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Smart AV Announces The Professional Series of Consoles (8/3/2006)

The Professional series of consoles offer all the power and ergonomic advantages of the Elite series in six tailor-made mixing and post-production consoles at a lower price point.

Professional series consoles are divided into two product ranges, the Mix range and the Post range. All consoles are functionally similar but vary in the number of faders, number of channel strips, and the presence of workstation controls.

Professional Series Mix Consoles

Designed for the most demanding of mix applications, the Mix range of the Professional series offers unprecedented control for any environment where large numbers of channels need to be controlled. The optional ARC Layer option allows three times this number of channels to be controlled for each product.

For theatre, club or house of worship environments, the Smart Console integrates with the Peavey Nion or Klotz Digital Vadis engines to provide powerful, flexible and robust live mixing packages.

For music mixing and production, the Mix range of Professional Smart Consoles, offer control of Packages such as Apple's Logic, Merging's Pyramix, for an unprecedented level of DAW control and integration.

P48 Mix 8 48-144* channels, 8 faders and 8 fully loaded channel strips

P48 Mix 16 48-144* channels, 16 faders and 8 fully loaded channel strips

P72 Mix 24 72-216* channels, 24 faders and 16 fully loaded channel strips

Professional Series Post Consoles

Designed for the high pressure, time-constraint dominated world of post-production, the Post 4, Post 8 and Post 16 offer all the tools you need to power through your project.

In conjunction with engine packages such as Pyramix, Nuendo (as well as offering HUI control of Pro-tools) the Smart Consoles allow Post Facilities to increase turnover, reduce operator fatigue and produce better mixes.

P48 Post 4 48-144* channels, 4 faders, 4 fully loaded channel strips, workstation controls

P48 Post 8 48-144* channels, 8 faders, 8 fully loaded channel strips, workstation controls

P72 Post 16 72-216* channels, 16 faders, 8 fully loaded channel strips, workstation controls

Post series consoles feature workstation controls which consist of 95 user programmable buttons and a high resolution jog wheel allowing fast and mouse-less editing from the mix position.

* Any Professional series console is available with the ARC Layer option. This expands the number of channels accessible from the ARC up to 216 (P72) or 144 (P48).

Utilising ARC Technology, Smart Consoles are an entirely new breed of console that set a new standard of ergonomic efficiency associated with mixing and editing large numbers of channels.

ARC Technology uses a physical ARC to present and unify the functions of interrogation and channel selection into a spatially fixed array providing instant access to any channel or combination of channels. Simply touch the strip, the desired channel and the channels surrounding it immediately appear in front of the operator, as though he/she had instantaneously moved in front of those channels on a traditional long console. With this single touch, 800 previously out of reach controls snap to within reach. Alternatively, the sound engineer can access channels in any order as easily and as quickly as a musical director can point to his players.

Coupled with the leading industry audio engines, Smart Console's allow users a extremely high level of control and integration allowing faster mixing, higher facility throughput and lower operator fatigue.

Key Professional Series console features:

* High resolution, touch sensitive motorised faders. * Flexible and dynamically updated control of fader groups. * Channel strips populated with a host of dedicated controls to reduce operator confusion and navigational keystrokes. * Fully multi-stem and surround capable with joystick and dedicated buttons for assign and monitoring of up to 6 mix stems each of which up to 5.1 wide. * Self assigning - meaning the next control is typically already called to the surface. * Touch sensitive ARC allows channel selection, interrogation and update of parameters as easily as pointing to channels you need. * Touch sensitive screen for control of additional channel parameters as well as plug-ins. * Talkback section featuring microphone and multi-destination control buttons. * Monitor section allowing selection of 12 discrete sources as well as 3 speaker selects, dim, reference and mono fold-down buttons. * Dual redundant locator controls as well as full featured timecode and locate functions. * Scene management section with 1,000,000 scenes, comprehensive parameter enabling matrix and programmable crossfade times.

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