In Broadcast - April 2018 - 60

www.inbroadcast.com | Vol: 8 - Issue 4 | April 2018

InSound

Audio Mixing Desks
Contributing Editor Jim Evans rounds up the latest news from leading console manufacturers...

t NAB this month, Solid State
Logic will highlight v2.0 software
for its System T broadcast audio
production platform. System T includes
a range of consoles, remote hardware &
software interfaces, processor engines,
and I/O, all designed from the ground
up to be "part of a next generation IP
network-based broadcast production
environment". With a collection of
high profile installations around the
world already operational, System
T is proving the benefits of IP-based
production workflow today.
In Las Vegas, SSL will showcase a
new System T v2.0 software release
that introduces major additions,
including immersive audio, 'appified'
software, and DAW control. NAB
will also see the global premiere of
the 32-channel version of the S300
compact broadcast console.
SSL's
immersive
audio
implementation for System T places
support for ATSC 3.0, Dolby Atmos,
and MPEG-H at the heart of the console
architecture. With the emergence
of 3D Immersive Audio in broadcast
as well as in film, SSL's new threeaxis co-ordinate panning for System
T incorporates two or four-channel
overhead speakers into the available
channel and bus formats. As well as
positioning mono and stereo sources
in a 3D sound field, System T can
accept multichannel 3D sources and
fine tune their spatial components as
they are added to the final production
mix. This is essential in multilingual
sports productions where effects and
ambience multichannel 3D 'beds' will
be used extensively as the basis of the
individual programme mixes.
German manufacturer Lawo is
set to announce a number of new

A SportsNet New York re-fit included two new audio control rooms, both with Solid State Logic System T networked audio broadcast
production systems, and a fully redundant Dante Audio-over-IP Ethernet-based networking infrastructure

products at NAB this month.
Meanwhile, Professional Audio &
Television (PAT) report that they
have delivered, configured and
commissioned a Lawo Nova73 and
a Lawo crystal console including
compact engine for the Joan
Sutherland Theatre in the Sydney
Opera House via lead integrator The
Downer Group.
The Lawo Nova73 Core has been
configured as an mc² Mix Engine. Used
as the central audio router for the
Joan Sutherland Theatre, the Nova73
is combining MADI, RAVENNA and
Dante signals, along with traditional
analogue and AES by way of a Lawo
DALLIS I/O Frame. Lawo's powerful
mxGUI is used as the primary control
interface for the router, allowing users

to load snapshots for different room
configurations, while also offering user
manual adjustments of signal flows
and parameters.
The system is completed with a
VistoolMK2-equipped Lawo crystal
console, to provide a simplified tactile,
or customisable on-screen, mixing
surface. This allows for basic use of the
JST for situations such as rehearsals
or simple presentations. The Crystal
engine communicates with the Nova73
via RAVENNA.
At ISE 2018, Yamaha unveiled
the new RIVAGE PM7 Digital Mixing
System. The central component
of the RIVAGE PM7 system is the
CSD-R7 digital mixing console. The
same size as RIVAGE PM10's control
surface, the CSD-R7 has the DSP

The central component of Yamaha's RIVAGE PM7 system is the CSD-R7 digital mixing console

engine built in. This delivers enhanced
portability and system flexibility, while
maintaining high operability and
the same exceptional, flexible user
experience.
Featuring 120 input channels,
60 mix buses, 24 matrices and a
comprehensive selection of 48 topquality plug-ins, RIVAGE PM7 provides
a similar mixing capacity to RIVAGE
PM10.
A Dual Console function also allows
the CSD-R7 to be connected to the
RIVAGE PM10 system CS-R10 or CSR10-S control surfaces. This means
that, for example, a CS-R10-S can be
used at Front of House, sidestage
for mixing monitors or as a sidecar
expansion console, depending on
space and system scale requirements.
Version 2.0 of the RIVAGE PM series
firmware will include a number of
new features such as 5.1 surround and
mix minus capability for broadcast
applications, Rupert Neve Designs
Portico
5045
Primary
Source
Enhancer, the Dual Console function,
DSP mirroring (RIVAGE PM10 only)
and more.
Also in Amsterdam, the
company announced updated,
Version 2 firmware for RIVAGE
PM10. The new firmware delivers

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