SetUp

A personal monitor/mixer configuration using Venue mission in a RAVENNA/AES67 environment.

Prerequisites

A MacOS or Windows computer with a 1 Gb ethernet interface.
MTDisovery tools installed on your computer.
The latest download link for Windows and MacOS :https://www.merging.com/support/downloads#accessory-installers-3
The latest (at least 1.5.6 or greater) Anubis toolkit available here https://www.merging.com/support/downloads#current-anubis-downloads
The toolkit includes the Anubis firmware and the remote control app for Windows and MacOS
A valid license key for the Venue mission.
You can ask for a temporary liense here: https://www.merging.com/trial/venue-mission

Procedure

Operating Modes

Go to the settings by long press the Home (Pyramid) physical button and click on "SETTINGS"
Note: if the Venue icon is not selected, press it to switch Anubis into Venue mission. If the lock icon is present next to the Venue icon, you need a valid license (see prerequisites section)

2 choices of operating mode are available:

Personnal Monitor

Select it when a performer need a basic volume/pan/balance control of a mix. A typical use is symphonic orchestra.

The performer interface looks like:

Personnal Mix

Select it when a performer need solo mute and some advanced audio processing access such as parametric EQ, Dynamics or Reverb.

The performer interface looks like:

Inputs setup

In the Settings>Inputs Create (1), Delete (2), Move order (3) and click in the list to configure input (4)
Note : scroll the inputs list by clicking and drag the screen.
Note : As many input may be created but only the first 16 enabled input are available in the performer personal monitor/mixer page.

Configure a specific input

Change the name, color, type, delay...

Patch a physical input

Skip this step if you want to patch a AoIP stream
Scroll down to the Channels section. and click in the green area

Choose a physical input in the list by clicking Single
Note : click None if you want to unpatch an existing input

Patch an incoming AoIP stream

We need to create a network receiver.

Access an Anubis webpage by using MTDiscovery. Right click on the device and select "Open Advanced Page"

Click on the "Session sinks" tab (1) and create an AoIP receiver (2)

Click on Source drop box and chose an available Source in the drop down list

Note: if the Source is not yet present in the list, you can manually name it and once the Source becomes availble and discovered in the network, the connection will become effective. Ensure that the channels count is correctly set (default is 8)
Other available settings don't need to be changed in a usual setup. Please consult the following page for more information : Merging RAVENNA Advanced Pages User Guide..

Scroll down to the patch matrix where the input previously created are listed
Note: While physical output (XLR 1/2. Jack 3/4, Headphone 1, Headphone 2) may be patched, it is not recommended since it will bypass the Venue mix engine.

By repeating the operation, you can create up to 64 receivers following your needs.

Monitors setup

In the Settings>Monitors click on a Monitor to set it up.

Note : 4 monitors are available matching a physical output : XLR 1/2. Jack 3/4, Headphone 1, Headphone 2

Configure a specific monitor

Change the available parameters such as name ("James" in the exemple), color, and performer graphical interface behaviours.

Scroll down and set the Processing availability in the Personal Mixer performer interface.

Scroll down and set which inputs are available for the Monitor by clicking on "Show"

Configuration deployment

Clone
In MTDiscovery, right clîck on the configured Anubis and click on "Open Web App"

The following web page should be displayed. From the Menu (1), Download the preset file (2). Save it to your computer

Open the web page of each Anubis to be cloned with the just saved preset file.
From the Menu (1), Browse the preset file (3), select it and open it.

Note : Repeat the operation for all the Anubis you need to clone.

Name separately each devices.
Open advanced page from the MT Discovery tools

For each devices, enter a Device Name (1), and set the IP addressing mode (2)

Note : The device name have to be unique in a network.

Go to System (1) tab and Reboot (2) the devices to apply IP and Naming

Now let's create the AoIP transmitters which have to done for all the Anubis separately.
For each Anubis to be configure, launch the advanced web page by using MT Discovery. Click on Session source (1) tab and click on (2) to create a new transmitter (Session source).

Once created, name it.

Note: if receivers created above match the name of the transmitter, the audio stream becomes effective.
Transmitter name should be carefully chosen specially when many streams have to be setup. A good practice is to prefix the stream with the Anubis role. This ensure a proper way listing all the available Transmitter when sorted in an alphabetic order.

Choose which codec you want to use.
Note: L24 is the default and recommended codec. L32 may be not be compatible with some receiver.

Scroll down and choose the channel count of the stream (1), and apply (2).

Note: channel count on transmitter and receiver side have to match otherwise the receiver will tell you that channels count to not match

Patch the stream to an available inputs. Inputs may be a physical audio input or a monitor mix.

Here is a second transmitter name "V1 Heaphone loopback" created and patched to Heaphone 1 mix.

Note: This is handy when the sound enginneer, want to check the performer mix.

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