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PM5D/PM5D-RH V2 / DSP5D Owner’s Manual
Table of Contents
Table of Contents — Operating section
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Introduction..........................................10
Thank you....................................................................... 10
An overview of the PM5D system.................................... 10
Differences between the PM5D model and
the PM5D-RH model........................................... 11
About the channel structure of the PM5D................................12
About the DSP5D............................................................ 12
Differences with the PM5D.........................................................12
Regarding cascade connections between the PM5D and
DSP5D................................................................................13
About PM5D Editor and DSP5D Editor............................ 13
Firmware versions............................................................ 14
Major new functionality in PM5D firmware V2.0............. 14
Regarding word clock synchronization............................ 15
How this manual is organized.......................................... 15
Conventions in this manual........................................................15
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Top, front, and rear panels.................. 16
Top panel........................................................................ 16
Rear panel........................................................................18
Front panel...................................................................... 20
DSP5D front panel........................................................... 21
DSP5D rear panel............................................................ 22
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Basic operation on the PM5D.............. 23
About the various types of user interface......................... 23
User interface in the display........................................................23
DISPLAY ACCESS section..........................................................24
Data Entry section........................................................................24
External user interface.................................................................25
Basic operation................................................................ 26
Click..............................................................................................26
Drag...............................................................................................26
Drag and drop..............................................................................26
Accessing a desired screen...........................................................27
Moving the cursor........................................................................27
Scrolling the screen......................................................................28
Operating the buttons.................................................................29
Adjusting the setting of a knob or fader.....................................29
Assigning a name.........................................................................30
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Connections and setup........................ 31
Examples of systems expanded with the DSP5D .............31
Example of simple input expansion
(PM5D + one DSP5D unit)..............................................31
PM5D + remotely connected input expansion
(PM5D + DCU5D + two DSP5D units)..........................31
Control from DSP5D Editor (one DSP5D unit + PC).............32
Audio connections........................................................... 33
Analog audio connections...........................................................33
Analog output connections.........................................................34
Digital input/output connections...............................................36
Installing an option card.............................................................37
Word clock connections and settings.............................. 38
About word clock.........................................................................38
Selecting the word clock master..................................................38
Restoring the current scene to the default state............... 40
Switching the target of panel operations
(when cascade-connected with the DSP5D)........ 40
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Input channel operations .....................41
About the input channels................................................ 41
AD IN section.................................................................. 43
Items in the AD IN section......................................................... 43
Controlling the input sensitivity and phantom power
(+48V) of the head amp................................................... 44
INPUT channel strip......................................................... 45
Items in the INPUT channel strip..............................................45
ST IN/FX RTN channel strip............................................. 47
Items in the ST IN/FX RTN channel strip................................ 47
FADER FLIP/ENCODER MODE section............................. 48
Items in the FADER FLIP/ENCODER MODE section........... 48
Various operations for input channels.............................. 49
Selecting the function of the encoders.......................................49
Exchanging the fader and encoder functions............................49
Sending a signal from an input channel to the STEREO
bus...................................................................................... 50
Sending the signal from the input channel to a MIX bus........ 51
Enabling/disabling pairing..........................................................53
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Output channel operations ..................55
About the output channels.............................................. 55
MIX section..................................................................... 57
Items in the MIX section............................................................ 57
Operations in the MIX section...................................................57
STEREO A/B channel strip................................................ 61
Items in the STEREO A/B channel strip................................... 61
Operations in the STEREO A/B channel strip.......................... 62
MATRIX section............................................................... 63
Items in the MATRIX section.................................................... 63
Operations in the MATRIX section...........................................63
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Using the Selected Channel section.....65
About the SELECTED CHANNEL section.......................... 65
Items in the SELECTED CHANNEL section....................... 65
GROUP........................................................................................ 65
CHANNEL SELECT................................................................... 66
DELAY......................................................................................... 66
GAIN/ATTENUATION/ø (Gain / Attenuation / Phase)........ 67
NOISE GATE...............................................................................67
STEREO....................................................................................... 68
COMPRESSOR........................................................................... 68
HPF (High Pass Filter)................................................................69
EQUALIZER................................................................................69
Operations in the SELECTED CHANNEL section ..............70
Selecting a channel and editing its parameters......................... 70
Compressor operations...............................................................71
Gate operations........................................................................... 72
EQ/HPF operations.....................................................................73
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Input Patch / Output Patch operations. 74
Changing the input patch settings.................................. 74
Changing the output patch settings................................ 75
Inserting an external device into a channel...................... 77
Connecting an external device for insertion............................. 77
Patching the insert-out and insert-in........................................ 78
Directly outputting the signal of an input channel.......... 80