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OneMix Provides Personal Customised
Monitoring iPad App For iLive System
Allen & Heath has launched iLive OneMix, the latest addition to a family of control options for the iLive
digital mixing system…

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neMix is an iPad app that gives
musicians wireless control of
their personal monitor mix. Derived
from the iLive MixPad app, OneMix
locks control to a single aux mix,
providing instant access to a
customised easy-to-use monitor
mix environment.
Multiple iPads can be set up by
an Admin User to give numerous
musicians personalised monitor
control without affecting each other
or the FoH main mix. A musician’s
own aux monitor mix is assigned
and locked into the ‘My Mix’ layer,
and a selection of input splits
dedicated to the individual musician
can be added.
Similarly, all other instrument send
levels can be assigned to any of the
three extra layers, allowing unique
personal monitoring configuration.
The range of accessible settings
is defined by custom permissions
for each layer.
When reverted to user mode,

the musician is presented with
simple-to-use access and control
of their aux master level and
processing, instrument send
levels and processing, if enabled.
Depending on the application and
the performer’s technical knowledge,
the layout and level of access can
be kept minimal or extended to a
more complex musician’s monitor
mix involving a high channel count
across multiple layers. Notably, the
mix can be tweaked and listened to
by both the user on stage and the
sound engineer at the desk, enabling
easy interaction between the two.
Up to 16 iPads running OneMix can
be connected to an iLive system.
“OneMix answers demand for a
customisable personal monitoring
solution with the capability to distil
the most complex mix environment
into very simple local control for
musicians and performers giving
them as much or as little access
to their mix as they need or can

The OneMix is an iPad app offering wireless control of a personal monitor

manage, and without risk to FOH
and other mixes. Working alongside
MixPad and our Editor software,
OneMix takes the iLive concept of

distributing control to where it is
needed a step further,” comments
Design Specification Manager,
Carey Davies.

InSOUND

Cobalt Digital’s Multi-Channel Loudness Solutions
Cobalt Digital brings multi-channel loudness processing and monitoring over IP offering maximum
compliance with minimum maintenance…

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obalt Digital, manufacturer of
award-winning 3G/HD/SDSDI conversion gear for broadcast
environments, introduced
technologies that provide an easy
path to EBU R128 and CALM
compliance at IBC.
Notable among a complement
of groundbreaking products
was the multi-award-winning
LMNTS, hailed as a breakthrough
in comprehensive transportbased loudness processing, and
SpotCheck, an innovative transport
stream compliance monitor.
Using LINEAR ACOUSTIC
Aeromax technology, Cobalt’s
LMNTS (Loudness Management
for n-Transport

Streams) represents a quantum leap
in multi-stream loudness processing
by offering an economic, consistent
solution that’s easy to integrate.
Winner of both TV Technology’s
STAR and Broadcast Engineering’s
Pick Hit awards at NAB 2012, LMNTS
performs automatic loudness
processing across many transport
streams making it ideal for MVPDs
and MSOs where a large number of
diverse programming sources must
be simultaneously controlled.
It operates at the MPEG IP
transport layer to provide a practical
loudness management solution
without the need or complexity
of external codecs

Cobalt’s SpotCheck takes the guesswork
out of loudness measurement and logging

transferring between baseband and
MPEG external interfaces.
Available in both IP and ASI
versions, LMNTS extracts and
decodes audio codec packets from
the programme stream, performs
high-quality PCM loudness
processing, and then re-encodes
and re-packets the audio within
its stream. Physically, all data
connections to LMNTS are via GigE
IP or ASI interfaces using an industrystandard IT hardware platform with
no intermediary breakouts.
Cobalt’s SpotCheck takes
the guesswork out of loudness
measurement and logging, and
facilitates EBU R128 and CALM and
compliance. SpotCheck
monitors an IP, ASI, or a
transmitted over-the-air
MPEG stream at the transmit
(emission) encode point, and
provides easy-to-use, convenient,
long-term access to loudness
records for all programming initiated

from a broadcasting facility.
Segments can be searched via
the intuitive display of loudness
plots along with date/timestamped thumbnails of the actual
corresponding programming, or can
optionally be queried and correlated
using a database relationship with
the facility as-run automation
list. SpotCheck readily pinpoints
all segments that are outside of
CALM/R128 compliance providing
documentary proof should an
erroneous complaint appear.
Ethernet control enables integration
with facility IT providing long-term
logging/thumbnail storage.
Requiring no breakout from the
MPEG stream and not affecting
the emission stream in any way,
SpotCheck provides an easily
integrated, facility-based, powerful
solution for loudness records and
compliance interrogation and
verification.

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