Sujet DDX comme surface de controle pour Cubase

Citation : DDX3216 MMC-to-VST Quick Setup Guide


Cubase SX/Nuendo Setup:
1. On the VST transport bar, click/highlight ‘Sync’
2. Under the ‘transport’ heading in the toolbar at the top of the Edit Window screen, click on “Sync Setup” – a dialog box will appear for setting up synchronization
3. Set ‘Timecode Source’ to “Midi Time Code” (MTC)
4. Set ‘MMC’ to “MIDI Machine Control”
5. Set ‘Options’ “Drop Out Time” to a value of ‘6’ (note: this can be varied for best results)
6. Set ‘Options’ “Lock Time” to a value of ‘3’ (note: this can be varied for best results)
7. Place a ‘check’ in the checkbox for “Ignore Hours”
8. Set the ‘MIDI Machine Control Settings’ to your computer’s MIDI input
9. Set the ‘MIDI Machine Control Settings’ to your computer’s MIDI output
10. Set the ‘MIDI Timecode Settings’ to your computer’s MIDI input
11. Leave ‘Send MIDI Timecode’ unchecked
12. Leave ‘Send MIDI Clocks’ unchecked
13. Now, under the ‘Devices’ heading in the toolbar at the top of the Edit Window screen click on “Device Setup”. Make sure your ‘Default MIDI’ inputs/outputs are the same as you selected above in part 9-10 of this guide (if applicable)

DDX Setup:
1. Power up the DDX if it is not already on
2. After the DDX starts up, press the ‘MMC/MIDI’ button in the upper left switch block until the “RX/TX” page is displayed (page 3 of 3). Select your preferences using the master controllers (knobs) below the display.
3. While on this RX/TX page, darken in the check box for “RX” on ‘Machine Control’ (this is not a typo… set this parameter to “RX” for this application!)
4. While on this RX/TX page, make sure that the checkbox for ‘Control Change’ is set to either ‘TX’ or ‘RX’ (or you can leave both blank), but do NOT set both ‘TX’ and ‘RX’ checked/darkened in.
5. Press the ‘MMC/MIDI’ button on the DDX again until the “Setup” page is displayed (page 2 of 3).
6. Now, set the MIDI ‘Transmit Channel’ to “1”
7. Set the MIDI ‘Receive Channel’ to “OMNI”
8. Set the ‘MMC DEVICE’ parameter to “7F” (this will send out MMC commands to all MMC compatible devices)
9. Now, press the ‘MMC/MIDI’ button on the DDX again until the “Machine Control” page is displayed (page 1 of 3)
10. On this page under the ‘source’ heading, select/highlight “clock” using the master controllers below the display
11. Under the ‘rate’ heading, select your frame rate (note: you can only change this setting if: 1) automation is OFF and automation has never been turned on for the current snapshot or 2) you selected the desired frame rate BEFORE you initially turned on automation. If you are unable to change the frame rate see below…

***TO RESET/CLEAR AUTOMATION***
THIS WILL DELETE YOUR PREVIOUS AUTOMATION SETTINGS FOR THIS THE CURRENTLY LOADED SNAPSHOT!!

To proceed, press the black ‘Setup’ button in the Automation section of the
upper left switch block (this is NOT the ‘Setup/Osc’ Button). Using master
controller number 1 to the far left beneath the display, scroll to “clear
automation” and press master controller one. The DDX may prompt you to
confirm you want to do this. Confirm if you wish to proceed. Now, you should
be able to change the frame rate.

12. Press the ‘MMC/MIDI’ button in the left switch block until the ‘Machine
Control’ page is displayed.
13. Press the ‘Play’ button on the virtual transport in the display

You should now be able to control the PLAY and STOP functions on the VST
transport in the software**

**If REC does not work in your software application, try setting up punch in
and punch out record markers in the VST application, then press the virtual
‘PLAY’ button on the DDX transport.
**FF and/or REW progress may not be reflected in the VST application, but
once you press ‘PLAY’ in the DDX virtual transport, the VST application will
jump to the location you FF or REW to on the DDX transport.
**You can use the ‘marker’ settings in the DDX to “jump” to a position in the
VST software- press the ‘MMC/MIDI’ button in the left switch block until the
“Machine Control” page is displayed (page 2 of 3). There are user-definable
markers that can be used to locate to a specific location.


DDX Sync-to-ADAT Setup Guide


DDX Setup:
1. Power up the DDX if it is not already on
2. After the DDX starts up, press the ‘MMC/MIDI’ button in the upper left switch block until the “RX/TX” page is displayed (page 3 of 3). Select your preferences using the master controllers (knobs) below the display.
3. While on this RX/TX page, darken in the check box for “TX” on ‘Machine Control’
4. While on this RX/TX page, make sure that the checkbox for ‘Control Change’ is set to either ‘TX’ or ‘RX’ (or you can leave both blank), but do NOT set both ‘TX’ and ‘RX’ checked/darkened in. This information is only critical if you are using the ADAT setup in conjunction with a software program (e.g. Cubase SX, Nuendo, etc.)
5. Press the ‘MMC/MIDI’ button on the DDX again until the “Setup” page is displayed (page 2 of 3).
6. Now, set the MIDI ‘Transmit Channel’ to “1”
7. Set the MIDI ‘Receive Channel’ to “OMNI”
8. Set the ‘MMC DEVICE’ parameter to “7F” (this will send out MMC commands to all MMC compatible devices)
9. Now, press the ‘MMC/MIDI’ button on the DDX again until the “Machine Control” page is displayed (page 1 of 3)
10. On this page under the ‘source’ heading, select/highlight “MTC” (not “Clock”!) using the master controllers below the display.
11. Under the ‘rate’ heading, select your frame rate (note: you can only change this setting if: 1) automation is OFF and automation has never been turned on for the current snapshot, or 2) if automation is being used-you selected the desired frame rate BEFORE you initially turned on automation. If you are unable to change the frame rate see below…

***TO RESET/CLEAR AUTOMATION***
THIS WILL DELETE YOUR PREVIOUS AUTOMATION SETTINGS FOR THE SNAPSHOT CURRENTLY LOADED IN THE DDX!!

To proceed, press the black ‘Setup’ button in the Automation section of the
upper left switch block (this is NOT the ‘Setup/Osc’ Button). Using master
controller number 1 to the far left beneath the display, scroll to “clear
automation” and press master controller one to clear the current automation
settings for the current preset. The DDX may prompt you to confirm you want
to do this. Confirm if you wish to proceed. Now, you should be able to change
the frame rate.

ADAT Setup and ‘Power Up Sequence’:

1. BEFORE powering up your ADAT and “sync devices”, ensure that all synchronization cables are correctly connected. Since ADAT uses its own proprietary sync method (9 pin ADAT Sync), they will not accept MTC directly (no MIDI I/O on ADATs). You will have to have some kind of MTC-to-ADAT sync converter (e.g. JL Cooper DataSync2, Aardvark Aark 24, etc.). For example, you should connect the MIDI OUT of the DDX to the MIDI IN of the sync device/translator. Connect the MIDI OUT of the sync device/translator to the MIDI IN of the DDX. There should be additional 9 pin ADAT sync ports on the sync device as well. Connect the sync device ‘ADAT Sync’ port to the ‘Sync In’ port on your ADAT. Now connect all ADATs in the usual manner (i.e. chain from the first ADAT’s ‘Sync Out’ to the next ADAT’s ‘Sync In’ using ADAT Sync 9 pin connectors, etc.)
2. At this point, the ADAT and sync devices should still be OFF.
3. After ensuring all connections, power up the ADAT first and let it cycle through its power up procedure (you will know this procedure is finished when you see the ‘tape loaded’ symbol in the ADAT’s display. If you’re not sure, wait about 20 seconds after power up and the procedure should be completed)
4. Making sure that all connections are properly secure, power up the sync device and select your frame rate to match the frame rate you set in the DDX in step 11 of this guide.
5. Press the ‘MMC/MIDI’ button in the left switch block until the ‘Machine
Control’ page is displayed.
6. Press the ‘Play’ button on the virtual transport in the display

You should now be able to control all transport functions (e.g. STOP/REW/
FF/PLAY/REC) on the ADAT transport by using the virtual transport in the
DDX.

Problem Reported: My faders are stopping when I try to raise them up. They feel like they are sticking or being stopped by something hard.

Solution: Go to the MIDI/MMC button and access the “rx/tx” page. Make sure the ‘control change’ parameter is set to either transmit (tx) or receive (rx) ONLY! Otherwise, the unit may be receiving the same MIDI fader messages it’s trying to send out (e.g. to Cubase, etc.).

***this can be thought of like a feedback loop, only this is with controller messages***

In response to a customer that was having trouble with FADEBACK MODE in the automation of the DDX3216:

Seems that the fadeback function works quite well (on two consoles anyway ;-), but it takes a little time to master. The key thing to note here is that the fadeback mode has to be selected when "leaving record mode". You can 'leave' record mode in the following ways:

-by stopping timecode to the DDX
-by pressing/going into 'PLAY' mode on the automation for the individual (selected) channel
-by pressing/going into 'PLAY' mode in the upper left automation switchblock.

So, the way I did it was:
-turned on automation
-used the DDX's internal timecode and started the transport ("play")
-recorded some fader automation for one channel using WR TO END mode
-selected FADEBACK mode and selected a time of 10 seconds
-restarted the transport, and IN A SECTION THAT IS NOT DYNAMICALLY ACTIVE**, re-recorded automation and pressed
the automation 'PLAY' mode for that channel (this is the action that is considered "leaving automation mode", and is critical to
fadeback values being accepted and written into automation). The fader rose back to the previously recorded automation value
within 10 seconds (as written by my setting of '10' above).

**If you want to write automation over previous automation that is 'active' (e.g. the fader value is constantly changing), you'll have
to perform this type of automation first using the OFFSET mode, then switch to FADEBACK mode.

Try this out and see if it gets you any farther along. I'll have to investigate your other issue, though I have a sneakin' suspicion it's because your DDX is setup to write automation in something other than OFFSET mode (which I believe you'll have to be in to perform the actions you described).

Hope this helps a bit!!

DDX 3216 APPLICATION

Assigning DDX3216 Outputs via Optional ADT1616 (ADAT) Card


Equipment Needed:
-DDX3216 Console
-ADT1616 (ADAT) Option Card
-Optical cable (1)

Setup:
Connect an optical cable from the module 1 output 1-8 jack on your ADT1616 module to the input of your ADAT (or optical input to your receiving device).

Start with “default” setting on DDX3216 by recalling the number one snapshot (“Default”), or if this preset has possibly been edited, perform the factory reset for the DDX3216 prescribed on pg. 50 of the Owner’s Manual to reset the DDX to factory specs (this will ERASE any presets you have programmed!!! Proceed with CAUTION!):

While holding down the “CH 1-16” and “SETUP” buttons in the left switch block of the DDX, turn the power on (you must hold these two buttons down until you see a message in the display that reads “Fader Calibration: Paths of the faders must be clear”).

The unit will perform an automatic fader calibration (make sure your hands or any objects are physically clear of the fader paths!) and will restore the factory presets… now you can start with snapshot 1 on the console knowing that it is not edited (desired for this operation). You know you’re using snapshot 1 by the PRESET NUMBER display (should be reading “1”). If the fader calibration says “done” and seems to just stay there, power the unit down for 2 seconds and power it back up. It should default to snapshot one as described above.

Press the SETUP/OSC switch in the left switch block to access the FS CLOCK page in the display (you can scroll through the pages by repeatedly pressing the SETUP/OSC switch. The other switches perform in a similar manner for their respective functions).


On the FS CLOCK page, set the “Sync To” section to your desired ADAT sampling rate. This is determined by your ADAT and the format of the ADAT tape, either 48khz or 44.1khz. After you’ve determined the desired sampling rate, press ENTER to accept.

Press the SETUP/OSC switch again to access the PREFS (“preferences”) page of the display.

Turn the “master controllers” (the knobs below the display that double as a knob and push button switch) to select or ‘darken in’ the boxes for “Confirmation on Overwrite”, “Channel Mute After Fader”, “Display Follows Channel Controls”, “Groups Faderpage Bound”, and “Auto Channel Select”. You can select (darken in) these functions by turning the master controller until the box for your desired function is highlighted (with a dotted box around the function box) and pushing this same master controller in like a push button switch. These preferences are described on pg. 44 of the Owner’s Manual.

Press the METERS switch in the left switch block and under the heading CHANNEL METERS select “Follow Faders” with the master controller directly beneath the screen.


This function is described on pg. 32 of the Owner’s Manual: in layman’s terms, it means that the channel LED meters will show the level(s) associated with the currently selected fader bank in the left switch block (e.g., CH 1-16, CH 17-32, BUS OUT 1-16, or AUX/FX). For example (with the “follow faders” option selected), If you want to see CH 1-16’s meter levels, press the CH 1-16 switch in the switch block. If you want to see CH 17-32’s meter levels, press the CH 17-32 switch, etc.

In the METERS display, set the MAIN METER to highlight “Stereo Output” with the master controller below this section of the display.

Now, press the MONITOR switch in the left switch block. With the master controllers below the display, select “main” under the “MONITOR” heading and select “stereo” under the “MODE” heading. This will allow you to monitor the output of the DDX3216’s main output in stereo.

Now, press the I/O button in the left switch block. There are 5 pages (INPUT- OUTPUT- MODULE – MULTI- S/PDIF) accessible on the display. Each can be accessed in the same manner as prescribed earlier (e.g. by pressing the I/O switch repeatedly until the desired page is displayed). Press the I/O switch until the INPUT page is displayed. Select your desired input by using the master controllers below the display.

**** NOTE: you MUST press ENTER to accept your changes on this page!!!****

AN 1-8: Analog Inputs 1-8
AN 9-16: Analog Inputs 9-16
MOD1 1-8: Module 1 Inputs 1-8
MOD1 9-16: Module 1 Inputs 9-16
MOD2 1-8: Module 2 Inputs 1-8
MOD2 9-16: Module 2 Inputs 9-16

For this example, we will use AN 1-8 for fader channel’s 1-8, and AN 9-16 for fader channel’s 9-16. Select these inputs, and press ENTER to the right of the display. You can leave the other two alone for this example.

Press the I/O switch until the OUTPUT page is displayed. Here’s where things can get confusing, so I’ll start by explaining what each section actually means:

OUTPUT: fairly straightforward… this is the PHYSICAL output you are sending signal on (e.g. the ADAT OUT ports on the back of the console option card).

SOURCE: this is the internal signal (e.g. AUX 1-2, BUS 5-6, etc.) you wish to “map” or route/patch to the corresponding “physical output” described above (e.g. OUT 1-2, OUT 9-10, etc.). Just about any signal you can think of is available for routing to the physical outputs.

PRESET: this section allows you to quickly map/route commonly used “internal” outputs (e.g. DI 3-4, BUS OUT 7-8, etc.) to the physical outputs described above. You can select between BUS 1-16, DI 1-16, or DI 17-32 (the “DI” outputs are actually pre-DSP. That is, these outputs (when selected) are mapped to the physical outputs electrically BEFORE any effects or EQ! If you want to apply effects/eq/etc. to your signal before it is routed out of the DDX, you will have

to choose the BUS 1-16 option for your “preset”). You can select the desired preset by turning the master controller below the word “preset” in the display and pressing the pushing the same controller on your desired selection (e.g. BUS 1-16, DI 1-16, etc.).

DITHER: This parameter assures a compatible output to your recording device (e.g. ADAT). This parameter should be set to the “bit resolution” of your recorder and tape used (typically 16bit, 20bit, or 24bit). Reference your ADAT manual for this information. This section also has a “preset” section to the right in the display: this can be used to set all inputs to a desired bit rate in the same manner as prescribed above under “PRESET”.

**** NOTE: you MUST press ENTER to accept your changes on this page!!!****

Now that we understand what these windows actually mean, we need to set them for our application:

Press the I/O switch until the OUTPUT page is displayed (you may already be there!). Under the “Output” heading, select OUT 1-2 in the display using the master controller (#1) directly beneath this part of the display.

Now look under the “Source” heading, and simply note which source signal is currently routed to the physical output to the left.

Look just to the right of that in the output section “preset” area. Use the master controller beneath this section (#3) and set the “<” selection arrow to select BUS 1-16 and press the master controller in. This now selects BUS 1-16 as your internal outputs to be routed to the physical outputs 1-16 (you should now note that the “Output” and “Source” sections match up to show OUT 1-2 --- BUS 1-2, OUT 3-4 --- BUS 3-4, etc.).

Now set the dither section as prescribed by your ADAT manual. You may use the “preset” section to the right to set all outputs to one global dither bit depth if desired.

**** NOTE: you MUST press ENTER to accept your changes on this page!!!****


Press the I/O switch so that the MODULE page is displayed.

There are two sections: one for MODULE 1 and one for MODULE 2 If your ADT1616 module has been installed correctly, you should see the words “ADAT 16 CHAN. V. 01” or something similar (the version may be different). This page will determine which 8 of the outputs you just assigned in the previous step will actually be sent out of the physical output. In our example, this is redundant so select “OUT 1-8” under the CH 1-8 heading and select OUT 9-16” under the CH 9-16 heading for the module number you have installed (either MODULE 1 or MODULE 2, depending on the slot you chose on the rear of the DDX3216).
APPLICATION:

We are now ready to route audio into the DDX analog inputs 1-8, and out to an ADAT via BUS OUTS 1-8. One signal will be routed in this example. You can apply the same instructions to the other 7 channels…

Route a signal into either the LINE or MIC input of the mixer channel


1. Use the PAD switch on the channel (if necessary) to attenuate the input level, and set the input level GAIN trim pot (small black knob) to show input on the small SIG CLIP LED’s below the trim knob (you should see green for good signal, red for a signal that is of too high a level or “too hot”). Back off the trim pot until you have a green indication.

If you have “Follow Faders” selected in the METERS menu and have the CH 1-16 switch selected to reflect the levels associated with Channels 1-16 (as described earlier), you should see input signal on your channel meter (provided you are speaking into the mic!).

NOTE: At this point, you will not see meter deflection yet on the MAIN/MONITOR level LED meters… that’s next.

Now, raise the fader for channel 1. Assuming that your MAIN FADER is raised up to some level (“0” otherwise known as “unity” is recommended), you should now see meter deflection on the MAIN/MONITOR fader meters congruent with your mic input. You can turn up your headphones at this point to your desired monitoring level using the PHONES LEVEL pot.


Alright- we’ve managed to route mic to input trim, input trim to channel fader, and now channel fader to main fader and monitor/headphones… Now, we want to route the “multitrack” (8 channel
optical) outputs of the DDX3216 to the multitrack inputs of the ADAT (again, via the optical ports on the ADAT). In this example, we will be accomplishing this by routing our multitrack outputs via
the DDX3216’S “BUS OUTS”.

Press the ROUTING switch in the left switch block (make sure that an input channel has the SELECT switch lit).

You can now assign each individual channel to an output BUS via the master controllers. Scroll to the desired bus selection (e.g. “1-2”, “3-4”, etc.) and push the master controller in to select (darken in) or unselect (‘undarken’) the desired BUS output for the selected channel. With the settings in their default position (listed below), the selected channel’s pan knob determines which output bus the signal will be sent.

For example, if you wanted to have the input on channel 1 routed to the bus #5 output, then:

-make sure channel 1 is selected (it’s channel SELECT light should be lit. If not, press the
SELECT switch for channel 1)
-select or ‘darken in’ the 5-6 destination bus in the display by using the master controller to
scroll to it’s corresponding ‘box’. Push in the master controller like a switch to select or ‘darken
in’ the bus 5-6 output.
-pan the channel’s (not the display’s) physical PAN control all the way to the left to send this
signal to the #5 bus output.

For our example, leave the other sections of this ROUTING display in their default positions:

LEVEL= “post”
PAN= “follow channel”
MAIN= selected or ‘darkened in’

***disregard the following information if you don’t want to be confused!!! At this point, you have the option to do some very flexible assignments. You can choose to set the selected channel’s level going out of the assigned bus as PRE or POST fader, for example. You can also set the PAN control to follow the selected input’s channel’s PAN control, or to send this signal to the selected BUS isolated from the PAN settings for the selected channel. Note, you can also select multiple busses for one signal! Just select or ‘darken in’ the busses you wish the selected signal to go to!***

***NOTE: you can choose NOT to send the selected channel to the main mix fader by ‘undarkening’ the “MAIN” parameter in the lower right hand side of this ROUTING screen).***

Now, press the BUS OUTS 1-16 switch in the left switch block to access the BUS OUTS.

The faders should all “fly” up to unity gain or close to it. While speaking into the mic, you should now see meter deflection on the BUS 1-2 meters. If you have everything setup as prescribed earlier, you should now see meter deflection on your ADAT (you may need to arm the corresponding track on the ADAT to “rec ready”. See your ADAT manual for details).

If you don’t see meter deflection on the BUS 1-2 channel meters, press the I/O button in the left switch block until the OUTPUT page is displayed. Look near the center of the display and insure that the “<” symbol is next to the BUS 1-16 (don’t forget that you have to press ENTER to confirm your selections on this page!!! See above to implement these settings).

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