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MDR MDR MDR MDR MDR 24 24 24/ 24 24 96
QUICK START GUIDE
24 TRACK/24 BIT, DIGITAL AUDIO HARD DISK RECORDER
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CAUTION AVIS RISK OF ELECTRIC SHOCK DO NOT OPEN 11. Servicing — Do not attempt to service the MDR24/96. All servicing RISQUE DE CHOC ELECTRIQUE NE PAS OUVRIR should be referred to the Mackie Service Department. CAUTION: TO REDUCE THE RISK OF ELECTRIC SHOCK 12. Lightning — Unplug the MDR 24/96 during lightning storms or when DO NOT REMOVE COVER (OR BACK) NO USER-SERVICEABLE PARTS INSIDE unused for long periods of time. REFER SERVICING TO QUALIFIED PERSONNEL ATTENTION: POUR EVITER LES RISQUES
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Quick Start Guide Contents Introduction ----------------------------4 Appendix A: Compatible Cables ----39 Save your Box! -------------------------------- 4 Analog and Digital Multitrack Cables ----39 How To Use This Guide --------------------- 4 Other Cables---------------------------------- 40 Conventions ---------------------------------- 5 Troubleshooting and service --------42 About “Tape” --------------------------------- 5 Overview -------------------------------------- 6 Notes ----------
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Introduction Save your Box! Uncle Jeff’s Bottom Ten Reasons to Save the Box: 10. You think boxes grow on trees? 9. It’s actually a time capsule, packed with a biological code that can’t be decrypted until 2043. 8. Its festive graphics will cheer up those other boxes forgotten in your attic. 7. Impress your friends: tape it up and pretend that you actually have two MDR24/96s. 6. If you throw it away, bad people will know you have a studio in your house. 5. Someday, when paper costs more than stee
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Quick Start Guide Conventions The MDR24/96 Quick Start Guide uses the following conventions to help you find information quickly: Text Conventions a) File or folder names (example: C:\HDR Projects\Ode To Masters\Ode To Masters.hdr) b) Software or hardware controls (example: Punch) c) Proper names of objects in GUI or front/rear panel (example: Transport) Icons This icon identifies in-depth explanations of features and practical tips. Though not required reading, they do offer some choice
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Overview By combining traditional multitrack tape recording features with the power and flexibility of hard disk recording, the Mackie Designs MDR24/96 takes multitrack recording to a level never before achieved by a product in its price range. In addition to the standard battery of traditional tape-based features, the MDR24/96: • Combines the familiarity of a multitrack tape machine with the security of non-destructive recording and non-degrading recording media. • Records simultaneously on
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Quick Start Guide Setup & Configuration This chapter explains how to set up and configure the MDR24/96 for use in your studio. Two application examples show how to interface the MDR24/96 with analog and digital recording consoles. Required Equipment Of course, there’s more to a studio than a recorder and some musicians. At a minimum, you’ll need the following to make the MDR24/96 feel at home: • 3 Mackie 8-channel I/O (input/output) cards. • A console with a minimum of 24 tape sends (busses
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I/O Cards & Cables AIO•8 While the MDR24/96 ships with AIO•8 cards already installed, three other flavors ANALOG I/O of I/O cards are also available. All I/O cards can be mixed and matched in any combination. AIO•8 • Each AIO•8 provides 8 analog line-level inputs and outputs on two 25-pin D-subminiature (DB25) connectors. These connectors are pin-for-pin DIO•8 compatible with the analog (not TDIF) DB25 connectors found on the APOGEE DIGITAL I/O TASCAM DTRS recorders. DB25 cables that break out
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Quick Start Guide To replace the AIO-8 cards with different I/O cards: 1. If the MDR24/96 is plugged into AC power, unplug it. 2. Unscrew the thumbscrews at the top and bottom of each I/O card to be removed. Grasp one thumbscrew with each hand and gently pull the card out. ANALOG I/O ANALOG I/O ANALOG I/O M TAPE IN/OUTS 3. Before you take I/O cards from their bags, touch a grounded metal object to discharge any static electricity from your body. 4. Remove the new I/O card from it
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Sync Card & Cables - Word Clock and Digital Synchronization The Sync Card provides ports to synchronize the MDR24/96’s sample clock and time/transport position to other equipment. The functions of the jacks and switch, from top to bottom are: • SMPTE Input / Output – This 1/4” TRS jack serves as an input when slaved to incoming SMPTE time code, and as an output when generating WARNING NOT SMPTE time code to synchronize other devices with the MDR24/96. SMPTE Input/ Output • Termination Switch
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Quick Start Guide The following are recommended setups for establishing proper sample clock synchronization with the devices connected to the MDR24/96 digital I/O cards. TDIF (DIO•8) With the MDR24/96 as a master, connect Word Clock Out of the MDR24/96 to Word Clock In on the receiving device(s). If connecting to older TASCAM DTRS recorders, use the Sync Out port on the first DIO•8 card instead of Word Clock Out. If there is more than one DTRS recorder in the chain, connect Sync Out to the word
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Mackie Media (Optional) The MDR24/96 emulates the tape library tradition with Mackie Media M•90 and Mackie Media PROJECT drives. Both drives come complete with a plug-in tray for quick removal and a nifty storage case for shelving and transporting the drives. Trays can be purchased separately if you want to use your own UDMA IDE drives. The MDR24/96 can record or play directly off the M•90 so you can change sessions as quickly as changing tape on a 24-track – no backup time required. PROJECT dri
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Quick Start Guide Remote 24 / Remote 48 (Optional) Installing either remote is as simple as plugging in a telephone. Connect one end of the cable (supplied with the Remote) to the ‘REMOTE’ jack on MDR24/96 rear panel, and the other end to the ‘TO HDR REMOTE JACK’ jack on the Remote 24, or to the “TO HDR” jack on the Remote 48. It’s OK to plug or unplug either Remote with the MDR24/96 powered on. However, if you plug the Remote 48 into Note: Note: Note: The Remot Note: Note: es the MDR24/96 while
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Configuration Before starting a Project, you will need to configure the MDR24/96 I/O card options and synchronization parameters. These parameters determine where the sample clock is coming from, how fast the sample clock runs, and how many bits are recorded in every sample. Some options, like sample rate and bit depth, will become “standards” that you won’t need to change very often. The remaining synchronization options (for time code and video) are covered in detail in the Technical Reference
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Quick Start Guide PDI•8 Card The PDI•8 card options include sample rate conversion for each stereo AES/EBU input, and status bit control (pro/consumer mode) for each output. When a PDI•8 card is first installed, its default settings are for sample rate conversion Off, and channel status bits set to indicate the Pro (AES/EBU) format. In most circumstances you won’t need to change these settings. However, if the device(s) connected to the PDI•8 inputs cannot be made a clock master or slave (such a
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Synchronization Sample Clock The Sample Clock setting determines the source of the MDR24/96 sample clock. If the MDR24/96 is a clock master or is not connected to any other digital device(s), set it to Internal. If the MDR24/96 is a word clock slave, set it to Word The PDI·8 is the only Clock. The Video setting is discussed in the Technical Reference Manual. Mackie I/O card that currently supports Sample Rate 88.2 or 96 kHz opera- The Sample Rate determines how fast the MDR24/96 sample clock run
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Quick Start Guide Sync Settings for 88.2/96 kHz operation only: 1. Move to the last page of the Sync Options menu with the Page Right <- SYNC OPTIONS [4] (>) button. Select SR/2 In. Video SR/2 SR/2 Field In Out 2. Set the Word Clock Input divisor to On or Off using the (–)Dec / (+)Inc or << / >> buttons. Off selects 1x operation, On selects 0.5x operation. SAMPLE RATE/2 OUT 3. Select OK, then Select SR/2 Out and ON set the Word Clock Output divisor to << >>
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Hookups This section shows how the MDR24/96 is typically connected to both analog and digital consoles (using the Mackie Analog and Digital 8•Bus consoles as examples). These examples assume that the rest of your studio equipment (monitors, sound sources, outboard processing, etc.) is already connected, or that you know how to connect it. Before you begin, note how the three eight-channel I/O cards are arranged on the MDR24/96 rear panel: 1-8 is on the left, 9-16 is in the center, and 17-24 is o
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Quick Start Guide 2. Connect three snakes to the MDR24/96 Outputs (top connector). Connect the plug end of the snakes to the like-numbered Tape Return jacks on the 24•8 console. MDR24/96 Settings 1. Set the Sample Clock to Internal. 2. Set the Sample Rate and Bit Depth according to your preference. Console Settings Set the 24•8 console to the nominal +4 dBu operating level by setting the five Operating Level switches in the Sub Out and Tape Return sections to the ‘out’ position. This example
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TDIF Hookup (DIO•8) Cables & Hardware (3) DIO•8 cards for MDR24/96 (3) DIO•8 cards for D8B (1) Clock I/O card for D8B (3) TDIF cables (1) 75 Ω BNC word clock cable Hookup 1. Connect the three TDIF cables between the corresponding TDIF jacks on the MDR24/96 and D8B. 2. When TDIF is used, the D8B must have a Clock I/O card installed. To make the D8B the clock master, connect its Word Clock Out (not DIO•8 Sync out) to the MDR24/96 Word Clock In. To make the MDR24/96 the clock master, connect its
