New Summing Busses; Test Tone Plug In Improvements - Tascam SX-1 Release Note

To see this in action, navigate to the LCD Preferences screen, METER page.
At the bottom of the screen, an item was added that allows the operation of the panel meter to be
modified. If Follow CR is selected in the Panel Meter field, the stereo meter on the slanted front
panel will always display the level of the source chosen in the Control Room monitor section. This
means that if the Control Room is switched to monitor Dig In 1, the meter will show the level for Dig
In 1 (the only choice in version 1.0). If St Bus is selected, the meter operates in a new manner, in
that the meter will always show the output of the L/R stereo bus - no matter what the Control Room is
set to.

22. New summing busses

You may now notice additional clarity in the summing busses and the eq, as the code used to create
these components has been optimized. The summing busses now use floating 40-bit math (a substantial
gain in headroom), which should increase clarity and depth of field in the busses, and should also
reduce phase shift in the channel EQ.

23. Test tone plug in improvements

The functionality of the Test Tone plugin was improved with the addition of a pure White noise
setting. This setting should prove helpful to broadcast users.
To see the new setting, navigate to one of the Effects screens (VGA or LCD), and open the Test Tone
plugin in one of the four slots.
You will see that the original selections of Off , Sine , Sine Sweep , and Pinknoise have been
joined by the Whitenoise option.
The pinknoise generator has also been improved, and its behavior now matches the industry-standard
Audio Precision — System 2 response characteristics.
To hear the different tonal characteristics of this plugin, route the output to a return and turn it up —
BUT NOT TOO LOUD! Noise generated from the Test Tone plugin can be painful to listen to at high
levels, and is intended for use in system setup and diagnostics.
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