Firewire Devices; Harddisk Drive; Compactflash Reader/Drive; Keyboards - Zaxcom Deva 16 User Manual

Chapter 1_______________________________________________________Zaxcom Deva User's Manual

FireWire Devices

Harddisk Drive

We recommend Lacie drives, at the moment. From the Apple store the G-Tech Mini Drive and Smartdisk Firelite
have been reported to work.
Some FireWire drives may need to have the Firewire Power button cycled to have them recognized. Some non-
bus powered drives still require FireWire Power to be ON in order to work reliably.

CompactFlash Reader/Drive

The Lexar FireWire 800 with an 800  400 cable has been reported to work.

Keyboards

Here are our recommendations:
PS/2 keyboard from Cherry Corp: G84-4100LCMUS-2 from
89-Key Mini-USB Keyboard from Micro Center: 810739 from

Touchscreen Interface

Deva's full color touchscreen interface is the key to ultimate functionality. It provides instant control of over 300
mixer cross-points and over 200 user parameters. It's easy to read in direct sunlight and offers a lock feature to
prevent accidental operation.

Analog Inputs

Deva incorporates eight very low noise, low distortion microphone preamps with 48V phantom power. Many
Emmy® and Oscar® winning productions have been recorded with the Zaxcom preamp. The transformerless
design enhances audio quality by eliminating low frequency distortion common in transformer-based microphone
preamps. Each of the eight inputs can be switched between mic-level and line-level operation and feature a
powerful 48V phantom power supply.

Analog Input Limiter

The Deva's analog input limiter prevents high-level audio from clipping the A/D converter in the analog domain.

Digital Inputs

The Deva has four AES input pairs with sample-rate conversion, allowing each input to have a different sampling-
rate. This is key on location, where it's not always possible to lock external AES sources.

Mixing

Deva can mix sixteen inputs to eight output busses and record up to sixteen tracks* on the internal hard-disk
drive. The mixer has infinite routing capability. Any input can be routed to any output pre-fader, post-fader, with
or without the phase inverted. The Mix-12 control surface can also be used to form an all digital location
recording and mixing package.
* Deva-5.8 – maximum 10 tracks, Deva-16 – maximum 16 tracks
NOTE: Deva does all of the mixing, the attached Mix-8 / Mix-12 is a control surface only and does not do any
mixer processing. The connection between the Deva and the Mix-8 / Mix-12 carries control surface
communications only.

Recording

The Deva records to the Primary Drive using the Mobile Audio Recording Format (MARF) II. MARF was
developed to be fault tolerant, ensuring that should power be lost while recording, ALL audio up to that point will
be recoverable. The MARF system and its audio-centric operation have eliminated several of the reliability issues
associated with FAT32 recording.
While the backup process is enabled, the audio files are copied to the Mirror Drive, which is in standard FAT32
format. The Mirror media can be given to Post or copied to any computer.

Camera / Line In Connector

Deva-5.8

The Camera connector (10-pin Hirose) connects directly to the 10-pin Hirose audio connector located on most
cameras, providing a two-channel camera feed (a copy of line outputs 5 & 6) and a mono audio return. In addition,
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