•Enhanced Surround Sound features:

°Surround Sound Setup window

°Surround Sound Monitor Level control in the Surround window

°Mute option for surround monitoring when in Stereo surround mode

°Surround mode now selectable from the Surround window

°Surround panning appears in Fat Channel

•Adjustable attenuation for the Control Room DIM switch includes –20 dB, –30 dB, –40 dB, and off

•Track Sheet stores all pertinent session information with the session itself

•Track Sheet can be exported as an HTML file or text file

•Channel Notes window for keeping additional notes about each channel

•Serial•9 support provides Sony 9-Pin communication with external devices

•Copy Mix to Bus copies the current L/R mix to any consecutive odd/even pair of buses (Bus 1-8)

•Copy Mix to Cues button now provides the option of copying the current L/R mix to any consecutive odd/even pair of aux sends, including the cue mixes (Aux 9/10 and 11/12)

•Global Aux Pre/Post Assign in the Mix Options Setup window now includes Aux 9/10 and 11/12

•Reset Selected Channel provides an easy way to reset all the parameters on the selected channel to their default values

•Screen Saver option can be set to activate after

1minute, and after up to 1 hour of inactivity

•Extended Memory Usage now supports up to 250 MB of RAM

Note: If you are updating from version 3.0 to the v5.1 OS, when you open a session that was created in version 3.0, you may experience anomolies in some of the EQ settings due to the new EQ alogrithms in v5.1. You may want to finish any sessions you’ve already started in version 3.0 before updating to v5.1. If you do update midway through a session, be sure to double-check your EQ settings and make sure they are set correctly.

Alternately, there is an option to select version 3.0 EQ settings under Mix Options in the Setup window. This instructs the DSP to use the version 3.0 algorithms for the EQ, rather than the new and improved algorithms for v5.1.

Another Note: You’re probably wondering what happened to version 4. Version 5 has so many new features and enhanced graphics that we thought it was appropriate to skip version 4 altogether and jump up to version 5!

D8B Manual • Preface • page 2