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Note: iPhone v2.2.1 supports all PDF's. Cantar Users' Group Software Exchange tips with other cantarists: Cantar, Arcan, Tarkan, Majax software can be download- http://ulysse.aaton.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/cantar-users ed from: http://www.soft.aaton.com/swcantar/ Pictures on the road UÊfirst visit: click 'create an account', enter your details, don't Send us your 'Cantar at work' pictures, we will put the best forget the country. After a few seconds, you will receive an ones on the gallery: http://www.aaton.com/gallery/ email with your password. Enter this password with your Post Production helper email address in the login page. Spread the ' >Ì>À*ÃÌ >' tutorial around: UÊnext visits: forgotten password? Click 'lost password', http://www.aaton.com/documentation/ Cantar-X1 vs X2 UÊWider FPGA Ì iÀL>À`Ê x®°ÊUÊÌ Ê x®Ê«ÀÛ`iÊ UÊ*>ÞE,iV]Ê Ì iÀiÌ]Ê vviÀiÌ>Ê>>}Ê`i>ÞÃ]Ê/À>VÕÌ->ÌiÊ 85ms @48kHz delays°ÊUÊ£ää >Ãi/Ê Ì iÀiÌÊBoard (ET-1). and Wordclock sync require X2 hardware. Firmware history qÊvÀÊ8£E8Ó]ÊÊʳÊvÀÊ8Ó TC stored in Mark-In column. – Fudge in 'AUDIO/TC.14' adds 60ms to the v2.44 Nov 2011 – Corrected take length in ALE lists allows for Mono- file's TC. – BattAlert extended to 15V for Li-Ion batt. – Improved SATA disk phonic import with all track names and full comments into Avid MCs.. manager. – No more freeze when playing 'Majax cantarized' foreign files. v2.43 May 2011 – Bug fix correcting MonoRotate Idle backup on CF, v2.26 Feb. 2009 – Idle Bckp can be interrupted while saving T7T8 after Ext. HD and DVD-RAM. – PPR keyed 'TapeRef' HEX char. can go to a T1---T8 Rotate2poly. – Mic3 master of Mic4 & Mic5. – Direct PLAY of the LTC-Out U-bits. – U-bits manually entered, p.32. – Backup to internal take preceding a deleted one. – Fat-32 formatting of CF cards. – SoundReport CF caddy, p.54. – [eye] button in Backup.06 & .14 displays the media generated once backup At Call is completed. + Tarkan v1.11 adds CSV to remaining space. PDF SoundReport. + Tarkan completion menu fits WinXP netbook screens. v2.37 Dec. 2010 – 'Xa mix to T7, Mic1/Mic5 to T8, p.28. – SoloMidPan v2.24 Nov. 2008 – PCs handle 'unmounted' internal drives. – Simultaneous middle position enables buttons 1–6 trigger solos of L1 to L4 and T7-T8, internal/external, PATA/SATA drives. – Line-in links for Soundfield ST350. p.4. – Line-out & Foldback mute in TEST, p.31. – Creation date set by – Rotate poly by one or two ranks. – T8T8 backup. – False-start: take-gender Cantar if incoming user bits are all zero. – Sc&Take/Filetag display pref. keeps same # for next take. – Trash/Revive files in BROWSE. – Swift access stored at power-off. – HD1080 flag in ALE header. – Bug fix on PLAY LTC- to ROUTINGS with no PLAY/BROWSE triggering. – Thumb-free check/select out 'Off' at file end. + Play&Rec stiky BLUE over TEST, PPR and REC. In-Grids and Out-Maps. – All letters for seq./scene. – Delayed Idle Bckp v2.36 May 2010 – Error fix on DVD Rotate2mono sound-report with long activation. – DVD-RAM exact space is displayed. – Erratic behaviour after PDF names. – Rotate1&2mono respectively stored in .AAL & .AAM folders. creation, fixed. + Linking-Trios in the CSV SoundReport. + Tarkan v1.09 brings – Track-names stored as "aTRK#=name" for Avid MCs' monophonic import pan-pot control, T7T8 settings, metadata editing and PDF generation. (v4 & up). – Track-names inserted in T1–T8 columns of ALE lists. v2.15 March 2008 – In-Grids to T7T8 displayed with T1–T6 banks. v2.30 Sept. 2009 – Line-out & Foldback mute in PLAY. – Up to twenty – Mixdown w/T7 into T8. – Line-out/Foldback gain adj. in TEST. – 'So' stored setups. – Take-gender resets to 't' after scene ID change. – MS jog monitoring of the mix in TEST, REC and PLAY: Xa (center), Xb (center), Xa Xb pan direction identical to others. – 250MB auto jump keeps eight track polys (center), Xa Xb (left/right).