Installation guide

Merging Technologies
Le Verney 4, CH-1070 Puidoux Switzerland
www.merging.com/Pyramix T : [phone] • F : [phone]
Product Changes, Technical Notes & Known Issues
Product Changes:
32bits
 Interchange: DAR no longer supported
 The Timezone time-stretch tool is no longer supported in Pyramix v9 and has been removed.
Prosoniq MPEX4 or Dirac are recommended. Contact your local dealer.
 Virtual Transport changes (refer to release notes below)
64bits
 Missing VS3 plugins (Some plugins under 64Bits are not yet available).
o Aphro and VB plugins VS3 series
o DeNoiser & DeScratcher
o Arkamys
 Render: Nova & Levelizer are no longer supported
 Interchange: Akai DD/DR, ProTools and DAR are no longer supported under 64bit
 The Timezone time-stretch tool is no longer supported in Pyramix v9 and has been removed.
Prosoniq MPEX4 or Dirac are recommended. Contact your local dealer.
 Middle mouse scrub not yet supported
 SD2 handler is not supported under 64bit
 HASP dongle is no longer supported under 64bit OS, a SafeNet dongle is required. Contact your
local dealer.
 The Mykerinos cards are not supported under 64bit OS
 Virtual Transport changes (refer to release notes below)
MassCore Technical Notes:
 MassCore not supported on Core2Duo since Pyramix v8. Minimum requirement is a QuadCore.
 MassCore is supported under Windows 7 (32bit and 64bit)
 MassCore 64bit RTX Key Replacement demand has to be made through the Interval Zero Support
team IntervalZero Support site This means that if you already have install MassCore 64bit on
system and want to move it to another system you must contact interval zero and RTX64
Activation key is linked to the system and not the dongle. This only applies to 64bit.
 In order to run MassCore 64bit users will need to have both the RTX64bit Activation key and the
MassCore 64-bit key.
 If your Core indicator in Pyramix is always overloading (red). Recommendation:
• Under a 32 bit OS: The Hyper-Threading must be disabled in the Bios. If it was enabled
you might have to un-install RTX MassCore and re-install it.
• Under a 64 bit OS: MassCore RTX 64bit users are allowed to run with Hyperthreading
enabled. In such case users will by default have 2 Core allocated to MassCore RTX64, as
we leave a pair number of Cores for Windows.
Merging recommends to have a SMP key under such configuration.
• If under the Bios power options you have entries such as the Intel SpeedStep and CPU C
State make sure that those options are disabled, they are potentials problems to MassCore
 We recommend that you do not use more than 65-70% of the Core resources, to avoid intense
graphic refresh burst related problems. Three safe core zones have been set. Eventually this will
be optimized further.
• 0% to 65% Green zone (best performance)
• 65% to 75% Orange zone (moderate risk)
• 75% to100% Red zone (performance could be at risk if major screen redraws are initiated
by the user).
 If the Core indicator blinks (red), this will indicate a drop, only be concerned if the drop occurred
during Playback/Mix down or record. To reset the Core drop simply do a Mouse click on the Core
indicator, for more information please refer to the appropriate section in the User Manual.
 If you have VST Core peaks users should increase their VST Engine Buffer size value, located
under the Pyramix Settings. More information available in the User Manual.