shift jog or keyboard Shift up down arrows shows the available list of track names The keying default mode Is overwrite If you select insert by toggling the keyboard insert key t will foldback to overwrite on the last character since the name Is limited to ten characters Trackname completion relies upon a libr
29. d 2 Hot 3 Cold Channel two Right in a stereo pair Gnd 4 Hot 5 Cold FOLDBACK on TA 3M Mini XLR 3 Gnd 2 Left 3 Right On earlier Cantars Foldback was on a 3 5mm Mini jack PHONES on 1 4 jack the plug is represented 6Ohm speakers up to 2Vrms Gnd Left Right TIME in out on LEMO 5 l Gnd 2 Ltc In 3 Ascii 4 nc 5 Ltc Out NX POWER on XLR 4 16 6V max l Gnd 3 Li lon 4 NiMh amp Li lon Cantars over 268 directly receive the Aaton R Cell Li lon battery power through pin 3 socket as seen 00000000 okenn from the outside CONNECTORS amp ACCESSORIES Dsub 25 AES in out lascam TD88 standard socket seen from the outside Teleleleleels sleleles Tascam TD8 standard sislelelelslelelelelels 25 14 CHANNEL PAIR HOT cou ayp CHANNEL PAIR HOT foou GND_ oo ee ee ee ee Pe Ie ee m ijn 2 accessories USB PS2 to Dsub 5 converter Ref 59 681 91 2V to 5V power supply and input protectors for PS2 compatible qwerty keyboards featuring a USB plug Only use Aaton recommended units see page 5 3 Line out Booster l2 on XLR 5 Two 12dB gain transformers make the Line out channels deliver OdBu at 8dBFS track level 8to8 bridge Eight 26dBu 10kOhm transformer isolated balanced line inputs to Cantar mic amp line inputs Get the leaflet on www soft aaton com swcantar AATON 8to8 co a ps gt odets micA mic B C mic line 1 2 line 3 4
30. d six character filetag e g ADC1 23 differentiates 6 7 million takes a sound mixer lifetime It must remain untouched all the way through to the final mix Note that one filetag represents a com plete file group recorded during a take e g ADC 23 is the unique filetag of eight monophonic files from ADCI23_I to ADCI23_8 2 the suffix instantly flags the monophonic independant files e g _l1 _2 _8 the polyphonic interleaved file e g P8 and the poly mixdown of the former e g PX 3 the descriptor shows a summary of the take status and the sc amp tk ID e g al8 2a w04 A short filename shows as ADC123_ wav A long file name shows as ADC123 al8 2a w04 _ wav Cantar v1 54 User Manual 2006 Jan 09 p 8 Calendar and Sync Time is the essence in a digital audio recorder two types of time are in use at the deep level the Calendar time at the visible level the Sync time One Calendar Clock The calendar time runs for ever four to six years on a lithium battery in an always active medium precision clock which automatically creates the day folders in which are stored the audio files of each working day The calendar day and hour show on the message panel when the main selector is on STOP The setup of this clock is of primary Importance to the file management system Its time must be checked for coherence 5 minutes with the time zone you are working in Think about this when you get off a six ho
31. e NTFS partition of the BigDisk Cantar v1 54 User Manual 2006 Jan 09 p 29 OI Backup mode 02 Day to backup 03 Channel select 04 Convert 05 Media type Backup o clock To perform the backup of the internal Hdd files to other medias you must set all parameters from OI to 10 Ol File saving Backup Idle copy Idle convert e Backup gives direct access to the parameters needed to perform the end of day backup From Q2 Day to Bckp to 0 PerformBckp all must be checked e Idle copy can be activated any time the sooner the better It incrementally copies the recorded audio files to an external Hdd or a DVD Ram external or inter nal while Cantar is in TEST or STOP By the end of the day all the sound Is already transferred This is much safer than simultaneously recording on both the internal Hdd and an external Hdd In STOP position idle job done the backup disk goes back to sleep If for some reason you want to Interrupt the process Just press esc for more than one second Note that REC has absolute priority and aborts the on going idle work Example select idle copy in OI select Xa Xb in 03 Poly 6t in 04 DVD Ram in 05 you get an end of session Poly 6bit mixdown on a DVD Ram disc Example2 select Idle copy in OI All XXPo in 03 All Po 6t in 04 ext HDD or DVDram in 05 you get an end of session Poly I 6bit mixdown plus all the native 24bit tracks on the ext HDD or DVD Ram This can tremend eo
32. ears in all positions of the main selector whenever you momentarily press the batt or batt 2 buttons pressing longer on one of these buttons forces the on duty battery Li lon battery management The Aaton R Cell Li lon batteries deliver 30 more power than the equivalent size NIMH batteries at room temperature and up to 60 more at 20 C they are lighter too e g 560gr vs 695gr for NIMH Charge To avoid inadvertently connec Mascot charger type 9940 ting these batteries to the many Perree ETEEN NiMH chargers around the PAROMANA elements are protected by an 80 Volt reverse voltage diode on pin4 the active pin of the PEL EJEU CEEE EE to 85 capacity 2 h In 100 240 VAC 50 60 Hz Out 16 8V 2A XLR 4 pin3 Ni MH chargers and directly connected through pin3 to the Aaton Mascot Li lon charger When charging Li lon batteries nata the EEO fon follow this simple rule the mains before connecting ALWAYS unplug the Mascot WEERA ELEGA charger from the mains befo re connecting or disconnecting a battery amber three hour charge top up green full charge Supply The Batt current is delivered erther through the low loss O 2V diode protected pin4 of the Li lon R Cell to the pin4 of all known recorders and cameras around or directly through pin3 to those machines with pin3 amp 4 tied together i e Cantar over 268 and Cantar w 4pin XLR 4 and to the Aaton Super 6 XTR2005 or 35mm Penelope cameras Cant
33. ecorded file Press OK and use arrows and Jog as explained in the preceding paragraph You can also modify the w gt p gt t gender with the main selector red button Press OK to confirm then shifte central button to close and go back to NEXT Reminder one Scene amp Take IDs can later be modified by selecting a file in BROWSE then going to PPR and performing the same editing operations as explained above Reminder two When correcting entries keep in mind they are stored in the internal disk and copied on the external disk If you are working in simultaneous mode only Quite obvi ously your modifications will not appear on the external disk or DVD Ram if you are working in the idle backup mode File splitting Depending upon operator s decision or archiving requi rements file closing and reopening file splitting can be performed during REC Manual split To divide a file into shorter segments or to enter a new Sc amp Ik ID on the fly make a quick REC to PPR back to REC A new file carrying the same scene ID but take will be created not an audio sample will be lost A short presilence is added at the head of the n file to ease the splicing work in post Automatic split Four length settings are available 260MB 30min at 24Bit 48Ks s 690MB OOMB CD R capacity 2 0GB FAT 32 default setting 4GB InDaw max handling The filetag is auto incremented but the Sc amp Tk descriptor remains the same Las
34. ed channel Analog output phases all are identical to the inputs The channel 7 solo is monitored in mono Balance settings are stored Midnight passage increments the SyncTC date too The archive flag allows deletion of archived files The latest phones config is stored at switch off The tone generator level only shows on activated track modulometers An antistatic kit should be mounted in the detachable HDD compartment vI 51 wl Arcan v1 12 Tracknames can be entered by Cantar jog keyboard or Palm PDA they are recorded in the i xml chunk All user s configs and physical setups are stored in an xml file on ext or int hdd they can be reloaded or exported to any other Cantar to duplicate the exact same environment Addition of the 48048 and 96096 sampling rates Smoother mic fader gain curve from 1 47 resolves an issue in the MS left right decoding of the xa xb mixdown v1 54 wi Arcan vI 12 for Palm OS 5 PDA The native monophonic files and an interleaved XaXb 24 1 6bit polypho nic file can together be stored on the backup disk in separate folders thanks to a patch compensating the Mac inability to handle UDF 1I 5 formatted DVD Ram disks a flaw which doesn t exist in Windows the interrupted idle backup files become readable on Mac OS10 4 ANTON Cantar v1 54 User Manual 2006 Jan 09 p 35 France 33 4 7642 9550 cantar support aaton com
35. ed mode i e when the not yet archived files have been burned only This is a way to know why some files are missing in the concerned me dia probably burned on another media tag typel CD_TI 6_001 This is the general mode used when burning DVDs T1 6 six monophonic tracks from AAD folder T l 8 eight monophonic tracks from AAD folder MXDN mixdown monophonic tracks from AAD folder tracks 7 amp 8 in the future tracks amp 2 MXBN mixdown interleaved polyphonic tracks from AAX folder MXBC mixdown interleaved polyphonics w 24 gt 16 bit reduction from AAX folder 00 to 999 media name rank tag type2 CD_TK _00 this tag is used when it becomes necessary to burn the files separately because their group is too large to be burned on a single 690MB CD TK I is the track number and OO the media name rank Channels tracks and files There is a distinction between Channel an electrical path for immaterial signals Track a physical surface carrying pits and File a semantic container for sound bits The Cantar onboard digital mixer generates two eXtra channels Xa Xb carrying the reference sound of the shot Channels CI C2 C3 C4 C5 C6 Xa Xb recorded on tracks TI T2 T3 T4 T15 T6 T 16 and stored in files 2 3 4 5 6 8 Future software versions of Cantar will be able to assign the tracks T7 amp T8 to files amp 2 Thus whatever the way they are exported to the Avid be it as a 6bit polyphonic ste
36. f the left display press the main selec tor black button to confirm red to erase Then jog to channell and channel2 boxes of the central display press the black button then channels of the right dis play that s it You can also add and monitor an input which is not re corded jog the cursor through the inner pixel ring on which you can pin some inputs in the example above line 3 is sent to the right ear Line out Foldback and Aes out obey to the same setting rules Cantar v1 54 User Manual 2006 Jan 09 p 22 Check the grids in use In TEST PPR REC the monitoring config in use shows by pressing the main selector white central button As long as it is held down the three circular displays repre senting the Left Center and Right audition provide a quick overview of the monitoring grids without affecting the ongoing work A proposition to users the black routing button shows the mon out grid when the SoloMixPan slider is on the sOIO mOn Out OperatOr side This frees the central white button for more audio linked functions such as resetting to zero the permanent hold of the peak indicator AES out In TEST amp REC the AES outputs to 6 deliver the signals recorded on channels to 6 Called Dig Out the AES output amp 8 delivers signals of the same nature as those delivered on the Phone Line out and Foldback Select Di MX and connect this 7 amp 8 output to an HD video camera featuring a built i
37. ff Fader levels are displayed in three banks Mic Line and Mixer Each time a fader is adjusted tts dB value shows as well as the others faders in the bank 04 Rec start Beep On Beep Off TECH of 2 13 Hdd powerdown 14 Serial com Palm 15 Factory reset 6 Save user s setup Z Load user s setup 18 Max file size 19 Low temp control 20 Equipement ID 2 License key 22 Software version 23 Software install 05 Clip detect Beep On Beep Off 06 Lack ext clock Beep On Beep Off 07 Beep level OdB 6dB 8dB 60dB 08 Meter velocity Fast 3 Med 5 Slow Select Slow in low temperature conditions 09 Peak hold 0 5s Is 5s 10 Batt alert 10 8 Volts 2 7 Volts Auto switch is done 300mV below the set BattAlert This allows the use of erther 12 5V NiMH batt with 10 8V alert lO 5V switch over triggering levels or 14 4V Li lon batt with 12 7V alert 2 4V switch over see POWER chapter Syst time 00h32m24s Enter the time of your watch 5 minutes especially if you recently went through different time zones 2 Syst day 2004y04m22d 13 Hdd Power Down Ol min 250 min The System Calendar Day is used to sort sound files they are stored in folders named after the system day Changing the system day may create empty folders In STOP the hard drive accounts for half the power con sumption it s wise to put it to sleep asap the disk icon then Cantar v1 54 User Manual 2006 Jan 09 p 26
38. ing the routing button top left of the front panel It is easy to monitor a questionable mic by rotating the Monitoring Crown to SOLO or press ing the Solo amp Filter button titer HL ee 2 of the mic prefader Solos of channels Slide the Solo Mix Pan selector to SOLO operatOr side press a postfader button you hear its channel on both ears Maintain the pressure on the button and press another one the first selected channel goes to the left ear and the second to the right ear this is used to com pare two channel levels Built in Mixer Post fader Pan pot Slide the Solo Mix Pan selector on PAN bAttery side Each channel can be sent to the left or right of the mix down Press the postfader button and jog the marker to the left or the right of the circular display The center position provides a mono mix The value in dB of what Is left to the other side shows on the X amp D panel When a channel pair is MS declared the pan pot goes to the middle and the pair is L R de coded into the mix If you pan the M channel one way or the other it is 100 sent to the right or the left and the REC of 2 S signal disappears from the mix Post fader gain Once its pan pot is set each primarychannel contri bution to the mix is adjusted by its postfader The maxi mum gain can either be 6dB with OdB at the mechani cal indentation or OdB AUDIO 06 Tolisten to the mixdown put the monitoring crown in posi
39. inputs 7 amp 8 or Mic inputs 3 amp 4 or Line inputs 3 amp 4 In general film directors and image editors do prefer to work with a single stereo pre mix reflecting the sound of each scene At the end of the shooting day it is faster to burn this mixdown for the post facility dailies syncing 3 AES power Off On Off for power saving On if the AES in outs are to be used AES inputs are accessible if they are powe red If they aren t the one to six AES selection figures showing in the circular displays are blinking 14 Pre Record lsec 35s 35sec 8 channels 24bit 48KHZz I5 Mic grouping 2 amp 3 4 4243 1424344 1 2 3 4 5 These are the four mic preamp ganging types Default is 2 3 4 of which the linkage can be de activated with the two in between fader but tons Micl becomes the master the other s the 2dB balance 16 Balance fader lock Unlocked Locked See mic coupling explanations in PAUSE TEST 7 Rec run TC init 0 I hOOm00s Time is one hour incremented each time the panel line3 is accessed RecRun becomes active for the next recording session Rtc shows in the message panel until a FreeRun TC is entered by jamming the internal clock from another TC source such as the System TC 18 Operator TC init 0 I hOOm00s The operator entered TC becomes the next record ing session time reference Otc shows in the mes sage panel until a FreeRun TC is entered by jamming the internal clock from
40. k bAttery side INPUTS to TRACKS 2 of 2 Channel dis arming Cantar records BVVF Monophonics and doesn t waste disk space recording empty channels on flat tracks Do not hesitate to assign a stereo pair to channels C5 amp C6 while the boom goes to channel Xa and the mixed radio mics to channel Xb To on the fly dis arm the recording of a channel while on TEST press Shift and the button of the concerned chan nel postfader To remind the operator there is something weird happening in his Ins Track routing configuration the disarmed channel black square is blinking For protection against unrecorded channel by mistake all disarmed channels are rearmed when the main selec tor Is passing through STOR or power down MS Declaration If two channels carry a straight non de coded MS pair entered on say Linel and te 2 you only have to activate the MS icon i attached to these two tracks while passing ips over it see pic The suffix of the two files carrying an MS channel shows an hyphen instead of an underscore _ Using Majax MS pairs can be decoded and replaced by L R stereo pairs for export to editing machines which are unable to decode MS channels Two Reference Sound routing examples The guide mix The mixer postfaders and panpots feed the Xa Xb chan nels The inputs are routed to the six channels an MS couple Is connected to the prefaders 3 amp 4 and routed to C5 C6 MS declared The M a
41. ks in the circular display meaning that Cantar is waliting to be slaved to an external LTC e g a video camera Knowing the audio recorder is usually put in REC before the camera sends a correct timecode while in REC only Cantar monitors the incoming LIC and waits until a coherent TC shows on the Lemod or subD 15 to grab t Thus ext c keeps blinking until the camera is up to speed At the end of the take before closing the audio file Cantar stamps a TC by using the latest valid timecode so as to eliminate spurious transmission errors and false camera starts If there is no ext c LIC a warning in the data panel and a beep are triggered every four sec The beep is hindered if a take is W wildsound tagged see the PPR scene amp take edit page The ext c Is nevertheless grabbed if it shows before the take closure New file creation on Ext TC breaks could be offered but considering the advantages of real time recording its implementation is postponed see Cantar and video cameras tutorial end of this document Cantar v1 54 User Manual 2006 Jan 09 p 10 AES re clocking Cantar totally eliminates AES re clocking worries the extc choice above only deals with the LTC time used to stamp the audio files and should not be confused with AES syncing To eliminate jitter Cantar always works from its internal clock not from external AES clocks like other recorders do Each and every AES input is rephased by its own sample ra
42. ling front panel always offers the best viewing angle for both cart and shoulder work e because the large twelve position 3 gt 4 o j main selector eliminates deep diving x LOODS ASR NG 5 main selector into sub directories and because the KALSA gt unique three crown turret gives instant access to all recording and monitoring configurations even with gloves on e because nine rotary prefaders plus six linear postfaders each entirely devoted configuration crown to one specific task give more possibili ties and are faster to handle than four multi function knobs monitoring crown mic preamp coupler limiter fitter inverter phantom six track mixer faders Cantar v1 54 User Manual 2006 Jan 09 p 2 Cantar Rectangular Thanks to the X amp D panel and the twelve position main selector there is no sub menu deep diving on Cantar In TEST REC line shows the XaXb channel levels most of the time the mixer output on linear bargraphs Rotating the jog replaces the bargraphs by the battery voltage the avail able recording time and the remaining disk space then back to bargraphs line 2 shows the sync clock initialization source Atc Ascii from Origin C Ltc Gam from an LTC gen Stc taken from the system calendar OTC operator entered TC Rtc Rec Run mode and Etc permanently slaved by an external clock The time is the one stamped in the audio file line 3 shows the filetag and duration of
43. more The 44 100 48000 or 96000 sampling rate per earth second is called a sampling frequency On the slow NTSC planet the lazy second is the time it takes to shoot 30 frames of NTSC video te 1 001 Earth second As a reminder for the operator the lazy second timecode separators become e g 12 45 36 TIME amp CLOCKS 3 of 3 Because of the different Avid softwares the BWF meta data must carry a sample stamp showing either the real sampling frequency or the number of samples per lazy second Please read Avid Recording Rates by Michael Philips found on www soft aaton com swcantar You will see that two different NTSC sample stamp methods are used The recorded sound remains the very same only the attached metadata is different Universal stamp NTSC or not the universal sample stamp carries the real number of samples by Earth second i e the sampling frequency of the sound Select 24 25 29 97DF 30 or 23 98ND 1 B and 29 97ND 1 B in AUDIO 9 page 24 In a file recorded at 48kHz the stamp will show 48000 recorded at 48 048kHz it will show 48048 Special Avid stamp Avid Composers v I 1 3 2 The stamp carries the number of samples contained in the NTSC lazy second 1 001 Earth second Select 23 98ND 1 A or 29 97ND 1 A in AUDIO 9 page 24 In a file recorded at 47 952kHz tt will show 48000 Action When Cantar is set to Ext IC it will _only_ jam timecode when y
44. n AES input such as the Sony HD Cam F900 SR or to an SD video camera equipped with a miniature AES to Analog converter AES power consumption The sample rate converters of the AES circuits consume LOMA at 48Ks s and 200mA at 96Ks s so It is wise to put them off if the AES ins outs are not used As soon as one AES in out Is activated the to 6 AES input figures and the concerned channels start flashing in the circular display to remind the operator to switch the AES converters on MON OUTS Cantar v1 54 User Manual 2006 Jan 09 2 of 2 p 23 Ol Sample rate 02 Bit depth 03 Tone level 04 Slate mic routing O5 Line out level 06 Foldback level 07 Mixdown max gain 08 Time clock source O9 Ltc rate camera Audio parameters 4 o clock Settings which show in the audio files delivered to the client and on Cantar generated signals Ol Sample rate 44 1K 47 952 48K 48048 88200 96K 96096 02 Bit depth 6bit 24bit It is advisable to select 6bit if you know the post will be finished in 6bits 03 ToneSlate 20dB 18dB Off 04 Slate mic routing Line out Foldback Both Off Then press the main selector black button 05 Line out Level OdB 94dB Mute The Line out level is Jog adjusted from O to 94dB and mute The channel modulometer being at OdB FS the line out delivers a 8dBu signal this means that a 8dB FS refer ence tone delivers a OdBu output this is 10dB lower than common practice in order to be c
45. nd S signals are recorded as metered on the C5 C6 modulos and stereo decoded into the Xa Xb mixdown output If the editor prefers not to get a stereo effect in his refer ence sound suffice to pan the M channel to one side or the other and the S channel disappears from the mix The boom and RF mics The boom is connected to the prefader 5 which is routed to channel C5 Channel C5 is disarmed if we don t want to record it and panpoted to the left it goes to the Xa channel The boom level is thus visible on both the circu lar C5 at prefader level and the Xa linear at postfader level modulometers The RF mics are routed to Cl C2 C3 C4 C6 and panpoted to the right the postfader mix goes to the Xb channel Cantar v1 54 User Manual 2006 Jan 09 p 2 Ol Solos 02 Phones XX 03 Phones grids Routings the Outputs 6 o clock This position gives access to the creation and modifica tions of the outputs routing grids 8 channels I5 inputs to 8 outputs Non recorded inputs can be directly routed to the out puts In operation twenty six stored output grids can be quickly reached through the large Monitoring and Config crowns nonwhistanding wet forests and chilly winds Independant Banks Grouped in banks on the monitoring crown several grids are stored for the two Line outs the two Foldbacks and the Digital out pain Occupying the first three positions of the crown the headphones naturally received a special treatment
46. ntacts furthermore Cantar on STOP moving the cart and unplugging the power cable it will run the TCXO sync clock for hours Minimum voltage A battery switch over is automatically done 300mV below the operator set BattAlert This allows the use of either 2 5V NiMH batteries with 10 5V switch over trig gering level orl4 4V Li lon batteries with 24V switch over triggering level see TECH 10 A two beep alarm tone Is heard and the display shows left right bat low As soon as the power voltage drops under OV i e too low to run the recorder both inputs are put on duty If during a recording you must change a battery press the two buttons to connect both batteries before you remove the depleted one this is a good safety measure in case you would unplugg the wrong battery POWER Maximum voltage 6 6V is the absolute maximum voltage to be applied to all Cantar power sockets This rule applies to the firewire input socket as well Never connect G3 G4 G5 MacIntosh desktops which deli ver 30V onto their Firewire output to the Cantar firewire socket To connect a Cantar internal Hdd to a Mac either use a Mac laptop powerbook which delivers a safe 6V or extract the Hdd and directly connect it to the Mac desktop HDDs Firewire to Atapi bridges handle 33V No problem with PC Laptops or Desktops they deliver a safe 2V Battery check In TEST the battery voltage is displayed every 10 seconds This voltage also app
47. om start of take 4 percentage already played 5 timecode of played sound 6 filetag and lenght or scene amp take by shifte eye 7 take length Pause The black button puts a play mark on the current played position The latest created play mark overwrites the former one To make a pause while the file is playing lay down a play mark with this black button then stop with the white but ton Alternately you can press white first then black Resume play by pressing white again shifteblack resets the player to QQ i e the start of take File descriptors Shifte Esc makes the bottom line of the message panel dis play the characteristics of the file e g sample rate bit depht camera fps PLAY Scrub Rotating the jog shifts the play mark forward and backward resulting In a constant x forward playing sound which is much more intelligible than the stretched and reversed sound generated by other scrubbing methods To ten times accelerate the scrub speed press the shift key Each jog tick makes for a ten instead of a one second jump LTC fps output When playing back a recorded file the frame rate of the LTC sent to the Lemo 5 is the one which has been applied during the recording of this file not the frame rate Cantar Is currently set to If you switch to REC the LT C out instantly comes back to the frame rate setting of the current proj CCL Cantar v1 54 User Manual 2006 Jan 09 p 18
48. ompliant with the HD cameras line input acceptable levels A Line out two channel 12dB gain transformer isolated accessory is available see Connectors 06 Foldback Lvl OdB 94dB Mute The Foldback level is Jog adjusted from O to 94dB and mute AUDIO of 2 1O Ltc out generator Sc amp Tk templates 2 XX channel routing 13 AES power activation 4 Pre record duration 15 Mic fader linking 16 Balance fader lock 7 Rec Run activation 18 Operator TC init 07 Mixdown max gain OdB 6dB When in 6dB mode the OdB mark is on the fader separator Indentation 08 TC source Internal Clock External Clock In internal Cantar becomes a master clock in external it is meant to be slaved to a video camera see clocks in the Time chapter 09 Camera fps stamp 24fps 25fps 23 98nd I B etc In the NTSC lazy second world the 1 A or 1 B method must be selected according to the type of edit ing machine which will be used see camera fps page i 10 Ltc generator On Off See LTC fps output in PLAY I ScTk tmplt nnnX nnX tnn XXXXXXXX XX European or US type scene descriptor templates Cantar v1 54 User Manual 2006 Jan 09 p 24 2 Xa Xb channel use Mixdown Line input 3 amp 4 Aes input 7 amp 8 The signals sent to channels XaXb and recorded on t t8 are coming from either the six postfader mixer and in this case the sign mix shows on the circular display or they are directly coming from Aes
49. on the three screens Mon outs left ear center right ear The three circular screens show the channels sent to the left outputs on the left screen channels sent to the right outputs on the right screen and channels sent to both in the center The same rule applies for headphones line out foldback and AES out Note that all inputs can also be directly routed to the outputs without going through a recording channel e g line3 in the given example On the pict channel 5 goes to the left channels amp 2 go to the center channel 6 goes to the right as does line3 The main selector central button makes the cur rent Mon outs grid show up The Config crown opens instant access to twenty six independant banks see MON OUTS DISPLAYS 2 of 2 Ancillary controls oy fb 25 2h 3g 7 4 25 M 99 o5 whee th Fyn 207 77 aga 22 4 rs 12 2 20 29 ma are Tag limiter phase phantom The 3 platter icon of the int hdd shows on the left screen the 3 platter icon of the ext hdd on the center the platter icon of the burner on the right The disk activity is hilted by the channel black squares near the concerned disk icon The int or ext clock selection the mic phantom power the mic phase direct or invert the mic limiter activation permanently show here too Cantar v1 54 User Manual 2006 Jan 09 p 4 7 BACKUP ge A Soin x ha aN SESSION N N i 5 ASS C aha j The main selector Easy to mani
50. ou go into Record Mode Otherwise pressing the TC Jam button on the front panel will get no response from the Cantar When it is set to Int TC pressing the TC Jam button will only work if there is valid timecode applied to the TC Lemo input Pressing and holding the Blue Shift button and then the TC Jam button it must be done in that order will result in Cantar jamming System Time into the internal TC gene rator and a Jam OK message will appear on the display screen Cantar v1 54 User Manual 2006 Jan 09 p l Microphone Preamps 10 o clock This position opens access to the audio level testing Note the Cantar mic preamps offer such a wide dyna mic range in one stroke that they need no pre condi tlonners nor trims Audio inputs Five microphones MI M2 and M5 on XLR3 M3 amp M4 on an XLR5 Four lines LI amp L2 on an XLR5 L3 and L4 on an XLR5 Eight AES IN Tascam SubD25 see pin out last page Dynamic or Phantom mics Press shift and 2 The default setting is Phantom 48V on all mic inputs When connecting a dynamic micro phone switch off the phantom supply the mic preamp gain Is boosted by 2dB When the phantom power Is desactivated the triangle below the mic number disap pears from the rightmost circular display Limiters Press button to on off activate the limiter A trian gle dis appears below the mic number on the leftmost circular display VVhen the signal level reaches the lim i
51. pes MI M2 and M3 M4 or MI M2 M3 or MI M2 M3 M4 or MI M2 M3 M4 M5 are selected in the main selector AUDIO 5 Phantom Limiter and Highpass Filters are identically applied to the coupled prefader preamps Phase inver ters remain independant Stereo pairs To link MI M2 and M3 M4 pairs press Shift and button 3 simultaneously Same operation to delink The MI M3 prefaders become the masters the M2 M4 slaved prefaders tuning range is 2dB either side of his master value Surround sound To activate the AUDIO 1I5 preselected couplings press the button 3 between the MI and M2 faders MI black rectangle marked in the X amp D panel always is the master The slaved prefaders tuning range Is 2dB either side of the MI value Tuning the balance To protect the tuning of the slaved prefaders against flying fingers balance modifications can only be done while pressing the prefader button 2 The memorized gain value is displayed in dB on the X amp D panel the phy sical position of the fader is shown by lt gt signs There is no sudden level change if re activation takes place when the fader is positionned in such a way it makes the pipe sign show Channel Disarming While on TEST to on the fly dis arm a channel i e to prevent its recording onto its assigned track press Shift and the concerned postfader solo button he monitoring and modulo metering of the channel is still active in TEST but no longer in REC
52. pulate even with gloves on Six sound managing positions eREC PPR TEST STOP PLAY BROWSE laid in the standard way Six operand positions MON OUTS ROUTE INS e AUDIO TECH eSESSION BACKUF_ give access to all the possible settings of the machine Three buttons falling under the thumb a black a white and a red work with a large blue shift key activated by the index IN TEST PPR REC white shows the mon outs grid resets the peak indi cator In permanent hold mode shiftewhite in PPR opens closes scene editing black sends slate mic to line out and foldback shifteblack sends slate mic to the channels also red toggles the p PU w wild sound t sync n ignore take genders shiftered tone generator tone stays on if shift Is released first IN PLAY white stops and starts the player from the marker black puts a start marker on the current played posi tion to make a pause press white then black shifteblack resets the player to QQ IN ROUTE INS MON OUTS black sets a link point red erases a link point The 3 Crown Turret The large all weather 3 Crown Turret give access to all the monitoring grids and input routings Monitoring crown 1 So the 5Mic inputs 4Line in 6AES inputs and active channels SOLOS are sent to the headphones 2 Ph mixer output and seventeen user s grids to the headphones 3 Lo mixer and nine user
53. ras 12 Mo HF herad sarah nelly duras 19 Mo mxHF herad sarah nelly duras 16 Mo t X gt i aj tj uj v amp 2 al dl algi aie ai eigieiae 2 8 2 fF 2 zs Dm n Fast AudioSync by InDaw Please tell your post prod engineers that Indaw is by far the fastest machine in the industry when tt comes to sync film video and audio with standard slates only InDaw also solves ALL the problems post prod facilities may encounter in the maze of the audio video film speeds and standards Camera 23970 25 24002 25 2297 SIDS telecine 24 Pal 25Pal 24 25 25 24 25 23 98 timecode 24 25 29 9 7df 30nd deo 297 77 NTSG 23 78 AL 240HD 25Pal audio 32 Ml 47 752 40 40 048KS s Last but not the least InDaw rejuvenates the ALE trans fer lists sent to the Avid with better Keycode matching than the telecine originals Cantar v1 54 User Manual 2006 Jan 09 p 33 sockets MICS on XLR 3 Symetrical transformer isolated OdBu Mic 1 Mic 2 Mic 5 XLR 3 Gnd 2 Hot 3 Cold MICS on XLR 5 Symetrical transformer isolated OdBu Mic 3 Left or M Gnd 2 Hot 3 Cold Mic 4 Right or S Gnd 4 Hot 5 Cold LINE IN on XLR 5 Assymetrical 4 4KOhm OdBu Channel one Gnd 2 Hot 3 Cold Channel two Gnd 4 Hot 5 Cold LINE OUT on XLR 5 Symetrical OdBu out 8dBFS track Note new HD cameras Line in defacto standard is 20dB no longer OdBu Channel one Left in a stereo pair Gn
54. red e XLR 3 male gnd 2 M rear 3 M rear grey routing e The XLR 5 goes to the 3 4 mic inputs Routed to channels 3 and 4 which should be MS declared the output is automatically left right decoded for monitor ing The channel 3 amp 4 digital post faders being at 100 the front stereo Is heard e The XLR 3 goes to the 5 mic input and is routed to channel 5 the pan pot of this channel should be put in central RS position mono listen ing The channel 3 digi fader being at s 0 and the digi fader 5 at 100 the monitoring output becomes the sum of the S figure of eight mic on channel 4 a a and the M rear mic on channel 5 the rear stereo is heard It is thus easy to alternately listen to the front or rear MS or both with a 5 double capsule headphones mix Launch Pyramix and make two MS strips one for the front one for the rear lay down the three chan nel media on the MS tracks the Pyramix CW center width copy the track two S front onto track four which becomes S ream Reinject the M front onto the surround of the MS front You can also make an extraction for the sub here is your 5 soud TUTORIALS of 2 CD and DVD labeling An ISO volume label is limited to 3 characters thus the media name must be written in a compact format Cantar project date sep tag 099 AAAAAAAA YYYYMMDD CD_TI 6_00 The separator is either a sp space or a to flag the enabled archiv
55. reo file or within an eight channel 24bit monophonic file the Xa Xb reference files will be placed on the same AlI A2 audio lines the King s position of all audio worksta tions Channels CI C2 C3 C4 C5 C6 Xa Xb recorded on tracks TI T2 T3 T4 15 T6 T 7 16 will be stored in files 3 4 5 6 8 l 2 Cantar v1 54 User Manual 2006 Jan 09 p 32 Cantar and the video camera s To sync Cantar files to SD amp HD video camera tapes you should use real time generators such as the Aaton GM T s instead of a radio link transmitting the Video TC from the camera to the Cantar slaved in Ext Clock The GM T s LTC timecode Is recorded on one of the unused audio tracks of the video tape don t forget to defeat the audio inputs auto gain This LTC ts later extracted from the audio track by the Avid composer see pict which correlates the conti SIRE Tools Toolset wi Uous rec run Video TC of Se AE the camera with this dis Groun Clin Mode ae continuous free run Audio f Re adAudio timecode TC identical to the one running in Cantar Aides v4 6 or lett Then thanks to their com mon audio timecode the Avid can autosync the Cantar sounds to the Audio TC indexed images This method is exactly the same as the one used for syncing telecine transfered AatonCode films Please read the Avid autosync instructions about tracks VAIA2 in The PostChain document Compared to the radio transmission of rec run TC plus TC break detection
56. rovide the same date and time as the one running in Cantar now considered as the master clock Do not power down Cantar Being on a job on which the free run time of day TC is the essence Aatoncode cameras HD cameras with GMT reference generators smart digislates never power down Cantar during the working day to avoid the loss of tts Ippm reference time Note that while the internal Hdd Is in sleep mode the total power con sumption is a mere 2 0mA Go to TECH and set the Hdd to sleep one minute after STOP If you nevertheless TIME amp CLOCKS 2 of 3 want to power down Cantar at lunch time the blinking int c icon at powering up will remind you to re initialize its sync clock and all equipments around Sync Clock B internal rec run master clock int c In rec run the real time no longer exists there Is a two second gap between each take TC Furthermore the init TC is directly entered by the operator using arrows and Jog in AUDIO 17 To avoid twice the same TC entries the rec run init menu proposes the next full hour each time it Is activated The rec run mode does let you use up to 35 sec of Prerecord without creating TC overlaps The time being arbitrarily generated by Cantar the LTC out must be permanently connected to the other sync machines Note that a freezed LTC Is generated while Cantar is on TEST or PPR Sync Clock C externally slaved ext c Select external in the AUDIO 08 menu ext c blin
57. s been emptied by the rental facility No Project shows Going to REC creates a provisional AACANTAR folder 02 New Project SHADOWS EDEN An internal or external Hdd must be connected The bottom line of the message panel shows the various projects stored Press OK to create a NEVW project Once entered the usual way press OK 03 Hdd in Use Int Only Ext Only Int amp Ext Audio files can be recorded on internal or external Hdd or simultaneously on both When listening to recorded files only the internal drive is playing To listen to the external drive files switch to Ext only and don t forget to switch back to Int afterwards If external and internal discs are simultaneouly record ing the message panel shows the MBytes of the disc offering the lowest remaining space Q connect an external Hdd and wait for its activity LED to become green In SESSION do deselect HD Int Only and validate HD Int Ext but the external Hdd doesn t mount what s wrong A Wait for the ext Hdd icon to be non blinking in the central circular display then go to HD Int Ext If Cantar still doesn t see the disk it is because the disk is not FAT32 formatted on a primary partition Format it on Cantar see below 04 Disk Formatting Hdd DVD Ram ShifteRed Formatting Hdd and DVD Ram is almost identical Obviously while formatting a Hdd or a Dvd Ram do not shake Cantar A Hard drive erasing formatting FAT 32 only No
58. se the files of the selected day Day to delete 2004 04 yy shows in the data panel Jog to the next chapter Del Int HD or Del Ext HD OK No 120Mo gt Yes 20Mo OK Original xx to 00 Bounce xx to OQ this is the remaining volume to delete then No 0 0Mo shows again Esc to reopen SESSION and so on for succes sive days Speaking of hardware DVD R amp Ram Internal burner Aaton tested models LiteOn SW 431 LiteOn SW 8525S no more NEC ND 6500A tray DVD Pioneer DVR K1I4 tray DVD The Panasonic UJ 845B slot DVD amp DVD Ram Is the most universal It must be installed with tts Aaton made mu metal magnetic shield The disk ready burner icon shows on the rightmost cir cular display if there is a media in the burner and if it Is recognized this can take up to twenty seconds External burner Cantar first verifies if there is an external FireWire con nected burner and if it finds a blank disk in tt and none in the internal burner it concludes the disk burning should be done externally SESSION 2 of 2 Media choice Never use supermarket branded medias DVD Ram if you have the Panasonic UJ 845 B DVD drive in your Cantar we would first recommend Panasonic We have found that many issues of incompatibility have been resolved by using Panasonic media in Panasonic drives The Panasonic ref for 4 7GB Non Cartridge DVD RAM is LM HC47LE Maxell DVD would be the next choice
59. t file erasing If the file you ve just recorded Is a false start you might want to get rid of it Open Edit by Shifts Central white button click on the right arrow or jog to get Erase Press OK Jog the No into Yes press OK to delete To protect previous files from manipulation errors PPR 2 of 2 Cantar only erases the last file the latest main selector position must have been RECORD and the power sup ply must not have been switched off Note that file represents a file group sharing a same Filetag e g CD2234 represents the monophonic files rom GD 22340 tO GI92 754 3 To erase and format the complete HDD see the SESSION O4 Cantar v1 54 User Manual 2006 Jan 09 p 15 I2 o clock Recording In recording a REC icon shows under the active disk drive and a red LED lights up Modulometers In RECORD and TEST the signals actually sent to the disk activate the modulometers The circular modulometers pitch is IdB in the 35 to 2dB working zone The X channel modulometers pitch is 2dB in the same zone The ballistics emulate needle modulometers the decay time can be adjusted in TECH 08 from fast to 5 slow for low temp assignments default is 3 The peak meters are always on and their hold period can be adjusted from 0 5 to 5sec Instant Solos Solos of inputs If several inputs are routed to the same channel the Ins Track configuration can be checked by press
60. te converter to the point it is possible to enter non synced AES sources e g from a Yamaha console and an AES mike together All AES inputs are realigned to an exact non jittering 48k before entering the Cantar routing circuits There is no need to word sync AES accessories Linking two Cantars When recording 6 tracks two coupled Cantar receive separate analog sources the sync between the two machine is perfectly ensured by timecode only there Is no need for a word clock The Cantar TCXO clocks used for the analog to digital sampling are very stable no measurable jitter and very precise lppm They ensure better sound clarity than phase locked samplers There is no shift nor audio pha sing between the tracks of the two recorders When it comes to later mix the two sets of tracks the timecode and sampling rate precision ensures a time dif ference lower than the time it takes for a sound to travel by ten centimeters Camera fps amp audio sampling rates The video or film camera frame rate is totally indepen dant of the audio sample rate But when working with a NISC SDI or HD video camera the selection of 23 98ND and 29 97ND will also tells Cantar and the Avid composers you are working In the lazzy second world and this has an influence on the way the metadata will be recorded into the audio files What is a lazy second On Earth a second is a second the camera frame rate metadata Is a simple remaining nothing
61. te that Cantar internal hard drives are FAT 32 formatted to be directly readable by Mac amp PC No special proprietary format here SESSION of 2 04 Hdd FAT32 and DVD Ram UDF formatting 05 Scan Disk 06 Delete files e Internal Hdd to format the internal Hdd open its compartment a ten second operation and uncon nect it You will re connected it through a Firewire cable as an external disk to the Cantar Firewire socket following the instruction below This is the way we protect the internal disk against accidental erasure by idle fingers e External Hdd Firewire connected external disks are FAT 32 formatted under One Primary Partition not Logical Partition Note that there is no reason to use bigger than 20GB disks since this value is the upper limit of the FAT 32 format l Cantar powered NO external Hdd plugged in go to SESSION 04 Disk Formatting press OK Shift Red appears 2 Press the Shifte Red buttons together while con necting the external Hdd to the Cantar Firewire cable keep them pressed until the Formatting message Is displayed on the X amp D panel then release them 3 Formatting completed Done shows and the Hdd icon pops up on the central display go to STOR Re formatting a hard drive disk doesn t protect you from dead clusters As a preventive measure regularly scan your disk see SESSION O5 below and if it shows only one defective cluster do not hesitate to repl
62. ted in the mean time 2 Working Day The working day is not related to the actual time of day as defined by syncing clocks it is an interpretation of the human day see time next page Note the Cantar recorded audio files are Monophonic files i e Independant files stored in the working day fol der Automatically opened by Cantar each working day morning this folder is named by the date e g 2004 206 AAD Since there is a possibility that Cantar itself or Majax interleave the original Monophonic files into a Poly phonic gang for those editing machines which can only handle Polyphonic sounds there always Is a shadow folder AAX suffixed which carries the polyphonic files carrying the same filetags of the same day e g 2004 206 AAX FILE SYSTEM 3 File Name The Aaton InDaw a multichannel digital audio recorder introduced the Cantar filename system in 1997 It attributes a totally operator independent filetag to each take it shows some physical characteristics of the file in the filename suffix and optionally carries an ope rator entered sc amp tk descriptor The difficulty was to perform these three tasks while keeping compatibility with edl standards which only can handle the 8 3 limited DOS filenames and the many Mac OS editing stations which are limited to 3 characters All this is explained in The PostChain www soft aaton com swcantar the Cantar auto incremente
63. ter zone 8dB the trian gle starts blinking In 24bit recording mode it is com umer L mer mon practice to adjust the ince rn input gain so that a normal signal does not go over the 20dB level When the limrter is activated the 32dB head room above the 8cB kick in point gives 24dB above the no limiter full scale Thus the operator can count on a 44dB reserve over the normal 20dB level If the signal does reach the IdB level a CLIP icon appears at the end of the modulometer scale and a beep can be sent to the headphones To keep the same equilibrium between linked channels the same limiter command is applied to the ganged preamps TEST of 2 Filters and Attenuators The high pass filter default setting is linear on all mic inputs Press the mic fader button 2 and rotate the jog to select a corner frequency slope A first bank shows in the message panel it goes from 60Hz 6dB to 80HZ 2dB and LFA speech low frequency attenuator a second bank identical to the first one activates a O0dB attenuator which converts the mic input into a line input While pressed button 2 activates the solo mic also Note to handle signals coming out of devices generating high line out levels the solution is to insert an external 26dB attenuator on the mic input 10 20 s5 10 200 500 4k 2k Hz Cantar v1 54 User Manual 2006 Jan 09 p 12 Mic Coupling The five coupling ty
64. the take or by Shift eye the Sc amp Tk IDs In PPR the screen is used to monitor scene take and notes entries see PPR chapter In Technical Positions the pathtree of each value shows echapter e g AUDIO on line e parameter e g Sample rate on line 2 evalue e g 48K on line 3 DISPLAYS of 2 Circular Six primary channels Modulometers limiter phase phantom Cantar s large circular modulometers visible in bright sun as well as in the dark are the most accurate dB meter ing tools found in any portable recorder Fifteen Inputs to tracks routing The six primary channels receive any one of the I5 inputs line 234 mic 2345 aes 23456 The ins tracks grids created and stored by the operator are instantly recalled just press the swiveling panel top left routing button and rotate the config crown to the desired grid a one hand operation The picture shows mic to channel mic2 to channel 2 inel to channel 5 and line2 to channel 6 The construction of the input track routing grids is explained in the INS TRACK chapter line 1 amp 2 Cantar v1 54 User Manual 2006 Jan 09 p 3 Cantar X The Solo Mix Pan switch being on pAn bAttery side press one of the linear fader control button the left right pan of this channel goes under control of the jog wheel the exact numerical values in dB show on the XaxXb screen All the channel pan pot positions simultaneously appear
65. tion 2 and select Phone MX it Is stereo monitored and shows on the X amp D display Mixer bargraphs The mixer Xa Xb channel outputs show on the rectan gular panel bargraphs dB values 50 45 40 38 36 34 32 30 28 26 24 22 20 8 16 14 12 9 6 3 0 Clip Jogging overwrites the bar graphs with the battery vol tage the smallest available disk space and the remaining recording time under the current channel number bit depht and sample rate Cantar v1 54 User Manual 2006 Jan 09 p 16 Tone generator In TEST PPR REC Shifte Red sends a Khz tone to ac tive channels and modulos 8dB and 20dqB are avall able in AUDIO 03 Releasing Shift before Red locks the tone on Shift or any other button stops it For reference purpose the mixer output also shows this tone not the result of the mix Slate mic In TEST PPR REC press the main selector Black button to send the slate mic to Line out Foldback or both AU DIO 04 Press Shifte Black to send it to all channels Warning beeps The beep level from O to 36 is set In TECH Q7 one beep REC start and Clip detection Can be disac tivated in TECH 04 amp O5 two beeps read the flash screen action later e g Low batt The lack of ext clock beep is activated on sync t takes only it can be disactivated in TECH 06 three beeps read the flash screen immediate action e g accidently unplugged external disk
66. tion from scratch first erase an existing one by pressing the main selector red button then jog through the three circular displays line 182 Example to route Mic to channel jog five positions up and put the blinking cursor facing the mic segment then press the main selector black button to validate to route Linel to channel 5 and Line2 to channel 6 jog the cursor through channels 2 3 and 4 until you land on channel 5 odd channels are on the outer circle even channels on the inner circle Go to the pixel opposite Line validate with the black button devalidate with the red button Ins Track routing check Fifteen user configured grids are instantly available Dur ing REC if you want to on the fly check the active Ins Track configuration press the routing button top left of the swiveling panel In TEST and PPR this button lets the operator select an other preconfigured Ins Track configuration by rotating the Config crown Thanks to the ergonomic lay out of Cantar this is a one hand operation During a recording you can select another Ins Track grid on the fly go to PPR press the routing button rotate the config crown to swiftly select the desired one and go back to REC thanks to the huge pre record buffer you have 35 sec to do so and not the least sound sample lost A proposition to users the routing button shows the Ins Track routing when the SoloMixPan slider is on the pAn trAc
67. top then disconnect the Firewire cable see warnings on TECHO I HDD Status e Remount the Cantar internal Hdd e Once the Hdd disk icon is no longer blinking go to TECH 18 gt Software Load OK gt Yes careful OK e If several versions are present on the Cantar disk choose the desired one and press OK e All Cantar controls are out of commission during the one minute software installation Do not touch anything until you read SUCCESS e Press the shift blue button to close the install session and shut Cantar down Put the main selector in STOR and repower Cantar up e Go to TECH 20 Software Version to check that the new version Is installed Cantar is protected against corrupted softwares if the new version doesn t show up redownload it from the Aaton site Installation can also be performed from an external disk connect the disk to your laptop and copy can_ Ixx flb to the upper level of the disk Unplug it and hook it up to the Cantar Firewire port This procedure automatically works because when installing a software Cantar first looks for flb files in the ext disk if none Is found it looks for an flb file in the internal disk Cantar v1 54 User Manual 2006 Jan 09 p 27 Ol Project name 02 New projct 03 Hdd in use Session project 2 o clock Actions related to project titles and files Ol Project Name AACANTAR A factory preloaded AACANTAR project is stored on the internal Hdd If the disk ha
68. ur flight To modify it go to the main selector TECH position select System day and time and press OK a triangle points to the modifiable element Using the Jog select the desired value then with arrows move on to the next column and so on Press OK to exit The working day is not related to the actual time of day defined by the syncing clock it is only an interpretation of the human day its duration can be from 6 am in the morning to 3 am in the deep night of the next day If you switch off the batteries after midnight Cantar thinks the operator has gone to sleep But If your working day is continued in the wee hours after a midnight snack you would probably not want it to be considered as a new day That is why Cantar asks start new day giving you the opportunity to decline the offer or say Yes Note that immediatly going to REC Is an acknowledge too Thus if you stop working at 2am one day the audio files are still part of the technically previous day folder Conversely if you want to start a new working day right after midnight you only have to switch off the battery and immediatly switch on then answer Yes or go to REC TIME amp CLOCKS of 3 Three Syncing Clocks At start up you will no doubt notice a blinking int c or ext c icon depending upon the mode selected in AUDIO 08 This blinking reminds you to sync Cantar to the same time reference as the one running in cameras
69. usly facilitate the post chain operations e Idle convert performs the 24to 6bit reduction and the polyphonic interlacing of the XaXb mixdown files then stores the result on the internal HDD This speeds up the end of day backup 02 Day to bckp 2005 02 2005 02 26 The current day is selected by default All previous working days of the project can be selected too BACKUP of 2 06 Burn n check Q7 Files to archive 08 File names 09 Media labels 10 Perform backup 03 Track selection All XXPoly All lto8 Master Ilto6 XaxXb e All XXPoly will backup the interleaved XaXb refer ence mixdown tracks together with the native mono phonics on the targeted disk e All 1t08 will backup all the monophonic tracks e Master Ito6 idem but up to track 6 only e XaXb backup of the mixdown only 04 Convert mode This mode is accessible if erther XaXb or All XXPoly is selected in Q3 It performs or not a 24 to 6bit reduction interleaves the XaXb monotfiles into a poly file It also converts 96Ksample sec to 48Ks s If XaXb is selected in 03 None XXPoNat XXPol6t XXPol d e None makes the backup of XX files be identical to the native XaXb monophonic files e XXPoNat interleaves an XX polyfile at native bit depth e XXPol 6t interleaves an XX after 24 1 6bit truncature e XXPol 6d interleaves an XX after 24 1 6bit dithering The 6bit dithering process offers a slightly better audio quality than a
70. wv gt Q q Q U oO Q lt s lt new new download Cantar PostChain from www soft aaton com swcantar read keep in touch and version history last page Ergonomics Permanently accessible faders 2 Displays Xtra channel bargraphs 3 Modulometers 3 Inputs to tracks routing 3 Pan pots 4 Mon outs routing 4 Manual command Twelve pos main selector 5 Three crown turret 5 Push buttons 6 Keyboard 6 Power Battery check 7 Mini Maxi Voltages 7 Li lon management 7 Filing Project name 8 Working day 8 File names with Filetags 8 Time Calendar clock 9 Sync clock tutorial 9 Sync clock inits 0 Aes auto re cloking Fps and sampling rates Test Connect inputs 2 Dynamic amp Phantom mics 2 Limiter filters attenuator 2 Mic Coupling 13 Channel dis arming 13 PPR Pre record buffer 14 Enter edit Sc amp Tk IDs 14 Enter track names l4 File shortening 15 Last file erasing 5 Rec Modulometers 16 Instant solos 16 Pan pots 16 MixDown 16 Tone gen amp Slate mic 17 Warning beeps Headphones level 7 Play Files of the day 18 Play marks 18 new Backward Forward Scrub 18 LTC out frame rate 18 Browse All days 19 All projects 19 Inputs to tracks Primary amp Xtra channels 20 MS channel declaration 2l Create amp Modify 21 Channel dis arming 2l IMon outs Monitoring banks 22 Check amp create grids 22 Aes in out powering 23 Audio Tone
71. yed BACKUP 2 of 2 The Very Long File case the length of a take can make it impossible to copy onto a single CD For instance if a 200MB long file comes in with its five brothers a six channel take a 1 2GB CD is required In this case Cantar separates the take into its individual tracks while minimiz ing the number of CDs The label becomes CD_2_D072 where CD is the media _2 the track and D072 the last four characters of the filename see CD and DVD labeling in tutorials 10 Perform bckp YesnnMb No nnMb Mbytes remaining to be saved are shown The several disk case go to MediaLabel choose the disk you wish to start with press OK go to Perform bckp press OK switch to YES and press OK Once done go back to MediaLabel 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 date and media label onto the burned CD DVD as it comes out so as not to waste time looking for the ones you haven t done yet At burning end because of the unknown position of the recorder the internal burner disk is not ejected the backlight starts blinking Backup from Mac amp PCs The BWF FAT32 non proprietary format allows Firewire connected Mac Pc to directly copy the Cantar disk From a PC or laptop it is easy to group the files make selective erasures load new software versions or edit the files with Aaton Majax see Tutorials

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