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range is 40 hertz to 20 kilohertz. Solid State Logic will demonstrate the latest version of its Soundscape digital audio workstation. Soundscape V6.2 ProConvert offers direct import/export to a series of third-party workstations from the Soundscape File Menu. V6.2 imports/exports audio file and selected audio track, clip and marker data for Avid Pro Tools 9 Sessions, Cubase/Nuendo TrackArchives, Apple Final Cut XML and Samplitude/Sequoia EDL projects. A new Console Control Module introduces a hardware controller using SSL’s Nucleus and Matrix hybrid digital audio workstation control consoles. Soundscape V6.2 also allows Soundscape to be used with SSL’s MadiXtreme 64/128 PCIe audio interfaces, facilitating direct connection to audio converters, MADI equipped consoles and routing systems. Soundcraft has updated its ViSi Remote iPad app to allow control of the Vi Series range of audio mixing consoles in addition to the Si Compact range. The new version of the app is available free of charge via the Apple iTunes store. ViSi Remote enables a single iPad to control multiple consoles from the Soundcraft Vi Series or Si Compact range on a single wireless network. Soundcraft ViSi Remote allows users to adjust input channel levels and mutes, auxiliary send levels and matrix sends, and level and graphic EQ settings on bus outputs. Soundcraft Vi Series consoles controllable by ViSi include all variants of Vi1, Vi2, Vi4 and Vi6. Multiple iPads can be used on the same network, even on the same console, so that individual artists can control their own monitor sends, for example. Studer will exhibit its new Compact Remote Bay, a portable controller in the shape and size of a laptop computer. This contains 12 motorised Penny & Giles faders and 40 rotary controls which link to a 19 inch touchscreen running Studer’s Virtual Vista software. The controller emulates the Vista console’s Vistonics user interface. As well as allowing remote operation, the Compact Remote Bay can be used to extend the main control surface of a Vista mixer for a second operator to handle large productions. It can even also be used as a standalone controller for the Vista’s DSP core should the control surface not be available. Studer will also promote at AES its recently announced Vista 1 Compact mixing console, Vista FX Lexicon engine, RTW MT7 Metering Option for Vista consoles, Ember control protocol and an Axia Livewire audio over IP card for the D21m system. Tac System will demonstrate V- M o n , a surround monitoring plug-in for Avid Pro Tools HD Accel systems. V-Mon ﬂexibly monitors and meters up to six 7.1 stem inputs, eight stereo aux inputs, four talkback inputs, and two listenback inputs. V-Mon provides extensive output control for up to four 7.1 speaker systems, one stereo downmix, eight cues, one stem meter for exter nal hardware metering, and one stereo meter for external hardware metering. V-Mon provides four talkback buses for ﬂexible global and individual talkback and slate communication. V-Mon provides two listen-back inputs and outputs with cough control. It is compatible with the VMC-101 remote controller. Zaxcom’s TRX742 is claimed to be the ﬁrst plug-on style transmitter supporting all professional varieties of microphone: analogue mono, analogue stereo and AES42. It features internal backup recording, ZaxNet remote control, and a dual analogue to digital preamp with a claimed 127 decibels dynamic range. Like all technologies in Zaxcom’s TRX product line, the TRX742 uses digital transmission and is fully encrypted to eliminate the possibility of production audio interception and theft. An internal timecode-referenced audio recorder backs up all wireless transmissions on a removable microSD card. The TRX742 is powered by three AA cells and has a variable RF power output of 25, 50 or 125 milliwatts. With Zaxcom’s ZaxNet 2.4 GHz RF network, TRX742 users can control gain and audio replays remotely via a timecode reference so that multiple Zaxcom wireless systems can replay audio in sync. ZaxNet integration also allows production sound mixers to remix audio from multiple transmitters, creating a virtual multitrack playback and re-record system. The TRX742 is compatible with all Zaxcom wireless receivers and IFB / ZaxNet transmitters. 134th AES Convention If you are based in or nearer Europe than the USA, the 134th AES Convention will be held in Rome 4-7 May 2013, a ﬁrst time for that city. Convention registration details and information on this and other AES events can be seen on www.aes.org ■

Tac System’s V-Mon windows

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