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STUDIO MANAGER

Owner’s Manual

Studio Manager Version 2 Owner’s Manual

Special Notices

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den without the written consent of the manufacturer.

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Table of Contents

Overview of Studio Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2

Starting and Conﬁguring Studio Manager . . 3

Quitting Studio Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

Synchronizing with your hardware product . 5

Working with Files. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

Mapping MIDI Ports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

Setting Preferences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

Menu Bar/Pop-up Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

Operation within Cubase . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

Supported editors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

*Speciﬁcations and descriptions in this owner’s manual are for information purposes only. Yamaha Corp. reserves

the right to change or modify products or speciﬁcations at any time without prior notice. Since speciﬁcations,

equipment or options may not be the same in every locale, please check with your Yamaha dealer.

Description of menus and buttons

In the event that menu and button names on a Windows system are different from those on a Macintosh,

this manual uses the Windows menu and button names followed by the Macintosh menu and button names

in parentheses.

Summary of content (11 pages)

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STUDIO MANAGER Owner’s Manual Special Notices • Studio Manager and this owner’s manual are exclusively copyright © by Yamaha Corporation. • Duplication of the software or reproduction of this manual in whole or in part by any means is expressly forbidden without the written consent of the manufacturer. • Duplication of the commercially available music sequence data and/or digital audio files is strictly prohibited, except for your personal use.
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Overview of Studio Manager Studio Manager is a cross-platform application that enables you to start multiple Editors that control YAMAHA hardware products remotely, and to save multiple Editor settings. You can run Studio Manager as a stand-alone application, or as a plug-in within DAW applications that are compatible with Studio Connections, such as Cubase SX 3.0 or later. In either case, the basic functionality is the same.
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Starting and Configuring Studio Manager 1 Start Studio Manager. As a stand-alone application in Windows 2000/XP: Click the Start button, move the cursor to [Programs (All Programs)], then [YAMAHA Studio Manager], then click [Studio Manager]. As a stand-alone application in Mac OS X: Select and open the “Applications” folder, the “YAMAHA” folder, then the “Studio Manager” folder, then double-click “SM2.” Cubase versions SX 3.
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Click [OK]. The Setup window closes, and the Studio Manager window becomes active, with the icon of the device you selected in step 2 shown in the workspace. 5 Double-click the icon for the hardware product you want to edit to open its Editor. NOTE: Right-clicking the mouse in the window will display a pop-up menu (see page 8). NOTE: To change the icon name, select the icon, then click the name. Studio Manager window NOTE: Use the following box, if necessary. [MIDI Thru Ch.] ..
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Quitting Studio Manager Select [Exit] from the [File] menu in the Studio Manager window (select [Quit SM2] from the [SM2] menu). If there are no unsaved changes, all windows close and Studio Manager quits. If there are unsaved changes, a message asking whether you want to save the changes appears. You can also quit Studio Manager by clicking the Close button in the Studio Manager window. If you’re using Studio Manager in your DAW application, quitting your DAW application will also quit Studio Manager.
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Working with Files You can save the various parameter setting files either as a complete set using Studio Manager or your DAW application, or individually using each Editor. The following table shows how to manage your setting files. Creating a new file Choose [New] from the [File] menu. (only if Studio Manager is running as stand-alone) Opening a previously saved file Choose [Open (Import)] from the [File] menu. Saving the current file Choose [Save] from the [File] menu.
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Setting Preferences You can also change the preference settings, if necessary. Choose [Setup...] from the [File] menu, then click the [Preferences] tab to display the window shown on the right. Automatically synchronize on file load: When you open a file in the Studio Manager window or open a file of your DAW application, Studio Manager (Editors) will automatically synchronize with the corresponding hardware product.
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❏ Windows Menu Lists the Editors for which a window is currently open. When you select an Editor, the corresponding Editor window becomes active. ❏ Help Menu Manual (F1) Displays this manual in Adobe PDF format. About Yamaha Studio Manager Displays the information (such as a version number) of Studio Manager. On a Macintosh computer, choose [About Yamaha Studio Manager] from the [SM2] menu.
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Operation within Cubase If you’re using StudioManager with Cubase SX 3.0 or a later version of Cubase, you can also control the various Editors from within Cubase as follows. Using Studio Manager from within Cubase enables you to transmit and receive through the same port MIDI performance data and MIDI control signals from the Editor. If your Editor supports OPT2, you can also use Recall and Audio Integration.
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Supported editors As of this date (May 2008), the following editors are StudioManager-compatible. Editor OPT compatibility Audio Integration Supported hardware LS9 Editor OPT2 LS9-16/LS9-32 PM5D V2 Editor OPT2 PM5D V2.
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About Open Plug-in Technology Open Plug-in Technology (OPT) is a software format that enables you to control MIDI devices from a music DAW application software. For example, this allows you to start up and operate various parts of your music system, such as plug-in board editors, and mixing control editors - directly from an OPT-compatible sequencer, without having to use each separately.