USER MANUAL V27.09.2021 2 Contents Thank you for purchasing MERGING+ANUBIS ........................................................................................... 6 Important Safety and Installation Instructions ........................................................................................... 7 Product Regulatory Compliance .................................................................................................................... 9 MERGING+ANUBIS Warranty Information................................................................................................ 11 INTRODUCTION .............................................................................................................................................. 12 Package Content ........................................................................................................................................ 12 OVERVIEW ................................................................................................................................................... 13 MERGING+ANUBIS VARIANTS AND KEY FEATURES ........................................................................ 13 ABOUT RAVENNA ...................................................................................................................................... 16 MISSION CONTROL - MODULAR BY SOFTWARE ............................................................................... 16 MERGING+ANUBIS panels description ..................................................................................................... 17 TOP PANEL ................................................................................................................................................. 17 BACK PANEL ............................................................................................................................................... 19 FRONT PANEL ............................................................................................................................................ 21 ANUBIS ANALOGUE I/O BLOCK DIAGRAM .......................................................................................... 22 HOW TO CONNECT MERGING+ANUBIS ................................................................................................... 23 Connecting the Ethernet cable to the Network for RAVENNA use .................................................. 23 How to connect a balanced line output to an unbalanced input ...................................................... 24 DRIVERS INSTALLATION PROCEDURE..................................................................................................... 25 Windows PC - RAVENNA ASIO Driver or Merging Audio Device (MAD) .......................................... 25 Mac OS – VAD Premium .......................................................................................................................... 26 Linux OS – ALSA Driver ............................................................................................................................ 27 POWER SUPPLY ............................................................................................................................................. 28 Using the DC power supply source ........................................................................................................ 28 Using the Power-over-Ethernet (PoE) source ....................................................................................... 28 Switching ON MERGING+ANUBIS .......................................................................................................... 29 TOUCHSCREEN AND NAVIGATION............................................................................................................ 30 ANUBIS HOME PAGE .................................................................................................................................... 31 STATUS BAR ............................................................................................................................................... 32 3 LOGS MESSAGES ...................................................................................................................................... 33 LOG MESSAGE APPENDIX ................................................................................................................... 34 PREAMPS CONTROL ................................................................................................................................ 35 DUAL GAIN 32bit CIRCUITRY .............................................................................................................. 40 SPLIT CHANNEL .................................................................................................................................... 41 Analog levels and Digital levels (after A/D conversion) .................................................................. 41 ANUBIS VIRTUAL KEYBOARD ..................................................................................................................... 42 SETTINGS ....................................................................................................................................................... 44 SETTINGS CATEGORIES DESCRIPTION ................................................................................................... 45 PRESETS Settings ..................................................................................................................................... 50 MONITORING Settings ............................................................................................................................. 51 ROOM CORRECTION with SONARWORKS SoundID REFERENCE .................................................. 59 ANUBIS EQ GUIDELINES .......................................................................................................................... 65 SUB SETTINGS (BASS MANAGEMENT) ................................................................................................ 72 Bass Management Signal flow ........................................................................................................... 74 INFO Settings .............................................................................................................................................. 88 DEBUG Settings .......................................................................................................................................... 88 EXIT Settings .............................................................................................................................................. 89 ANUBIS MONITOR MISSION CONTROL .................................................................................................... 90 Missions IO Channels Specifications ..................................................................................................... 92 Sources vs. Monitors Fundamentals ..................................................................................................... 93 Different Monitor types ............................................................................................................................. 94 MONITOR PAGE ......................................................................................................................................... 96 Downmix Table ..................................................................................................................................... 100 METERS PAGE ......................................................................................................................................... 104 ANUBIS PREMIUM DXD-DSD GUIDELINES ............................................................................................ 106 DSD Features & Restrictions: ................................................................................................................ 106 DSD MONITORING: .................................................................................................................................. 107 DSD PreAmps ........................................................................................................................................... 110 ANUBIS SPS .................................................................................................................................................. 112 PEERING ........................................................................................................................................................ 118 4 How to peer a device ............................................................................................................................... 120 Peering Rules ............................................................................................................................................ 124 ANUBIS USE CASES (MULTIPLE CASES ARE ONLINE) ....................................................................... 125 BASIC MONITORING SETUP ................................................................................................................. 125 RECORDING SETUP ................................................................................................................................ 129 MORE ANUBIS USE CASES HERE ........................................................................................................ 135 MONITORING WEB USER INTERFACE ...................................................................................................