Yamaha M7CL Quick Start Manual

Yamaha M7CL Quick Start Manual

Guide to scenes; recall safe, focus, storing, scene management, saving and loading
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Quick Start Guide

A guide for people using M7CL in the real world.
Part 3
Guide to scenes; Recall Safe, Focus, storing, scene management, saving and loading.
This guide is for people about to use the M7CL with multiple
scenes for the first time and for users who wish to transfer their
console set ups to different M7CLs using a USB storage device
or Yamaha Studio Manager Software. Please also refer to the
M7CL owner's manual.
Version 1.0

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  • Page 1: Quick Start Guide

    Part 3 Guide to scenes; Recall Safe, Focus, storing, scene management, saving and loading. This guide is for people about to use the M7CL with multiple scenes for the first time and for users who wish to transfer their console set ups to different M7CLs using a USB storage device or Yamaha Studio Manager Software.
  • Page 2: Table Of Contents

    Loading data to the console from a USB storage device........................9 Other memorized data..................................... 10 Management of M7CL console files................................10 Scene management using Studio Manager and M7CL Editor......................11 Editing console files on the M7CL Editor..............................11 Online with M7CL Editor....................................11 Managing scenes with the Editor.
  • Page 3: Scene Management And Other Memorized Features

    “session” or “console” file and these files can easily be copied to another console using a USB storage device or Yamaha Studio Manager. M7CL can only contain a single “console” or “session” file, but by connecting a PC running Studio Manager and M7CL Editor software, scenes can be extracted from one session and merged into another.
  • Page 4: How To Recall A Scene

    M7CL Quick Start Guide Part 3 Next press the [STORE] key and the SCENE STORE keyboard pop-up will appear. This lets you name the scene and provides extra space for a comment or longer scene name. If you store to a location containing a previously stored scene, this scene will be lost.
  • Page 5: Managing The Scene List

    Scene recall is an extremely powerful function to help the sound engineer make many rapid changes to the console between songs or scenes. However there are many circumstances when the engineer needs some changes but does not want to implement other changes. M7CL has two different solutions to this limiting of scene recall; Recall Safe and Focus.
  • Page 6: To Apply Recall Safes

    M7CL Quick Start Guide Part 3 To apply Recall Safes. The RECALL SAFE MODE pop-up is in the CH JOB (Channel Job) area. Press the [CH JOB] button on the screen and then press the [RECALL SAFE] button, the pop-up will appear.
  • Page 7: Focus (Or Recall Focus); Typical Use Examples

    M7CL Quick Start Guide Part 3 Focus (or Recall Focus); typical use examples. Focus is another way of limiting the amount of information that is recalled when the chosen scene is recalled. Multiband shows. In a multiband line up show each engineer wants his own GEQ setting, but also they want changes to be possible without scene recall “undoing”...
  • Page 8: What Is In A Scene

    files from the console. The console file is made up of various libraries but these are all linked together so that they can all be saved or loaded together in one easy file. These files are common to both the M7CL-32 and M7CL-48, but no other console.
  • Page 9: Saving Data To A Usb Storage Device

    Saving data to a USB storage device. The scenes and set up of an M7CL console can be stored to an external USB storage device. This serves to back up the console’s internal memory and allow transfer of the data to another console in another territory. Files made on either the 32-channel or 48-channel version will open in the other version.
  • Page 10: Other Memorized Data

    In the SAVE / LOAD pop-up, you can COPY, PASTE and DELETE items on your USB storage device, regardless of what kind of file they are. However, only certain kinds of file can be loaded into M7CL. Only ALL DATA and USER KEY files can be created on M7CL but Studio Manager M7CL Editor can save “scene-only”...
  • Page 11: Scene Management Using Studio Manager And M7Cl Editor

    Editing console files on the M7CL Editor. Console fi les, stored to a USB storage device can be opened using M7CL editor. Open a stored session with [File] > [Open Session...] and browse for the USB storage device in [My Computer]. Only .YSE fi les are displayed until you select [Console File] in the [Files of type] box below the fi...
  • Page 12: Using The Scene Window

    .YSE fi les cannot be opened on a console but they have the very small advantage of remembering the layout of the windows when opened in the M7CL Editor. To save the FILE list of scenes use the [SAVE AS...] button above the list. This will also have the fi le extension .M7C but it is not an ALL DATA fi...
  • Page 13: How To Merge Two Sessions Together

    M7CL Quick Start Guide Part 3 How to merge two sessions together. M7CL can only hold one session file at a time, but scenes from more than one session can be merged using the M7CL editor. First choose the session that will provide the setup and user defined key information.
  • Page 14 Revision History M7CL Quick Start Guide Part 3 Month / Year Version Contents April 2007 First edition released.

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