CDC eight V 2.4 software from Cadac made its debut at the recent Prolight + Sound Expo in Frankfurt, Germany. V 2.4 promises users additional features and functionality, including the company’s Monitor Mode and full operational support for the integrated Waves interface.
More details from Cadac (www.cadac-sound.com):
FRANKFURT, Germany – Cadac Holdings Ltd., Luton, Beds. UK. CADAC has announced the launch of V2.4 software for its flagship CDC eight sound production console at prolight+sound.
The latest software update for the company’s top of the range digital console – featuring its ground-breaking dual touch screen gesture operation user interface – brings the major operational features and innovations of the new CDC six to its larger sibling, including CADAC’s unique Monitor Mode and full operational support for the integrated Waves interface, standard on both consoles.
Monitor Mode has been developed to tackle the specific requirements of the monitor engineer – too often an after-thought on many of today’s digital consoles. When enabled, Monitor Mode gives the engineer the ability to access any of the 48 user-assignable busses and their respective contribution channels in ‘sends on fader’ mode with a single touch of the screen, making mixing a large number of monitor feeds fast and easy. The exceptional low latency of the CDC eight – sub 0.4 milliseconds from analogue inputs on stage, through the console, to analogue outputs on stage – means it is ideally specified for in-ear monitoring operation in Monitor Mode.
Additional to this is the Mix Focus feature; when any mix is ‘flipped’ into sends on faders mode, the console will only present the user with the channels that are contributing to the selected mix, negating the need to navigate through all of the inputs. It is also possible to select an input channel and ‘flip’ the outputs onto the faders, allowing a single channel to be sent to multiple destinations simultaneously via the faders.
With the integration of 64 channel I/O Waves interface and full support of Waves SoundGrid server within the consoles operating system, including display and control of the Waves GUI on the CDC eight touch screen, up to 64 channels of Waves studio-grade plug-ins can simultaneously run alongside the CDC eight’s own native effects options. Connectivity to the Waves MultiRack SoundGrid via Cat5e cable. In addition, connection via the Waves card to a laptop computer with the Waves SoundGrid Studio application installed, will provide connectivity with virtually any DAW software. This permits the use of 3rd party plug-ins, multitrack recording, playback and “virtual soundcheck”. The Waves processing is patched in the same way as any CADAC IO rack, and can be used as a send and return for effects processing, or alternatively it can be patched and used as inserts, giving great flexibility.
Each of the CDC eight’s input channels features two inputs. These can easily be configured as mic/playback and switching between them globally achieved at the touch of the screen.
