ORLANDO —DiGiCo announced plans to feature recent additions to its digital console line at the 2009 InfoComm show, including the CS-D5, SD7 and SD8 consoles, which use DiGiCo’s Stealth Processing engine.
The company also expects to showcase its MACH2 Software Suite for the SD7—now available onboard all new SD7 consoles, and as a free upgrade to all existing SD7 owners.
DiGiCo launched the SD7 about a year and a half ago, and said the development of the MACH2 Software Suite will give the SD7 will further empower the Super FPGAs in DiGiCo’s Stealth Processing engine.
MACH2’s features include DiGi-TuBe (a Super FPGA preamp tube emulation, with full drive and bias control, available on all 256 processing paths, including channels, auxes, groups or matrix); Dynamic EQ (individually switchable and now available on all 256 processing paths and on all four EQ bands); Multi Band Compressor (on all 256 paths, adding an extra two compressors per path); Effects (including 16 floating point stereo Super FPGA Stealth digital reverbs); Talk-to-buss with dim function (a dedicated talkback channel that can be routed to any aux buss); 8 bands of Parametric EQ (available for all 128 busses for auxes, groups and matrix adding 512 bands of EQ to the console).
Since its launch in late 2007, the SD7 system has supported tours from Janet Jackson to Madonna to The Who. The SD8, launched in 2008, has a fixed architecture and employs a smaller Super FPGA than the SD7, but also benefits from the advances incorporated into the DiGiCo D Series and SD7 for an attractive price/performance profile. The SD8 incorporates the Stealth Digital Processing based on Super FPGA and combined with Analogue Devices Tiger SHARCS in the Tiger SHARC® FX engine.
DiGiCo’s CS-D5 live digital mixing system, meanwhile, includes 48 busses, 128 input channels (which can be increased with extra DSP to 160), 224 inputs and 224 outputs, 41 touch sensitive faders, four touch screens and multi-operator ability. The CS-D5’s MADI (standard) and Optocore™ (optional) interfaces add to the CS-D5’s versatility, and the ability to share stage racks helps to integrate live performance, broadcast, FOH and monitors and to eliminate the need for mic splitters. The CS-D5 also features 40-bit floating-point audio processing.
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