SONOSAX SX-R4 (Firmware v3.1) - Manual (Page 42)

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6.1.4 Alarms
Certain situations require that the user has to be warned on a particular point. When this occurs, the SX-R4
intermittently flashes a warning concerning the detected problem and a beep tone is heard in the headphone.
The beep tone will disappear as son as any key is depressed. However the warning keeps flashing in the
display
One distinguishes 5 kinds of alarms, whose causes are explained below:
The Alarm AES occurs when one of the following conditions is checked:
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One or more Tracks is assigned from an AES input, but no valid AES signal is present.
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Input channels 7 & 8 are not assigned
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The incoming sampling frequency on the AES signal is out of tolerance ( +/- 0,2% )
The Alarm SYNC occurs when one of the following conditions is checked:
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the SX-R4 is set to WCK IN but no valid WordClock signal is present
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the SX-R4 is set to VIDEO IN but no valid Video signal is present
The Alarm TC occurs when one of the following conditions is checked:
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The Timecode is set to Internal Output but the format is set to Autodetect
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The Timecode is set on External No Jam, but no TC signal is present
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The Timecode is set on External No Jam, a TC signal is present but the format selected in the SX-R4
does not match with the detected format.
The Alarm HD or CF occurs when one of the following conditions is checked:
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The remaining Free space on a disk is less than 100Mb.
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The disk is too fragmented
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The CompactFlash Card bitrate is too low, recording on this media has been suspended
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The FAT32 partition cannot be initialized
The Alarm POWER occurs when t
he power voltage is soon too low to maintain the SX-R4 running.