Applications : Pyramix With VCube
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Player/Recorder Mode
Settings > All Settings > Project > Mixer > DSP Saving : Special modes section.
This mode allows big configurations (such as 48 x 48 channels) to run on a single board. Player/Recorder Mode is
intended for use with an external hardware console. When this mode is activated, the Pyramix mixer is relegated
to the role of signal router, there is no level control, no panning, no plug-ins and no inserts. This option is only
available in configurations with multiple mono mix buses.
The Pyramix
Direct Out functionality provides an alternative, more user configurable, method of achieving similar
DSP savings.
Please see: Channel Direct Outputs on page 226
Multitrack Editing
Pyramix is ideally suited for editing multitrack recordings. Grouping Clips across all Tracks used for the recording
allows edit decisions to be made while listening to a single Track or several with the resulting edit changes
reflected in all the Clips in the group. Track Grouping functions enable you to work in a way that suits you. The
Source - Destination editing model is just one possibility.
Please see the following sections:
Grouping Clips on page 164
Track Groups on page 110
Source - Destination Editing on page 188
Editing with Limited Hardware
Multi-track recordings with many Tracks (E.g. 48 Track 96kHz 24 bit music recordings) can be edited on hardware
which cannot support this number of Tracks. (E.g. a laptop) Simply mute Tracks that do not need to be heard using
the button in the Track Header. Tracks muted here, rather than in the mixer, no longer access the disk. Pro-
viding the Multitrack recording’s Clips are grouped across all Tracks, then any editing changes made on the Tracks
used for the editing guide sound will also be reflected in the muted Tracks.
Pyramix With VCube
The highly sophisticated VCube video recorder/player has a symbiotic relationship with Pyramix. Whether the
VCube is running on a separate remote PC or locally on the same machine (
PyraCube) there is tight integration
between the two. In a Pyracube this extends to synchronized editing and automatic VCube launch when a Pyra-
mix project containing video is opened.
VCube Essentials
VCube Essentials is a special version of VCube designed specifically for use with Pyramix. It replaces the Direct-
show and Quicktime players. An optional key is required to use VCube Essentials:
PSO-VCP.
• Supports Playback of HD medias (such as H264(MP4) wrapped in a Quicktime file)
• Codecs and/or file types (such as IMX-MPEG2HD, DVCPROHD, AVC INTRA or Avid DNxHD) require pur-
chase of the specific option keys. (Please contact your Merging Technologies sales partner for details.
A separate document is available for VCube Essentials which can be downloaded from:
http://download.merging.com/beta/Pyramix/pmx7.1.1_Beta1/VCube_Essentials_Guide.pdf
Sony 9-pin (P2) Protocol Support Over IP
Hitherto there have been two principle options for synchronizing a VCube with Pyramix, Virtual Transport either
locally or over IP and Sony 9-pin (P2) protocol over an RS422 serial connection.
In Pyramix V7.x and later with VCube V3.x and later there is the further, elegant option of using the Sony protocol
over IP ethernet. This offers enhanced reliability and simplified configuration.
Please see: Sony P2 Protocol Over
IP on page 500
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