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1. BUG FIXES System slow down when editing large projects vastly improved CPU time used on system idle vastly reduced Occasional freeze on Fixed Cursor mode most probably fixed Unable to remove effects from the Mixer s Configure Page removed effects are still there once back to the Mix Page fixed Added media folders are not retained in the Location Page of General Settings fixed Freeze issues when quickly Zoom In Out during playback fixed Crashes when moving objects in libraries while playing them fixed Sony P2 in controller mode returns now a right value of In Out point in NTSC Sony P2 in machine mode tracks arm a Digibeta correctly now Surround Panner LFE and Divergence rotary buttons of right channel of stereo strips now correctly update the automation Fixed a crash during Pyramix exit Merging Technologies Le Verney 1070 Puidouk Switzerland Nyen T 41 21 946 04 44 e F 41 21 946 04 45 www merging com Pyramixs Version 5 0 11 RC2 NEW FEATURE amp IMPROVEMENTS It is now possible to play a media during its waveform generation During a DXD lt gt DSD project conversion the mixer size is preserved Main Scale Alternate Scale Feet Scale amp Bars amp Beats Scale have now the same size and are all above the Markers Strip Clicking on any of the Scales opens a menu allowing to Show Hide or Configure each Scales The Offline Controllers button has been renamed Online and is green
2. For a complete description and explanation please read the User Manual Media Management and Libraries improvements New Media Search Tool New Media Browser New Media Trimmer Improved QuickMount and Offline Libraries Transport and Machine Control improvements New Transport Control Window New Built in Chase Synchronizer New Jog Shuttle Loop Navigate Wheel modes Support for OASIS Remote Control protocol Timeline and Editing improvements New Application Layout and Customizability with Factory Presets New Alternate TimeCode Scale New Track and Channels Typing paradigm CD Editing and SACD Authoring improvements New built in CD and SACD Mastering and Authoring tool with multiple Discs Album support New CD SACD Table of Content Reports templates New DDP verification tool New CD Import CDDB and Sample Rate conversion support General Settings improvements New Settings Page including all application parameters Import and Export of all Settings for easy multi station deployment and inter studio migration Factory Company and User based Settings management InterChange improvements OMF Export support RIFF64 support iXML support Automation improvements New Update Hold and Release modes New Automation Tracks Browser with versions labeling and locking Mixing Console improvements Complete redesign of the Mixing Console New multi channel Strips and Busses New Configuration and Routing Pages Monitoring Section New Monit
3. A new page to allow easy and visual routing of all Inputs Direct Out and Outputs of the console Self explanatory Don t miss the right click on each grid node for contextual smart routing A Load Save Routing Presets will be available in next beta 4 Organize A new page to allow easy organization of the console Hiding Collapsing Strips Busses Loading Saving Presets Snapshots etc Still under construction Dither Dither settings are now attached to a bus The graphical interface allows the user to choose which bus to select Dither settings are now accessible by clicking on the dither label of any bus Mixer s Configure Page Effect management e This page lets you manage in many ways the effects on your strips and buses e In addition to the common add remove actions you can move drag and drop or copy ctrl drag and drop effects of a same type to a strip or bus of the same dimension effects settings are kept e Selection of effects can be achieved in the common way left mouse click plus eventually shift or control keys but always within a same group of effects in the same strip or bus e You can also copy an effect including its settings too to the compatible i e same dimension strips resp buses of a selection of strips resp buses or all of them e When there are many effects on a strip or bus you can scroll up and down with the two little arrows at the right top of the group of effects to display th
4. Pyramix5 Pyramix DIGITAL AUDIO WORKSTATION Installation Please consult the Installation Guide located on the Pyramix CD ROM for details of the hardware and software installation procedure and Authorization Keys registration To install the Mykerinos board TURN YOUR COMPUTER OFF shut down then switch the power off Next plug the Mykerinos board into one of the PCI bus slots on your computer and turn the power back on Additional installation step for multi board application In order to enable multi board operation all Mykerinos cards in your PC have to be connected together using a special HDTDM ribbon cable This cable has to be plugged into the multi pin connectors located on the top edge of the I O daughter cards Please contact your Merging Technologies Sales Partner for information on how to order this HDTDM ribbon cable e To install the Pyramix Virtual Studio software insert the Pyramix Virtual Studio CD ROM the installation program should auto start Updates Please check our Web site http Wwww merging com periodically for information patches and updates Merging Technologies Le Verney 1070 Puidouk Switzerland AMERGING T 41 21 946 04 44 e F 41 21 946 04 45 www merging com Pyramix5 Pyramix 5 Highlights Please find below a list of major Pyramix 5 new features and improvements More details about new features and improvements in the following pages Details about bugs fixes start on page 34
5. L R speaker if no Center speaker connected In Place mode is the normal Solo SoloX mode Output gt gt Not yet implemented will show hide the output section of the monitoring window lt lt gt gt Not yet implemented will be the speaker set selection lt lt gt gt Select the next previous downmix set in the Configure page e Output section Volume button set the outputs gains from 144 5 to 24 dB Double click set it to 0 dB full scale Mute button mute the outputs Dim button set a 20dB attenuation on the outputs o Configure Page Main DownMix Tabs Selection Mixer s output Channel types Configure Monitor Configure Output Patch currently for 22 05 32 44 1 48 kHz sample rates Patch here the monitor s channel type to physical live out connections Main Grid and Down Mixes Availabe Sets Stereo a Stereo Monitor s output Channel types Surround 5 1 E Click on the cells to enter gains value in dB or nothing for mute signal flow This page let you define a speaker set only one for the moment more on next versions A speaker set is made of Pyramix5 apatch this will let you output your signal on physical outputs of you board s so the number of connection will depend on the number of speakers you want to connect Since the number of available live outputs depends on the selected sampling rate the patch will differ for 1Fs 2 Fs 4Fs and 8 Fs sam
6. Layout Presets o Some Factory Presets are installed by default and are not removable e The Timeline Layout page includes various graphical settings such as Position of the timeline O o Default color for Clips and Waveform o Color of Tracks o Size and Color of Clip Texts o Position of the Clip Text relative to the Waveform Above it Below it In Front of it Behind it o Content of Clip Text out of a large choice including Clip Name Media Name Media Track Media Track Channel Type Media File Name Media Path Name Tape Name Scene amp Take Original TimeCode Media Original TimeCode Gain Peak Comment e The Track Header Editor has moved in a Page called Track Headers Layout e New I O Routing pages There are now several kind of I O routing pages that are accessible directly within the Pyramix application instead of the VS3 Control Panel 1 PCM I O routing used for PCM project running at 1FS 32k 44k1 and 48kHz Merging Technologies Le Verney 1070 Puidouk Switzerland Nyen T 41 21 946 04 44 e F 41 21 946 04 45 www merging com Pyramix5 Pyramix Settings E All Settings Pa eee Hardware Settings Auto route Reset x M Formats amp Sync z DID E Internal Buses f Yo Interfaces Be MADI 15186 4 AES EBLIG 11998 Physical Inputs E XDTDM Routing PCM IJO Routing XDTDM Slot Logical Input Internal Buse 1 8 PCM HSR I O Routing Ep
7. Left Nudge Media to Right Creating new tracks with either the Tracks gt New menu Right click on a Track or typing a track name in the Tracks Tab Window now allows the choice of Creating Tracks Only Creating Mixer Strips and associated Tracks and choosing the Strips s type and Channel Types LR LCR LCRLsRsLfe etc Incrementally naming the created Tracks or Strips The Tracks Tab Window offers some new features e Navigation through tracks with the arrow keys has been improved e F2 key allows renaming the selected row e Pressing the Alt key when changing the Repro connection or the Live connection ona selection of tracks now increments each number e Right clicking on a selection of tracks or on all tracks no selection displays the following menu Increment Tracks Name Adds an incremental number after each selected tracks name taking into account an already existing number Repeat amp Increment Tracks Name Copies the first selected tracks name to the rest of the selection and adds an incremental number Copy Tracks Name Copy the selected tracks name or all if no selection Paste Tracks Name Paste the previously selected tracks name to the currently selected tracks Import Tracks Name Rename the selected tracks or all tracks if no selection with names coming from a text file Export Tracks Name Saving the selected tracks or all if no selection to a text file Merging Technologies Le Verney 107
8. Select EE On to be issued after a Stop or Pause command The Preview Auto Edit and Review through Sony 9 Pin is now fully implemented only Auto Edit previously Support of MMC Midi Machine Control controllers Add a clone strip function for the controller JLCooper MCS series mapping This allows the mapping time to be reduced by configuring one strip of the controller and cloning this strip to each of the others Jog Shuttle Scrub improvements Navigate wheel mode moves the cursor according to the timeline zoom So for a given movement the cursor move is the same whatever the zoom Jog Chase setting page has been improved by the following way Added a Navigate sensibility setting Added a Shuttle sensibility setting Added jog wheel ballistic preset for a list of controllers The preset values are arbitrary yet Shuttle wheel of the JLCooper MCS 3X00 controller series works again Scrub ballistic settings improved in All Settings Jog Chase page Scrub ballistic improved in the driver Merging Technologies Le Verney 1070 Puidouk Switzerland Nyen T 41 21 946 04 44 e F 41 21 946 04 45 www merging com Pyramix5 Timeline and Editing improvements The Status Bar has changed and now displays Free Disk Remaining disk time on selected disk for recording Nudge Currently selected nudge setting Playback Buffer Meter DSP DSP or CPU Load and Input to Output Latency in Samples and Milliseco
9. all Quick Mount libraries for often browsed folders is then recommended see Quick Mount improvements below Media Folders can now be Unmounted by branch a whole set of folders can be unmounted in a row When mounting a Media Folder the reconnection time of mounted media to the loaded document has been improved When unmounting a Media Folder the deconnection time of unmounted media to the loaded document has been improved The All Settings gt General Page now offers more choices to relink Media when opening Projects e Rescan and Mount all Media Folders for that project Default behavior in 4 x and before e Quick Mount all Media Folders for that project New default behavior for 5 x e Mount only Media referenced by that project Can be quicker than Quick Mount if only a few files are used in big folders but mounted folders will miss all media not referenced by that project and will have to be refreshed later to display all media e Do not try Mounting any Media or Folders missing media will have to be manually mounted after the project is opened Quick Mount improvements e Quick Mount libraries saving has been improved e Quick Mount libraries are now independent of their location This means that there s only one library called QuickMount pml per folder that works both for local and network access e Quick Mount libraries automatically regenerate next mount if anything changes in the Media Folder e Quick Mount libr
10. daughter card amp Hardware Settings XDIDM a Formats amp 370 Internal Buses b xz YO Interfaces MADI 15186 AES EBU 11998 Physical Inputs E XOTOM Routing PCM I O Routing 1 3 Internal Buse 1 4 PCM HSR I O Routing 3 16 Internal Buse 5 8 DSD Projects I O Routing 6 17 24 MAD o a DXD Projects I O Routing 25 32 MADI 9 16 TimeCode 6 33 40 MADI 17 24 HD Caitration 4148 morse E Application Settings 1556 gt gt MaD1 41 48 aa General 57 64 MADI 49 56 o O58 Editing a MADIS7 64 n a l Playback Record Front XLR 1 2 AESEBU SRC Front KLRA2 33 36 Jog Chase Front XLR 3 4 AESEBU SRCFrontXLR3 4 0 37 40 pipet ee sa AESEBU SRCRearl XLR 1 2 49 52 Automation Rearl KIR 1 2 AESEBU SRC Rear1 XLR 3 47 5356 E Remote Control Settings Rearl XLR 3 4 Machine Controller Physical Outputs Virtual Transport 1 3 Internal Buse 1 4 9 16 Internal Buse 5 8 6 17 24 MADII B o 6 25 22 MADIO 16 SB 6 1 40 MADI3340 6 49 56 MADI 41 48 AA 6 57 64 gt gt maD 49 56 EB a mase o aa Front XLR 1 2 AESEBU SRC Front XLR 1 2 33 36 Front XLR 3 4 AESEBU SRC Front XLR 3 4 37 40 dah sah a AESEBU SRCReari XIR 1 2 4952 Reari KIR 1 2 AESEBU SRCRearl XLR3 4 53 56 Rearl XLR 3 4 Apply changes to PCM HSR I O Routing Load Save OK Cancel Merging Technologies Le Verney 1070 Puidouk Switzerland AMERGING T 41 21 946 04 44 e F 41 21 946 04 45 www merging com Pyramix5 3 DSD Projects I O ro
11. e F 41 21 946 04 45 www merging com Pyramix5 A new Select menu has been added for in the Media Management and Library windows e This menu also offers commands to select Media in the current folder that are present or not in the current Project Media Folder e The Media Management and Library windows Edit menu offers a command to Collect currently selected Media to the current Project Media Folder e The Search Media for Media Management and Libraries offers a shortcut button to the main Media gt Search Media tool Media Folders are now displayed in a Tree on the left side of the window The Media Management window now offers a Media Browser e Below all mounted Media an Explorer like Tree allows browsing Media Folders without formally Mounting them e When displayed in the Media Browser all recognized Media are temporarily mounted and can be auditioned and dropped in the timeline normally e The menu Media Browser gt Reconnect Media references while browsing allows trying to automatically relink missing media in any open projects while browsing for easy searching This option can be disabled for quicker browsing e The menu Media Browser gt Mount Currently Displayed Media Folder allows easy mounting of the Media Folder currently displayed in the Media Browser Typically when the proper folder is found e The Media Browser uses Quick Mount libraries whenever it can to increase browsing speed Creating
12. events for instance e The Origin in Main Scale option allows setting an offset between the Main Scale and the Alternate Scale The main TimeCode Toolbar can now be completely hidden with the menu View gt TimeCode Scales gt TimeCode Toolbar Clicking on the Nudge indicator on the Main Status Bar now display a popup menu allowing for choosing the current Nudge setting The Record the Mix Down and the Render now have completely separate settings to each others Media Folder Word Length File Format Prefix Suffix etc The Project gt Information Page has been renamed Project gt General Page The Project gt General Page now includes a Project Media Folder When a new project is created either with Project gt New or Project gt New from Template and a Media Folder is selected or created the Project Media Folder the Record Settings the Mix down Settings and the Render Settings point to this new folder Merging Technologies Le Verney 1070 Puidouk Switzerland Nyen T 41 21 946 04 44 e F 41 21 946 04 45 www merging com Pyramix5 The Project gt General Page offers the choice for any operation involving generating a new media to either e Generate it in the Project Media Folder e Generate it in its Original Folder Track Types of Media Left Right Center etc can now be displayed in the Clips with the All Settings gt Timeline Layout gt Compose Clip Text out of options Track Typ
13. features that allow avoiding to effectively Mount too many Media Folders or Open too many Libraries e Search Tools have been added to allow searching non mounted Media Folders or not open Libraries e Settings have been added to allow opening documents without having to mount all associated Media Folders e For those who still require mounting big folders or opening big offline libraries Quick Mount libraries have been vastly improved and new commands have been provided to allow quick and easy generation of Quick Mount and Offline Libraries Please carefully read the following Media Management improvements for details about all these new methods Anew Media menu has been added for the current project e Media related commands present in the menu Project have moved to the Media menu e Anew powerful Media Search tool has been added It is available through the menu Media gt Search Media It offers three pages Query Page Allows typing a Simple Query or an Advanced Query e The Simple Query is a list of words that will be search case insensitive e One option allow the search to ensure that all words are present in the returned Media metadata AND or at least one of the words are present OR e A second option allows choosing if only the Name and File Name fields will be searched or all available text field for each Media searched e The Advanced Query allows composing a complex query with specific fields matching specific values a
14. is touched but continues when the button is released and stops only when the machine stops e Update amp Release The automation starts updating the current pass when the button is touched and stops updating when the button is released e Update amp Hold The automation starts updating when the button is touched but continues when the button is released and stops only when the machine stops e Note The Update Mode performs a relative trimming of the last pass When a button is touched previous values are incremented decremented by the value of the button relative to its position when it has been touched e Note 2 The Update Mode is available only for buttons controlling dB values Faders Aux Send etc The Auto Write Mode and Release Mode are set as Global with the menu Automation gt Auto Write Mode and Automation gt Release Mode This means that every button touched or released will follow these modes In addition the system offers keyboard modifiers to alter these behaviors for a specific button when touching or releasing it e When Touching a button Control forces the Write amp Release Mode Control Alt forces the Write amp Hold Mode Control Shift forces the Update amp Release Mode Control Shift Alt forces the Update amp Hold Mode More generally Alt forces the Hold Mode for the current Write or Update Mode e When Releasing a button Control forces the Snap Mode Shift forces the A
15. move jump jog etc This option is also available in the menu Machines gt Internal Machine gt Freeze External Machines F FWD and REV Buttons of the transport support now multiple speeds The cursor speed double each time the F FWD or REV is pressed Machine control has now a track arming Edit Preset feedback Settings allow filtering analog or digital machines track arming As by default Pyramix sends In out and Audio In Out point when set an In Out point in the machine control panel or when performing an export to tape Preview AutoEdit Review a setting has been added in order to filter Video In Out and Audio In Out points The menu Machines gt Active Machine gt Auto Chase External Machine has been removed and replaced by an Auto Chase option available for every machines When enabled the given machine automatically enters in Chase mode when any other machine is the Active one This options is Off by default for the Internal Machine and On by default for all External Machines Merging Technologies Le Verney 1070 Puidouk Switzerland Nyen T 41 21 946 04 44 e F 41 21 946 04 45 www merging com Pyramix5 Machine Control gt Sony 9 Pin now offers the option to send Monitoring commands after issuing a Stop or Pause Jog 0 command These options are available in All Settings gt Machine Control gt lt lt Selected Machine gt gt gt Properties and allow either a Full EE Off Full EE On
16. no project is loaded or and when Pyramix is closed This fix is currently implemented for the following daughter cards MADI II AES DSD and SRC SDIF TDIF Fixed CDImport speed settings not used for the first import after the change Fixed CDImport Place in timeline option when generating non pmf files Fixed audio lock on slave board not properly reloaded problem Fixed mixer input and output connections wrong name with an AES EBU daughter card in mono board Fixed wrong output mute in DSD mode after the first disconnection Fixed TMMan issue for shared memory memory is now allocated in non cached zone version 5 2 11 0 Fixed TimeCode freeze Fixed ADAT download failed problem Fixed MPEX3 s renderer s display bug and early stop of processing problem Fixed ASIO driver issue 5 0 2 Fixed a bug with Dither s word length knob Algorithmix Denoiser and Declicker can now run in a Pyramix Native Fixed Mixdown never stops when there are not enough record streams available the number of strips number of buses gt 128 Fixed wrong Logical Channel numbering in routing page when Internal Busses are present Text marker no longer prevents the rendering of an Edited Master in Render Mode in the GenerateCD SACD module Fixed a bug with the Render s rack it crashes when closing it while auditioning Fixed Play Rewind Play issue Fixed lOStatus issue when the system was locked on AES EBU daughter card rear1
17. not support by DSDIFF negative days are removed In an Edited Master the original time code is always set to zero Nearest CD Start Marker preceding a clip group moving in Auto Crossfade Ctrl and Auto Ripple mode now follow the clips Merging Technologies Le Verney 1070 Puidouk Switzerland Nyen T 41 21 946 04 44 e F 41 21 946 04 45 www merging com Pyramix5 Mixing Console improvements General All Strips and busses have been redesigned to improve display performance and look and feel Strips can now be collapsed like busses Buss ordering has been changed to match the general signal flow of the console which is from bottom to top in the Input Strips left to right on the Busses and top to bottom on the Master Sections Busses are then enumerated from bottom to top which makes a left to right alignment on the Master Section Strips and Busses now have a large identifying number near the Fader Busses are prefixed by their type e Al A2 for Auxes e M1 M2 for Mono Mix e 711 ST2 for Stereo Mix e SRI SR2 for Surround Mix A ToolTip like menu provides specific commands for each of the busses and strips and is available on the right of each bus and on the bottom of each strip It allows for e Resetting parameters depending on the Bus Strip type not all commands are implemented yet e Collapsing Expanding Hiding Strips Busses e Giving a custom color to Busses for easy visualization e More to c
18. 0 Puidouk Switzerland AMERGING T 41 21 946 04 44 e F 41 21 946 04 45 www merging com Pyramix5 Tracks Auto Monitoring status is now properly updated in case of external Track Arming from Sony 9pin keyboard shortcuts or Remote Controllers The menu Tracks gt Select between Marks Select to Mark In and Select from Mark Out now select also grouped clips on other tracks to those on the selected track The menu Selection gt Set Selection Start End to Cursor now preserves the currently set selection End Start even for single clip selection Clicking on a clip group with the Auto Select Track enabled now selects the top track of the selection even if clicked on any other track The Markers Tracks linking Combo Box previously located on the top left of the timeline has been moved in the Markers Tab Window Track Names can be exported and imported as a text file by right clicking in the Tracks Tab Window and choosing the Menu Import Track Names or Export Track Names Fade Editor Nudge Media Out can now be mapped to a keyboard shortcut Fade Editor 6 memory preset can now be mapped to a keyboard shortcut Fade Editor Audition Speed now allows 100 80 one third down 66 one fifth down 50 one octave down and 25 two octaves down Source Destination operations now automatically zooms on the edit point after completion if the Destination Track Group is in Free Zoom mode Waveform display size no
19. 41 21 946 04 45 www merging com Pyramixs BETA VERSIONS BUG FIXES 5 0 9 Fixed an issue where the editing in the TimeLine was unreasonably slow Fixed crash after a Mixdown or a Generate CD SACD Remove the Trimedia Device Driver tmman sys not installed message in Pyramix Native 5 0 8 Moving Tracks and Track Groups now properly display the mouse cursor Editing a List Control Tracks Track Groups Markers etc now properly allows clicking in the text being edited Fixed crash issues with Surround Post Processing Resampler Fixed crash when used the next previous speaker set in the monitor through the controllers Fixed issues in the monitoring panel when clicking on a non button area Auto solo when jogging works again setting available in the Jog Chase page Fixed invalid Playback Buffer size bug when reloading all general settings from a file generated when there was no project Fixed In DAD huge memory consumption when starting a record when track armed are in repro It still not allowed changing track arming and to change mixer s lives input connections during a record in a DXD project TOC is now properly displayed in Generate CD SACD module Disc Image contains again Disc info as UPCEAN Title Edited Master created in Mixing mode contains again EMID Artist and Title info Fixed playback issue skipping effect in a DSD project Fixed Direct Out connection issue on a Mixer s st
20. DSD Projects I O Routing 946 DXD Projects I O Routing i TimeCode ee Calibration amp Application Settings Fa General aie ae Editing me Playback Record ey Jog Chase 81 88 Layout oe sere 105 112 gt 113 120 E Remote Control Settings Machine Controller Virtual Transport s E g6 EA ENE mn 41 48 49 567 5764 i 6 Front AESEBU SRCRearO 7 BO Read AESEBU SRCRearl BBB 89 96 Roari 97 104 105 112 113 120 Apply changes to PCM I O Routing Load Save How to make a routing a Just click on the Auto route button b Drag and drop a Physical group the front group of an AES EBU for example to a HDTDM XDTDM slot It is also possible to drag and drop all Physical groups of an daughter card by dragging the daughter card itself MADI 15186 in the above example Note it is possible to delete a group routing by select it in the right window and using the Del key Merging Technologies Le Verney 1070 Puidouk Switzerland AMERGING T 41 21 946 04 44 e F 41 21 946 04 45 www merging com Pyramix5 2 PCM HSR I O routing used for PCM project running at 2 4 or 8FS This routing page displays I O as 2FS don t forget that the number of I O will be divide by 2 at 4 FS and by 4 at 8FS When an AES EBU daughter card is present this routing page takes account of the HighSamplingRate setting from AES EBU page to allow you to route 12 AES channels or 24 for the corresponding
21. Dither Settings are no longer shifted or resetted after adding or removing buses Automation is no longer lost after changing the number of stems on a master bus or the number of channel of an Aux from the Mixer s Configure page Ina multiple CPU or hyperthreading CPU and at least 2 Mykerinos boards in FXIn mode the scrub jog shuttle sounds fine now Monitor a media when no project is loaded works now Sonic Solutions Macros are no longer automatically reloaded They are reloaded only in case of a full reinstall from scratch Tracks Auto Monitoring status is now properly updated in case of external Track Arming from Sony 9pin keyboard shortcuts or Remote Controllers Workspaces now update properly the Tracks Monitoring and Auto Monitoring settings Play with Preroll now allows recording later in time even in Dubbing mode When moving strips in the Mixer s configure page Effects instances are now moved according to the action Pyramix no longer crashes when coming back to the Mix Page of the Mixer after moving Groups Strips in the Configure Page The Monitor no longer outputs audio 6 dB louder than it should The Dim and Mute buttons of the Monitor are now well displayed according to their effective state Aux busses state are now properly reloaded from version 4 x projects The automation is still not properly relinked Aphro is now properly exported to remote controllers and automation MADI daughter card in
22. ack two little arrows on the left side of the Trimmer allow selected which track to display The Trimmer can display Media Tracks Details with the menu Trimmer gt Show Track Details e The following information are displayed for each track of the selected media Track Name Track Number Track Type Left Right Center etc Track File Name in case the Media is recorded in One File Per Track The Trimmer can be automatically Shown Hidden depending on the selected object type with the menu Trimmer gt Auto Show The Trimmer can automatically create waveforms for media that haven t one with the menu Trimmer gt Auto Generate Waveform On the left side of the Trimmer a little square allows selecting deselecting Tracks e When auditioning the Media only selected tracks are played back e When dragging the Media from the Trimmer window only the selected tracks are copied to the destination Media or Compositions can be trimmed the following way e Double click Plays the object through the Monitoring Section from the point double clicked on e Click amp Drag Drag the object to the timeline or an other library properly trimmed from the In point to the Out point where dragging it from the list view takes it untrimmed e Shift Click Sets the Trim In point The point can be modified later by simply clicking on it e Control Click Sets the Trim Out point The point can be modified later by simply clicking on it e Control Sh
23. aries are not regenerated if the Media Folders moves is renamed or changes its drive letter e The menu Media Folder gt Create Quick Mount libraries allows creating all Quick Mount libraries for a given drive folder or network path recursively Typically to be done by night on the whole server e For all the reasons above the system is now set in Quick Mount mode by default The menu Media Folder gt Create Offline Reference Library now works on Media Folders that doesn t have to be mounted Just selects the proper path and the system will parse all files in the drive folder or network path and create an Offline Library out of it As the Media Trimmer see below allows putting Trim In Out and Sync Points libraries have now a new format that is now more compatible with version 4 x or before For this a menu Library gt Save Library As 4 x have been added to save libraries in a format compatible with version 4 x Keyboard shortcuts now work again in all Libraries and Media Management windows All Library and Media Management Windows now have a Composition Media Trimmer Merging Technologies Le Verney 1070 Puidouk Switzerland AMERGING T 41 21 946 04 44 e F 41 21 946 04 45 www merging com Pyramix 5 The Trimmer can be shown hidden with the Library Window menu Trimmer gt Show The Trimmer can display only the first track of the displayed object with the menu Trimmer gt Show 1 Track e When displayed as a single tr
24. available in the Jog Chase Page in General Settings When set in Chase mode the Internal Machine still has the choice of chasing the LTC the VITC the selected External Machine or the Virtual Transport input All Machines have a Ctrl button which sets them as the Active Machine and gives them the full input of the Active Machine mapped keyboard shortcuts and all available Remote Controllers input An Online button has been added on bottom of the Machine Window in the Controllers section When this button is pressed Red all connected Controllers are set Offline until the button is depressed Green This ensures no external command can be sent to Pyramix while doing some maintenance operation When performing a Mix down a CD Image Generation or a Surround Encoding the application automatically sets all controllers Offline to ensure the operation is not interrupted by mistake or controllers motorized faders do not exaggeratedly move during non real time generations This option is also available in the menu Machines gt Controllers gt Offline Controllers This button now replaces the Store Offset button in the Transport Toolbar on the bottom of the application A Freeze button has been added that allows freezing all external machines and VT to the current time at the moment the button was pressed This allows working with the Internal Machine Editing Jogging Trimming searching for media etc without any pictures display to
25. ber of outputs and inputs are different for those The VST Scanner application that replaces VST Plug Ins Chooser is now properly installed in both the Window menu Start gt All Programs gt Merging Technologies gt Pyramix and VS3 Runtime Added VS3 Effects Support to Render s rack available for VS3 Effects supporting the Rendering mode v2 Time Stretch Pitch Shifting Prosoniq MPEX3 Project Render Project Stretch Pitch and Project Surround Post processing now feature MPEX3 processing MPEX treatment works for any sample rate and any number of tracks only limited by host machine performance More settings are available for MPEX Quality Formant Type and the ability to choose whether or not your tracks are correlated Phase lock For example if you have to process independent tracks the process will be done without taking into account Phase preservation between the tracks which should lead to a better slicing for time stretch pitch shift in this case Stretch functions in the workspace Right button Stretch and Fit To Selection functions now use the selected Time Stretch Tool TimeZone or MPEX3 from Application Settings Editing and settings from Application Settings Time Stretch Merging Technologies Le Verney 1070 Puidouk Switzerland Nyen T 41 21 946 04 44 e F 41 21 946 04 45 www merging com Pyramix5 General Settings improvements Pyramix Se
26. connector the red led was not displayed Merging Technologies Le Verney 1070 Puidouk Switzerland AMERGING T 41 21 946 04 44 e F 41 21 946 04 45 www merging com Pyramix5 Fixed Save As 4 3 Fixed Chase in play reverse Fixed JLCooper MCS series crash when rotaries button of the remote controller are used Fixed occasional burst noise with an ADAT daughter card in XDTDM mode when no project is loaded The MADI2 daughter card now mutes its inputs when the internal selected frequency does not match the one of the incoming audio to avoid very loud noise on certain D A Loop Play crashes fixed Native and Mykerinos Fixed SAC synchronization issue in multi board configuration AES SDIF TDIF MADI2 ADAT Fixed target drive issue when creating an SACD Edited Master using the render mode Merging Technologies Le Verney 1070 Puidouk Switzerland AMERGING T 41 21 946 04 44 e F 41 21 946 04 45 www merging com Pyramix5 Known Issues Limitations Aux busses don t relink to their automation when loading 4 x projects Aphro doesn t recall saved presets when loading from 4 x projects f after an improper exit Pyramix refuses to restart properly and even sometimes completely breaks Windows then launch Regedit go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER Software Merging Technologies Pyramix and remove the branch Main Frame Position 5 If the menus and or toolbars are missing some commands or you ne
27. e case of SACD There is no longer a CD Marker List in Track Group or a Global CD Marker List CD Marker List in Disc Area can be linked to Track Group if necessary to associate Audio content to a CD Marker List The Generate CD dialog box has been slightly changed The CD Marker selection list has been replaced by the same Album tree as the one in the Album tab A CD image will be generated for a CD Disc selected An Edited Master will be generated for an Area Selected in the SACD Album Improved DDP Import with CD Text and sampling rate conversion New variable in the CD TOC report for more flexible TOC printing DDP verification improved CD Discs are automatically added during loading of an old project which contains CD markers in the global list or in TrackGroups All information related to CD is transferred CD markers text info When creating a CD Stop marker it takes the name of the related CD Start marker New CD SACD page in General Settings It is now possible to choose in CD SACD page if a new marker will be created by default with its offset enabled or disabled FreeDB support added in CDImport _CDImport now allows track name editing and uses the track in the generated file name CDImport no longer uses temporary files New interchange module to import PQ markers and Text from an Edited Master Channels re ordering when generating an Edited Master is now activated only when the mixe
28. ed to reset them to their original state go to c Documents and Settings lt your login name gt Application Data Merging Technologies Pyramix Settings and delete the files CommandsMapping pms and TabDef pms After many document deactivation activations Mix down Generate CD image General Settings etc the menu and toolbars may be reset to the same state as when there s no project loaded In this situation a crash is potentially imminent save your work close Pyramix and reload it Dubbing mode is not supported in DXD Editing projects When the system is set to XDTDM mode the ADAT daughter card only supports 8 outputs and no inputs In HDTDM optical A amp B are usable as before The Raditek SAC 2K remote controller is no longer supported The support and limitations of version 4 3 still applies The HUI remote control has no been yet ported to version 5 The support and limitations of 4 3 still applies The ADAT daughter card despite its original design dating back to 1999 is still fully supported in V5 0 beta 4 in HDTDM mode only The ADAT daughter card supports now the XDTDM mode with a hardware rework ONLY In this mode the ADAT daughter card offers 8 output channels through optical output A replicated on the optical output B and No Inputs This hardware rework consists to add a shield to the ADAT like for the DUAL daughter card Please contact Merging to obtain this part One more time bypassing these
29. em Duplicate Strip s This function will duplicate a selection of strips including its settings pan gain and its effects Merging Technologies Le Verney 1070 Puidoux Switzerland JAY Safa he T 41 21 946 04 44 e F 41 21 946 04 45 www merging com Pyramix5 All Resets commands have been implemented on both Strips and Busses Contextual Tooltip Menu on the right of Busses and bottom of Strips Reset whole Console Reset whole Bus or Strip Reset Pans All Sends On Off Reset Send In Place Reset Channel Routing All Effects Bypass On Reset Peak Hold Reset Solo Invert Solo Reset Mute Invert Mute Reset Delays Organize Page has been implemented It allows for Managing Mixer Presets Managing Mixer Settings Pressing SHIFT while clicking on an Effect Bypass button affects all Effects on that Strips Pressing CONTROL while clicking on a Solo button makes it exclusive Resets all other Solo On the Mixer I O Connections menu have been updated new graphical look and the ability to connect one Input or Output bank to a strip or bus by a single click on the bank s name at the top of the menu Ctrl Left Click on it will connect the whole bank if possible affecting the following strips if necessary Merging Technologies Le Verney 1070 Puidouk Switzerland Nyen T 41 21 946 04 44 e F 41 21 946 04 45 www merging com Pyramix Monitoring Section Pyramix 5 introduces a new
30. ens the Automation Tracks dialog is now shown on top of it e An Init menu item has been added to easily allow creating an initial automation track for mouse editing The initial version is created at the current value of the mixing console control e A Snapshot and Snapshot Range menu item has been added to allow easy snapshot of the currently displayed control curve Merging Technologies Le Verney 1070 Puidouk Switzerland Nyen T 41 21 946 04 44 e F 41 21 946 04 45 www merging com Pyramix5 CD Editing and SACD Authoring improvements In CD SACD View tab Global Infos tab has been replaced by Album tab This new tab presents the Album tree which shows the Album Disc Area hierarchy For CD Album this just contains Discs For SACD Album contains Discs and Discs contain one Stereo Area and one Multi Channel Area Accordingly with the object selected type in the hierarchy right side of the Album tab displays Album disc Area information These are of course editable TOC tab has been removed TOC information is now displayed via a dedicated dialog box This dialog box is open with CD SACD View menu XTOC Display XTOC A new tab has been added Track Inspector This tab displays vertically all information about the selected track in the Track View right pane of the CD SACD View CD Marker List is now linked to Disc in the case of CD and Area in th
31. ereo strip The left channel was going out on Left and Right direct out channels When in a Jog wheel mode the locate cursor function is now possible The monitors remote controls are now right reloaded when a project is loaded and monitor panel is not displayed Some rarely Sony P2 machine did not react to a Goto Set In Set Out command DAT machine now fixed 5 0 7 Sony P2 controller mode is able to have a potentially unprocessed transport command bug which is able to appear after some time of use Now fixed Loop mode freeze the machine is now fixed To Go in Loop mode when the jog wheel is moving don t produce an audio mute anymore Export to tape has been repaired Automation Settings in Pyramix s menu doesn t open General settings at the good page fixed Fixed the Unable to Add effect issue Fixed 2GB limitation for wave file Pyramix can now read write wave file up to 4GB Fixed a PMFHandler issue causing a crash with CD import Sampling rate converter added to CD Import Keep open option added to CD Import Merging Technologies Le Verney 1070 Puidouk Switzerland AMERGING T 41 21 946 04 44 e F 41 21 946 04 45 www merging com Pyramix5 Sony P2 master s Chase Synchronizer has been globally improved in Playback and Jog mode Sony P2 Pyramix master sent now a stop command when push the stop button in the transport or from a controller Sony P2 controller mode when receiving jog command now be
32. es of Media can be included in the Clip names when renamed with the menu Clips gt Rename Track Groups have a new sync mode Selection available on the last column of the Track Groups Tab Window When enabled this option makes sure that any selection done within a Track Group is affected to all tracks in the group This option is disabled by default to ensure backward compatibility Recorded or Rendered Clips are now grouped by Track Groups if the recording rendering crosses multiple track groups Clips being moved with the mouse either within the timeline or from a library media management are now temporarily colored in Red if they re overlapping any other clip on the timeline This is specially useful when dropping media on a track where clips are hidden on the right side of the screen and may be erased by the new one Clips Normalize function now let the user define a maximum level and choose between considering the global peak of the selection or the peak of each file Markers Keyboard Shortcuts and Remote Controller mapping now goes up to 48 instead of 10 before All list controls now allow when editing a text field to press TAB or Shift TAB to validate the current edit and switch to the next or previous row for editing it Cursor amp Marks gt Goto TimeCode now allows entering a Preroll to jump X seconds before a given point Creating new tracks with either the Tracks gt New menu Right click on a Track or typi
33. esent on the same Network Pyramix reconnects now to the right ISIS Added a way allows setting Aux bus channel routing globally A new item menu in the aux bus menu is present Auto Scroll when moving strips above the left or right border in the Mixer s Configure Page Buses and Strips can be easily Named using TAB or SHIFT TAB to prompt the following or previous Strip bus s Name Normalize Clip function now features an option to preserve relative gain levels between clips in a selection enan Management in the Mixers Configure Page Major changes in the left menus and contextual menus It is now possible to add a selection of effects can be a mix of VS3 VST and DirectX on either a selection of strips or buses or all strips or all buses You now can make a selection of effects of the same kind over several strips or buses using left click associated with shift or ctrl Keys However you can drag or copy with ctrl drag effects only from a single cell cell a kind of effect of a strip bus It is possible to remove a selection of various effects at once or All effects from a selection of strips buses or from all strips buses Merging Technologies Le Verney 1070 Puidouk Switzerland Nyen T 41 21 946 04 44 e F 41 21 946 04 45 www merging com Pyramix5 New move up move down buttons that apply to a selection of effects including multi strips buses selections BUG FIXES Auto Punch Punch Selecti
34. fixed Bad Crash even machine reboot in some case with some projects using Group Strips and DirectOut Enabled Strips now fixed Media Manager 24 25 MPEX3 Convert and Project Stretch Pitch functions produced PMF medias that were displayed truncated in the Time line fixed Effects Drag and Drop in the Mixer s Configure Page it now behaves better and it no more discard effects changes in the mixer when switching back to the Mix Page as it used to do before in some cases Projects saving problem fixes when Save clients state on local all server VT settings enabled Fixed crash on the Multiple Audio File plug in for Surround Post Processing MADI Noise improvement during project switching The MADI 2 daughter card has been modified to Continuously output a valid but muted audio stream irrespective of Pyramix being in DSD DXD or PCM mode when no project is open or when Pyramix is closed Lock to an incoming MADI audio signal or a MADI word clock signal when no project is open Moreover it is recommended to check the Mute Input when drift is detected option in the Pyramix setting window MADI tab to filter potential noise generated when modifying sampling frequency or sync source settings These modifications are valid only in XDTDM mode or Standalone mode The HDTDM firmware has not been modified and thus behaves as before Merging Technologies Le Verney 1070 Puidouk Switzerland Nyen T 41 21 946 04 44 e F
35. for the audio professional who needs the best tools New VS3 Plugin Wordlength Meter or Bit Meter that let you control the effective wordlength of a signal Don t forget that once you apply gain e g a fader s gain on the mixer that is not set on 0 0 dB the signal will systematically become 32 bit float data New VST effects manager This VST host now supports more VST plug ins such as TC Powercore plug ins Selection of which VST plug ins will be available in Pyramix is made with another application VST Scanner which additionally enables the user to test any VST plug in with the VST manager and will provide details about a plug in The VST manager won t load plug ins for which the number of outputs and inputs is different The VST Scanner can be considered as a validation tool for users and or plug in developers In order to keep it up to date it is possible to report bugs to its developer VB Audio and the latest version of the VST Scanner can be found at http perso wanadoo fr vb audio fr resources vst_scanner vst_scanner htm Waves Plug ins are now supported in VST format in addition to their support in DirectX Note that the restoration plug ins from Waves and other VST or DirectX plug ins that do not output the same audio amount as it receives won t work with Pyramix for now Moreover m s versions of Waves plug ins which are mono to stereo implementation of their plug ins can t be inserted either since the num
36. ift Click Sets a Sync Point The point can be modified later by simply clicking on it Shift Alt Click Sets the Trim In point and plays from it Control Alt Click Sets the Trim Out point and plays from it Control Shift Alt Click Sets the Sync Point and plays from it Control Double Click Resets the Trim In and Trim Out and Sync Points The menu Edit gt Place now places the selected object in the Timeline selected Track and Cursor position at its Sync Point previously its In point The Trim In Trim Out and Sync Points are permanently preserved for Compositions and MasterClips stored in a Library Project or Global but only until the next Mount or Refresh for mounted Media in the Media Management Window Merging Technologies Le Verney 1070 Puidouk Switzerland Nyen T 41 21 946 04 44 e F 41 21 946 04 45 www merging com Pyramix5 Transport and Machine Control improvements The Machines Tab Window has been removed The Transport Window now displays all available machines with a specific set of buttons and status indicators External machines can now be synchronized from within Pyramix by a built in Chase Synchronizer Each machine therefore has a Chase button as well as a Chase Offset and Delta indicator The Internal Machine then provides the master timecode for all External Machines to chase The Internal Machine now has only one Chase button The choice of Hard Soft and Vari Chase is now
37. le per Track recording not properly pasted in the timeline fixed AIFF 32 bits waveform generation fixed BusTool and EqX failing to mixdown and generating CD images in non real time fixed Fixed a click when auditioning a media in the Media Manager No track name with simple wave file without bext or iXML fixed Merging Technologies Le Verney 1070 Puidouk Switzerland AMERGING T 41 21 946 04 44 e F 41 21 946 04 45 www merging com Pyramixs Version 5 0 12 RC3 NEW FEATURE amp IMPROVEMENTS New SACD Text functions Copy Titles from Track Names this applies to the selected Text Channel of the Track list of an area Copy Album Info To Selected Disc Info useful for single Disc SACD Album Ability to copy paste Album Disc Area between several opened Pyramix projects SACD Edited Master Import now allows to import DST encoded DSDIFF files markers markers only New GPIO SeaLevel devices supported All the Seal O 4xx series are supported via USB Added new functionalities to the Jog wheel buttons of the MCS 3800 controller Please refer to the freshly rewritten MCS 3xxx user manual which is downloadable on our website Improvements of Playback and Record alignment Note A D or D A delays are not compensated Enhancement of ASIO Audio Engine t is now possible to run at the same time the Philips SACD Playback Monitor application with Playback Monitor PCI board and Pyramix with Mykerinos boards
38. ly current and locked versions while saving option in the Automation Settings The Limit versions to the number of Undo Redo option is enabled in the Automation Settings e Locked versions will NOT be preserved when Clicking on the Delete Current Version button Clicking on the Delete All Versions button Clicking on the Delete All Tracks button e Versions can now be labeled by clicking on the Label Current Version button This function creates a copy of the current version for the selected control or branch of controls gives it a name that will be displayed in the version Tree and locks it them It is then easy to recall a given and easily identifiable version of the automation for the whole mixing console e A Combo Box called Masters Controls Synchronization has been added to allow selecting which Track s or Track Groups will impact all Master controls of the Mixing console when editing in Auto Ripple mode Exactly like Markers or CD SACD Markers all Masters controls can now be either Independent No action on any track will affect them Linked to Any Track Any editing action requiring synchronization will affect the Masters controls Linked to Any Track without a Group Link to Track Group A B C etc The menu display when Right Clicking on the Automation button on the Track Headers A has been slightly improved e The Name of the currently displayed automation curve on the track selecting it op
39. monitoring facility to replace former monitoring buses of Pyramix This monitor is also used to output the audio signal from the playback function of the media manager The Monitor has two pages a Main page Monitor and a page for configuration of it Configure o Monitor Page Main section Input Section Monitor Monitor Configure x Enable Monitoring lt lt Input Output gt gt 0 0 dB SR1 2 5T1 IES lt lt Surround E SR1 J Stem 1 J W Stem 2 Stem 3 Mono Stem 4 STi WL WR Output Secti Mi Al hhute Dim e Input Section You can enable disable the monitor It allows saving DSP power A tree view of all buses used in the mixer You can select a complete bus or any available stem or any bus stem channel to monitor By pressing Ctrl button the inputs selection become cumulative e Main section lt lt Input not yet implemented will show hide the input section of the monitoring window lt lt gt gt Select next previous input depending of viewed items in the Input section lt lt gt gt Not yet implemented Speakers are inactive grayed if they are not connected in the Configure page Mute By clicking on a speaker you can mute it Solo By clicking on a speaker you can solo it Pyramix SoloX Solo exclusive on the clicked speaker Reset Unselect all speakers In Place Center In Solo and SoloX Center allows to listen to the soloed channel on the Center speaker or
40. nd TimeCode Current Frame Rate and Reference Source e If the selected Reference Source is available the Led lights in Green e If the selected Reference Source is not available then the Led flashes in Red e f a Pull Up Pull Down or Varispeed setting produces an invalid Frame Rat it s then displayed in Red Audio Current Sample Rate and Sync Source e If the selected Sync Source is available and locked on the Led lights in Green e If the selected Sync Source is not available and the system defaulted to Internal then the Led lights in Red e f the selected Sync Source is available but with a different Sample Rate then the Led flashes in Red Anew Alternate TimeCode Scale has been added Itis available through the menu View gt Scales Toolbars gt Alternate TimeCode Scale The menu View gt Scales Toolbars gt Alternate TimeCode Scale Settings offers to select e The TimeCode Resolution for the Alternate Scale out of Frames Samples ms CD Frames e When the Resolution is set to Frames an Alternate Frame Rate can be chosen e When an Alternate Frame Rate is chosen the check box Stretch Scale to match Main Scale Frames allows the Alternate Scale to no longer display time the same flow the Main Scale does 1 Second 1 Second but in a way that the Frames length matches 1 Frame 1 Frame In this case the time is not the same in both scales and this allows making comparisons between 24 frames events and 25 frames
41. ng a track name in the Tracks Tab Window now allows the choice of Creating Tracks Only Creating Mixer Strips and associated Tracks and choosing the Strips s type and Channel Types LR LCR LCRLsRsLfe etc Incrementally naming the created Tracks or Strips All created tracks can automatically grouped either in a single whole group or per each created strips Mix down dialog offers the option to append the Mixing Console Bus Name to the end of the generated files name in One File per Track mode This option is available in the Mix down dialog under the name as Suffix with Bus Name Record Settings already had a Prefix with Track Name option and the Mix down already had a Suffix with Bus Name option The Record Settings and Render dialog now have a Suffix with Strip Name option This allows the following Multitrack recording The Prefix with Track Name option will create files named like e Guitar Take 001_ 001 wav e Guitar Take 002 001 wav Multitrack recording of typed sources typically for archiving Film stems or Render of Mixes Dubs With a set of multi channels strips GPS strips properly named and typed the Suffix with Strips Name option will create files named like e Episode3 M amp E Ls wav Merging Technologies Le Verney 1070 Puidouk Switzerland AMERGING T 41 21 946 04 44 e F 41 21 946 04 45 www merging com Pyramix5 e Episode3 M amp E Rs wav e Epi
42. o Formats amp Sync Presets It is now possible to have presets of all of these parameters Merging provides standard presets as FILM PAL FILM PULL_DOWN and the user can create their own presets o Load Save of all settings in a single file Merging Technologies Le Verney 1070 Puidouk Switzerland AMERGING T 41 21 946 04 44 e F 41 21 946 04 45 www merging com Pyramix5 o Selective Load of settings As all parameters are always saved in the file the Load Settings dialog allows the choice of which pages will be loaded By default the Load settings dialog auto selects the currently selected page Load Settings 5 A 9 Hardware Settings Formats amp Syne v 1 0 Interfaces MADI 15186 AES EBU 11998 9 XDTDM Routing D TimeCode H Sy Project Settings amp Application Settings Remote Control Settings cancel Merging Technologies Le Verney 1070 Puidouk Switzerland AMERGING T 41 21 946 04 44 e F 41 21 946 04 45 www merging com Pyramix5 e The Layout page has been split into two pages The Desktop Layout page and the Timeline Layout page e The Desktop Layout page now allows the Menus and the Toolbars to be configured by simply clicking on any commands Menu or Toolbar column o The Desktop Layout page allows the choice of which settings Tab Window is displayed o Doubling the size of all toolbar buttons Big Toolbar Button check box o Creating Desktop
43. og and applies to any file format being imported Merging Technologies Le Verney 1070 Puidouk Switzerland Nyen T 41 21 946 04 44 e F 41 21 946 04 45 www merging com Pyramix5 Automation improvements The Write to End and Auto Release option have been removed from the Automation Settings Page and are now available in the Automation menu so they are accessible through keyboard shortcut toolbar and remote controllers The Auto Release time is still accessible in the All Settings gt Automation Page or Automation gt Automation Settings same page now Two new Automation Release Modes have been added Snap and Write to Next The following action can now be achieve when releasing a button e Snap A straight jump is done from the last written point to the previous pass e Auto Release An interpolation is created from the last written point to the previous pass The length of this release line is defined in the Automation Settings gt Auto Release Time e Write to Next The same value is kept after the last written point until a next point in time is found in the previous pass e Write to End Removes all points after the last written point at the end of an automation pass There are now four options for the Auto Write mode e Write amp Release The automation starts writing when the button is touched and stops writing when the button is released e Write amp Hold The automation starts writing when the button
44. ome Strip Bus Channel Typing All Strips and Busses Channels have now a custom type that can be manually set in the Configuration Page to e Left L Center C Right R Surround Left Ls Surround Right Rs LFE Lfe Left Center Lc Right Center Rc Surround Center Cs No particular type Mono Strips are tagged by default to no particular type Stereo Strips are tagged by default to L R MS strips are tagged by default to C C GPS Strips see below Surround Strips are tagged to L C R Ls Rs Lfe 5 1 Etc Surround Mixing Surround Mix busses can now have from 1 to 16 stems Still 5 1 only in this version 6 1 7 1 and 8 1 will be available in next beta 4 Monitoring All Monitoring busses have been suppressed removed pending the introduction of an all new full monitoring section Solo can now be performed on each Input Strip These are Destructive Solo only for now Non destructive AFL and PFL modes will be available in next beta 4 Merging Technologies Le Verney 1070 Puidouk Switzerland AMERGING T 41 21 946 04 44 e F 41 21 946 04 45 www merging com Pyramix5 A full Monitoring Section with Cuts Down Mixes Dim Inserts etc will be available in next beta 4 Under the Solo buttons a SoloSafe button SF allows any strip to be excluded from the Solo activity Safe Each bus type Mix or Aux also has a Solo Safe Safe button on the Master section allowing any of them
45. on and Auto Edit operation now properly perform a Post Roll Occasional crashes when loading big libraries or mounting quick mounting folders containing more than 1000 2000 media now fixed Occasional crashes when Archiving a project now fixed Occasional media tracks mismatch on archived projects now fixed Fix a crash during jog wheel editing Waveform generation issue fixed waveform never generated generated but never appears Highlight strip from a remote control is now working fine When changing the jog editing mode while jogging from an ISIS controller Pyramix is no more freezing Crash when entering Mixer s Route menu with MADI mono Board or in Native ASIO mode now fixed Moving Strips from Mixer s configure mode now correctly updates the tracks connections CD SACD Authoring Several problems with LBM STT import and export STT export crashes bad SACD disc SequenceNr exports unexported ISRC fixed CD Text Menu functions have been repaired copy could either delete info or do nothing Copy paste Disc function has been repaired Useless Discs menu functions have been removed The displayed CD Markers are now coherent with the CD SACD Albums tree CD markers are displayed only when an SACD area or a CD Disc is being selected The offsets Menu function now applies to the current selection of the marker list rather than the Track list s selection SACD Edited Master only imports the two first tracks of a Multi channel Edited Master
46. oring Section with multiple Speaker Sets and Downmixes Merging Technologies Le Verney 1070 Puidouk Switzerland AMERGING T 41 21 946 04 44 e F 41 21 946 04 45 www merging com Pyramix5 Audio Processing and Hardware improvements New XDTDM architecture Support of simultaneous 128 live Ins 128 live Outs 128 Playback and 128 Record Streams Support for 16 DSD Channels Support for DXD over MADI and AES EBU AES EBU daughter card support for 24 I O 2FS ASIO support up to 192kHz Support for the new Isis Remote Controller Support for the new Sphynx2 AD DA Plug Ins New Extreme Definition Parametric Equalizer Eqx New Solera Dynamic Range Processor New Pure Dynamics Processors New Arkamys UpMix5 Stereo to 5 1 Surround Processor New VST and DirectX support New VST plug ins Scanner and Validator Full support of UAD1 and TC PowerCore Full support of Waves plug ins Support for MPEX3 Support for POW r Support for Trellis E Merging Technologies Le Verney 1070 Puidouk Switzerland AMERGING T 41 21 946 04 44 e F 41 21 946 04 45 www merging com Pyramix5 Media Management and Libraries improvements Important Note Most of the Media Management performance issues that we have analyzed came from e Time to Mount Media e Size in memory of open Libraries While both of these points have been improved they still can be an issue for big or huge Media Libraries For this we have added some new methods and
47. pling rates a Main grid this matrix defines the relation between the Mixer s buses output channel types and the monitor s output channel types thus your monitor s physical outputs Typically the main grid would be a diagonal for the channel types that are patched a set of Downmixes max 4 a downmix is a an alternative grid which uses the same patch as the main grid In this page you can patch the outputs of you monitor add remove downmixes and defines the corresponding grids in dB only the channel types which are patched Remarks Depending on the patch the audio signal from the media manager s playback which is always mono will be directly output on C or LIR As the mixer s I O connection menu the output patch section let you connect a whole bank of live outputs at the time if a live output is already used by the mixer its index will be displayed in orange in the mixer panel the Configure Page settings of the monitor i e the speaker set settings are saved when you leave the page to go back to the Monitor page otherwise the modifications won t be saved The Monitoring Section gt Configure page now allows creating multiple Speaker Sets Two Factory Sets Stereo and Surround 5 1 marked in red on top of the Speaker Sets list are installed their main grid and down mixes cannot be changed but their output Patch can Additionally you can enable disable them and each of their down mixe
48. puts are now working properly Merging Technologies Le Verney 1070 Puidouk Switzerland Nyen T 41 21 946 04 44 e F 41 21 946 04 45 www merging com Pyramix5 Tracks Auto Monitoring status is now properly updated in case of external Track Arming from Sony 9pin keyboard shortcuts or Remote Controllers 5 0 4 Fixed Pyramix hang during Load Effect issue Fixed crash at CD track deletion Add CD Mark Groups function is back Fixed crash when using Add CDMarkGroups when there is no Disc Area selected Fixed nudge to next CDMarker issue Fixed crash with Mykerinos board based on Trimedia TM1100 processor Serial N 10000 10299 32kHz mode is now supported Fixed Automation issue on gain fader CD Player is back Fixed No MADI inputs and outputs problem Fixed No MADI inputs in Standard mode when routing above 7 XDTDM group Clicks on AES EBU input 1 8 should be no more present This has to be confirmed by the user on the field Fixed wrong display in Format amp Sync page Effective Video Frame Rate field The included new 3 0 r4 version of Prosoniq MPEX algorithm fixes the problem of bad quality sound encountered on previous version on some time stretching treatment Input Video detection improved and should no longer lit the Activity green led in the I O Status window when no Video signal is connected to the Video input connector 5 0 3 The outputs are now muted when
49. r source is a surround bus This will be indicated just below the Mix Source box The re ordering feature is now available for PCM and DXD project Merging Technologies Le Verney 1070 Puidouk Switzerland Nyen T 41 21 946 04 44 e F 41 21 946 04 45 www merging com Pyramix5 Improved Generate CD Image feature when SRC is used the user does not need to manually disable Mixer s Dither anymore One has now the choice between two dither processing units a dithering which applies the treatment just like Mixer s Dither does parameters are those selected in the Mixer and the WLC same as 4 2 which is now available even if no SRC is applied DKD Mixing project supports DXD and DSD lives It is possible to record DSD or DXD inputs included internal buses without conversion but all recorded inputs must be of the same type for one record session all DXD or all DSD DSD can be only recorded in DSDIFF file format New Dither Implementation added POW r algorithms new user interface showing frequency response of the selected dithering process noise floor Integration of the Trellis E Sigma Delta DSD modulator When a PMF media contains DXD audio the waveform displayed in Pyramix is filtered between 0 20kHz MADI daughter card can carry a DXD or DSD stream You can configure this in the MADI page I O Audio Data Format setting Added original time code in DSDIFF files As negative time code is
50. recommendations may result in a Pyramix crash and the loss of your current project data gt Do not try to use the ADAT daughter card in XDTDM mode without this required shield Merging Technologies Le Verney 1070 Puidouk Switzerland Nyen T 41 21 946 04 44 e F 41 21 946 04 45 www merging com
51. rect Out can be routed by Channel to any output of the HDTDM or XDTDM bus The Direct Out can be sent Pre or Post Fader Click on the DO box in the I O section of the main Mix Interface The Direct Out is always Post Effects for now While there can be any number of Input Strips and Busses from 1 to 64 in HDTDM or 1 to 128 in XDTDM there is a limitation on the number of Direct Out connections The sum of the Direct Out connections PLUS all Busses channels can not exceed 64 in HDTDM or 128 in XDTDM Configuration Pages In the Caption Bar of the Mixing console five new buttons have been added to allow better configuration of the mixing desk Mix The traditional Mixing Console to be used in real time Automate A new page to allow easy switching of Automation mode for any console control Still under construction Configure A new page to allow powerful and easy configuration of the console topology channel types and Direct Outs This page is not yet finalized and will be enhanced in the future in order to maximize user friendliness including the ability to move strips effects management channel type presets For now strips are added before the selected one and if none is selected it will be added on the right To collapse expand a strip or bus you can double click on it If you collapse all strips or all buses using the menu button then when your mouse moves above one strip or bus it will automatically expand Route
52. s in order to choose which ones you want to see in the Monitor page When an output of the Mixer and an output of the Monitor are connected to the same live out then these outputs are mixed and the Mixer displays the connection in orange Merging Technologies Le Verney 1070 Puidouk Switzerland Nyen T 41 21 946 04 44 e F 41 21 946 04 45 www merging com Pyramix5 Audio Processing improvements n a DXD project the AES EBU can carry DSD or DXD Pyramix now supports ASIO devices up to 192 kHz You have to open VS3Control Panel enable ASIO support in ASIO s page and choose which device you want to use MADI AES output format is automatically set to Professional when the output data format is DSD Playback engine improvement use ahead reading use asynchronous read with PMF read access are sorted by medias and by tracks Read improvement of polyphonic wave file Merging Technologies Le Verney 1070 Puidouk Switzerland AMERGING T 41 21 946 04 44 e F 41 21 946 04 45 www merging com Pyramix5 Plug Ins Plug Ins are now sorted by category Upmix5 by Arkamys The new standard in 5 1 creation With UpMix5 by Arkamys upmix any stereo source to a 5 1 multichannel output Now available as a plug in for Merging Technologies Pyramix Virtual Studio V5 Whether it is for postproduction and broadcast UpMix5 by Arkamys is the perfect solution for creating 5 1 material Especially designed
53. s in previous versions of Pyramix Libraries Page Allows choosing in which Libraries to search e All Open Libraries e A list of Libraries or Pyramix Projects e A list of Folders in which all Libraries or Pyramix Projects will be searched e These options allow therefore to search libraries without to have them opened Time and Memory saving Media Folders Allows choosing in which Media Folders to search e All Mounted Media Folders e A list of Folders containing Media o All Folders in the list will be searched using the QuickMount library for speed purpose If there s no QuickMount library present in these folders the a choice is offered to either Open each file and search all metadata in it Search only the File Name quicker e Two new menu allow now to select all Media used by the current project that are present or are NOT present in the Project Media Folder Media gt Select Media present on Project Media Folder and Media gt Select Media NOT present on Project Media Folder e A new menu allows Collecting all Media used by the current project that are NOT present in the Project Media Folder to it Media gt Collect Media to Project Media Folder This allows making sure that all Media used by a project are available locally in case the machine or the disk have to move to an other studio or temporarily being unable to access network resources Merging Technologies Le Verney 1070 Puidouk Switzerland Nyen T 41 21 946 04 44
54. sode3 LtRt L wav e Episode3 LtRt R wav Mixing down of edited and panned sessions The Suffix with Bus Name option in the mix down dialog will create files named like e Terminator_Final M amp E Stem1 L wav e Terminator _Final M amp E Stem1 C wav e Terminator_Final M amp E Stem1 R wav Clip ee manipulation has been improved Clicking on a curve with no modifier creates a new point no changes from 4 x Clicking on a curve with Control pressed starts modifying trimming all points in the selected region new in 5 0 Clicking on a curve with Alt pressed allows drawing the curve was Control in 4 x Clicking on a curve with Control Alt pressed allows erasing envelope points new in 5 0 Shift still limits the modification to the clip being clicked on bypass all groups When selected a region pressing Control extends the region to the previous and next envelope points of the clip being clicked on This allows for easy selection of a range of points to later move altogether with the Control modifier as described above The menu Clips gt Nudge now offers some new entries Nudge In to Left Pressing Control has the same effect as per moving with the mouse Nudge In to Right Pressing Control has the same effect as per moving with the mouse Nudge Out to Left Pressing Control has the same effect as per moving with the mouse Nudge Out to Right Pressing Control has the same effect as per moving with the mouse Nudge Media to
55. t is supported Pyramix Setting E All Settings Hardware Settings Formats amp Syne E 10 Interfaces MADI 15186 AESJEBU 11998 3 XDTDM Routing PCM I O Routing PCM HSR I O Routing DSD Projects I O Routing DXD Projects I O Routing TimeCode Calibration amp Application Settings General Editing Playback Record Jog Chase Layout Location Automation E Remote Control Settings Machine Controller Virtual Transport Apply changes to DXD Projects I O Routing Load Save Auto route Reset Internal Buses Bo Physical Inputs DxD Chi DKD ch2 DxD ch3 DxD ch4 DxD chs DXxD che DxD ch DxD cha gt gt Rear Sony 1 RearO Sony 2 RearO Sony 3 Rear Sony 1 Rear Sony 2 Physical Outputs DKD chi DxD ch2 DxD ch3 DxD ch4 DxD chs DxD che DxD ch DxD che kse RearO Sony 1 RearO Sony 2 RearO Sony 3 Rear Sony 1 Rearl Sony 2 XDTDM Slot Logical Input Internal Buse 1 Internal Buse 2 Internal Buse 3 eee Merging Technologies Le Verney 1070 Puidouk Switzerland T 41 21 946 04 44 F 41 21 946 0445 www merging com Pyramixs RELEASE CANDIDATE VERSIONS BUGS Version 5 0 12 __ Final Release NEW FEATURE amp IMPROVEMENTS It is now possible to audition a media in Media Manager during a playback AES EBU status bits are now configurable with an AES SRC daughter card BUG FIXES One Fi
56. the former Select Mix buttons e lf a particular Mix Bus is selected in the box for this Aux then any Channel feeding the Aux bus that has the In Place button selected IP will then be routed following the Panning of the selected Mix bus instead of the Channel Routing described above Stereo Strips now have a separate Phase setting for the Left and Right channels There is still a single button that has four states Black No phase inversion White Left inverted Red Right inverted Blue Both inverted GPS alip General Purpose Sirip A new type of Strip has been added that allows for 1 to 8 channels This can be used as an Aux return or for any kind of direct Input usage LCR LCRS etc A 2 channel GPS Strip is initialized by default to L R and a 6 channel GPS Strip is initialized by default to 5 1 This can be changed customized in the Configuration Page GPS Strips feeding any busses Aux or Mix are routed by default by Channel Type like any other strip but this routing can be manually changed by clicking on the Channel Routing grid like any other strip Merging Technologies Le Verney 1070 Puidouk Switzerland Nyen T 41 21 946 04 44 e F 41 21 946 04 45 www merging com Pyramix5 All Sp now have a Direct Out connection The Direct Out connection is disabled by default It can be enabled in the Configuration Page or in the Route Page by clicking on the Strip Header see below The Di
57. to be excluded from the Solo activity Safe Each bus type Mix or Aux now has a Repro button on the Master section to allow this bus to output signal only when the system is playing back No signal will be output in Stop or Record mode for instance to avoid audio feedback howl round in the Studio main speakers Aux busses Stereo and Mono Aux busses have been replaced by General Purpose Aux busses from 1 to 8 channels Channels have now a custom type that can be manually set in the Configuration Page to e Left L Center C Right R Surround Left Ls Surround Right Rs LFE Lfe Left Center Lc Right Center Rc Surround Center Cs A 2 channel Aux bus is initialized by default to L R and a 6 channel Aux bus is initialized by default to 5 1 This can be changed customized in the Configuration Page Any Strips that feed an Aux bus have their Channels automatically routed to a matching Aux bus Channel Type Left to Left Right to Right etc This Routing can be changed by clicking on the little grid icon on the Aux bus This opens a Channel Routing window that allows gain values to be entered for each node of the Strip Bus crossing Just click on any node and enter a dB value Enter nothing no character to reset the node to Mute While the Send Gain is still automated the Channel Routing is NOT automated In Place e Below the Faders on the Master Section of each Aux bus an In Place Source Selector replaces in
58. tter works Tested with CB UR 422 Auditioning Media no longer makes external machines and VT to jump to the original timecode of the auditioned media Loading closing or switching projects no longer makes external machines or VT to jump to 00 00 00 00HASP XP SP2 compatibility fixed Monitor window is correctly placed when a project is loaded Monitor speakers have their own letter correctly showed hided when next previous inputs button are used Waveform display bug fixed The peaks should now be properly drawn in any case Splitting a clip with the mouse now allows nudging just after without re selecting it Record Setting gt Prefix with Track Name now works also if Prompt for Name at End of Record is checked Mixdown in non real time at 2 4 or 8FS bug was fixed Ona multi stem bus mix the Bank connection feature left click on the title of a bank in the connectors popup menu did not connect the selected page of connectors but always the first page 1 to 8 in general Moreover the connection of the bank of live I O is now done from the selected connector not from the first one only For VST effects featuring the Soft Bypass function like TC Powercore effects the state of this button was not correctly stored which caused those effects to be bypassed at each reconfiguration of the mixer As a consequence you could not hear any TC Powercore plugins in the resulting Mixdown of a project that used those VST plugins
59. ttings lt All Settings Preset Hardware Settings Formats amp Sync z Sy YO Interfaces ReLoad Save Delete MADI 15186 AES EBLI 11998 E XDTDM Routing Information PCM I O Routing Effective Sample Rate 44 100 kHz TimeCode Calibration Effective Frame Rate 25 00 frmis E Project Settings Effective Video Frame Rate 25 00 Frm s Information Record f Warnings Controller Mapping E Mixer Level Meter DSP Power Saving amp Application Settings Frequencies General Editing Sampling Rate 44 1 kHz X Playback Record Frame Rate a5Famis_ o SYS a Jog Chase Layout Location r Audio synchronization Automation E Remote Control Settings Master Sync Board 15186 v Machine Source Internal x Controller Virtual Transport WordClock is Output at 44 1k 7 m ideo TimeCode Synchronization Format SD PAL Reference Internal Varispeed Nominal C Pull Down Pull Up Yarispeed 1000 1000 0 00 Apply changes to Formats Sync Save OK Cancel 0 All Pyramix s Settings Pages are moved into one dialog this includes the Mixer s Settings pages o All Formats amp Sync settings in the same page This page groups together the old Mixer s General and I O Sync pages and some parameters of Old TimeCode and Video pages At any time the information section displays the effective values of the sampling rate the frame rate and the video frame rate
60. uting used for DSD Project The DSD Mapping of an AES EBU daughter card can be changed in the AES EBU page through the DSD Mapping setting You can choose the audio data format carried by MADI from the MADI page I O Audio Data Format setting Note that DSD Projects only support DSD format Pyramix Settings E All Settings Hardware Settings _ Autoroute Reset DSD XDIDM Formats amp Sync kaanan mela ca E 10 Interfaces MADI 15186 AES EBU 11998 Physical Inputs amp xDTDM se PCM T O Routing MADIDSDChE ad PCM HSR I O Routing RearO Sony 1 MADIDSDCh2 Pangan DSD Projects I O Routing Reard Sony 2 MADIDSDCh 3 DXD Projects I O Routing Rear0 Sony 3 MADIDSDCh Sentai gale MADIDSDChF 0 7 E Application Settings gt gt MaDrosoche 8 General MADIDSDCh9 E NS Editing oee 100 Playback Record AESEBU SRCRearOSony1 Moo Jog Chase AESEBU SRCRearOSony2 12 Layout AESEBU SRCRearOSony3 1B Location kem Rew sory Automation MADIDHDGHIG i E Remote Control Settings Machine Controller Physical Outputs Virtual Transport tf im XDTDM Slot it Apply changes to DSD Projects IJO Routing Load Save a Merging Technologies Le Verney 1070 Puidoux Switzerland AMERGING T 41 21 946 04 44 e F 41 21 946 04 45 www merging com Pyramix5 4 DXD projects I O routing used for DXD Editing projects Same as DSD Projects I O routing page except DXD audio data forma
61. uto Release Mode Control Shift forces the Write to Next Mode Added to these combinations Alt forces the Hold Mode for the current Write or Update Mode e External Remote Controllers such as OASIS based or others will provide different modifiers to alter the Global Auto Write and Release Modes depending on hardware availability dedicated buttons existing buttons combinations special movements etc Merging Technologies Le Verney 1070 Puidouk Switzerland Nyen T 41 21 946 04 44 e F 41 21 946 04 45 www merging com Pyramix5 The Automation Tracks dialog have been improved the following ways e Double clicking on the left Tree of controls now allows to not only display Versions for a given control but also to display the Times of all Versions for a whole branch of controls e Double clicking on the right Tree of versions for a displayed branch of Versions Times will actually set as current the most recent versions for a given time to all controls in the branch This allows recalling a specific version of the automation for the whole console or strip or effect etc e Versions can now be locked or unlocked by clicking on the Lock Current Version button or Unlock Version This applies to a whole branch of controls if selected in the left tree windows e Locked versions will be preserved when Clicking on the Clean Up Versions button Clicking on the Clean Up All Tracks button Saving with the Keep on
62. w goes up to 64x nominal size The timeline can now be zoomed deeper than 1 sample per pixel Fixed Cursor mode has been improved and now supports multiple track group free zooms The real Frame Rate is now displayed in the status bar of Pyramix pull up pull down or varispeed is taken into account Merging Technologies Le Verney 1070 Puidouk Switzerland Nyen T 41 21 946 04 44 e F 41 21 946 04 45 www merging com Pyramix5 InterChange improvements OMF Improvements OMF Import now supports chunked media files e Chunked Media are media recorded by slices of a given size e Import of chunked files supported only in OMF Embedded files OMF Import now supports 24 bits media files OMF Import now automatically groups stereo pairs of clips or all vertically aligned clips OMF Export has finally been implemented Added iXML support in WaveHandler BWF media reader Added support of wave file with the Wave Format Extensible format It is now possible to read write wave file bigger than 4GB In fact Pyramix write a standard wave file up to 4GB when the media length is lower than 4GB or a standard RIFF64 wave file when the media is bigger than 4GB The BWFHandler has been modified to generate BWF file the way Nuendo and Pro Tools interpret the specification sic The option to automatically Group aligned Clips when importing a composition with the InterChange menu has now moved in the main InterChange dial
63. when all controllers are online and Red when they re offline The Transport Toolbar Store Offset button has been replaced by the Online Controllers button The Chase indicator Blue by default turns to Purple if an Offset is applied 24 bits OMF media are now supported in the Media Manager as well not only when extracted An Erase Envelope modifier has been added So when moving clicking on a clip envelope the modifiers are now the following No modifier Move or add a single point Control Move the whole selection Alt Draw many points Control Alt Erase points The above apply to all clips vertically selected Pressing Shift limits the above actions to the very clip envelope clicked on The option to automatically Group aligned Clips when importing a composition with the InterChange menu has now moved in the main InterChange dialog and applies to any file format being imported The Preview Auto Edit and Review through Sony 9 Pin is now fully implemented only Auto Edit previously The Media Manager Folder hierarchy now show formally mounted folders in dark grey and the parent folder structure in light grey Refresh Media Folders now refreshes only the formally mounted ones and not the whole hierarchy has before Show Hide window of Bus tools plug in is now remote controllable Set In Out point of SonyP2 machines are now bidirectional Bug fix when automating effect bypass from the mixer When multiples ISIS controllers are pr

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