BIAS Deck - 3.5 Addendum
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Addendum
Version 3.5
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Credits
Deck Software:
Josh Rosen, Mats Myrberg, John Dalton, Jeff Moore,
Steve Berkley, Walter Horat, and Andrew Kimpton.
ASIO and VST are trademarks of Steinberg Media
Technologies AG.
Special Thanks to:
Thomas DiMuzio and Hank Hansen
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Contents
Chapter 1: Introducing Deck 3
What’s New in Deck 3.5? ....................................................................................................................................................... 3
Minimum System Requirements for OS 8.6–9.2 ................................................................................................................. 3
Minimum System Requirements for OS X.1 ........................................................................................................................ 3
Maximizing Deck’s Performance .......................................................................................................................................... 4
Differences between Deck 3.5 on OS 8.6–9.2 and OS X.1 ................................................................................................. 4
Premiere Plug-Ins ..................................................................................................................................................................................... 4
VST Plug-Ins .............................................................................................................................................................................................. 4
ASIO .......................................................................................................................................................................................................... 5
CoreAudio .................................................................................................................................................................................................5
Graphical User Interface .......................................................................................................................................................................... 5
About This Guide .................................................................................................................................................................. 5
About Deck LE 3.5 ................................................................................................................................................................. 5
Chapter 2: Installing and Configuring Deck 9
Installing Deck ....................................................................................................................................................................... 9
Authorization ......................................................................................................................................................................... 9
Making Audio Connections .................................................................................................................................................. 10
PCI and PCMCIA Audio Cards, and USB and Firewire Audio Interfaces .............................................................................................. 11
Apple Sound manager ........................................................................................................................................................... 11
Configuring the Apple Sound Manager .................................................................................................................................................. 11
ASIO ....................................................................................................................................................................................... 12
Configuring Deck for ASIO ..................................................................................................................................................................... 12
Installing the ASIO Driver ........................................................................................................................................................................ 12
CoreAudio .............................................................................................................................................................................. 12
Configuring Deck for CoreAudio ............................................................................................................................................................ 12
Hardware Configuration ....................................................................................................................................................... 13
Audio Card ................................................................................................................................................................................................ 13
Clock Source ............................................................................................................................................................................................ 13
Play audio while in background .............................................................................................................................................................. 14
Record monitoring ................................................................................................................................................................................... 14
Hardware Options ................................................................................................................................................................. 14
Configuring Deck and Setting Maximum Playback Tracks ................................................................................................. 15
Using dedicated audio drives .................................................................................................................................................................. 15
Chapter 3: What’s New in Deck 3.5? 19
5.1 Surround Mixing .............................................................................................................................................................. 19
Creating a 5.1 Surround Session ............................................................................................................................................................. 19
Monitoring 5.1 Surround ......................................................................................................................................................................... 19
Surround Panning .................................................................................................................................................................................... 20
Configuring a Track’s Surround Panner ................................................................................................................................................. 21
Mixing a 5.1 Session To Disk ................................................................................................................................................................... 22
Importing OMF Files ............................................................................................................................................................. 22
Example Workflow ................................................................................................................................................................................... 22
Fader Linking ......................................................................................................................................................................... 23
CoreMIDI ............................................................................................................................................................................... 23
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Chapter 1
Introducing Deck
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Chapter 1: Introducing Deck
What’s New in Deck 3.5?
Version 3.5 of Deck includes the following new
features:
™
• QuickTime PowerPlug
sions folder
• Built-in 16-bit Macintosh sound, or supported
Sound Manager-compatible audio hardware or
ASIO-compatible audio hardware
• OMS-compatible hardware required for frameaccurate sync to external SMPTE/EBU timecode
• OMS 2.3.8 required for synchronizing Deck to
OMS-compatible MIDI sequencers & playback of
MIDI tracks
installed in the Exten-
1
• Mac OS X.1 support
• Support for Apple's new CoreAudio framework
under OS X
• Support for Apple's new CoreMIDI framework
under OS X
• New “Aqua” Graphic User Interface (GUI)
• 5.1 Surround Mixing
• Import OMF
• Linking Faders
• Bundled with BIAS Freq™ VST Plug-In (carbon-
ized), a 4-band parametric EQ
Minimum System Requirements for OS 8.6–9.2
• Any PowerPC-equipped, G3, or G4 Macintosh,
including PowerBooks (266 MHz or faster
processor recommended)
• Hard drive(s) running at 7,200 rpm or faster, UWSCSI or FireWire recommended
• A 13-inch or larger monitor (color is recommended)
Macintosh PowerPC Nubus computers are not
supported by Deck 3.5..
Minimum System Requirements for OS X.1
• Any G3 or G4 Macintosh or PowerBook, including
iMac and iBook (266 MHz or faster processor
recommended)
• Mac OS X.1
• 128 MB RAM
• Hard drive(s) running at 7,200 rpm or faster, UW-
SCSI or FireWire recommended
• Color Monitor, minimum 640x480 resolution
• 64 MB of RAM
• Sound Manager version 3.4 or later
• Macintosh System Software 8.6 or later
• CarbonLib 1.4 or later
• QuickTime version 4 or later
• CoreAudio support for third-party hardware may
require drivers from hardware manufacturer
• CoreMIDI compatible hardware required for
Frame-accurate sync to external SMPTE/EBU
timecode
Introducing Deck
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