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Conventions
Conventions used in Pyramix documents:
Names found on Pyramix screens and menus are shown in bold. E.g. Information & Settings
Menu and sub-menu selections are shown like this:
View > Tracks > Show all Tracks
Which means:
Go to the View pull-down menu, mouse down to the Tracks sub-menu and choose Show all Tracks.
Where a dialog box has several Pages, Tabs are used to ‘turn’ the pages. Tab page selection is shown thus:
Settings > Keyboard Shortcut Editor : Active Machine
Which means:
Go to the Settings pull down menu, choose Keyboard Shortcut Editor then click on the Active machine tab.
The Pyramix Settings > All Settings dialog Has its own hierarchical tree structure in the left hand pane with fold-
ers leading to pages.
Native, Card and Software Set or Pyramix Turnkey?
Your Pyramix Virtual Studio will have been supplied in one of three forms:
Pyramix Native (or Media Bundle), Pyramix Card and Software Set or Pyramix Turnkey.
Pyramix Turnkey systems are complete, ready to go, rack-mounted PCs with the Pyramix Card and Software Set
already installed and properly configured at the Merging Technologies factory. As such, no user installation or
configuration is needed. You can connect audio sources and destinations (and sync and TimeCode if appropriate)
and launch and run Pyramix immediately.
Pyramix Card and Software Set consists of the Mykerinos hardware and the Pyramix software ONLY. You must
provide an appropriate computer platform and software environment in which to install the board and software,
and install these yourself. Guidelines for an appropriate Pyramix system environment can be found in the follow-
ing section.
Pyramix Native (or Media Bundle) comes with software and USB Security Key only. You must provide an appro-
priate computer platform and software environment, and install these yourself. Guidelines for an appropriate
Pyramix system environment can be found in the following section.
Future Expansion is of course, possible, whether you start with Turnkey or a Card and Software Set.
Pyramix Versions
Pyramix Virtual Studio is a powerful and flexible Digital Audio Workstation (DAW) integrating hard disk record-
ing and editing, digital audio mixing, effects processing, machine control, video, and CD-R mastering.
There are now several versions of Pyramix. Pyramix Native, Pyramix Native Media Bundle, Pyramix LE and Pyramix
Virtual Studio Core. Numerous options and option packs are also available. This guide covers all versions of Pyra-
mix and many optional functionalities and features.
Note: Depending on the version and options purchased, some of the functions and fea-
tures detailed in this manual may not be available in your version of Pyramix or may vary
in capacity.
The Pyramix software runs Native, using the host CPU and soundcard and on the Merging Technologies Mykeri-
nos hardware platform, depending on the version purchased. Each Mykerinos board is capable of up to 128
channels of 24-bit digital audio, 64 recording and 64 playback. External access to these 128 channels is deter-
mined by your choice of physical inputs and outputs to the Mykerinos board. In XDTDM mode the total number
of Live inputs and outputs plus Internal Busses is 128 in and 128 out. In HDTDM mode these numbers are halved.
