Crest teams up with Waves for portable hybrid mixing
Published: PRODUCTS
Peavey’s Crest Audio mixer division unveiled its Tactus digital mixing consoles at this year’s BPM Pro show. The hardware/software hybrid solution has been developed in partnership with Waves, integrating the Waves’ Soundgrid plugin suite and eMotion LV1 software mixer application with three hardware units: Tactus.FOH, Tactus.Stage and Tactus.Control.
Tactus.FOH acts as the system’s audio processing core, while the Tactus.Stage is a 32-in/16-out remote stage box with an integrated Ethernet switch for networking.
While full functionality is achievable with the software-based LV1 mixer, the third hardware component, Tactus.Control, is a motorised fader board complimenting the LV1 UI by providing moving faders, illuminated buttons and knobs for the most commonly used functions. It incorporates 16 main and two master motorised faders, as well as Mute, Cue and Select buttons and a multi-line scribble strip display, which can be made to follow screen layer selections or be locked on a layer for expanded control.