Specifications

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TABLE OF CONTENTS ____________________________________________________________________________ 2
IMPORTANT SAFETY INFORMATION .........................................................................................................................................1
HOW TO USE THIS MANUAL ..............................................................................................................................................................................1
OVERVIEW AND QUICKSTART _____________________________________________________________________ 3
THE BIG PICTURE ................................................................................................................................................................................................3
KNOBS, KEYS, AND JACKS ..................................................................................................................................................................................5
The Front Panel ............................................................................................................................................................................................5
The Back Panel.............................................................................................................................................................................................9
AES/EBU Digital Audio Input/Output (Professional)............................................................................................9
S/P DIF Digital Audio Input/Output (Consumer) ................................................................................................ 10
GETTING AROUND AND ALTERING PARAMETERS.......................................................................................................................................14
Adjusting the Brightness and Contrast of the Display....................................................................................................................................14
The "Areas" of the H8000FW...................................................................................................................................................................14
Understanding the Display and SOFT KEYS.............................................................................................................................................16
Using the Cursor Keys, the SELECT key, the NUMERIC KEYPAD, and the KNOB..........................................................................19
Ganged Parameters......................................................................................................................................................................................20
Entering or Changing Text ..........................................................................................................................................................................20
QUICKSTART OR "NEARLY INSTANT GRATIFICATION" ..............................................................................................................................21
Hooking Up and Internal Routing 22
THINGS TO KNOW ABOUT ROUTING..............................................................................................................................................................24
Loading Routing Configurations 25
Factory Routing Configurations 26
4 Channel series Routings......................................................................................................................................... 26
8 Channel series Routings......................................................................................................................................... 27
Stereo Dual Machine Routings ................................................................................................................................. 28
4 channel Dual Machine Routings............................................................................................................................ 29
4 Channel parallel routings....................................................................................................................................... 30
8 Channel parallel routings....................................................................................................................................... 31
Complex FireWire Routings..................................................................................................................................... 32
The I/O Identifier .......................................................................................................................................................................................34
Setting Input Levels .....................................................................................................................................................................................36
Effecting Things 37
"Panic" Muting...........................................................................................................................................................................................37
Loading Programs........................................................................................................................................................................................37
Parameters...................................................................................................................................................................................................40
"Tweaking" and Saving "Tweaks" ..............................................................................................................................................................43
Using User Groups to Organize Useful Programs.........................................................................................................................................44
Wrap Up 46
OPERATION _____________________________________________________________________________________ 47
Mounting and Handling ..............................................................................................................................................................................47
Memory Cards.............................................................................................................................................................................................47
THE COMPREHENSIVE INPUT / OUTPUT SCHEME .......................................................................................................................................49
ROUTING CONFIGURATION .............................................................................................................................................................................53
CONNECTING REAL WORLD INPUTS TO THE H8000FW ..............................................................................................................................53