Sony SONOMA, User Manual

Page 1: ...IO WORKSTATION USER GUIDE Category Public Document Authors Kobie Crawford and Andrew Demery Date 2003 09 05 Version 1 6 1 Status Working Document 2003 Sony Corporation of America 410 Townsend Street San Francisco California 94107 1537 U S A ...

Page 2: ...purposes only DISCLAIMER This document is a user guide for a system under development Although Sony Corporation of America will endeavor to keep customers apprised of changes all aspects of this specification are subject to change without notice Revision History Version Date Description 1 5 0 3 14 01 First Compilation 1 5 1 3 20 01 Incorporate revisions from Oxford 1 5 2 3 26 01 Incorporate Edit c...

Page 3: ...ocations Marks are used for navigation annotating events and defining SACD authoring locations Correction 2 4 1 1 The window size changes so that the ingredients are centered and occupy 80 of the window The window size changes so that the ingredients are centered and occupy 90 of the window Correction 2 5 Unselected ingredients appear dark green in color Unselected ingredients appear blue grey in ...

Page 4: ...tner and then scrolls it so that one of its edit cursors or the Nowline are aligned If you align the boundaries the active window will view the same region as its partner The align commands will first force a source destination tiling if these EDLs are not already tiled Alignment alters the inactive window source or destination so it displays the same number of samples as its linear edit partner a...

Page 5: ...ut Plus Z Fade in Length by nudge amount X Fade in Length to Nowline C Fade in Length by nudge amount V Fade out Length by nudge amount B Fade out Length to Nowline N Fade out Length by nudge amount Correction and Editorial change 2 11 7 Changing the channel number by typing and pressing enter moves all the selected ingredients to the same channel Changing the channel number and pressing ENTER mov...

Page 6: ...the nudge amount to the outgoing or incoming gain Editorial change 2 13 8 Shift Z Outgoing Gain Minus Shift X Outgoing Gain Plus Shift C Both Gains Minus Shift V Both Gains Plus Shift B Incoming Gain Minus Shift N Incoming Gain Plus Shift Z Outgoing Gain by nudge amount Shift X Outgoing Gain by nudge amount Shift C Both Gains by nudge amount Shift V Both Gains by nudge amount Shift B Incoming Gain...

Page 7: ... between two consecutive authoring marks is 1 75 sec When an authoring mark is created or moved its position is rounded to the closest 1 75 sec Authoring marks must correspond to a 1 75 sec grid and the marks are automatically rounded to the closest 1 75 sec boundary when they are created or moved Correction 2 15 2 2 The minimum time between two consecutive start marks is 1 second The Scarlet Book...

Page 8: ...d of illegal authoring marks so they appear as type CD rather than CD in the mark list An asterisk is added to the type field of illegal authoring marks so they appear as type CD rather than CD in the mark list and the mark changes color in the EDL Addition 2 15 2 3 Start marks for tracks less than one second in length distance to next start mark 1 second Authoring marks closer than the minimum ti...

Page 9: ...met a disc replicator will not press the disc Correction 3 3 1 Note when using the combined Mixer and EDL views care should be taken with re sizing of the EDL window s as this can cause the Nowline to disappear behind the Mixer Center Section for part of the time This problem can only be remedied at this time by returning to the EDL only display and maximizing the EDL window view Footnote addition...

Page 10: ...mum specified level of 20 dB SACD is not exceeded Failure to comply with this specification will result in the master being rejected by the disc replicator See Section 3 9 Sonoma Mixer Specifications for further details Correction 3 5 2 The snapshot SAVE LOAD and DEFAULT buttons are used to save or load a snapshot of the mixer s settings to or from a file The snapshot SAVE and LOAD buttons are use...

Page 11: ...Sonoma Audio Workstation User Guide Copyright 2003 Sony Corporation of America All rights reserved 3 8 Sonoma Mixer Automation manual New feature addition Section Ver 1 5 17 Ver 1 6 1 Remarks ...

Page 12: ...Sonoma Audio Workstation User Guide Copyright 2003 Sony Corporation of America All rights reserved ...

Page 13: ...d Shortcuts and Toolbar Buttons 6 2 2 3 Status Bar 7 2 2 4 Debug Toolbar 7 2 2 5 Clock Display and Timecode Format 7 2 2 6 Editing Timecode 8 2 2 7 Preferences Window 8 2 3 The EDL Window 8 2 3 1 Opening an EDL 8 2 3 2 Control Panels 9 2 3 3 Channel Controls 10 2 3 4 Timeline 12 2 3 5 Nowline and Edit Cursors 12 2 3 6 Lower Strip 12 2 3 7 Upper Strips 12 2 3 8 Ingredients 13 2 3 9 Marks 15 2 4 Nav...

Page 14: ...n 24 2 8 3 Before Recording Channel Lock Controls and Disk Allocation 27 2 8 4 Before Recording Status Bar 27 2 8 5 Before Recording Record to Destination EDL 27 2 8 6 Before Recording Fade Times 27 2 8 7 Before Recording Error Preferences 28 2 8 8 Making a Recording 28 2 8 9 After Recording 29 2 8 10 The Takelist 30 2 8 11 Record Edit Region 30 2 9 Selection Based Editing 31 2 9 1 Clear Cut Copy ...

Page 15: ... 13 2 EDL Splice Edit Mode 44 2 13 3 Resetting Exiting and Re entering the Splice Editor 46 2 13 4 Splice Control Panel Overview 46 2 13 5 Auditioning Splices 46 2 13 6 Editing a Splice 48 2 13 7 Edit Points 48 2 13 8 Gains 49 2 13 9 Fades 49 2 13 10 Displaying Data Next Channel Next Edit 50 2 13 11 Unsplicing 51 2 14 Undo 51 2 15 Marks 52 2 15 1 EDL Marks 52 2 15 2 Authoring Marks 52 2 15 3 Ingre...

Page 16: ...he Console Window 68 2 20 2 The Disk Monitor 69 2 20 3 The Trimedia Monitor 69 2 21 Error Reporting and Recovery 69 2 21 1 Error Detection and Handling 69 2 21 2 Recovering from a System Crash 70 2 21 3 Recording Invalid DSD Data 70 2 22 Example Making a Recording 70 2 23 Example Making a Simple Edit 71 Chapter 3 Sonoma Mixer 73 3 1 Overview 73 3 2 Screen Controls 73 3 2 1 Push buttons 73 3 2 2 Di...

Page 17: ...ter Fader 82 3 5 11 Aux Master 83 3 5 12 Max Peak Limit 83 3 5 13 Controlling the Channel Faders and Signal Processing 83 3 6 Mixer Channel Section 84 3 6 1 Channel Input 84 3 6 2 Channel EQ 84 3 6 3 Channel Dynamics 85 3 6 4 Channel Filter 85 3 6 5 Channel Delay 85 3 6 6 Channel Insert 85 3 6 7 Channel Strip Ordering 85 3 6 8 Scribble Strip 86 3 6 9 Channel Faders 86 3 6 10 Linking and Copying Ch...

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Page 19: ... 8 channel interface to the outside world each channel executes a 2 to 1 mix during playback while performing cross fades at edit points The edit card supports this cross fade activity The Sonoma Mixer card can simultaneously perform 8 to 6 channel and 8 to 2 channel mixes It is connected directly to the Edit card by a flexibus cable To route audio to and from the mixer and external equipment a sp...

Page 20: ... the audio processing applied to the signal path The mixer contains three main windows a patch bay router a set of channel strips and a metering global control section Chapter 3 describes the Sonoma Mixer From time to time you may receive a CD ROM with a Sonoma software upgrade This CD will contain an automatic installer Insert the CD in your drive Locate the CD on your desktop and click on the in...

Page 21: ...r Start Programs Sonoma Each pair are named Sonoma and Sonoma No Mixer They all refer to the same program Launch the desired configuration by double clicking one of the shortcuts or selecting the corresponding menu item A splash screen will appear that monitors the initialization of the editor If you are using a mixer card the mixer control window will also appear while the mixer card acquires clo...

Page 22: ...4 Chapter 1 Introduction Chapter 1 Introduction ...

Page 23: ...s A pair of red edit cursors called edit left and edit right are used for specifying an edit region Marks in an EDL and its ingredients serve as event locators and can include user annotations EDL windows also contain a control panel area with tabs that can be clicked to select different panels for performing various tasks The control panels are not shown in the picture above The Sonoma editor off...

Page 24: ...ent and metering waveforms in an EDL Window Menu Manages standard PC window arrangement of the open EDL windows inside the Sonoma window and the display of other system windows such as preferences and clock display Menu commands usually have keyboard shortcuts and most menus have corresponding toolbars that contain buttons for their commands Some menus are linked to control panels rather than tool...

Page 25: ...isplay or the EDL timeline and press the right mouse button When the transport is running you can toggle through the timecode formats by right clicking in the clock display The current timecode format is used everywhere timecode is displayed Wherever you enter a value expressed in time units e g in a Control Panel Preference Window or the clock display you must specify it in the current timecode f...

Page 26: ...l point key To select and edit a single field use the and arrow keys or double click on the field When a single field is selected you can use the and arrow keys to increment and decrement the field When incrementing or decrementing values are carried to or borrowed from the next field on the left When you have completed your entry press ENTER to submit the new value Alternatively press or to add o...

Page 27: ...u can bring up the ingredient editor control panel quickly by pressing Ctrl Alt I Section 2 11 describes the ingredient editor Splice Editor The splice editor control panel is used to adjust cross fades between ingredients that have been spliced together You can bring up the splice editor control panel quickly by pressing Ctrl Alt L Section 2 13 describes the splice editor Mark Editor The mark edi...

Page 28: ...nitor source may switch automatically during recording You can control this behavior by selecting one of the monitoring switching modes see 2 8 2 4 for details Also be aware that the monitor source is locked to output and cannot be switched when you are exporting a master file see 2 17 or recording channel outputs see 2 8 2 2 Mute Each channel can be muted and unmuted individually by clicking on i...

Page 29: ...rst forces all the channels into locked state if necessary subsequent toggles switch the lock state on all channels Locking channels permits the system to assign the available disk recording space to only those channels that need to record Peak Level Meter The peak signal at each channel s monitor source is displayed in a horizontal meter The metering parameters decay constant and headroom can be ...

Page 30: ...st channel row of the EDL it shows three timecode numbers These numbers appear in the current timecode format The leftmost and rightmost numbers are the visible bounds of the EDL window You can select any of these timecode fields and change their values by typing into them You can also copy and paste any of these timecodes to other timecode fields The number in the center is the width of the EDL w...

Page 31: ...de length increases while the edit points remain fixed at the same time location While the fade length is always applied symmetrically around the edit point it is often useful to move the edit point at the same time you change the fade length For instance you might want to lengthen the fade in while keeping the material at the beginning of the fade in the same In order to do this the edit point mu...

Page 32: ... non unity gain curves or use the toolbar button When this option is selected linear dB gain envelopes will be drawn across ingredients with non unity gains The envelopes show the linear dB gain from 18 dB to 6 dB Smaller values are clipped to the bottom of the graphic scale A white horizontal 0 dB reference line is also drawn wherever a gain envelope appears The ingredient below has an in gain of...

Page 33: ...irection that is from 23 30 00 to 12 30 00 When you zoom and scroll you cannot expand the EDL window past this range 2 4 1 1 Zooming Zooming changes the horizontal time scale of the EDL window There are three kinds of zooming commands anchored zooms ingredient based zooms and fixed zooms Zoom around Left Center Right Anchored zoom commands zoom around a fixed point in the EDL window The anchor poi...

Page 34: ...e and punch operations to make all the new material visible 2 4 1 2 Scrolling Previous Page Next Page These commands scroll the EDL forward and backward a page at a time Nowline at Left Center Right of Window These commands scroll the EDL so that the material at the Nowline appears at the left or right side of the window or in the center of the window When the Nowline is not in the visible range o...

Page 35: ...rt of the EDL The rewind command places the Nowline at the position it occupied when the last play command was issued Both these commands scroll the EDL so the visible range includes the Nowline You can use the Home key for RTZ and Shift Home for rewind The Home key is usually found in a cluster of six keys that also include Page Up Page Down Insert Delete and End The numeric keypad Home key will ...

Page 36: ...dients on that channel Clicking on the C column heading will alternately select or deselect all ingredients in the EDL The channel based selection controls are not visible all the time When the splice editor panel is selected these controls are replaced with special controls for controlling the splice editor A single ingredient can be selected by clicking on it Clicking on an ingredient that is al...

Page 37: ...gredients do not have to intersect the Nowline at all Selecting ingredients after Nowline chooses all the ingredients whose edit out points fall after the Nowline Toggle Selection Under Nowline This command first adds all the unselected ingredients under the Nowline to the current set of selected ingredients if necessary Repeated use of this command toggles the selection state of only those ingred...

Page 38: ...gredients Move Nowline before selection places the Nowline at the edit in point of the selected ingredient that begins first Move Nowline after selection places the Nowline at the edit out point of the selected ingredient that ends last Sometimes it is more useful to move the Nowline to the beginning or end of the fade around the associated edit point The Ctrl and Alt keys can be used to modify th...

Page 39: ... drag the left cursor Ctrl click in the EDL s timeline To drag the right cursor Shift Ctrl click These clicks will also turn the cursor on if it was in the off state To position both cursors at the same time Alt click and drag the mouse left or right Each edit cursor can also be moved to the Nowline with the set left right to Nowline cursor menu command or by clicking on the edit cursor icon in th...

Page 40: ...f the edit region consists of all the tracks on the selected channels beginning at the EDL origin and ending at the end of the last ingredient on the selected tracks or all channels if none are selected There is a navigation menu command to zoom the EDL so as to display the edit region There are also edit menu commands to copy delete or delete ripple the edit region These edit commands follow the ...

Page 41: ...re also available from the transport toolbar and with keyboard accelerators shown below in parentheses Audition up to Edit Left 5 Audition after Edit Right 6 Audition up to Nowline 7 Audition after Edit Left Ctrl 5 Audition up to Edit Right Ctrl 6 Audition after Nowline Ctrl 7 Audition around Edit Left Alt 5 Audition around Edit Right Alt 6 Audition around Nowline Alt 7 Play Edit Region Play aroun...

Page 42: ...nd file naming behavior The result of recording is a set of new ingredients in an EDL along with new DSD files one DSD file for each recorded channel If there are multiple punch in punch outs on a channel during recording many ingredients will appear on the channel in the EDL but the audio for these ingredients is recorded into a single DSD file per channel New ingredients usually appear in the ac...

Page 43: ...mbers Sonoma will select the next largest unused number Recording to Subfolders When a new recording is made the DSD files are usually placed directly in the recording directory You can automatically create subfolders in the recording directory for each recording pass When the record into new folders checkbox is checked the new files will be placed in a subfolder that has the same name as the pref...

Page 44: ...lows you to punch in and out on several channels simultaneously 2 8 2 4 Monitor Switching While making a recording the monitor source input or output for a channel can change when the transport starts and stops and when punch ins and punch outs occur The behavior of input output monitoring depends on the record signal routing Monitor Switching While Recording Channel Input Monitor Switching Mode W...

Page 45: ...y to record again The right side of the status bar at the bottom of the Sonoma window displays the EDL s recording directory and the prefix and number of the next recording When at least one channel is unlocked the status bar shows the amount of recording time available on the unlocked channel with the smallest amount of time left You can make longer recordings if you assign the recording director...

Page 46: ...r Source You can change the monitor source with the set monitor input and set monitor output commands in the transport menu These commands switch only the selected channels in the EDL or all channels if none are selected The corresponding buttons on the transport toolbar show the current monitor state If some channels are monitoring output and others are monitoring input then both buttons will be ...

Page 47: ...e transport stops and the newly recorded DSD files are deleted When recording ends the new ingredients are punched into either the original active EDL or if record to destination EDL was selected the destination EDL becomes active and the new ingredients will appear there Overlapping ingredients in the original or destination EDL are trimmed and the default crossfade time specified in the edit pre...

Page 48: ... were pasted into it the foreground layer contains the new ingredients only When you open a takelist you must decide how to handle the foreground and background layers A dialog box offers these options Load the foreground layer only the EDL will contain only the new material recorded during the recording pass Load the background only the EDL will contain the original background only This is like u...

Page 49: ...intersect an ingredient if it is to the left of the edit in point or to the right of the edit out point even if it does cut across a portion of a fade The edit commands are found in the edit menu and toolbar You can pop up the edit menu by clicking the right mouse button anywhere in the EDL graphics area The clear cut copy and paste commands are literal operations upon the selected ingredients and...

Page 50: ...gredient in the paste selection with the Nowline These commands are available in the edit menu via their keyboard accelerators or by using the paste buttons in the edit toolbar while holding down the Alt key Punch Paste Alt V Punch before Nowline Alt Punch after Nowline Alt When you perform a paste with punch in the new material will be automatically spliced to any old material it overlaps see 2 1...

Page 51: ...w in 2 11 5 2 The unslice command is enabled when two or more adjacent ingredients on the same channel are selected It searches the selection for adjacent pairs of ingredients that use the same clip and whose edit in and edit out points align It replaces each such pair with a single ingredient comprising both of the originals Unslice is applied progressively from left to right so if there is a seq...

Page 52: ...d can be clicked to set or reset them There can only be one source and destination EDL at a time and an EDL cannot be both a source and a destination When an EDL is saved its source destination designation is not remembered Displaying Tiling and Aligning the Source and Destination Shift clicking the SRC or DST buttons in any EDL will bring the source or destination window to the front if one is de...

Page 53: ...maller than the destination it is punched into the destination leaving the extra destination audio in place The source material that replaces the destination is automatically spliced to the original audio in the destination tracks using the default cross fade You can override the auto splicing behavior by holding down the Alt key when you perform this command Replace does not ripple any material A...

Page 54: ...the material in the source region into the same range of the corresponding destination channels The insert command places the source at edit left and ripples any remaining destination material to the right 2 10 3 3 Destination Edit Right Only All three linear edit commands are available in this case For the replace and layer commands the source material will be placed to the left of the edit right...

Page 55: ...t is the same or shorter than the destination range Four Point Insert A four point insert slices the destination at the destination left cursor inserts the source material there and ripples the material following the destination left cursor to the right The ingredient edit control panel can be opened by clicking on its tab or pressing Ctrl Alt I This panel allows you to edit the currently selected...

Page 56: ...be changed in the nudge section which contains two number boxes for specifying a time increment and a dB increment Note that the time increment might have been specified in a timecode format that is finer than the current timecode format For instance you might have entered a nudge amount of 10 msec while in millisecond timecode format and then switched to 75 fps format 10 msec is smaller than a 75...

Page 57: ...he edit points of all ingredients are trimmed to the new value This command aligns the beginnings or ends of all the ingredients in the selection If the selection was not aligned to begin with a warning dialog is displayed before the operation is performed There is a shortcut button for absolute slip and trim to the Nowline Pressing the NL button next to the number box performs an absolute change ...

Page 58: ...ond and translates to an exponential amplitude curve A linear dB fade between full gain 0 dB and a very small gain say 60 dB will yield a gain of 30 dB at mid point There are two parameters for each fade fade length and fade type 2 11 6 1 Fade Length The fade length number box displays fade time You can specify that the fade length is always shown in msec format by setting the preference found in ...

Page 59: ...ct when the Power N curve type is selected The root cosine curve traces a quarter cycle of a cosine which corresponds to a half cycle of cosine in the power domain The cosine fade curve impresses a half cycle cosinusoidal amplitude on the fade The channel number shows the channel of the current ingredient Changing the channel number and pressing ENTER moves all the selected ingredients to the same...

Page 60: ... selects it To make a splice select two or more consecutive ingredients on the same channel and perform the splice command in the Edit menu You cannot splice an ingredient that is wholly contained inside another ingredient and you cannot splice across a bottleneck see 2 7 3 Also note that two consecutive ingredients with a gap between them can be spliced together In the world of recording tape you...

Page 61: ...ce boxes in a multi channel edit the splice editor control panel will open on the splices in that multi channel edit Like the ingredients in a single sequence the sequences in a multi channel edit behave as if splicing tape holds them together they must stay in sync with each other when you move trim copy cut and delete them For this reason the sequences that contain a multi channel edit constitut...

Page 62: ...h to the currently selected pre roll amount Alternatively you can use the splice edit zooming preference to specify a fixed zoom size for viewing edits see 2 19 2 The ingredient selection if any and track display T and channel height H settings are not shown instead the EDL is drawn so that the channels containing the current edit are large and the other channels are small The EDL will zoom so tha...

Page 63: ...beled E and only appears on channels that are part of the current edit Every time the current edit changes the EDL is redrawn and all the channels in the current edit are given edit buttons that are initially on When there is a multi channel edit the edit buttons control which channels participate in the splice commands When an edit button is off the ingredients comprising the splice on that chann...

Page 64: ...e only in the splice control panel Commands are applied to the ingredients in the current edit on a per channel basis They may affect only the incoming or outgoing ingredients or both Only channels that are edit enabled are changed When necessary the incoming ingredients may slip in time Edit point trimming and fade length changes are constrained by the length of all the ingredients involved i e t...

Page 65: ...going Outtake E audition Outgoing R audition Edit T audition Incoming Y audition Incoming Outtake There are two additional audition commands that can only be accessed from the keyboard Q Play outgoing material only around the outgoing edit point U Play incoming material only around the incoming edit point Holding the Shift key while using these accelerators performs the same action as with the but...

Page 66: ...tem entering a numerical value and pressing ENTER The Nowline button is a shortcut for an absolute change It has the same effect as selecting the adjacent number box entering the position of the Nowline and pressing ENTER The buttons add subtract the nudge amount to the outgoing or incoming edit points Changing the outgoing edit point trims its edit out and slips the incoming edit in by the same a...

Page 67: ...arily separated into two sync groups The incoming group is generally allowed to slip relative to the outgoing group Because ingredients in the incoming and outgoing groups can be spliced and later linked to other ingredients the sync groups may contain more than the ingredients in the splice If there is a path via other splices or links between the outgoing and incoming groups then the time slippi...

Page 68: ... close to the Nowline as its underlying clip permits The fade s pivot point will remain fixed Note that when the fade pivot is not the center both the fade length and the position of the edit point will change All fade length commands will check the change to ensure that the fade does not exceed the length of the clip or the usable bounds of the EDL These commands are also accessible from keyboard...

Page 69: ...abled when this command is performed there will be no current splice afterwards and the control panel shows nothing If some splice channels were disabled the ingredients in those channels remain in the current splice and the control panel and graphics show the smaller splice which now contains fewer channels Each time you perform an edit command the Sonoma application saves the state of the EDL be...

Page 70: ... kinds of user marks EDL marks and CD authoring marks that appear in the timeline and ingredient marks that appear inside ingredients Only one user mark of each type can appear at any given location User marks can be added deleted and moved They can also be changed from one type of user mark to another The info field of a user mark can be edited Error marks are created automatically by the applica...

Page 71: ...eral safeguards are in place to prevent the setting of illegal marks however these safeguards are not complete at this time The following responses can be expected in the cases identified Start mark too close to another Start mark If you attempt to place two Start marks closer than 1 second apart you will see the following dialogue appear Track Start mark not entered Each track must be greater tha...

Page 72: ...pectively The flags are stored in each track s Start mark When a new Start mark is created all its mute flags are initially off To toggle a track mute flag Alt click on the Start mark in the mark list see 2 15 5 4 The effect of setting track mute flags depends on the implementation in the SACD player Ingredient marks represent positions in an ingredient Ingredient marks are created using the add i...

Page 73: ... labeled show determine which types of marks are visible in the EDL and in the editor 2 15 5 2 Add Mark Commands Five buttons provide on screen access to the add mark commands These are the same commands that are in the marks menu When you perform these commands and the control panel is open you can press the Insert key and immediately enter information about the mark in its text info field To com...

Page 74: ...ags set on a tilde appears after the Start mark s name in the mark list When a Start mark with mute flags is selected the enabled flags are displayed in the track mute area below the mark list s info box The flag field looks like F R C LFE where F R C LFE stand for flags TMF1 through TMF4 respectively To toggle the state of a track s muting flags Alt click on the track s Start mark in the mark lis...

Page 75: ... the EDL The command slips the selected ingredients in the EDL so that the designated ingredient mark appears at the Nowline 2 15 5 11 Delete Mark This button deletes the selected mark s Multiple successive marks can be selected by holding down the Shift key and dragging the cursor over the required list of marks Multiple independent marks can be selected by holding down the Ctrl key while using t...

Page 76: ...ommands appear at the end of the marks menu 2 15 7 1 Save Mark List to Text File This command will produce a text file that contains a copy of the mark list as it appears in the EDL s mark panel The current timecode format will be used and only the currently visible mark types as selected with the check boxes in the mark editor control panel will be included 2 15 7 2 Save PQ List to Text File This...

Page 77: ...alize every time it is redrawn The waveform scaling commands are disabled when auto normalize is selected Metering On Off Increase Decrease Metering Scale The input monitor level meter data can be superimposed on the channel rows of the EDL when the transport is running To turn metering on use the command in the waveform menu or the button on the waveform toolbar The metering waveform is rectified...

Page 78: ...k and the last track End mark A two second silent pre roll is inserted before the actual position of the first Start mark which may include an offset see 2 15 5 5 Note that the position of the entire audio program including authoring marks may be slipped in the export EDL so that the pre roll starts at 00 00 00 00 and the first Start mark adjusted for any offset it may include will actually occur ...

Page 79: ...closes the export dialog without actually performing an export operation The meta data and loudspeaker configuration will be saved with the EDL and recalled when you re open the dialog 2 17 2 1 Comments There are three types of comments general comments file history remarks and channel based comments Comments are created by selecting a comment type in the pull down menu and then pressing the add b...

Page 80: ...es for a sound source comment There is a pull down menu to set the source type analog PCM DSD or unknown and a text field for entering additional information If the sound source is unknown a sound source comment will not be written to the exported DSD IFF file The artist title Edit Master ID EMID and operator fields are free text fields Click in them and type your text ENTER ends type in and saves...

Page 81: ...nto itself auto capture it can be recorded directly from the EDL channels or through the mixer If you select mixer output be sure that you have routed the mixer output to the editor input 2 17 4 2 Output Master This field is used to specify the name and location of the DSD IFF master file that will be created The directory of the file you specify here will also contain the export EDL You can type ...

Page 82: ...ed and restored the path names for the sound files used by an EDL may change Sonoma tries to search for them on other drives but other changes in the file hierarchy or renaming of files can cause ingredients to appear offline Offline ingredients can be edited but not auditioned The source audio mapper gives you the ability to re specify the path names when you know where the audio resides The mapp...

Page 83: ...question mark in its icon will be replaced by a blue arrow To undo a mapping right click on a file name in the audio list its alternate path will be removed Mappings are not actually saved until the dialog is closed with the OK button The EDL will remember the mapping when it is saved and reopened later The cancel button will close the dialog without changing any file mappings The user preferences...

Page 84: ...t commands are removed from the end Insert Command Ripple Options When the linear edit insert command see 2 10 3 causes a ripple before midnight the system will perform the option you select here insert time trim or cancel the command Punch Record Auto Cleanup This checkbox and time field enables the auto cleanup feature see 2 8 9 1 that removes small stubs that can remain when recording resulted ...

Page 85: ...ifies the height of the EDL channels when the H control is in expanded mode This is useful when viewing waveforms in the EDL The checkbox labeled always normalize waveforms controls whether waveforms in EDLs are normalized automatically when the display changes This window allows you to configure the Sonoma system to ignore the editor card when the program is next started This window lets you spec...

Page 86: ...em status A set of radio buttons lets you select the console window the disk monitor or the trimedia TM monitor The console window contains a scrolling text pane that displays a trace of the commands you have performed and any error messages that Sonoma issues The console window will display an error message when the program beeps The message will also appear at the bottom of the EDL in the status...

Page 87: ...ears the histograms and accumulated statistics immediately When the auto reset check box is checked the histograms are automatically cleared each time the transport is restarted The trimedia monitor displays low level data showing the activity of the Sonoma card The Sonoma system has been designed and tested to be as reliable and dependable as possible but hardware can break and users can create c...

Page 88: ...an use the undo recovery command from the Undo pull down menu If Sonoma receives bad DSD data all zeros or ones while recording it will display a full red bar in the affected channels level meters Section 2 8 describes the recording process in detail This section shows you how to make a simple recording step by step Use the file menu to create a new EDL In the record menu Set the recording directo...

Page 89: ... then press the play button Use the file menu to save the EDL If you are curious take a look in the recording directory at the newly created subfolder and the files it contains Here is one way to perform a simple edit removing a range of material and cross fading across the cut Select the ingredient s to be cut Audition the material and locate the cut points Position the Nowline at the end of the ...

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Page 91: ...d From this window you can configure and manage the other windows that comprise the Sonoma Mixer The Setup window sets the loudspeaker gain trim levels displays clock information and allows the user to select the mixer s clock source The Patch Bay allows fully flexible routing including one to many fan out connections The EQ Center Section contains meters and global controls The EQ and Dynamics Se...

Page 92: ...ng the mouse button deactivates the dial and it retains its last value Faders are also continuous controls They can be adjusted by placing the mouse anywhere within the fader area and pressing the left button and dragging You do not have to grab the knob of the fader itself The current value of a fader is displayed below it All continuous controls such as channel faders or oscillator frequency con...

Page 93: ...t box The Delete key clears the entire value the Backspace key erases one character at a time You can scale your entry by appending the letters k for kilo i e times one thousand m milli divide by one thousand or u micro divide by one million after the value Pressing ENTER sets the new value and closes the text box The Esc key closes the box and retains the control s original value If you enter a v...

Page 94: ...he controls in both windows This button exits the Sonoma application When you click the quit button the system will ask you if you really want to exit Clicking on NO will take you back to the mixer You can control the playback of the active EDL in the Sonoma window using these two buttons The Setup window controls the loudspeaker gain trim levels displays clock information and allows the user to c...

Page 95: ... locked to the indicated source When the source is changed the internal clock usually takes a second or two to re establish lock For use with the Sonoma Editor the OPTICAL radio button should be selected When launched the OPTICAL radio button is selected by default If the mixer clock is supplied externally i e via BNC or OPTICAL it is possible that the mixer application may not be locked if for ex...

Page 96: ... the Scarlet Book Part 2 Annex E there was a recommended maximum value for the LF band but this has been superseded by the MaxPeak specification and consequently the LF band can be ignored MaxPeak This displays the maximum peak level of the DSD signal It is a requirement for an SACD that the maximum specified level of 3 10 dB SACD is not exceeded Failure to comply with this specification will resu...

Page 97: ...hes all channel input meters to read input signal level either before PRE or after POST the input gain controls 8 Please note the center section snapshot shows an Annex E filter whereas it is actually an Annex D HF filter This typographical error is also mirrored in the current Sonoma software and will be corrected in the next release ...

Page 98: ...e the Editor s settings Note It is not advisable to modify a snapshot file using a text editor Note Do not load or save snapshots while the editor is streaming audio as this may cause an interruption to the sound Monitoring functions are affected by a variety of controls in the center section 3 5 3 1 Monitor Assign The monitor output bus can be sourced from any of the following Program out Record ...

Page 99: ...and stereo monitoring This switch affects the behavior of the following controls Program inserts Program EQ Program Dynamics Annex filter Master fader Faders in the channel section see 3 6 9 3 5 3 5 Solo and Cut The solo buttons cause the corresponding monitor outputs to be soloed when they are engaged the cut buttons mute the corresponding output There are six buttons because only six monitor cha...

Page 100: ... are maintained for Stereo and Surround Mode Linking The stereo dynamics are permanently linked The surround dynamics are permanently linked except for the LFE channel which is switchable The LFE switch both unlinks and switches out the LFE dynamics This applies to both limiter and compressor The Annex D 4 filter is a variable slope and frequency low pass filter provided to assist with compliance ...

Page 101: ...y three controls in the center section 3 5 13 1 Fader Mode These three buttons determine whether the faders in the channel section control the program the AUX send trim or the short channels channels 9 16 see 3 6 9 3 5 13 2 Channel Strip Reordering The CHANNEL and COPY buttons are used to change the order of the audio processing on each channel strip see 3 6 7 3 5 13 3 Link The buttons in this sec...

Page 102: ...ency HMF mid frequency MF low mid frequency LMF and low frequency LF All are variable frequency parametric equalizers with variable Q which is the ratio of the center frequency to the bandwidth In addition the low frequency section can be converted into a shelving filter When operating as a parametric EQ the LF section has gain frequency and Q controls In shelf mode the LF s Q control is replaced ...

Page 103: ...e via its slope control Note The filter enable buttons are not subject to the master enable switch associated with the parametric EQ section It is possible to insert a delay time of between 0 msec and 92 9 msec into the channel This button switches the channel routing at this point in the chain between a straight through OUT path and the same path but via the channel s insert send and return It is...

Page 104: ...ing of the strip Press ENTER to apply the edit to the strip label or mouse click any other control Press the Esc key to abandon the edit If the edit is abandoned the text reverts to what was there previously One channel fader appears at the bottom of each strip The fader can appear in four forms corresponding to four modes as shown in Figure 3 4 All faders are displayed in the same mode which is d...

Page 105: ...sets of stereo controls determine the contribution of the channel to the eight AUX send buses AUX 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 form these stereo pairs AUX 1 3 5 and 7 correspond to fully panned left position and AUX 2 4 6 and 8 correspond to fully panned right The Link area allows you to create and destroy links between processing sections on different channels and copy settings between them When a control in ...

Page 106: ... of one button is changed the corresponding linked buttons will follow it For continuous controls like dials and sliders for frequency Q or gain when one of the controls in a linked group is adjusted a corresponding change occurs in the same control in all the other channels in the same group The way in which linked controls follow a change in value depends on the type of control that is linked Co...

Page 107: ...me link group the destination values will change first and then the difference or ratio relationship will be applied effectively changing the setting of the source control Even so the original values of the source section are remembered for subsequent copy operations until copy is disabled by clicking on the COPY button again The Router window allows patching of DSD audio sources to destinations O...

Page 108: ...ecorded on armed controls You can control the arm state of controls individually 3 8 1 2 Recording Control Movements When the editor is playing i e timecode is running the system is said to be live In order for control movements to be recorded by the automation automation also needs to be ON and the control in question has to be armed When you record control movements the data is saved alongside t...

Page 109: ...box appears You can navigate through the directories and type in a file name The mixer will then save the current automation data to the file Automation files have a suffix of aut and this is automatically added if it is not present in the filename you typed When you save you cannot subsequently perform an UNDO Join MODE select When you record automation data for a control there might be data prev...

Page 110: ...automation data from the mixer Arm SELECT mode button When this button is on it is displayed in red The automated controls of the mixer can then be left clicked on with the mouse to toggle their arm state individually The control is otherwise unchanged This mode is disabled automatically when the system becomes live Arm ALL button This button simply causes all automatable controls to become armed ...

Page 111: ...ors to show that the controls are both armed and playable Now press Arm SELECT left click on a fader and notice how its indicator turns from yellow to blue to show that it is no longer armed Left click on it again to re arm it and press SELECT to exit Arm SELECT mode step 6 Locate back to the timecode you marked in step 2 step 7 Press PLAY the timecode will start running step 8 Try using the fader...

Page 112: ...e or post input gain Scale 60 dB SACD 0 dB SACD Oscillator OSC Input switch EQ HF HMF MF LMF LF EQ LF switchable between parametric and shelf mode Individual in out switches Master in out switch for each channel Dynamics Limiter CL1 Compressor Limiter CL2 see later HF Filter Frequency 2kHz 40 kHz Normalized 2kHz Slope continuously variable 0 dB oct 36 dB oct Normalized 0 dB oct LF Filter Frequency...

Page 113: ...t 100 Back Normalized to Front 0 100 Divergence Normalized 100 0 200 LFE bus send Normalized 100 AUX send mode 4 sets of controls 1 for each of AUX send 1 2 3 4 5 6 and 7 8 Each control comprising Pre Post Stereo gain Post Surround gain switch Cut button L R pan Left pans to 1 3 5 or 7 Right to 2 4 6 or 8 Gain control 1024 dB 10 dB Table 3 3 Equalization EQ Type Specifications HF parametric Gain 2...

Page 114: ...s Release time 100 ms 3 s Normalized 50 ms Hold time 10 ms 1s Normalized 10 ms Threshold 30 dB SACD 0 dB SACD Normalized 0 dB SACD Metering Gain reduction 0 30 dB displayed in LIGHT ORANGE from top of gain reduction bar produced by compressor limiter see below Compressor Limiter Attack 100 ms 50 ms Normalized 10 ms Release time 100 ms 3s Normalized 50 ms Hold time 10 ms 1 s Normalized 10 ms Thresh...

Page 115: ...ent to a disc replicator with overs in this band will be rejected Table 3 6 Mixer Master Controls Item Specifications Oscillator control Signal Triangular wave Level 40 dB SACD 0 dB SACD Normalized 0 dB Frequency 20 Hz 20 kHz Normalized 1 kHz Snapshot SAVE LOAD and DEFAULT switches Snapshot files suffixed with snp Complete state of mixer is stored Snapshot files not compatible across versions of m...

Page 116: ...llowing modes are available PROGRAM RECORD RETURN AUX SEND SHORT CHANNEL INPUT CH 9 16 Meter Assign The following modes are available PROGRAM RECORD RETURN AUX SEND SHORT CHANNEL INPUT CH 9 16 FOLLOW MONITOR Monitor Section Dim and Cut switches Dimmer gain control 40 dB 0 dB Normalized 20 dB Monitor gain control 1024 dB 10 dB Normalized 0 dB Loudspeaker gain trims in Setup window see later Stereo ...

Page 117: ...ht Normalized Center for L and R front stereo monitors Clock Sync indicators Clock locked indicator FS 64FS clock rate indicators either or Note if the clock is not locked and set to External a warning will appear on the master fader in the mixer center section Clock Select Internal External BNC External Optical Table 3 8 Control Window Item Specifications Screen Mode Select Mixer only Split 1 Spl...

Page 118: ...Insert Return 1 8 Channel In 9 16 8 Surround Insert Return 6 Stereo Insert Return 2 Surround Recorder Return 6 Stereo Recorder Return 2 Surround Recorder Return 6 Aux Send 1 6 6 Channel 9 14 In 6 Surround Program Out 6 6 Annex E Meters 6 Stereo Recorder Return 2 Aux Send 7 8 2 Channel 15 16 In 2 Stereo Program Out 2 2 Annex E Meters 2 Surround Recorder Return 6 Aux Send 1 6 6 Ch 9 14 In 6 Surround...

Page 119: ... Attack Release Hold Ratio OverEasy Gain Dynamics 6 In Freq Slope LFE Filt LFE bus only Surround Insert Return 6 Insert Surround Insert Send 6 Master Fader Surround Program Out 6 In Freq Slope AnnexE HF Shelf 2 2 In Gain Freq Q Over ShelfInShelf 2 InIn Threshold Attack Release Hold Ratio OverEasy Gain Dynamics 2 In Insert Stereo Insert Send 2 Master Fader Stereo Program Out 2 In Freq Slope AnnexE ...

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