Yamaha iPad app leads new launches
Published: PRODUCTS
Yamaha has launched an app designed specifically for the Apple iPad named Stagemix, which is intended for use with the M7CL48-ES digital mixing console. Included is the ability for engineers to wirelessly mix on-stage sound.
StageMix uses the iPad’s built-in WiFi functionality to directly control the M7CL48-ES console via a wireless connection point linked to the mixing console with a Cat5 cable. Boasting, says Yamaha, a straightforward, intuitive interface and making use of the iPad’s multi-touch and gesture control, the app allows users to control functions including input channel faders, parametric EQs and channel cue, the master faders; turning the mix bus on or off and more. Viewable mix parameters include input channel names and meters, mix/matrix bus names, mix bus meters and EQ input and output meters. The app is available for download from the Apple iTunes store.
Also newly announced for the M7CL-48ES is AuviTran ASIO Streamer support, which allows up to 64 channels of direct recording to Steinberg products such as Cubase and Nuendo.
Intended to make ‘high quality live multi-track recording easier than ever before’, the AuviTran ASIO Streamer brings EtherSound and Steinberg’s ASIO digital audio standards together via a single CAT5e Ethernet cable connected between an M7CL-48ES and a computer running Steinberg Cubase, Nuendo or similar DAW software. The system uses the ‘third’ Ethersound port on the M7CL-48ES, meaning no additional interface is required. Up to 48 channels can also be simultaneously played back.
AuviTran ASIO Streamer also allows any compatible Yamaha device fitted with an AuviTran AVY16-ES100 card to simultaneously record and play back 16 channels of digital audio to or from a suitable DAW-equipped PC. The software is available as a free download from the Yamaha website.
Meanwhile, the manufacturer has launched two new software control packages which allow engineers to control the M7CL V3 and LS9 consoles from Mac computers. The new packages join an already-available Mac-based editor for the PM5D. Dubbed M7CL V3 Editor V3.0.5 and LS9 Editor V2.1.3, the packages can control virtually every parameter of their respective consoles. Both are run from within the latest version of Studio Manager V2 Host (V2.3.3), which is described as providing ‘unparalleled flexibility, allowing the user to control several separate Yamaha consoles, both online and offline, simultaneously from within the same environment’. Both control packages are available for free download from the Yamaha website.
Finally, Plasa 2010 saw the reveal of the MY8-SDI-ED audio embed/de-embed card, which has been creted to help Yamaha ‘keep pace with rapid developments in broadcast technology’. The card provides input and output of HD-SDI embedded audio signals for all Yamaha digital mixing consoles and DME units.
Included in the MY8-SDI-ED’s design is a single HD/SD-SDI input, two HD/SD-SDI outputs (same signal) and one thru-output (reclocked). The card can de-embed up to two of the four audio groups (four channels per group with a total of eight channels) multiplexed in a HD-SDI signal, and embed two audio groups into an HD/SD-SDI signal for Output. Group select is via micro switches on the card’s rear panel, which also features LED indicators for SDI status.
The card is suitable for live applications, as well as studio use and emergency broadcast situations, and is housed in a standard rear panel MY card slot. Multiple cards can be accommodated to increase the I/O channel count, depending on the available card slots of the host mixer.
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