YAMAHA STUDIO MANAGER User Manual

STUDIO MANAGER

STUDIO MANAGER

Owner’s Manual

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Table of Contents

Overview of Studio Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2

Starting and Configuring Studio Manager . . 3

Quitting Studio Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

Synchronizing with your hardware product . 5

Working with Files. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

*Specifications and descriptions in this owner’s manual are for information purposes only. Yamaha Corp. reserves

the right to change or modify products or specifications at any time without prior notice. Since specifications,
equipment or options may not be the same in every locale, please check with your Yamaha dealer.

Description of menus and buttons

In the event that menu and button names on a Windows system are different from those on a Macintosh,
this manual uses the Windows menu and button names followed by the Macintosh menu and button names
in parentheses.

Mapping MIDI Ports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

Setting Preferences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

Menu Bar/Pop-up Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

Operation within Cubase . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

Supported editors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

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Overview of Studio Manager

Studio Manager is a cross-platform application that enables you to start multiple Editors that control YAMAHA
hardware products remotely, and to save multiple Editor settings.

You can run Studio Manager as a stand-alone application, or as a plug-in within DAW applications that are compat­ible with Studio Connections, such as Cubase SX 3.0 or later. In either case, the basic functionality is the same. For
the latest information on compatible DAW applications, refer to the following website.

http://www.studioconnections.org/

Hardware products

Open an editor from
Studio Manager

Synchro­nize

DM2000

DM2000 Editor

Synchro-

Studio Manager

Start up Studio
Manager in
stand-alone form

nize

MOTIF ES6/7/8 Multi Part Editor

Open from a
compatible DAW
application

Synchro­nize

SPX2000 Editor

MOTIF ES6/7/8

SPX2000

The settings of each editor can be saved and recalled together from Studio Manager or the DAW application. In other
words, you can change the settings of your entire system in a single operation by recalling the settings for multiple
devices from Studio Manager or your DAW application.

When you want to save setting files, you can do this from Studio Manager to recall multiple devices at once, or from
an individual Editor to recall only a specific device. When you save your settings in your DAW application, the Studio
Manager settings will also be saved together with the DAW application file, and can also be recalled in the same way.

To use Studio Manager, you must first perform the following operations:

1. Start and configure Studio Manager (see page 3).

2. Start and configure an Editor.

3. Synchronize the application with the corresponding hardware product (see page 5).

For more information on using the Editors, refer to the Owner’s Manual for the Editors.

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Starting and Configuring Studio Manager

1 Start Studio Manager.

As a stand-alone application in Windows 2000/XP: Click the Start button, move the cursor to [Programs

(All Programs)], then [YAMAHA Studio Manager], then click [Studio Manager].

As a stand-alone application in Mac OS X: Select and open the “Applications” folder, the “YAMAHA”

folder, then the “Studio Manager” folder, then double-click “SM2.”

Cubase versions SX 3.0 and later: From Cubase’s [Device] menu, choose [Yamaha Studio Manager] to open

the Studio Manager window. (Studio Manager starts running when Cubase is started.)

2 Select the devices you want to edit.

In the Setup window, open the Modify Workspace page. The
Device Editor section lists the names of the installed devices.

Highlight the desired device name, then double-click it or click the
[Add->] button.

The selected device name is added in the Workspace section.

NOTE: Use the following button and checkbox, if necessary:

[Remove].............Removes the selected device from the

Workspace section.

[Set Default]........ Mark this checkbox, then click the [Apply] or

[OK] button. The next time you start Studio
Manager, the current Setup window settings
will be automatically selected.

3 Specify the desired MIDI ports.

Select the [MIDI Settings] tab and specify the MIDI In/Out Ports
to which the hardware product are connected. However if you
want to use Studio Manager in Cubase, you’ll need to specify that

MIDI port within Cubase.

NOTE: To activate MIDI ports in Studio Manager, you must

specify the MIDI ports in this MIDI Ports tab and in the Editor for
the console or device.

NOTE: Use the following button, checkboxes, and pull-down

options, if necessary.

[Update Ports] .... If you click this button, Studio Manager will

search for MIDI ports that have been enabled
since you started the application. If no port is
detected, restart Studio Manager.

[MIDI Thru] ........ If you mark this checkbox, then use the pull-

down options to select a port for MIDI In/Out,
a MIDI signal will be input from a port
assigned as MIDI In, and routed to and
output from a port assigned as MIDI Out.

[Set Default] ....... Mark this checkbox, then click the [Apply] or

[OK] button. The next time you start Studio
Manager, the current Setup window settings
will be automatically selected.

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4 Click [OK].

The Setup window closes, and the Studio Manager win­dow becomes active, with the icon of the device you
selected in step 2 shown in the workspace.

5 Double-click the icon for the hardware

product you want to edit to open its Editor.

NOTE: Right-clicking the mouse in the window will

display a pop-up menu (see page 8).

NOTE: To change the icon name, select the icon, then

click the name.

NOTE: Use the following box, if necessary.

[MIDI Thru Ch.] .. This field appears if MIDI Thru is

enabled.
If you select “Original,” a MIDI
signal will be output to the output
channel that has the same number
as the input channel.
If you select any channel from “1”
through “16,” MIDI signals of all
channels received at the input port
will be combined and output to the
specified channel.

Studio Manager window

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