Patch ES network audio virtually

How can I patch audio in ES network without devices?

When you run ES-Monitor without your devices connected, you don't see anything in the program window and cannot add a device to it from the program.
But ES-Editor can do it.

1. Install ES-Monitor software downloaded from AuviTran web site.
2. Run ES-Editor software came with ES-Monitor and add devices which are going to be used in the project to the network in the order of the physical connection. (Upstream --> downstream)
3. Save it to a cfg file.
4. Run ES-Monitor and select Offline Mode. ([Command] -> [Switch Offline Mode], or Ctrl+O)
5. Load the cfg file to the ES-Monitor software.
6. Patch audio routing and check its validity.

Then, when you have the system connected, the cfg file can be loaded to ES-Monitor program and downloaded to the devices to achieve the setting.
Don't forget to save the information to non-volatile memory on the devices.

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Port number for DME-N Network Driver

I need to use my firewall software. Which port needs to be opened for DME-N Network Driver?

The TCP/IP port that DME-N Network Driver uses for communicating on the Ethernet network is 12300.
So if it's in the case that you cannot stop the whole firewall software so that you need to specify the port number used for DME network communication, punch a hole in the firewall port number 12300 to let the DME/M7CL/LS9 traffic through.

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From many countries

These are the top countries this blog has access from, in this two months.

1. United States
2. Finland
3. Japan
4. United Kingdom
5. Canada

Ok, we are based out of US and the company is covering Canada market. So, of course most of access is from US and Canada (76%).
Yamaha is Japanese company and we have many friends in Japan (5%).

I did expect some access from European countries. But not that much from Finland (9%!).
Who are you? Could you leave your comment, please?? Just curious... :-)
And people from different countries, please leave your comment and tell us about your web site if you have. We will create a link to it in the "Our friends in www" section.

Thank you!

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Atlantic City Seminar -- May 27th, 2008

The YCATS team is in Atlantic City conducting special dual seminars. The Day 1 attendees were treated to condensed versions of our PM5D and M7CL seminars. Talk about a day packed full of information! Good thing these guys (and gal) are used to working under pressure.

Thank you to all who attended and thanks to ACIR Pro Audio and Hilton Atlantic City for helping us to put this together. See you next time!

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Jeff Thomas Jr. from LA

I just received a few pictures from Jeff. He is from Los Angeles Mission and has attended some of our classes before.
Thank you, Jeff.


"I don’t always like taking pictures when I’m working. So the only way they ketch me is with people. The 1st, I’m sitting in back next to the PC in our main Chapel sound booth. The 2nd, I’m sitting at the little Mackey with my boss standing behind me at one of our street closure events. That’s 2 of our 8 venue locations here at the Los Angeles Mission.

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Seminars in Virginia are accepting your applications

We are going to Tyson's Corner in Virginia next week.
If you have not applied yet, please access our web site and fill the form to keep your seat.

After the week, we are going to Minneapolis. Classes in Minneapolis are also accepting your applications. Please check the web site.

Seminar schedule after those weeks will be announced from Jose soon.
California, Nevada, North Carolina, Illinois, and Massachusetts are on our calendar for now.

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Let your cursor free

If you are a big fan of navigating the PM5D or PM1D with the cursor keys, these tips may help you.

PM5D Owner's Manual p28:
"To move quickly to the outer edge of the current window or to a different window, hold down the [SHIFT] key and use the CURSOR keys. You will move from the scroll window in which the cursor is currently located, in the direction of the key you pressed."

In the Patch screen, the [DATA] encoder moves the cursor horizontally.
When you hold the [SHIFT] key and turn the encoder, the cursor is moved vertically.

Please put the mouse cursor outside of the patch matrix. If it is in the area, your red box cursor will be moved to a box with the mouse cursor after closing a confirmation pop-up.

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M7CL School in New York -- May 23, 2008

I'm sorry for late update with the picture from New York class last Friday.
Thank you for coming to the class!

In the class, I said I'll put a post about unit change for Delay Time. Actually, it's been there on this blog already.

By the way, how was your Memorial Day weekend? We setup our PM5D and M7CL class room in Atlantic City yesterday..... so, it was not a long weekend for us, unfortunately. But we believe the sessions in AC will be very good.

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M7CL in NYC...May 22,2008

Thanks everyone for coming to our M7CL class in NY,
This week in NY had been excellent and we are talking about coming back soon.
Please remember to send us your pictures.
Hope we can get together again soon.

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PM5D Advanced School in New York -- May 21, 2008

Thank you to all who attended the advanced seminar in New York. All of your suggestions were greatly appreciated. We hope to see you again soon!

Be sure to check our tips section for new information.

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Bob getting the job done

Last Monday morning we had our set up time. As you can see we travel around with a few cases in our 48'.
Our load in went really fast and their was a reason for it, Monday morning we had an extra set of hands.
Bob or District Manager in NYC was ready to help.

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PM5D School in New York -- May 20, 2008

This week we are in New York and its packed to the gills! In fact, we set a new attendence record...43 students!

Thanks to all those who attended. We hope to see you again soon. Be sure to check back frequently for new posts to the PM5D tips section.

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Compatibility between the firmware and the PM5D Editor program (PM5D)

I got a PM5D with an old version of the firmware. Which version of PM5D Editor should I use?

(From the PM5DV2 Editor download page)
"Use the editor with the supported firmware that you can find following table. Using under unsupported combination may cause data corruption that can result unexpected behavior. If a failure occurred, turn it on pressing [STORE] key on the panel, and then select INITIALIZE ALL MEMORIES to restart it normally."

"The files saved on the later version editors or consoles can not be loaded to those of earlier versions."

We always recommend that your console has the latest firmware which can load any version of a data file to it.

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We are in NYC this week

We setup the seminar room for this New York session today.

Do you remember we have a guy who is a sugar-holic? He knows where he can get best sweets in the city.

After the setup, we went to the Bronx for our late lunch. (Actually, it was dinner.) The Italian restaurant was great. I ate Fusilli in terracotta. It was very good.
But the reason we went to the Arthur Avenue area was to get a chocolate cake for him. He should be eating it at his room now....

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YSM (DAF) file cannot be opened

In some cases, after several Windows Update, YSM file for the Studio Manger V2 or DAF file for the DME Designer cannot be opened by double clicking it. And it shows a pop-up like the right.

It is not a problem because of a file failure or a compatibility issue between the program and the data. File type registration of the OS was not managed correctly.


By the way, YSE file for the Editor software cannot be opened by double click. It needs information of Studio Manager (its host software) to start up and to be opened from the "Open..." menu of the Editor software.




Here is the procedure to solve the problem. This is about the Studio Manager but the procedure is same for the DME Designer.

1) Select "Folder options" in the Tools menu of the explorer, and "Folder options" dialog box will open.


2) Click the "FileTypes" tab.

3) Select the "YSM" from the Registered file types list. ( It is easy to access YSM by pressing "Y" key on any list. )

4) Click the Advanced button, and the "Edit File Type" dialog box will open.



5) Slect the "open" in the Actions area, and click the Edit button, and the "Editing action for type" dialog box will open.







6) The "Application used to perform action" area should be as follows:

C:\Program Files\YAMAHA\Studio Manager\SM2.exe %1



Enclose the above strings within double quotes as follows:

"C:\Program Files\YAMAHA\Studio Manager\SM2.exe" "%1"

If the Action area is blank, input "open".

7) Close all dialog box.

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A posting guideline for our contributors here

Labels
Please use the tags for a post at Trainers On The Road following with the guideline below.

1. For info from a class and a group picture

• Digital Mixing 101
• Digital SR Systems 101
• Digital System Design 101
• M7CL school
• PM1D school
• PM5D school
• PM5D school advanced

2. For a group picture

• Group Picture

3. For tips of the products

• LS9 tips
• M7CL tips
• Other products
• PM1D tips
• PM5D tips
• Tech tips
• Trouble shooting tips

For pictures from our friends (not Yamaha or our tour staff)

• Our Friends

For pictures of our staff (YCAS, YCJ, etc.)

• Our Staff

For any pictures of pets

• Our Pets

For info about restaurant (could be a tour story too)

• Restaurant

For our tour story

• Tour stories

For a news from Yamaha

• Yamaha news

Others

• Discussion
• Fire
• Gift

Pictures

Just a guideline for size of a picture. A target of its file size is about 100k~200kB.

• Group picture of the class: 1024 width x 500-768 height
• Friends and staff: 800 width x 533 width (aspect ratio = 3:2)
• Story: any (640~800 width would be ok)

Thanks,

Shaun

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Meet Hiroaki Fujita from Yamaha Japan (YCJ)

"Hiro" as we call him is one of our software engineer. He designs the specifications of our digital products.

Not too long ago we met at our Buena Park office for a few meetings and as you can see in the picture we had a great time.
Come back soon Hiro.

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Meet Shinji Takahashi from Yamaha Japan (YCJ)

All our digital mixers have an analog part, and someone is responsible for it.
Mr. Shinji is one of the electrical engineers for the analog part of our digital consoles. An expert of sound tuning of our consoles.
Do you like the way the console sounds?
Now you know who is behind that sound.

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Meet Masaaki Okabayashi from Yamaha Japan (YCJ)

"Mick" as we call him is the Product Producer for most of our Digital Mixing Consoles, including M7CL.
Mick was also one of the software engineer for original 01v.

We get together with Mick a few times a year during trade shows, or when he visits the USA for work.

It is always good to sit down with him and talk about future updates and the feedback we get from all of you guys.

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Selecting the next channel in the Channel Name screen of M7CL

What is a quick way to navigate the selected channel to the next with the Channel Name screen of my M7CL?

You can press the TAB button to switch to the next channel.

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M7CL seminar, Dallas 5/9/08

We had a great time today in Dallas, great group of people from all over.
Thanks everyone for talking the time to come out here for our seminars.
Thanks for driving all those hours and flying from different places.
We hope we can get together again soon.
Get home safe.

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