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970 Firmware v2.34
Released: July 23, 2019
Download Firmware v2.34New
- Support of SMB 2. This cures incompatibility of Samba transfer with some Windows 10 systems.
- Updated Dante Brooklyn II board to firmware version 4.1.1.4.
Fixed
- Longer duration WAV files no longer prematurely stop during playing back.
- ‘Unrecognized File’ error no longer appears after fast forwarding to the end of a Mono WAV file.
- Improved Dante Sync performance.
- Various performance improvements.
970 Firmware v2.33
Released: July 10, 2017
Download Firmware v2.33- New
- RS-422 Servo Lock Status Bit implemented to support transport control from more DAWs and NLEs.
- Added Dante Sync option to Menu>Timecode/Sync > Sync Ref
- Changed
- Updated Dante Brooklyn II Firmware to 3.10.2.4
- Fixed
- Jumping to cue points within WAV files sometimes terminated playback and produced ‘Unable to play this file” error messages.
- Synchronization with MADI sources improved.
- Audio level increased when locating to cue markers during playback of WAV files.
- Sometimes failed to appear as a Dante Device in the Audio Source List after disconnecting and reconnecting ethernet.
970 Firmware v2.32
Released: September 29, 2016
- New
- Supports Dante Lock via Dante Controller
- Detection and display of locked Dante devices in Audio Screen > Input Source
- Fixed
- Intermittent half second offsets between audio content and timecode stamp with WAV files.
- When various areas of the User Interface are displayed recording is prevented.
- Word Clock In and Out alignment issue.
- WAV Poly files created by Sound Devices Wave Agent do not playback.
- Intermittent audio and timecode offset during playback of WAV files.
- Audio and timecode offset during playback of WAV files when initiated from File List.
- Sound Report File Name contains extra zeros when Reel name was 4-5 characters.
- Not all Sample Rates shown in Dante Controller are available on the PIX/970 recorder.
970 Firmware v2.31
Released: July 07, 2016
- Fixed
- File and folder copy message is displayed as a Warning dialog box rather than an Information dialog box.
- WAV file metadata is misinterpreted when a Take is edited during record to share the same base name as another file.
- WAV File record splits while monitoring incoming video result in start timecode misstamps.
970 Firmware v2.30
Released: March 21, 2016
- New
- File copy function: Allows user to copy a file from one drive to another via File List or PIXNet.
- Reel copy function: Allows user to copy a folder from one drive to another via File List or PIXNet.
- Changes
- Headphone solo is no longer rippled through to other units in the group.
- Fixed
- Rare Media Too Slow Errors immediately after initiating Record when recording audio.
970 Firmware v2.20
Released: November 24, 2015
- New
- All metadata edits ripple to grouped units for previous, current and next takes including scene, take, notes, track names, circle status, false take and scene increments. This signifies the most comprehensive and advanced sharing of metadata between a master recorder and its backup, making the backup recorder a true mirror of the master
- Create and download sound reports (.csv) directly from within PIXNET making it easy to email directly from a computer or other browser enabled device
- Ability to play multichannel .wav files recorded using other applications/devices e.g. 6-series, 7-series, Protools, Adobe Audition, Audacity etc.
- False Takes Directory. False takes are now sent to a False Take folder instead of being deleted
- PIXNET Phrase List Manager. Manage your phrase lists directly from PIXNET
- PIXNET False Take command
- Remaining Time playback display option. Choose Normal or Remaining Time from the Menu>System>Playback ABS display menu
- Adjustable Meter Peak Hold Time (0-5 secs)
- Fast Track Arming in Audio Screen using FILES + Encoder Press shortcut
- Fast Headphone Soloing in Audio Screen using encoder to scroll between tracks once in Solo Mode (Audio + LCD)
- Grayed out meters for easy identification of disarmed tracks
- New Dante Settings menu for configuring Dante redundancy, primary, and secondary IP parameters
- DC In Voltage display
- System warnings now trigger GPIO outputs
- Changes / Improvements
- Updated version of Dante hardware (Brooklyn II) firmware to v3.8.0.24
- Faster Ethernet File Transfer
- Added notifications to alert user that a drive has not been formatted by the 970 and if there has been a drive error at start of recording
- Improvements to grouping reliability especially when using static IPs
- General improvements in handling Dante stream assignments and events
- Audio Screen track highlight change to make it easier to see if a track is armed
- LTC embedded in line 10 and VITC in lines 9 and 571 of SDI stream.
- Fixes
- Rare image complexity issues that could cause dropped or corrupt frames
- Added GPIO debounce to prevent static inadvertently stopping recording
- Occasionally upon network interruption and reconnection, track sources were losing their Dante stream assignments
- Network interruption on one of the networks in Dante Redundancy mode could cause track sources lose their Dante stream assignments
- Intermittent auto-muting of Dante channels after rebooting
- Prevented Audio Mode media errors taking other drives out of record
- Drive Too Slow errors when recording poly audio files
- Ext TC loop thru causing PIXNET flashing, drive activity and pre-roll to stop functioning when switching between 29.97 and 23.98 frame rates
- If next scene is different from current scene, changing the take number on the current take should not increment the next take’s take number
- Parity generation issue on the MADI Output
- Fixed issue where the record command would not work when the on-screen virtual keyboard is displayed
- Playback of fragmented files is improved.
- Various PIXNET bugs
970 Firmware v2.10
Released: October 27, 2014
- New
- Metadata Screen - When recording audio files this new feature allows quick access to editing Scene, Notes, Take, and Circle status of Previous, Current, and Next WAV recordings. Press AUDIO + MENU or Ctrl + M from an attached keyboard to enter the Metadata Screen. Turn Select encoder to scroll vertically and REW and FF buttons to move horizontally. Press Select Encoder to make selections. Scrolling beyond the Notes field will access your predefined phrase list defined by the new Phrase List Manager.
- PIXNet Clips Tab Metadata Entry and File Details - This provides the same Medadata functionality as described above, but from a Web Browser via PIXNet. From the Clips tab, click on the gear icon to edit Next Take’s Scene, Take, and Notes. Edit Medadata for previous takes by clicking on the pencil icon of the take; this includes Scene, Take, Notes, and Circle status. This window also displays file details including Start Timecode stamp, Timecode Frames Per Second, User Bits, Duration, Codec, Audio
- Phrase List - New menu item Menu>File Storage>Phrase List Manager allows a user to create a list of commonly used phrases that can used when updating the Notes field of recorded WAV files. The Phrase List is accessed in the File List>File Info window or from the new Metadata screen.
- Sound Reports - This new feature creates CSV files based on WAV file metadata. The Sound Report header information is managed in a new Menu option Menu>File Storage>Sound Report Info. To create a Sound Report, navigate to the File List and highlight the desired Reel folder in which the Sound Report is going to be generated, press and hold the encoder (or press right arrow from a keyboard) to enter the Folder Options menu, select Create Sound Report. Button shortcut AUDIO + FILES or pressing Ctrl+P on an attached USB Keyboard will create a Sound Report on the current folder for all applicable drives.
- User Bits Format - In previous versions of firmware, end users could customize the user bits with a four-field format, delineated by colons, such as UU:UU:UU:UU, where U represented a user-definable value. Often, the first three fields in the format would be manually reset daily using two-digit numerical values for the date, such as MM:DD:YY:UU. A new menu option in this version of firmware lets the user configure the unit to automatically populate the first three fields with values derived from the system’s date.
- Next Take Notes - Users can now enter notes for the next upcoming audio recording. Notes added to the Next Take’s Notes field will only be applied to the Next recording. The following Take’s Notes field is cleared. Next Take Notes can be entered from the File List or from the new Metadata Screen.
- Daily Folder Option - A new Setup Menu option Menu>FileStorage>Reel Format allows the user to select Custom (default) or Daily. The Custom option works as it has previously where the Reel can be edited with any alphanumeric value. Daily will automatically generate a value derived from the System Date. The Reel folder is named with the following format YYMMDD.
- MADI Equalizer Option - New Setup Menu option Menu>Audio>MADI Equalizer. In previous firmware revisions the Equalizer was always applied. Some MADI BNC sources with lower voltage-levels or long-cable runs would result in undesired noise. In these cases turn the MADI Equalizer off and the noise will be eliminated.
- Reel-Scene-Take_Track Name File Name Format - This version of firmware has a new file name format option called Reel-Scene-Take_Track Name. This option only applies when recording WAV mono files, and if selected, the files will be given names in the following format: <Reel>-<Scene>-<Take>_<Track #Track Name>. For example, if Reel=141001, Scene=101A, Take=001, Track=01, and the Track 1 Name=Boom, then the file’s name would be 141001-101A-001_01Boom.WAV.
- Changed
- All PIXNet tabs, except Clips, remain open when going into record.
- The File Info screen uses a numerical spinner for editing the Take information instead of an on- screen, pop-up keyboard.
- Options for the Circled status is now Yes or No instead of True or False.
- While recording, track names can be edited from the Audio screen or from PIXNet.
- User bits are now entered in hex format instead of decimal values.
- Reverting to a previous used scene name will now only recall the next take if the previous scene was recorded into the current Reel folder.
- Fixed
- The 970 is now more forgiving when mounting media with corruption. In some cases, depending on the level of corruption, the PIX would show drives as "No Fmt". A common cause of this sort of corruption was termination of the data connection during a write cycle when the drive was connected to a computer. Drives with this sort of corruption will now mount correctly but the corrupted file(s) may not playback correctly or the 250/260/270/970 may report them as corrupted.
- WAV Mono playback stopping prematurely.
- Reverting to a previously used Scene Name wouldn’t correctly increment the Take number when using Reel-Scene-Take filename format.
- Audio meter drawing issue where meters would freeze or display with gaps
- Audio Screen Gain and Delay value navigation was backwards when adjusting with attached USB Keyboard.
- Notes added to WAV files can now be deleted.
- PIXNet now displays a message when the connection to the PIX/970 Unit is terminated.
- PIXNet Gain Sliders now work correctly with computer’s keyboard arrow keys.
- PIXNet now properly displays Scene Increment changes when viewing File Storage Tab and Scene Increment is performed on the unit.
- Reverting to a previously used scene number would set take number incorrectly if the last take of the scene was Circled.
- Inconsistent pop up qwerty keyboard cursor method.
- Dante sources continue to display as / if the Audio Screen was displayed prior to network configuration.
- File List File Info screen can now be escaped with the left arrow of an attached keyboard.
- Notes containing the following characters inside the parenthesis (< > ‘ “ &) were stored incorrectly.
- Pressing Play when the loaded file is no longer available will now produce a pop up "File doesn't exist. Please select another one." This occurs when the loaded playback file has been deleted, drive was removed, or the file was renamed from a computer.
- Various improvements and system enhancements for stability and usability.
970 Firmware v2.00
Released: September 01, 2014
- New
- All files are now recorded using a temporary, and highly recoverable, Sound Devices format (.SDA extension). After each recording, files are “finalized”. Finalized files are standard .WAV files. If a drive is unintentionally removed prior to finalization or any time during recording, files can be recovered by reinserting the drive in the 970. The unit will immediately finalize any detected .SDA files. If .SDA files are present on a drive but a Sound Devices recorder is not available, a Mac and Windows software utility is available (FileSafe™) to finalize files and convert them to .WAV.
- Grouped units indicate how many units are connected to the assigned group. The number of total units is displayed inside parentheses after the Group number.
- New menu item Menu>Network>Grouping>Push Settings to Group. When selected, 970 unit settings are propagated to all units in the assigned group. This is useful for ensuring all units in an assigned group are set up in the same configuration.
- New menu option Menu>Network>Grouping>Sync Audio Screen Settings. When this is enabled all Audio Screen settings (track arm, input source, track name, gain, and delay) are applied to all units in the group. This is useful when grouped units are used for redundant recording.
- Changes to metadata now apply to all connected drives.
- When reverting to a previously used Scene Name, the Take automatically updates to the next chronological number based on previous recordings.
- Changed
- Removed restriction that would prevent the drive name to be used in the file name.
- Keyboard shortcut for adding and deleting cue markers has changed. Use Ctrl+Q to add marker, use Shift+Ctrl+Q to delete marker.
- Multi-file Take Edit Window can now be accessed via the Right Arrow key from an attached USB Keyboard.
- Non-alphanumeric characters are blocked from use in 970 Name, DRIVE, REEL and SCENE.
- Fixed
- Fixed - unacceptable level of noise on tracks 13-64 when recording 16-bit monophonic audio.
- Fixed - unexpectedly high distortion as SDI, MADI or Dante audio input levels get close to the 0dBFS digital clipping point.
- In Audio Mode the Pre-roll buffer will now reset when the sync source changes to prevent improperly sampled audio from being recorded.
- The approved HGST Travelstar 7K1000, 1TB 2.5 HDD now mounts without delay.
- orrection to drive formatting - drives larger than 2 TB would format to an arbitrary size. The 970 does not address more than than 2 TB, drives larger than 2 TB format to 2 TB.
- Addressed a rare lockup when displaying eight audio meters per page.
- Overall improvement in speed and reliability when grouping units.
- The RS-422 remote protocol now supports the full stop command during REWIND and FAST FORWARD.
- Cue Markers can now be added.
- Cue Markers are now visible during recording.
- After formatting or removing a drive, accessing any information remaining on the Clips Tab of PIXNet could result in a lock up.
- Leading or trailing spaces in Reel names would make the folders invisible to Mac OS.
- Static IP addresses over an Ethernet switch would sometimes prevent reliable connection with PIXNet.
- Editing metadata during record that altered the file name could result in Unknown Errors and system lock ups.
- Numerous PIXNet fixes and improvements.
- Numerous system improvements and optimizations.
- Numerous Drive mounting improvements and optimizations.
970 Firmware v1.00
Released: April 25, 2014
Initial release.
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