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Yamaha mLAN System manual

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  • Page 1

    mLAN System Setup A Getting Started Power User Guide (Windows) Phil Clendeninn Senior Product Specialist Technology Products ©Yamaha Corporation of America 1[...]

  • Page 2

    mLAN System: Music Local Area Network This is an exampl e setup for education purposes and by n o means is the only con figuratio n. For this article our example mLA N system: • Motif ES with mLAN16E installed • i88X – high-quality mLAN I/O expander • 01X – moving-fader mLAN digital mixer • Motif Rack (as our non-mLAN module) • Pair o[...]

  • Page 3

    • To start the mLAN Driver: Press START> mLAN TOOLS> mLAN Start It will take a fe w seconds to launch. AUTO CONNECTOR AUTO CONNECTOR is used when you are using a single connected device - in a scenario where you are using just an 01X <-> computer, for example. We will ope n it here just because we can learn some inte restin g things f[...]

  • Page 4

    4 Place th e curso r arrow on the ico n itse lf - clic k on it and see the NODE INFORMATION dialog box for that item. Each device in the Network is technically called a 'Node'. There are three mai n graphic views you should b ecome familia r with: AUDIO, MIDI, and WORDCLOCK. There are icons for each one on the tool bar. How connections ar[...]

  • Page 5

    an audio “snake”). You can make and break individual connecti ons or entire selections as necessary. Spend some time making group conne ctions and sing le con nectio ns. Th e skill of using the patchb ay is an imp ortant one in an y studio environment and is extremel y powerful in the world of mLAN. You can confi gure almost anything you can dr[...]

  • Page 6

    There are 18 outputs from the Computer back to the 01X. These are subdivided in to 16 bus channe ls plus monitor channels 1 7&18 - which will be used for stereo monitoring. How you take advanta ge of the 1 6 bus r eturns t o the 01 X will depend on exactly what you are attempti ng to do. In many cas es a ste reo retu rn will be sufficien t. How[...]

  • Page 7

    mLAN16E MIDI IN: Port 1 < Computer 9 Internal Motif ES Port 2 < Computer 10 PLG150 Boards or external device Port 3 < Computer 11 Remote for Motif Rack Computer MIDI IN: Port 1 < 01X: DAW Remot e Port 2 < 01X: MIDI A (back panel of 01X) Port 3 < 01X: MIDI B (back panel of 01X) Port 4 < 01X: Studio Manager Port 5 < 01X: Remot[...]

  • Page 8

    Multi Part Editor for Motif ES: MIDI Setup • Open the “Multi-Part Editor for Motif ES 6/7/8” • On the toolbar of the Editor yo u will find SETUP In the MIDI Setup for the Multi-Part Edi tor for Motif ES 6/7/8, Remote Control parameters of the Motif ES will be s hown in t he scr een o f the 01X (when you press [SHIFT] + [REMOTE]; Red LED fla[...]

  • Page 9

    8) – this allows the Moti f ES’s front panel to control the Motif Rack. Port Explanation: • You may be puzzled here as to why Port 11 and Port 8 – If it were a simpler setup with just the Motif ES contro lling the Motif Rack Editor – the Motif ES has 4 possible Ports 1, 2, 3 and 4. Port 1 is for the internal Motif ES (the Kbd sending/TG r[...]

  • Page 10

    node. In the screen shot above the mLAN16E node is lime gre en and so is its outp ut snak e. It is a bus carrying 16 cables. What is a bus? If you need to get across town – you might get on the bus – a bus moves one or more things from one place to another. The idea is i t can carry more than just 1 person, and here it can carry more than just [...]

  • Page 11

    I send tracks out to mLAN 1&2 of the software, I can monitor them on the 01X. (Substitute the “software” for “computer”. You could in other setups route the return to any mLAN channels. Eventually, in a mixdown scenari o you would naturally return more channels to the 01X. But here we are only monitoring the si gnal in stereo. Connectin[...]

  • Page 12

    • Press UTILITY • Press Knob 1 REMOTE and select the software • Press REMOTE on the 01X to activate control. Use the Bank [<]/[>] buttons to and the DISPLAY buttons to navigate screens. Booting up the software DAW Digital Audi o Workstation or DAW for short, are software s equenc ers tha t will allow the us er to record audio and MIDI t[...]

  • Page 13

    to be set to expect to receive via ASIO. What is meant here is the following…i f you setup the mLAN Driver as i nstructed here, then open an audio project that was created usi n g “WD M/KS” as the audio device – it i s possible that the computer will crash. Or at least you will n eed to ma ke new settings t o the softwar e and the n you wil[...]