Installing Pyramix Virtual Studio Hardware; Mykerinos Board Installation; Hard Disk Space Requirements; Operating System - Merging Pyramix Quick Start Manual

• We recommend disks should be formatted as NTFS volumes.

Hard Disk Space Requirements

A complete software installation will require around 50MB of disk space for the Pyramix software itself and
approximately 10MB of disk space for the Virtual Transport.
In addition, you will need hard disk storage for any captured audio media files. As a rule of thumb, one Gigabyte of
disk storage equals:
• 185 track minutes at 44.1 kHz 16 bits
• 125 track minutes at 44.1 kHz 24 bits
• 170 track minutes at 48 kHz 16 bits
• 115 track minutes at 48 kHz 24 bits
• 55 track minutes at 96 kHz 24 bits
For continuous multi-track recording applications, divide total available mono track time by the number of tracks
you will be using.
Please note that these are very rough estimates, and should be used only as a general indication of storage
requirements.

Operating System

32 bit Windows 7 Professional, Windows Vista Business, or Windows XP Pro, installed. (Use Administrator User
Account)

Power Management

N.B. As with all Digital Audio Workstations and Non-Linear Editors, we recommend setting the PC to an Always
On Power management scheme. (Start > Control Panel double-click Power Options. Choose Always On from
the Power Schemes combo box.) This allows the monitor to be turned off by the system but disables hard-disk
turn off and Standby.
Note: The Mykerinos card is not designed to support Standby modes.

Other Applications

Like all Digital Audio Workstations, Pyramix works best when there are no other unnecessary applications or ser-
vices running.
Video and Pyramix on one PC
To ensure a very smooth system (especially for seeking) playing video with Pyramix on the same computer, we rec-
ommend a Quad Processor PC, a dedicated hard drive for the video and Windows XP

Installing Pyramix Virtual Studio Hardware

Mykerinos Board Installation

Depending on whether you have a PCI or a PCIe board version, the Merging Technologies Mykerinos board can be
installed in any free PCI or PCIe slot in your PC. In general, it is best NOT to install the board in the slot adjacent to
an the graphics adapter; or in a PCI slot which may be physically shared with an ISA slot.
Please consult the:
website for current compatibility information.
Make absolutely certain the PC power is OFF before installing the board!
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