YAMAHA Digital Mixers: A Redundancy Guide How to achieve “Mirroring” with: PM5D(RH), M7CL, LS9, DM2000, DM1000, 02R96, 01V96 1 YAMAHA Digital Mixers: A Redundancy Guide
Concept In mission-critical applications such as live TV broadcasts to millions of viewers, it may be necessary to have a spare mixing console connected to the audio system with all the same inputs and settings as the main console. Then in the event of an accident or failure, it is quick and easy to swap from main to spare console and continue mixing without interruption. This concept will work with all of Yamaha’s current range of digital mixers, but for this example DM2000 will be used.
Console Setup 3 1. Open the MIDI SETUP page on Console #1 (using the [MIDI] DISPLAY ACCESS key) and turn on Tx and Rx for both PROGRAM CHANGE and PARAMETER CHANGE. Also make sure the Tx and Rx CHANNEL number is the same (see diagram below). 2. Make sure the MIDI Program Assign Table (on the PGM ASGN page) contains the default settings. If it doesn’t, then INITIALIZE it, so PGM 1 recalls Scene 1, PGM 2 recalls Scene 2 and so on… 3.
. Now save an ALL DATA file for Console #1 onto the memory card (or USB memory in the case of M7CL and LS9), or alternatively synchronise from Console to PC with Studio Manager and save the Session. 5. Then insert the memory card into Console #2 and load the file that was saved in the previous step. Or load the Studio Manager Session that was just saved into the Editor for Console #2 and synchronise from PC to Console. 6.
Here is a list of functions that are not mirrored, but will need to be edited on each console separately if necessary.
Using Studio Manager with 2 Consoles 6 1. 2. Connect a separate USB cable from the PC to each Console. Select the correct settings for Studio Manager in the MIDI/HOST page of the [SETUP] menu for each Console: i. Choose USB 1, ID1 for Console #1 ii. Choose USB 1, ID2 for Console #2 3.
4. Then in the MIDI Ports tab of the Setup Window, select the USB ports to use for communicating with the Consoles: i. YAMAHA USB IN 0-1 and 1-1 ii. YAMAHA USB OUT 0-1 and 1-1 5. In the System Setup window of each Console Editor, select the correct In Port, Out Port and ID for each Console, as shown below. (The ID here must correspond with the ID selected in the MIDI/HOST page of the Console). 6.
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