Calrec To Highlight Its Argo Audio Mixing Control Platform

Calrec’s award-winning Argo audio mixing management platform, which received NAB 2023 Product of the Year, can be highlighted at this 12 months’s NAB.

On present for the primary time would be the new, diminished top variant of Argo-S, our versatile and scalable IP-native mixer management floor. This variant combines the meter-bridge and contact UI right into a single row of shows, with customers capable of change between Calrec Assist full Web UI and full meters on any part, on-the-fly. It maintains Argo’s everything-from-everywhere ethos of flexibility, customization, ergonomics, resilience, and multi-user workflows in a type issue that may match within the tightest of environments, or as a drop-in substitute for smaller consoles. It’s additionally appropriate for functions the place low-profile or higher line-of-sight over the floor is required. Like its bigger Argo siblings, every 12-fader vast part is absolutely impartial when it comes to processing capabilities, path management entry, energy provides and connectivity, that means there is no such thing as a reliance on any particular person part.

Designed to adapt to altering manufacturing wants, Calrec’s Argo Q and the Argo S mannequin signify a brand new strategy to audio mixing, with a versatile management philosophy that breaks the standard geographic tie traces between processing and management.

Argo is absolutely modular with interchangeable {hardware} panels and makes use of Calrec’s time-served Assist UI at its core. This implies that whether or not you’re engaged on bodily {hardware} panels or on a distant GUI, the person interface is each acquainted and simple to drive. Its modular panel system encourages broadcasters to adapt floor {hardware} to satisfy their distinctive necessities, with two mid-level rows of interchangeable panels on the bigger Argo Q mannequin, and one, mid-level row on the Argo S mannequin.

Argo’s structure gives unparalleled system resilience, the floor shielded from a single level of failure with every self-contained, 12-fader part benefitting from a redundant energy provide and devoted processor. This system flexibility additionally means these self-contained sections could be related collectively utilizing both native or vast space networks, ideally suited for distributed productions. As an instance, a buyer can have a 48-fader important console in London and a 12-fader FX floor in New York related to a core in Paris, permitting them to work in no matter means they need.

Calrec has additionally launched a complete system of person templates to immediately change the {hardware} person interface to satisfy altering necessities or person preferences. Argo’s bodily management floor can be extra streamlined, utilizing optically bonded touchscreens to supply unequalled visible suggestions and velocity of entry. Soft panels present a richer person expertise and {hardware} panels enable customers to construct definable features and apply these as templates – this helps operators transfer across the floor quicker and makes it extra intuitive. Argo’s panels are additionally interchangeable and could be positioned wherever they’re wanted. This makes it simple to develop and adapt the console to particular person necessities and it means the desk can simply be break up for sub mixing or mixing in different places.

Also being featured at NAB this 12 months is Calrec’s ImPulse1 IP audio processing and routing engine — a smaller, but highly effective, cost-effective ST2110 model of the industry-established ImPulse. ImPulse1 is a compact 1U resolution, with an optionally available second core for redundancy, and a brand new 128 enter channel DSP pack providing entry-level pricing.

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