Summit Firmware Update

Phonic is releasing the first ever firmware update for the Summit today. While it will feature a lot of performance enhancements for the reverb effects and dynamic processors, it will also provide a few great new features.

The Summit now features a panning link function in the pair/link menu, enabling users to select individual, gang and inverse gang panning modes. Individual of course allows users to adjust panning independently, gang allows them to adjust two paired channels in unison, and inverse gang allows users to control two paired channels in unison but moving in opposite directions.

Perhaps most exciting change, however, is that the output delay function now features a scale/temperature tab. This menu will allow you to swap the adjustable delay parameter between time (milliseconds), meters, and feet. To make this setting more accurate, users are able to adjust the current temperature to better calculate the delay time by the meter and feet parameters.

Firmware Updates

Phonic will periodically put firmware updates on their website.  These firmware updates will improve and expand features, as well as tweak any minor bugs that may be present.

Not that they expect any.

To perform a firmware upgrade, all a user needs to do is place the firmware update file on a blank, formated SD card and place that into the Summit's SD card slot.  Go into the Setup menu and select the Update tab.  Click Okay to begin and it should do all the work from there on (within about 2 minutes).

In the event that you accidentally turn the power off or otherwise do not complete the firmware installation, you can restore the unit to the factory default firmware with an appropriate restore file.  This file is available in the software section of dc.phonic.com.  To do so, you just need to put the restore file on an SD card and start the Summit up with the SD card inserted.