Arkona amplifies Bladerunner’s audio capabilities with new options and functionalities to be launched at NAB 2024

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Arkona Technologies GmbH, supplier of IP core infrastructure options for top-tier broadcast productions, has introduced plans to increase its Bladerunner platform with options geared toward audio workflows, particularly mixing and sign processing. Arkona will probably be demonstrating each an audio mixer accessible as an choice, and a devoted audio mixer and DSP occasion powered by the corporate’s AT300 FPGA Programmable Acceleration Care (PAC) at NAB in sales space SU 6037.

Designed round a extremely versatile and modular software program framework, Bladerunner contains a collection of reside broadcast manufacturing software program and {hardware} instruments for skilled productions together with audio/video routing, compression and processing. The platform, designed for the trendy broadcast facility, the place flexibility and scalability are important, operates on Arkona’s AT300 FPGA PAC. It permits for the creation, management and deletion of all processing capabilities on the fly by means of the corporate’s web-based UI, open APIs, in addition to by means of NMOS IS-04/-05.

New AMIX audio mixer – New choice for IP Gateway and Router (IPGR)

At NAB 2024, Arkona is introducing AMIX, an audio mixer accessible as an choice on the corporate’s IP Gateway and Router (IPGR) software program software. AMIX supplies as much as 64 mono and 64 stereo combine cases in addition to the flexibility to simply create combine minus (N-1) feeds. AMIX can simply exchange sub-mixers for any dimension manufacturing whereas concurrently performing IP and SDI video processing comparable to routing, coloration correction, HDR-SDR color-space conversion and extra.

New IP audio engine (IPA) – Taking it additional

Arkona is cranking up Bladerunner’s audio capabilities to a good larger degree by making a brand new IP Audio Engine (IPA) software comprised of a devoted audio mixer and DSP accessible on the AT300 PAC. With a complete capability of as much as 16,384 mono audio inputs and 12,288 outputs the IPA gives compression and multi-band equalizers with true peak monitoring and loudness metering along with mono, stereo and multi-channel mixes. Capable of dealing with as much as 8192 faders it’s highly effective sufficient to assist mixing for essentially the most demanding reside broadcast occasions.

The firm says: “With the introduction of AMIX and IPA we’re turning up the quantity to 11 on the audio performance of the Bladerunner ecosystem. With simply assignable mixing and DSP cases, Bladerunner now supplies a totally built-in audio and video infrastructure for essentially the most demanding reside productions.”