Tascam SX-1, Release Note

Page 1: ...SX 1 Digital Production Environment SX 1 Version 1 50 Software Release Notes 9101450000...

Page 2: ...creen 11 13 New progress bar display of the SX 1 s busy state 11 14 New MIDI operation at creation of New Mix 11 15 A number of new mixer channel shortcuts were added 11 16 Channel delay can now be se...

Page 3: ...es made to the VGA editing interface in version 1 50 26 1 On screen recording indication 26 2 Crossfades were added 26 3 Audio Clip Preview 29 4 Clip names are now visible in the UI 29 5 The toolbar n...

Page 4: ...1 can now handle System Exclusive messages in a more elegant manner 48 7 Enhanced Program Change functionality 50 8 Monitoring with transpose has been enhanced 51 9 MIDI meters now show highest value...

Page 5: ...The Subnet Mask shown as the Net Mask on the SX 1 57 5 Fifth Concept The Gateway or Router as it is sometimes referred 57 6 Sixth Concept Ethernet cable 58 7 Seventh Concept FTP 58 SET IT UP 59 TIPS...

Page 6: ...ress To cancel press 0 On the VGA screen the same warning message appears After pressing continue another prompt asks Install the demo projects Choose Yes or No and the installation will begin Changes...

Page 7: ...er is enabled and any fader that you touch is controlling Cue levels not L R levels Press the Cue button once more to return to the L R Mix layers Now press and hold the Cue button You will see that t...

Page 8: ...e other channels on the mixer Some mixing engineers like to keep the behavior of the Aux sends the same for all the channels in a mixer as it makes navigating around a complex mix much easier one less...

Page 9: ...hreshold from their own channel or the channel directly adjacent in a stereo pair In version 1 5 the channel compressors can now take their key input from other sources as well The ability to have one...

Page 10: ...ling you that the sidechain input must come from a channel that sits in the same bank meaning that channel 7 can use any of channels 1 16 for it s sidechain input but not 17 32 The reason for this lie...

Page 11: ...o any MIDI tracks They remain unaffected 10 The Mute state is now shown when the master Solo key is first pressed The Mute and Solo behavior of the mixer has been changed slightly to better reflect wh...

Page 12: ...om using it momentarily This means that among others all Undo and Redo commands CD writing and CD erasing now post progress bars You might also notice that the progress bar itself now looks more like...

Page 13: ...oder enables and sets all aux sends to inf 0db Regardless of the current state of the selected channel s aux send levels using this shortcut sets all of the six aux send levels to zero and turns them...

Page 14: ...iseconds You will notice that all of the sixteen channels in that bank move as well Simply set the knob back down to zero and you ve set all the channels in that bank to milliseconds 17 Routing is now...

Page 15: ...se the SX 1 to enter PLAY If the transport is in any other state FF or RW for example pressing the pedal will emulate pressing the STOP key in the transport 3 TALKBACK when in TALKBACK mode depressing...

Page 16: ...de Option Slots 1 2 or 3 the ADAT outs or SPDIF outs 1 and 2 Check this out by navigating to the LCD Preferences page MIXER tab There is now an option for Slate Setup If you change the default which i...

Page 17: ...ing busses now use floating 40 bit math a substantial gain in headroom which should increase clarity and depth of field in the busses and should also reduce phase shift in the channel EQ 23 Test tone...

Page 18: ...ing unstable clock auto retry now off Thus it is impossible to get into a potentially dangerous clock loop condition 26 Routing screens no longer mult by default It was decided that the Routing screen...

Page 19: ...hed to sound the same even though the displayed value will be 4 times the value displayed pre V1 5 NOTE Version 1 5 will not allow a project created in an earlier version to be used as a project templ...

Page 20: ...o mater section in version 1 5 or later When this preset is recalled the Attack and Release parameters will be off by a factor of 4 so careful listening and adjustment will be required Dynamic presets...

Page 21: ...r recalling a factory routing preset Changes made to the transport in version 1 50 1 The SX 1 now has the ability to change the session start time for bars and beats It is now possible to set a start...

Page 22: ...ing down the surface transport STOP button and moving the shuttle wheel To better see what the scrubber is doing change the time display to samples click on the arrow next to the large time display on...

Page 23: ...r of different options Here s what they do Mute After Stop The SX 1 will stop sending timecode immediately after Stop is pressed Mute Faster Than 1x The SX 1 will not output timecode if the transport...

Page 24: ...imecode flywheel operation The term Flywheel refers to a situation where a device is chasing a timecode source but for any of a number of reasons is not presently locked to it A device is thought to b...

Page 25: ...ugh Chase Freewheel and Re lock Threshold are the same setting in actuality they are quite different Chase Freewheel determines the number of dropped frames that can pass before the SX 1 takes action...

Page 26: ...en 11 Transport Nudge Feature added The front panel key combination of Shift REW or Shift FFWD will cause the transport to locate by the amount currently specified by the EDIT NUDGE setting 12 HDR Rec...

Page 27: ...fault nearly all devices that record digital audio create a crossfade usually around 10 milliseconds or so when punching in or out but not necessarily when editing The term crossfade comes from the co...

Page 28: ...most common Using the default linear fade in shape press DONE our result looks like this Press PLAY and listen to the smooth ramp up in volume that this creates This is the behavior of the Fade dialo...

Page 29: ...file to the next The effect is more pronounced the more different the two files are from each other and the longer the fade actually lasts Long fades are usually reserved for the creation of an effect...

Page 30: ...after they are imported to the browser lists To see this new feature navigate to the Track screen and select the Clip Browser tab You ll see this Pressing the PREVIEW button will automatically play t...

Page 31: ...it is easy to get them where you want them without having to enter actual numbers with the keypad The points shown in the ruler are Locate punch loop and sync They are shown here To see how this works...

Page 32: ...he list 7 A zoom tool was added A zoom tool was added to aid in the editing of visual data The tool was added to the same drop down menu that houses the other editing tools Region Event Pencil and Cur...

Page 33: ...ile clicking with the zoom tool the view will zoom out Using shift and the magnifying glass is an effective way to maneuver about the timeline 8 Entirely new authoring page with new features It is now...

Page 34: ...ut press the NEW button This dialog pops up You can now choose which type of CD you would like to create The default is a Red Book audio CD but the ISO 9660 format can also be selected from the pulldo...

Page 35: ...eo halves ex drums L and drums R will now be sorted together D A UPC code if entered must be exactly 13 digits Now the field will not allow you to enter anything longer than a 13 digit string If you a...

Page 36: ...both triplet and dotted at the same time so it is disallowed to simplify things Basically both Triplet and Dot are modifiers to the existing choices meaning that selecting Triplet from the dropdown m...

Page 37: ...ity You can see this new display on any MIDI track If everything is patched correctly you will see one of the small keys on the aforementioned keyboard icon light up accordingly 12 The Track screen no...

Page 38: ...election with the Region tool in track five would cause the waveform tab to change the display to track five 15 Sample accurate waveform editing de clicking With version 1 5 the SX 1 is able to use th...

Page 39: ...e fact that mouse edit operations can cause the transport to locate in some situations Instead of getting the machine into a mode where a possible problem could ensue due to locate commands from the e...

Page 40: ...th the mouse Select the Level Edit Op from the Edit Operation pulldown menu You will notice that it has one slider Set the Gain slider to something extreme like 15db of boost and press DONE Looking at...

Page 41: ...vents can be muted on the VGA Track screen by pressing Alt Shift M This functionality was previously available from either the Event Editor or the Mute Event edit op but the addition of a key command...

Page 42: ...me Countdown settings Conductor settings Sequence start time MIDI echo merge reverse play settings MIDI Step record settings Event Filters settings on event lists Midi Clock settings Time Display Mode...

Page 43: ...gth of the selection and thus where it ends instead of where it begins Old Duration the total length of the selection is calculated and displayed here You can enter the start time first and then the d...

Page 44: ...to track 4 while track 8 would link to track 7 QUICK EXAMPLE 1 Make sure that your Grid is on and set to bars and beats use the whole note value for easy selection 2 Click and drag a selection of two...

Page 45: ...ace allows you to select ripple left and ripple right for the paste and cut edit operations but in V1 00 the VGA edit menu had only a single paste entry which was the paste ripple right version Althou...

Page 46: ...The SX 1 now supports the dragging of individual notes on the Piano Roll It is thus now possible to drag copy existing MIDI notes to other locations on the timeline Select some notes using the Event...

Page 47: ...e button just above the Tap Tempo button on the LCD is labeled TAP SETS TEMPO With this option selected the tapped tempo automatically updates the project tempo To try it watch the tempo readout on th...

Page 48: ...touch and Polypressure are data types that are rarely edited or used some devices and software packages filter them by default However if you would like to learn more about these types of data a handb...

Page 49: ...eam of non performance oriented MIDI information Some devices use it to select and modify their sound bank structure while others use it to export all system settings at once known as a bulk dump in M...

Page 50: ...tem Exclusive message has finished transmitting Thus any message you create must start with F0 and end with F7 to be a valid SysEx message NOTE It is possible to enter garbage in between the start and...

Page 51: ...ynths on the market have many more than 128 internal sounds or patches some synths have as many as 50 or 60 banks of 127 sounds As the Program Change value can only be between 1 128 another method mus...

Page 52: ...Transposed is checked however the notes monitored live and the notes being recorded are transposed while the playback is NOT This was done to ensure that your performance is not transposed twice once...

Page 53: ...l MIDI specifications from V1 50 the SX 1 will display the program change number as 1 based i e 1 128 This makes the sequencer easier to use with external MIDI playback devices such as the Tascam Giga...

Page 54: ...mewhat with Trim All 2 Cue layer automation events now operate correctly Automation for the Cue layer now records and plays back correctly This means that you can perform automation moves on the Cue l...

Page 55: ...ou 5 Automation channel strip LED s now indicate present automation data A feature request now the SX 1 will show whether or not there is automation data present per channel by dimly lighting the auto...

Page 56: ...ted to the network in groups of bits commonly referred to as packets These packets travel around the entire network and back almost like a conveyor belt The only thing you really need to know is that...

Page 57: ...at is closed and only exists on local machines address might be 192 168 1 2 Other machines on the same network would have the value of the last byte at least one digit away from the others while the f...

Page 58: ...can tell this because each byte has a numerical limit of 255 so a subnet mask setting of 255 255 255 0 tells the host to only look at all of the addresses in the last byte starting from zero all the w...

Page 59: ...ncing communication problems follow the above guidelines crossover cables between two machines with no device in between like a hub or a router and straight cable between a machine and a router or hub...

Page 60: ...ode because it is connected to only one other computer The username and password are both sx1 to make it easy to remember Notice that the screen shows that the FTP server is currently not running This...

Page 61: ...ranted to the entire drive the entire drive must be scanned after FTP server exit This can take a minute or two to complete for a drive that contains a large number of files The directory of the audio...

Page 62: ...tive file types basically BWF and SDII listed in the Tips section under playback types must be in the TL_Imports folder for the SX 1 to be able to import them correctly One of the only exceptions to t...

Page 63: ...ich time it will reset again for lack of battery power The battery is a standard PC type CR2032 which is available not only from TASCAM service but from many computer shops as well 3 Flickering displa...

Page 64: ...lot controls and the scrolling data area indicate where to click Once clicked actually anywhere on the bar is fine drag and keep dragging the bar until the display re arranges itself The cursor change...

Page 65: ...yRecall Dyn Group All dynamics controls Dynamics library recalls DynBypass DynTriggerSource DynThreshold DynAttackTime DynOutputGain DynAutoMakeup DynamicsType GateRange GateHysterisis GateHoldTime Ga...

Page 66: ...e a whole CD even for the smallest project If you have a bunch of template projects that make up your core setup for the SX 1 you can use a PC to burn all the backups onto one single CD for ease of ma...