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Shutting down the DPS24 – Important

The safest way to shut the DPS off is to just shut it off (unlike a computer). The following should be

noted:

1) Don't shutdown when the disc is writing (small triangle w/exclamation point icon). Even though the

machine has autosave functions it's still not good.

2) Save any changes to scene "00" before shutting down. Not the end of the world ...but if you've

spent major effort tweaking it and shut down, it'll still come back on with the last scene 00 you saved.

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DPS24 as digital mixer with external recorder

Has anyone used the DPS24 as a digital mixer for standalone recorders (or even to do the mixing for

audio recorded on computer?) I love the DPS24 as a mixer (the light up pan knobs are awesome) but

I may be needing to get a Tascam mx2424 to record the actual audio to. The main reasons are

native SD2 format audio and the .tl project format which can be opened directly in logic and Nuendo.

It seems I will be doing a lot of audio for video and the Tascam unit is very well set up for this. I plan

on continuing to use the deeps as a mixer as well as for recording redundancy and some location

work. Anyone have any experience with this type of setup? I know the deeps has MMC. It would be

great to use it to control the arming of tracks and transport controls of the MX and possibly the shuttle

wheel to control the shuttle of the MX as well. Also, the Deeps' SMTPE display is far superior and I

would like it to sync with the MX, and of course do my automation on the deeps and have the 2 units

stay in sync.

It is possible to use the DPS24 as a mixer with an outboard 24-track recorder (used in place of the

onboard hard disk recorder)

1) Audio connections: ADAT Lightpipe

* add the IB-24ADT option board to the DPS24 to get a total of 24 digital in/out in ADAT Lightpipe

(24bit)

* setup the recorder with 24 ADAT I/Os (three is an option board for the MX2424 too)

* In the PATCH mode, assign ADAT inputs 1-24 as Disk Record Sources and assign GROUPS 1-8

to ADAT outputs 1-8, 9-16 and 17-24 (the DPS will work as an 8-buss mixer). Of course, you can

also route any input channel to any ADAT output to record "direct to track", say Inputs 1-12 to ADAT

outputs 1-12 and 13-24, if you prefer.

Arm all 24 record tracks of the DPS24 and enable the INP MON (input Monitor) key. This way, you

are monitoring the 24 tracks of your recorder through the Track Channels of the mixer.

Obviously, you cannot record on the DPS24 in this setup (or only record all 24 Tracks from the MX).

2) MIDI connections

* DPS24 MIDI Out to MX MIDI In, DPS24 as MTC Master, MX MTC Slave

* DPS24 MIDI Out to MX MIDI In, DPS24 as MMC Master, MTC Slave

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