Installation guide

Merging Technologies
Le Verney 4, CH-1070 Puidoux Switzerland
www.merging.com/Pyramix T : [phone] • F : [phone]
Find other Gear links that may be useful to determine if the drivers are installed and functioning
correctly and other tips: Gear Driver Status:
http://www.gearsoftware.com/wiki/index.php?title=Determining_if_GEARAspi_drivers_are_installed_correctly
Gear Known Issues:
http://www.gearsoftware.com/rss/GEAR-drivers-feed.php
 Cannot install Pyramix Native: If you have a HASP error and rollback, make sure that you unplug
your Merging Dongle from the system and try to re-install Pyramix.
 Various Known Issues
 Record: A small pause can occur after the first recording of a session. (MT3827)
 Timeline and Realtime Sampling Rate Conversion: clicks may occur when doing playback or
mixdown in a region where 2 overlapping clips reference the same media with different sampling
rate than project.
Workaround: Convert those Medias to the project's sampling rate, prior to using such a workflow
 MT4369: Trimmer: No cursor and playback location possible with some library snapshot
Workaround: Make sure that under main menu Edit that the “Edit/Update Original TC On Move
ON” is enabled prior to making your library snapshots
 Media Manager sometime cannot recall the columns display(MT4485).
Workaround: Make sure that you add all columns and perform a Scroll through the StripTools
display once
 MT4424: PMX may ask twice to save when closing certain project
Workaround: Close project from File>Close menu
 MT4468: Library and Media Manager: Copy / Paste not possible if Tab is undocked
Workaround: make sure that the Tab is docked
 MT4485: Media Manager: Columns can show up empty and stay empty.
Workaround: Add all columns and apply a set as default
 MT4505: Playhead cursor might disappear in playback (Win7 Aero)
Workaround: Disable Windows Aero mode
 MT4467: Media Manager: Sampling Rate conversion can create duplicated medias in Media
Manager
Workaround: Refresh Media Folder
 Library & Media Manager: Copy / Paste not possible if Tab is undocked (MT4468)
Workaround: Dock the Tab back.
 Recording: Red recording block can disappears during recording on some configuration.
Note: The media will not be affected by this display problem. (MT3577)
 Virtual Transport: VT missing Icons for DSplayer and Midi Sync clients. (MT3480)
 GPI/O need more time to receive command – less responsive (MT3593)
Workaround a previous dll version can be used, contact [e-mail]
 ADR keyboard is by default disabled. To enable it you must download and run the proper Registry
Key. http://download.merging.com/beta/AssociatedTools/ADRKeyboard.zip
 The ADR keyboard is not compatible with Pyramix Native under Windows 7 - 64bit.
 Multiple projects opened simultaneously: We do not recommend users to have more than 8
project opened at the same time (due to GDI object limitation).
 The Render Tool will create a temp file for the CEDAR and Nova v0.99 in C:\ Be aware that
Merging cannot change the Temp file patch of such third party Render.
 Interchange: AAF non-embedded export to Pro Tools 7x could generate « Could not complete your
request because an unexpected error happened while trying to find an audio media file’s format”
error. We recommend to use AAF Embedded when exporting to ProTools 7. ProTools 8 is known to
be working in such case.
 Third Party Plug-ins
 Algorithmix ReNOVAtor for Pyramix: We recommend users to download the latest version available
on their site. www.algorithmix.com
 Cedar: Install issue on certain Vista configurations where you might not see the Cedar plug-ins
after the installation process. The problem is due to erroneous referencing of the license manager
utility on a vista machine. Please contact Merging Support or Cedar Support for all details and
workaround.
 Cedar: Some toolbar icons might be missing if on a Windows XP system. Workaround: Disable the
Skin option in Pyramix>settings>Desktop Layout.
 Altiverb: We recommend users to download the latest version available on the Audio Ease site.