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ION
Plugins
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ION Plugins allow you to customize your system with exclusive and unique application specific functionality.
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ION
/ RADAR
ATOM comprehensively integrates IZ Technology's RADAR with existing film and television sound post production
techniques...
Soundmaster Group's collaboration with the designers of RADAR has produced a unique leading edge solution for the sound post production industry. Already successfully employed for ADR fitting on films such as "The Assignment", an 8 channel SDDS digital feature starring Aidan Quinn, Donald Sutherland and Ben Kingsley, dialogue autoconforming on CBS made-for-TV movies, and sound effects editing on dramatic and animated television series, the potent combination of the ION Operating Environment and RADAR has produced extraordinary results. For example, automatically checkerboarded ambience tracks were frame-accurately laid on 24 episodes of a one hour network drama series without a single time code number ever having to be typed in manually ... and all in record time!
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ION
Sequence
Key
control combines hundreds of equivalent RADAR keyboard
keystrokes into one |
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Exclusive
Graphical
User Interface
simplifies access to RADAR's non-linear editorial
features |
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EDL
autoconform brings DAW capabilities to RADAR |
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RADAR's
already smooth tape-like jog capability is further
enhanced by the Soundmaster SHUTL |
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ATOM
externally synchronizes RADAR. As a result, standard ION
system features such as reverse lock, mixed time
code synchronization and SMART
SYNC*
are available to use. With Soundmaster Group's
patented SMART
SYNC
varispeed lock feature, DAW time compression/expansion
capability comes to RADAR. Unlike some digital
workstations, RADAR performs this in real time under
ATOM control! |
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ION/RADAR
integrates RADAR via its own remote's port, which
facilitates access to every RADAR function, including
24+ track arming, crossfade control, looping, cut,
copy, move, paste, undo as well as command over RADAR
menus and Projects...features not accessible through
the 9 pin port...and, better still, all of these
features are available under manual, Sequence Key or
EDL control! |
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ION
/ 88
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The DTRS Format family, comprising the TASCAM DA-88/98/98HR/38 and SONY PCM-800 modular digital multitracks, instantly connects with existing technology and techniques within the studio mainstream thanks to its complete ION compatibility. Standard ION system software supports control of a time code capable unit, complete with track arming of the machine's 8 digital audio channels. The DTRS format's own internal machine to machine synchronization allows you to add up to 15 "slaves" to the ION controlled transport. For extremely comprehensive control of various parameters on up to 16 individual machines in such a chain, this optional ION/88 software module is highly recommended. Only one ATOM port is required per group of 16 DTRS transports operating in this manner. |
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a
dedicated color display screen is provided to
graphically illustrate the status of the parameters on
up to 16 machines at once |
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independent
"track arm" and "track slip"
control and status of each channel on up to 16
machines for a total of 128 channels |
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independent
remote "crossfade time" control and status
of all 16 machines |
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independent
transport control, machine "offset", GOTO
and shuttle capability of each machine in a chain of
up to 16 |
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independent
current "absolute time" display from each
machine |
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exclusive
and comprehensive "error" reporting,
displaying error type and machine involved |
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tracks
are displayed as "1 through 8" for each
machine, as well as cumulatively. Thus, track #5 on
the eighth machine is simultaneously displayed as
track #61 |
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remote
access to the DTRS time code generator, including time
code track arming, generator time set, and run. "Auto-start"
feature automatically trips time code generator, at
user defined generator start time, at the Absolute
time of your choosing. This allows tapes to be
pre-striped with a common time code/absolute time
relationship, which is exceptionally useful for
multi-machine operation |
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up
to six user-definable machine status displays are
simultaneously available on the main control screen,
so that DTRS track arm/slip, machine offset and error
status can quickly be viewed along with all other
devices currently under ION control, as well as EDL
activity. Errors detected on any machine cause a
clearly visible red warning light to flash on the
control screen, even if that particular unit is not
currently being displayed |
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ION
Sequence Keys are fully functional within the ION/88
module, providing for "one key" slipping of
one or more tracks in a positive or negative direction,
as well as multiple track arming |
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control
can be extended over up to 8 groups of 16 units,
totalling 128 machines and 1,024 digital tracks! |
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ION
/ MIDI
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The ION Operating Environment supports the MIDI (Musical Instrument Digital Interface) standard. This option allows MIDI data to be sent to external devices, either directly via the keyboard, or automatically as events contained within the Edit Decision List. MIDI data from an external device can also be recorded and inserted into the EDL as executable events. |
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ION/MIDI allows you to communicate with various MIDI
capable devices by entering up to 3, three digit
"bytes" of data, virtually any command
available within the MIDI 1.0 specification can be
transmitted. You are not limited to "pre-programmed"
functions. Multiple devices can be controlled by
connecting the "MIDI THRU" output of the
first device to the second, and so on. |
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MIDI
commands can be sent either by single keystroke or
automatically by the computer. Eight "MIDI
transmit buffers" can be automatically loaded
with separate strings of MIDI commands that are used
most often. With ION Sequence Keys, these buffers can
be chained together or fired from the Edit Decision
List. |
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MIDI
events can also be inserted directly into the EDL,
according to desired time code reference points, and
executed along with all other forms of EDL data. With
the Edit Decision List's capability to execute
multiple events in real time, hundreds of sounds can
be tripped in sync with picture from source devices
such as samplers. Real time routing of these sounds to
various discrete record tracks is possible via
simultaneous MIDI control of capable consoles |
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A
limited MIDI sequencer is also incorporated in the
software. This allows you to "perform" sound
effects or music stings to picture, and have the EDL
record the time code/MIDI note relationship
automatically. You can then edit your performance if
you wish, and have ION play it back in sync with
picture. Various unwanted MIDI messages can be
automatically filtered out of the data recorded by the
EDL |
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A
"MIDI Echo" function causes virtually all
MIDI input data to be "echoed" to the MIDI
output, regardless of the filter settings and the MIDI
Input channel settings. "MIDI Echo" is
useful for triggering samplers. By hooking the output
of a MIDI keyboard to ION's "MIDI In", and
ION's "MIDI out" to the input of the sampler,
you can audition the samples before inserting them as
events in the EDL |
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The
ION/MIDI module brings the control of outboard
processing devices such as digital reverb, delay, and
pitch change, as well as capable consoles, under the
same operating platform as all other devices in the
studio environment. This helps to remove the clutter
of separate computers and monitors, and brings new
functionality to other ION Compatible devices such as
the Neve Flying Faders automation system, which gains
MIDI capabilities through the ION Operating
Environment! |
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ION
Martinsound Flying Faders
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The Martinsound "Flying Faders" console automation system is ION Compatible. In its simplest form of operation, the Flying Faders keyboard accesses machine control through the ION environment and receives the required status information in return. However, the real power of ION is realized by the exclusive capabilities the Flying Faders system acquires through the ION link, and the powerful centralized studio control that results. |
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ION
retroactively makes the Flying Faders keyboard
"soft". The basic transport control, GOTO
and loop functions are available in keeping with the
fundamental design. However, each command is actually
connected to a specific, programmable Sequence Key
within the ION environment. Thus, the "cycle"
command can be enhanced and modified by the user to
include EDL activity, for example, by simply creating
a suitable Sequence Key routine. Similarly,
"play" could become "Record machine
play" within ION. Furthermore, one key could be
programmed to recall a totally new palette of
functions, instantly resetting the Flying Faders
keyboard |
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The
ION SHUTL ancillary keyboard, used in conjunction with
the Flying Faders controls, adds powerful jog/shuttle
capabilities as well as 52 more programmable keys.
This is most useful when more sophisticated editing
requirements are needed |
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As
a result of its integration via ION, the Martinsound
Flying Faders system gains powerful new device control
capabilities. For example, keys on Flying Faders can
be programmed to change reverb settings on outboard
processors, or to call up pre-programmed pitch change
values. In fact, ancillary device control parameters
can be transmitted on the fly, or pre-loaded into an
Edit Decision List, and either triggered manually, or
via incoming time code. All of this is possible
because of the link Flying Faders has through the ION
Operating Environment to the ION/MIDI module. In
multiple installations to date, this has resulted in
the reduction of at least one computer and monitor in
the control room |
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Similarly,
Flying Faders keys could be programmed to slip and/or
arm tracks within a DTRS modular digital multitrack (TASCAM
DA-88/SONY PCM-800) via the ION/88 module, or command
an "autoassemble" from an imported EDL |
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No
modification whatsoever is required of the Flying
Faders automation system to achieve these new
capabilities. The entire function set is available by
one simple RS 232 connection between the ION host
computer and the Flying Faders host |
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