Panasonic Mixing Automation Expansion Software Users Guide

tTurn Receive Time Code On.
Receive Time Code is turned on and off by
clicking on the T.C. button in the Control Bar.
tEnable Fader and Channel On Overwrite.
Click on the Overwrite button to confirm
settings. 
Fader and Channel On are already automatically
pre-selected on your first pass of a new mix.
tSet Edit Mode menu to Write.
If the Edit Mode menu does not already indicate
Write, type the letter “w”.
tClear Memory.
Select Clear [Untitled-1] from the Edit menu. 
Obviously if you have just launched...

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Clearing Memory Arms MAX to Capture One Initial “Snapshot”.
The MAX is a “dynamic” automation system, meaning that fader
movements are written only when a fader is moved, and that these
movements are recorded with respect to time code. 
MAX also automatically captures one “snapshot”. 
A snapshot is a picture stored in the automation memory. 
It contains the starting position of all the faders, and the on / off condition of
all the channels, and all other automated mixer...

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Select the Channels that you wish to write.
As stated previously, you can select channels with the mixer’s Select button.
Or, you can use the mouse to click on the Mode indicator. 
If you are writing faders, you may also use SoftTouch to automatically select
the channels.
When writing faders, multiple channels can be selected. 
You can write as many faders as you wish in a given pass, when you are
writing faders only, or faders and channel ons only.
Type Command E (Enable all)...

Stop the program material at the end of the pass. If you have more channel
on/off moves to make on other channels, rewind and restart the program
material to add more channel on/offs. 
Writing Faders 
Move the mixer’s faders. In a previous step we Selected all the faders. As long
as time code is being received and the mode indicator above each fader says
Write, fader moves are being written.
Stop the program material at any time.
Save the mix. Type Command S and give the mix a name.
Stop the program...

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More About Snapshots
MAX automatically takes one snapshot on the first pass after clearing memory.
The snapshot time is equal to the first time code received. The snapshot is
only taken if some new move is made. Do not write moves before the first
snapshots, since MAX will reset the mixer to the recorded snapshot settings
once it passes the start time-code location.
Writing Routing
Routing is accessed on the mixer by pressing Routing in the Configuration
section. 
(Surround...

When starting a new mix (that is, the memory has been cleared), the current
Aux send levels and pre/post selections will be automatically saved in a
“Snapshot” when the first pass is written.
Select Write from the Edit Mode menu. Write Enable the individual channel,
using the mixer’s Select buttons.
Start the program material or other source of time code, and use the mixer to
adjust Send Levels and change the Pre/Post switches if desired.
(If you later wish to edit the Aux Sends Off Line, changes to the...

When starting a new mix (that is, the memory has been cleared), the current
EQ settings will be automatically saved in a “Snapshot” when the first pass is
written.
Select Write from the Edit Mode menu. 
Write Enable the individual channel, using the mixer’s Select buttons.
Start the program material or other source of time code, and use the mixer to
adjust the EQ section.
(If you later wish to edit the EQ Off Line, changes to the EQ knobs (such as
frequency, gain, etc. may be made using the Create...

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Writing Delay
Delay is accessed on the mixer by pressing Delay in the Configuration section. 
Click on the Overwrite button (or select Overwrite from the Real Time menu),
and enable Delay editing by clicking on the button next to the word Delay.
When starting a new mix (that is, the memory has been cleared), the current
Delay settings will be automatically saved in a “Snapshot” when the first pass
is written.
Select Write from the Edit Mode menu. 
Write Enable the individual...

(If you later wish to edit Dynamics Off Line, changes to all of the variable
Dynamics parameters (knee, threshold, etc.) may be made using the Create
Parameter Change dialogue box. Changes to the state of the Delay on/off
switches are made using the Create Switch Events dialogue box.) 
Note:Before writing Dynamics in a mix, you need first to create Dynamics
Libraries into DA7’s memory with such parameters as threshold, etc.
Second, start a new mix as described this section.
Third, open “Create Library...

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The Phantom Faders
When MAX is locked to time code and automating the mixer, every fader
move that you made in Write Mode is being “played back”. 
If the “MOTORS” button is turned off, the physical faders on the mixer will
not move, but the audio levels are changing nonetheless because the faders
on the Macintosh monitor are moving. The real faders on the mixer are
simply resting in the last position that you left them at. 
As an example, while playing back an automated mix,...