Owner`s manual

20. Operation ‘Hints and Tricks’

1. After recording a take, Hit PLAY. Then touch each active meter display. This

will SOLO each channel. This is a fast easy way to check a take. When it’s time

to begin recording again, just push RECORD. There is no re-cueing necessary.

Deva will start recording at the next blank spot on the hard drive. To turn off the

SOLO monitoring, just hit the meter that says SOLO to revert back to normal

monitoring.

2. To PLAY BACK while RECORDING – GO to the CUE menu and select your

playback point. This can be any spot on any folder on the hard drive. GO back

to the HOME MENU. Start recording as usual. When you want PLAYBACK to

start hit the PB button on the HOME SCREEN. To stop the Playback, hit the PB

button again. This button toggles the playback on and off. Each time it will go

back to the set cue point. The PBP (Playback Pause) button temporarily pauses

the playback. It toggles between pausing the Playback and starting it from the

paused point.

3. A note about routing. Unlike analog recorders or mixers where signal routing

is permanently wired or controlled via hard switches or patch bays, all routing in

the Deva is controlled via Matrix Menus. Any input can be routed to any track or

output in any of the usual formats (either pre or post fader, analog or digital, and

in phase or reverse phase). The DISK MIX menu controls the routing of all

inputs to the 10 recording tracks. The OUTPUT MIX menu routs all the inputs to

Deva’s outputs (for example routing an analog mix to a Comtek feed, or a digital

mix to ‘video village’, etc).

4. In STOP mode or RECORD mode all outputs are controlled by the OUTPUT

MIX matrix. In PLAYBACK mode all outputs flow to the corresponding track

output. Meaning Track 1 flows to Output 1, Track 2 to Output 2, etc. At this point

in the software development the only control of PLAYBACK routing is to select

which of the 10 tracks goes to which of the 6 Analog outputs. More on this later.

Future software revisions will include a full playback matrix.

5. ‘GANGING’ machines together. You can connect another analog or digital

recorder to make use of the 16 available inputs to record more than the 10

allowed tracks on DEVA. For instance, you can easily add a DAT recorder or

another Deva to record up to 18 tracks. For example, you can attach an 8 track

ADAT or DTRS via Deva’s AES output connector. You can also feed a time

code output to the 2

deck. If you are using all 16 DEVA inputs (either directly,

or via an external mixer or a combination of the 2), you can rout a mono mix of all

16 mics to Track One of DEVA using the DISK MIX menu, you can then rout any

9 of the inputs to the 9 remaining tracks on the Deva. You can then use the

OUTPUT MIX menu to rout the remaining 7 inputs to either the Analog or Digital

outputs and feed those outputs directly into a 2

record deck.

6. With DEVA 5 you may record files larger than the capacity of the mirroring

disk. DEVA will prompt you to insert another disk (DVD or CD) when necessary.