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Yamaha M7CL manual

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  • Page 1

    Quick Star t Guide A guide for people using M7CL in the real w orld. P ar t 3 Guide to scenes; Recall Safe , F ocus, storing , scene management , saving and loading . This guide is for people about to use the M7CL with multiple scenes for the first time and for users who wish to transfer their console set ups to different M7CLs using a USB storage[...]

  • Page 2

    2/13 M7CL Quick Start Guide Part 3 T able of c ontents T able of contents ................................................................................................................................................................................................... 2 Scene management and other memorized f eatures. ..............................[...]

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    3/13 M7CL Quick Start Guide Part 3 Scene managemen t and other memorized fea tures . M7CL can memorize all of its mixing parameters such as EQ, dynamics and fader levels. These memories are stored into a “snapshot” or “scene”. The analog equivalent is “marking up” the desk on the familiar printed sheets of circles. This “scene” repr[...]

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    4/13 M7CL Quick Start Guide Part 3 Next press the [STORE] key and the SCENE ST ORE keyboard pop-up will appear . This lets you name the scene and provides extra space for a comment or longer scene name. If you store to a location containing a previously stored scene, this scene will be lost. (But see “Undo options” section.) Scenes can be locke[...]

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    5/13 M7CL Quick Start Guide Part 3 Managing the SCENE LIST . Scenes appear in the list next to a position number . Above the list are [CUT], [COPY], [P ASTE], and [INSER T] option buttons so that you can re-order the scene list. This also lets you clear un-used scenes. It is important to realize that the scene number that you stored the scene into [...]

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    6/13 M7CL Quick Start Guide Part 3 T o apply Recall Safes. The RECALL SAFE MODE pop-up is in the CH JOB (Channel Job) area. Press the [CH JOB] button on the screen and then press the [RECALL SAFE] button, the pop-up will appear . Recall Safes can be applied from this screen and the safe parameters can be selected. T o apply a safe, select the chann[...]

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    7/13 M7CL Quick Start Guide Part 3 F o cus (or Recall F ocus); t ypical use examples . Focus is another way of limiting the amount of information that is recalled when the chosen scene is recalled. 1. Multiband shows . In a multiband line up show each engineer wants his own GEQ setting, but also they want changes to be possible without scene recall[...]

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    8/13 M7CL Quick Start Guide Part 3 What is in a sc ene? When a scene is stored it is useful to know what is included in the scene and can be changed by scene recall and what is not. However just because things are not remembered by scene recall doesn’t mean they are not remembered at power down or are not included in the whole console file. Thes[...]

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    9/13 M7CL Quick Start Guide Part 3 Saving da ta to a USB stor age devic e. The scenes and set up of an M7CL console can be stored to an external USB storage device. This serves to back up the console’ s internal memory and allow transfer of the data to another console in another territory . Files made on either the 32-channel or 48-channel versio[...]

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    10/13 M7CL Quick Start Guide Part 3 Other memorized data. Some things are memorized by the console but not included in the ALL DA T A file. And some things are not memorized by the console at all. Memorized at pow er down on the console but not in ALL DA T A file - P asswords - Screen page - Brightness c ontrols - Netw ork settings - Clock (time/[...]

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    11/13 M7CL Quick Start Guide Part 3 Scene managemen t using Studio Manager and M7CL Editor . Y amaha’ s Studio Manager is a host program to contain editors for various Y amaha products. It gets the “Studio” name as originally it was for the studio desks and digital keyboards. Y amaha Studio Manager is available for PC and Mac systems but curr[...]

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    12/13 M7CL Quick Start Guide Part 3 Using the Sc ene window . The Scene window shows two columns. The right side column is headed “INTERNAL DA T A” and the scenes listed in this column form part of an ALL DA T A session fi le. They are available for editing on the software. If the editor is connected online with a console these scenes are the [...]

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    13/13 M7CL Quick Start Guide Part 3 How to mer ge two sessions together . M7CL can only hold one session file at a time, but scenes from more than one session can be merged using the M7CL editor . First choose the session that will provide the setup and user defined key information. T ake the other session file and open it into Studio Manager . [...]

  • Page 14

    Revision History M7CL Quick Start Guide Part 3 Month / Year Version Contents April 2007 1.0 First edition released.[...]