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Zaxcom Deva User’s Manual_______________________________________________________Chapter 7
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Chapter 7 – New System Capabilities
Introduction
Our Software Engineers make changes to the firmware to make it easier to use or to correct a problem that an
Operator has encountered. But, every once-in-a-while, they come up with some truly ground-breaking additions
to the system. This chapter is dedicated to letting all of you, the Owners and Operators, know about all of these
new capabilities. As part of that, I will do my best to explain how to use them.
Improvements
Power Roll feature
When was it introduced:
Deva/Fusion TRX & IFB100 QRX-IFB
v7.46 (2011-06-20) v7.35 (2011-06-20) v1.36 (2011-05-10)
Deva and Fusion can now send the Power Roll state with its timecode through an attached IFB100 or QRX-IFB.
The POWER ROLL parameter setting has the following effects:
ALWAYS HIGH – send a HIGH POWER state at all times.
ALWAYS LOW – send a LOW POWER state at all times.
POWER ROLL – send a LOW POWER state while in STOP mode and a HIGH POWER state while
in RECORD or PLAYBACK mode.
The ALLOW POWER ROLL parameter (in the TRXxxx) determines what effect (if any), the Power Roll state
has:
OFF – the Power Roll state is ignored
RECORD TRIGGER – when the unit goes into RECORD mode, the transmit power is set to 120 mW and
when it goes into STOP mode, the transmit power is set to its local power setting.
DEVA TRIGGER – the Power Roll state determines the transmit power.
Folder Recovery function
When was it introduced:
Deva/Fusion
v6.06C (2009-06-26)
Boot up while pressing the F6 key (INPUT key). Once the system has settled down, go to the folder that was
recovered and press the REC key, wait 5 seconds and press the STOP key. This causes the recovered data to be
written to the drive.
New Processor Speed Selection feature
When was it introduced:
Deva/Fusion
v5.42U (2008-07-11)
DSP boards labeled REVB in the About Deva page {p.134} might not be able to run reliably at the high processor
speed.
Type 036 in the Main Menu page {p.40} and display the Deva Service Menu Warning page {p.140}.
There is a new Processor Speed button. If the processor speed is set to HIGH, the 192000 button in the Sample
Rate page {p.62} should remain enabled. If not, the 9 key must be held during power up in order to allow 192
kHz recording.
The higher speed will increase the mirroring speed by about 20% and will allow the user to enable more effects
before the screen becomes sluggish.
NOTE: Older Devas may NOT run reliability at the higher processor speed.
Saving and restoring Deva's configuration INI files
When was it introduced:
Deva/Fusion
v5.14 (2008-04-22)
The Export Settings feature was added to allow Users to save and restore all their settings to or from any (FAT32
formatted) mirror disk.