HAPI MkII WEBINARS

hello everyone welcome to this webinar of emerging technology um again we had a little break in our webinars and we starting again with a series again the first one will be the happy mark ii which is not which is just sorry available as a device so it's a new version of our famous happy and this time around i am accompanied by roon which is there just under me here hello everyone nice to meet you um like always those webinar you have the chat box and you can ask your questions if you have any remarks in the chat box and we'll try to keep on and replying to them either directly or a little bit later depending if it's uh right to the topic or or or or not so the idea of this webinar is a little bit to explain at the same time for you for people who know happy or own a happy one what the happy mark ii brings what are the new things new features and so on and so on and at the same time for people who have no idea what the happy is either one or two or mark two and that aspect um [Music] what this device is doing and how can you configure it and so on and so on so uh here is a little presentation first you see the slide is that i will show what is new how does it work what are the different cards optional cards available and how do you work with the infrastructure i will also have an emulator of basically the screen of the happy mark ii that i will show then in a little while so that you can see how the structure of the menus and so on are put together great so let's move on to the next page and the first thing is that we will have here a few little things that we're going to explain the first thing to know basically is that the front cover or the front aluminium panel has been changed it's written mark ii now and uh it's but it's still a one unit device or unit and uh i mean in terms of its size and you can still on the left and on the right when you purchase it add those little um metal devices thank you so that you can rack your device if you need or if you want to or remove them the other way if you don't want them good what is the happy mark ii basically you have on the rear here at the bottom you have two expansion slots in which you can put in optional cards those cards are mainly providing analog in and outputs or also digital in and outputs we will see those different cards in a little while what it is and so on um you have here some word clock in an output this is the same as happy mark one on b and c so happy is generating work clock as well and obviously you can slave it to the workbook you have a little db2 sorry that's a db50 not a db25 a db15 connector on which you can have an adapter that is optional and this adapter has all the synchronization capabilities ltc which is time code midi in and out for example from some keyboard commands other stuff and it has also a video reference signal that is generated from the happy that can be uh fed to um sorry it's a video reference in so it's not a generator excuse me the other way around and so that you can slave from a video reference your happy device to a house club for example then this is new and we'll go through the features in detail but you in the happy market ii you have two active rg45 connectors as you very well know certainly is that the happy is connected via the network to your computer to your workstation for example or to another network to be able to feed audio over the network and now um both connectors are active and this will bring us the capability to have something this is has a quite a horrible name but it's called st 2022-7 which is basically a protocol that provides redundancy over the network that means that if you implement this protocol which is implemented in the happy market too but if you implement it into your infrastructure with your workstations and other hardware devices and so on is that you will have two cables carrying the same signal the same audio signal through it and if one fails either the cable is cut or one of the device somewhere fails the other cable with the other the same devices but connected with this protocol will be able to uh to continue without any loss the streaming the recording i mean the signal still goes through one of these two cables and this is a complete redundancy this is obviously very much used in the broadcast area but one could imagine that in many different applications simply recording audio recording in an orchestra and things like that where mostly you it's not permitted to fail you could develop this type of redundancy as well um we're going to come to a few details a little bit later about this as well and we still have this db25 ascbu connector so you have eight ascbu four pairs of ascbu in an output through this db25 connector and on the left side you have here an adapt optical in and out so eight channels in added and you can through your settings also convert it into or modify it into a toslink sdif in an output in two channels over the optic um and you have your headphone output so it is basically two physical outputs with the same signal one in a minute jack and one in a normal jack uh so you can have two people or if you forget your adapter you you you know exactly where to plug it and on the left side here you have this triangle which is the on off switch basically of the entire device that's about the happy mark ii so completely similar on on the design on the look and the size and the connectors of the happy mark one for those who know it so what is new what are the new feature in happy mark ii um so uh the channel based routing basically can now be routed individually you um until now in happy one you for example when you were routing your eight analog inputs you needed to route them per eight channels to the madi for example if you had a mali option or to the air cpu or to the network you couldn't say i want four channels for the air cpu and four channels for the network so this is now you can do that individually today and for some people it's useful because they can split it lower than for eight channels so that's improved or it's new what has been dramatically improved is the headphone quality output um in in two ways it's circuitry first of all so the specs are much much better basically for those who know our fantastic anubis here which which has also two i mean which has two independent headphone outputs the happy has one with two connectors but it's more or less the same i mean it's not exactly the same specs as the anubis but it is very similar in its sound but this is what is important com compared to the happy one is that it supports also the dsd and the volume support so that you can if you work in dsd you can modify your volume that you have in your headphone output so this is an important feature i'm sure that since the days the anubis original was launched the focus on headphones and the quality of headphones as you know gone gone a different way it's the headphones become more and more important in all types of productions and yes you say i think everybody who gives it a listen can can really hear a difference i think it's one of the really good things with as you mentioned the anubis as well the headphone amps i think people often think a headphone amp is a headphone amp and it's really is not there is really a big sonic difference from from one to another and we have taken this a big step ahead exactly and what is i think interesting if you look a bit further uh i mean we talk about the happy in this webinar here the happy mark ii this is the main thing but if you imagine an infrastructure where you have a happy mark ii and an anubis for a musical recording for example and uh you will have for example the happy in the in the recording room and the anubis in the studio and uh you would like to provide also a quality headphone to the artist or the artists in plural who are in the studio so now this time the headphone output is equally as good on the happy mark ii so you have the one in your studio for yourself and you're happy with it or vice versa because it's a stream that is available on the network and you can connect it so you can connect an auxiliary or queue that goes out and send it and use it for the artist for example or the the the the comedian or or if it's a voice recording or the singer or whatever so this is an important thing that you can really count on it and use it [Applause] as i said then the front panel is new it's still an aluminium front panel but with a new engravement and the plexiglas has changed so that the oled is uh dimmed i mean does can be dimmed sorry to have the same light before it was at its maximum and after a few years that was the only little weak point of happy one is that some of the oleds have died after five four years or something like that and this will not be the case anymore because they don't need to be full light constantly to be able to see what's going on on the happy again the st 2022-7 support this is this redundancy over the network it is very important to understand that this is available but it means that your entire infrastructure needs to support this protocol to be able to have redundancy uh good evening dennis i just see that you say hello good evening to you what is interesting is that as you have two rg-45 connectors for the redundancy as we just explained you can change them in the settings to be able to work in what we call the switch mode so it means that coming back to this little studio set as we were explaining before but let's imagine we go do some live recording mobile recording basically um not necessarily live but mobile recording we could use the happy mark ii as a little switch that means on one of the connectors we could connect an anubis and the other outer connector we can connect our workstation and that means that it's always the same story with the with when you go mobile you want to be as light as possible with the least devices as possible to avoid uh potential failures so having the switch of two connections within the anubis mark ii can provide you uh this possibility now nevertheless we have to be very clear here we only guarantee it for two hardware device plus a workstation so not that you daisy chain 25 devices this will not work so to be very clear it's a small setup for example with a happy and a horror i mean a happy mark ii and a harvest or a happy mark ii and an obese for example plus a computer and that will work all fine um so to the question of kion rich hello kion we are here uh talking about happy mark ii which is not the anubis but i'm happy to answer your question but you have tons of webinars on the anubis so please refer to them but yes it can be used as a single device interface with in and outputs and it's connected over the network not uh over usb so thunderbolt adapter to network rg45 and off you go good the next um point here is that we implemented in the happy mark ii new da roll-off filters that will also be available not on all cards so we have now nearly nine years or perhaps even 10 years i'm not sure now the first generation of the cards with the horus and then the happy our da cards and ver some old ones will not be able to have the different filters but more recent one will also benefit from the those different uh da roll off filters we have now different trims for each channel and polarity change which is new before it was only per eight and this applies to all cards and we have steps by 0.1 db on our outputs so that for some people who were asking this uh feature for previously this is now supported in happy mark ii um with all cards and so you can really trim your your outputs with precision um and the headphones as well you the headphones output can be trimmed independently and the polarity can be changed the way for those who own a happy or horus until now the the the firmware update basically which is not absolutely necessary but for people who like to keep up people like to get the new features that are coming in in new with new firmware updates and so on so the methodology now is done as well as it is done in z-man uh sorry in anubis with the z-man so it means it's much faster than traditionally what happened with happy horse so this is this is just a maintaining your your firmware and your in your happy mark too but it it's nice that you don't need to spend too much time doing it a few things these excuse me i think these 10 points pretty much i hope if there's some of some current happy owners out there i think we have done a good job in listening to what we have been gaining in the field the last years with the happy and and taking all these into consideration while making the version too all the little yeah we tried as much of course like we always do to listen to our users to talk to we have the chance to talk to some of them to visit some of them uh and to meet some of them also unfortunately it's not happening so much now but during exhibitions and so on and we take notes and we try of course to implement and to modify things and to make them better each time um in terms of the cards as i was saying before so the i o cards that you go put in those slots uh most of them will also benefit from the from the new features with the independent trims with the zero the steps of 0.1 db and so on and so on be aware the firmware is now called happy mk2 not happy because there will be two independent firmwares one for the older happy and one for the happy mark ii don't mix them up one is for one device the other one is for the other device and i think roon we have now already the newest firmware for happy birthday if you go on the website it should be relatively clear for hopefully for all of you but everything is already on there if you are more curious you can find the user manual for the happy mac 2 and so on so everything is is ready and to be found on the on the website already exactly um important to understand uh the the box basically the the the the the aluminium device or the outside look has more or less is more or less the same as the happy one apart from the front panel but inside everything is new in terms of the circuitries the motherboard and so on and so on so now what we implemented we implemented our z-man that has fpga and dsp so you can imagine that in the future there could be some development with some new features that will be implemented in the happy while using the happy mark ii clearly while using the the processing power with the dsp processing power of the z-man chip in there so uh stay tuned that will be announcements and firmware updates that will come in the future the happy mark ii supports obviously anime or the other way around iron man supports happy mark ii so this is our audio network manager our virtual patch for those who don't know it so that you connect or interconnect in and outputs from hardware devices to other hardware devices from daws to hardware devices or dw to the aw and so on as i was saying before the switch mode in our happy mark ii and not only our happy mac too the switch mode in generally all our devices uh supports two hardware devices plus a workstation so i mean a ddw don't go over it because it's not guaranteed anymore and don't think you can daisy chain it like like and put 25 machines together that's not designed for good in terms of the cards um there are webinars talking about specifically the cards the the not only the technology but also the elements the measurements and all of that i would refer please or please refer to those webinars or to our website if you want if you have really technical questions about this but to give you a just a quick overview and idea those cards we have different cards there are analog cards that go those cards go in those slots behind the happy mark two so you have now a new generation that is available the third generation of our akd card which is basically a eight input line and mic pre input card with direct out so that means that you have a db25 connector where you have your eight analog inputs that you can then switch whether line or micro with 48 volt and so on independently or and you have another db25 which is basically the direct out why once those inputs have been uh mic preed and so it's a direct output if you want to send it for example to another recorder or if you want to send it to a board or to an analog table or simply a a use it somewhere else for for in-ear monitoring or whatever it is what is new with those cards as well so it's an akd chip and what is news new with those cards as well apart from their excellent sound and so on is that you can control the gain uh from two two controllers basically so that you can have an independent gain for control of one and for control two right so basically front of house and and in here and that's why it's tg in the name yeah so exactly like dual gain we added and it's it's stuff we learned from the the newbies as well exactly uh last thing perhaps for those who are not familiar we always have cards with a p and without a p basically the p means premium so the normal card without the p goes up to 192 kilohertz in terms of its sample rate frequency and uh the key or the car with the p goes above to dsd and dxd but also to pcm 300 what is it 84 kilohertz or dxd in 352.4 kilohertz as well then we have the other card which same size goes in one slot as well and you have two db 25 connectors as well but this time it is a ada card so eight inputs with mic pre line 48 volt and eight outputs as a line out so you will see those line out in your workstation in your daw so that you can output whatever you want um and this is the version now that has been launched last year more or less one year ago and you have a standard version up to 192k and again a premium version higher than 192k and you have the da card so eight analog outputs at line level and they're also uh without i mean sorry as max and then premium going higher to dsd and dxd and now those cards which are not i mean they are the same there is not a new version at this moment in time uh so this is a card that is i think it's two years now this version but because of the new features of the happy mark ii in terms of the trimming those cards will benefit from it as well uh so that you can trim it individually you can trim also the gain by 0.1 db and so on these are the analog cards that are available and this other digital card so you have also a money card that you can put into one slot but of course you will eat up one slot so you will only have one slot available for your analog in and outputs there's a 64 in and out one money card and the madi can be i mean the madi is optical and coaxial at the same time and you can have it in multi and single mode and this you have to order because you cannot once you order it you cannot change it it's not setting it's one or the other and for those who work with pro tools hd uh we have the pt64 card which also enters one slot and on which you can connect via hd mini digitalink cable uh 32 and 32 on each side 64 channels to the pro tools in one fs so you can have two cards and you have 20 128 channels on that aspect so that all your your your other cards would be available with the quality of merging cards to your pro tools as in analog inputs or analog outputs if required you have something to add uh roon no yeah it's a good overview of the of the various cuts for sure um i know a lot of your guys are maybe first can i use all my old cards in my new machines and you have gone through we have compatibility with that i also know there is a lot of focus on atmos and immersive audio recordings right now if you for instance have an anubis add a happy mac 2 and add an ada card and you basically have a full dolby atmos setup monitor controlling at a at a relatively modest price actually for for what you get get get out of that combination yeah and and what is important it's agnostic to the workstation so uh you can work with whatever workstation uh as long as as the workstation supports obviously the the the atmos routing in terms of its bus structure but one day you want to work more in a music environment on a logic and the next day on the pro tools and the day after on a pyramid you can use all those different devices with your atmos mixing directly with the right setup in the dolby environment cool let me go to the emulator so i have a little emulator this emulator is actually representing what you would see on the oled of your happy mark ii so to to make it very clear let me just go to the next screen so it's black and we can see a little bit better so basically you remember the front panel has this uh oled screen and um the the oled screen basically uh on the right side of the oled screen there's a little knob and this knob you can turn so you go up and down i have to click on it so you go up and down the menu and then you can go for example in the menu and you can see so this would be the old screen this you can see for example your da so that it modulates and so that you you push your button uh and you move your button left right and you go through the menu so my idea is not to go through all the manual to show you everything precisely i think it's pretty much speaks for itself but a few things so first of all you have your i o for example you have your time code you have your status what's in there your synchronization whether you synced to internal over the network word block sync and so on uh what is interesting your setup is that you change your format so now you could go from 41 44 1 for example or to 192 or down to dxd um you could also change your preset but you change your routing what outputs you want to send from the aes for example and this is important if you go to your modules now so for those who have happy one uh versions you will recognize but yeah this is the same in terms of the output the plus 18 db the attenuation but below you have now the trim and in the trim you can independently per channel go by steps of 0 1 db and change the difference from one channel independently to the other so this is one of the new possibilities if i go back to the presets this is the same we have the presets as before and we have the system as before we have the network as before so we have a few things that uh that have changed in the presets sorry in the in the whole money structure uh where i might perhaps go what is more interesting is that once i open this obviously i can also open my my web browser so for those who don't know what this is before i was showing the screen that is represented on the oled on the hardware device and now here i open a browser a web browser that is connected to the network to the happy and i just type in the sorry the ip address over there i can find it in very easier ways look into our webinars you will find it but this is now the representation as a remote control of my device and now i have the same possibilities to change it now i just change it as a remote control and i don't need to sit or to stand in front of my happy and do it from over there but you recognize again you have all those possibilities of routing of possibilities of changing and now if i go to the modules that's what i wanted to show and now the trim menu has been added here so i can change it like this and per 0.1 db steps i can change them from one to another all right the the the how can i say the main structure of the monu is very similar to what you know in happy one or horus but you have those new added features that you will find in there great let me move back to my presentation so we can go a step further the web browser i just showed it and here i gonna approach a little bit the infrastructure so for those who know our products who know our converters this is something familiar but i was thinking it is important to explain a little bit for those who don't know our products how you connect it actually to your computer and how does this work together so with happy mark ii and obviously there are two worlds in this world there's a mac world and there's a windows or pc world and there's a third world which is called linux that we also support i'm not talking about it here because these are specific applications but we also have solutions for linux good for the mac world we have what we call the vad driver for core audio virtual audio driver basically for core audio that allows me to in and output 128 channels in all those different sample rate frequencies at the same time i mean one sample rate frequencies for all the channels don't misunderstand that but i mean if you go higher in sample frequency it remains 128 up to 192 kilohertz you install this device you connect your mac via thunderbolt adapter to ethernet a gigabit or directly to the gigabit if you hadn't want to have one on your mac and you connect your happy mac 2 and off you go and you can work with your setup on the windows side um it's a bit different uh you install what we call the mad it stands for merging audio device and it is a driver as well but it's a bit more than a driver because in the windows world for those who come from mac wouldn't know it but and vice versa in the mac world you have a function that is called aggregate so basically you have your web browser uh you can place some audio into your workstation via the core audio and you have this whole aggregation in the two worlds that is possible which on the windows side is not really possible you have the azio which is the professional level for your workstation and then you have what one calls the vdm for windows driver model which is what allows you to connect for example to the web to all the windows audio infrastructure the non-pro let's say the non-professional windows audio infrastructure and with this mad you can mix both so it means that you can use your workstation via azio and at the same time use your web browser and redirect the audio from a web browser into your mad and then have it either on your happy mark ii or on your workstation on your daw and if you look at the way the channels behave when you go higher in sample rate so you have 128 channels like on the mac side in one fs but if you go higher it shares by two each time and this is how the infrastructure also sorry the architecture is done in the asio for windows but what is important and interesting is that i can go higher i can go up to dsd and up to pcm uh eight times pcm that brings me to a 384 kilohertz so you have um advantages and disadvantages in one or the other depending the way you look at it good other part of the infrastructure my animal is completely available with my happy mark ii and the animan for those who don't know it is stands for audio network manager basically it's a virtual patch you have your devices down here either hardware software and your in and outputs will show up and you connect you connect it you connect for example your outputs of the happy mark ii to your um uh sorry excuse me i i look at it the other way around you connect the outputs of your workstation to the outputs of the happy mark ii so this is enabled and works together or the inputs to one another but you can also have for example two workstations don't forget we're on a network you have two workstations one logic and one pro tools for example uh or one logic and one reaper let's say and you can also send the audio over the network to the to the ripper and then from the ripper to the happy so that you can really mix and match the way you want uh uh in a very smooth way and change the routing and all of that over this virtual patch called anima uh and on the hardware side there are two options that are important to understand one option is that you have a redundant power supply for those who suddenly it is very important we're talking you remember at the very beginning we're talking about having a redundancy for the network connection with this horrible name called st 2022-7 but if you are in a critical area and want this redundancy then also it makes sense to have a power supply redundancy as this power supply is always considered a bit a weak point so this is a this is available with a happy mark ii as with happy one and you also have as a option the db15 breakout cable for the sync some people don't need it but if you need timecode in an output or video reference you need to trigger your happy to the house reference of your imposed production for example of your studio uh you will need the db15 optional breakout cable to be able to connect all of that today together great i think we talked about a lot of things uh is there anything more to say roon do you have any remarks or things that i've forgotten no i think i think you went through every detail that was a good and yeah all is up and running and production going in in in switzerland so yeah so that's very important to say happy mark ii is available uh there are there there is a big demand at the moment so there's a tiny bit waiting time but we're working hard to diminish as much as possible just waiting time and uh yeah i think that's it thanks for everything if you have questions um please any less questions out in this chat or anything yeah you can continue i mean this video will will once now the live will finish it will remain on the on the youtube channel so that you can continue asking questions there we we follow it as well or through the user usual channels over over the the social networks or over the email from the website and so on thank you for listening and we'll keep you posted for the new webinars that will come in the future thank you very much uh have a lovely morning afternoon or evening or night depending where you are and thank you roon and see you soon thank you bye bye

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Length: 35min 38sec (2138 seconds)

Published: Thu Mar 25 2021