Cantar X3 Wishlist May 2019

[ChrisH]

These are roughly in the order of my own priority and what I feel other users have wanted the most please add and criticize at your leisure:)

 

1 Digital limiters on all Mix Busses AES and Dante inputs.
  1a Dante Trim!
2 Wav File import for playback, remote recordings etc. uses listed below:
   Add non Cantar files to the Sound Report mostly just to allow us to add content from A10/PDR or other recorders and report on it.
   Replace track function for TC audio from A10 or PDR or other recorders that have time code synced recordings.
   ADD wav files of music to achieve sync music playback without having to pre record your music into the cantar. 
3 Post Fade EQ
     EQ could be applied to the audio going to a bus not the audio on the ISO.  
     Post Fade EQthat was only to make your mix better and not effect the ISOs would get used a lot more.
4 Colored character text/tracks to match your fader colors.
     Arm/Disarm during rolling(if not rolling compact Poly this should just be a quick firmware thing as it’s already recording blank audio)
5 FPS/sample rate/Bit depth displayed in the area circled in the attached image.
6 Linkable faders so that one fader can control multiple tracks not just inputs.
7 Make the slate mic input always active as a return with a setting: 
    This would allow the use of an external comms box to serve all comms purposes and just take that feed from the SLATE MIC return.         
    This would give us all the standard inputs for mission critical tasks.

8 Save report info per project so that when you go back to an old project it repopulates the sound report accordingly.

9 Very low on my list but auto mix/dugan of some sort.

Cantar Mini Specific
  USB or AVB or Dante audio input/output on the mini some way to get computer audio into the mini without using analog or AES inputs.
  Output Delay!
  Users would pay a substantial amount to add Dante and output delay to the mini. Whether an add-on or a revision.
  If you added Dante to the mini you would out sell the Scorpio IMO FWIW.

[IronFilm]

Cantar X3 just got a bunch of (paid) firmware updates: 
"Cantar V3 features incl. AatonMix, Dante+ and Auxiliary Mix Buses"

 

https://www.aaton.com/content/cantarx3-aatonmix-dante-and-auxiliary-mix-buses

 

To quote Gilles Tête de Mort's summary:

 

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The V3 is free and include :

- Limiter and a new maximum gain structure on AES3 and AES42 inputs
- A post fader equalization on tracks
- Digital inputs and Tracks can be linked
- Digital Limiter available on Mix-down tracks


And the options which can be bought :

- Aaton Mix ( Aka Automix ) = 600 € 

- Limiters, phase inversion, equalization and gain control can be independently applied to all 32 Dante input. 300 €

- A new Sub Group routing grid allows you to create up to 24 mix buses = 300 €