Installation guide

Merging Technologies
Le Verney 4, CH-1070 Puidoux Switzerland
www.merging.com/Pyramix T : [phone] • F : [phone]
Pyramix 8.1 Release Notes
New Features
Background Recording:
 New Background Recording machines are available in the main Transport Window.
 They are configurable in All Settings > Application > Background Recorders.
 Up to 4 (arbitrary number) machines can be declared on the top-right header of the settings
page (…. of [Number of Recorders]).
 A direct shortcut to each recorder’s settings page is available through the third button from
the left on the transport window.
 Below are the Settings for each recording machines:
• A Color. Each machine has a color to identify its mixing console easily, the media in
the media manager while recording and the clips being edited in the timeline during
record. The color can be defined by the user.
• Time Stamp of recordings: 00:00:00:00 or Time of Day (or Input TimeCode when in
Chase Mode).
• Pre-Buffering: Number of seconds of pre-buffered data (see below for what it’s
about).
• Confirm Stop: If enabled a warning will be prompt and the user will then need to
confirm the stop recording.
• Media Set: Each machine can optionally record to two different locations at the same
time, for redundancy, and to different formats. Selection of the number of Media Sets
selectable as per the number of Recorders (… of [Number of Media Set]).
1. Destination Folder.
2. Format: For now only PMF, BWF, MTFF (The only formats that allow Editing while
Recording is BWF).
3. Resolution: The resolution (bit depth) is the same for both media sets.
4. Media File Count: Single Media, One File per Track, One File per Mixer Strip
5. Waveform: No Waveform, Waveform While Recording.
6. Unique File Name Extension.
7. Suffix With Strip Name.
8. Edit in Active Project: The recording can be sent to the currently active project
timeline (and played back) either at the end of the recording or immediately
when the recording starts. See details below about Edit while Recording.
 Each Recorder has its own Mixing Console:
• The Mixing Console can be shown/hidden with the left-most button in the transport.
• The Mixing Console can be configured exactly as the one present in standard
documents, Buses, Effects, etc…
• The Mixing Console is saved when the application exits and when the settings are
confirmed with [OK].
• The Mixing Console now displays track arming. All inputs of the Console are pre-
buffered but only the Armed Strips are recorded when entering in Record.
• The Mixing Console can be monitored in the Monitoring Section by pressing the
monitoring button in the transport, button with the headphone on the right of the
mixing console show/hide button
• When a Background Recorder is selected for monitoring in the monitoring section, the
Sources header in the Monitoring Section is colored with the Background Recorder
color code
 Each recorder acts as an independent machine like the Internal or any External Machine.
• Pressing the Ctrl button on the transport window or selecting it in the Transport
Toolbar box combo gives it the focus from keyboard shortcuts, Sony 9-Pin commands
or controllers linked to the transport.
 Enabling the Recorder :