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Yamaha CL3 compact live digital console


EUROPE Yamaha CL-ebrates 25 years of digital


Trio of compact live consoles launched at Prolight + Sound, writes Erica Basnicki


TWENTY-FIVE YEARS ago, Yamaha stepped into the world of digital mixing with the launch of the DMP7 console. At Prolight + Sound 2012, Yamaha celebrated its silver anniversary by launching the new CL series of consoles. At a packed press conference announcing the launch, Yamaha Commercial Audio’s European marketing director Nick Cook stated that the CL series was Yamaha’s reaction to the current economic circumstances. Many observers were anticipating a higher specified, large-format mixing


we have looked long and hard at what type of products we should bring to market at this time,” explained Cook. He continued: “Yamaha has


always strived to look at what the market needs at any time and deliver the audio solution that not only fits the application requirements, but does so at an affordable – and in some cases game changing – price.”


The line-up comprises three consoles, the CL1, CL3 and CL5, founded on the Centralogic user interface first introduced in the M7CL. The series is scalable,


“The recession has lasted longer and is hitting harder than was foreseeable in all spheres of business. The pro-audio sector is not immune ”


Nick Cook, Yamaha Commercial Audio


system from the Japanese innovator, rather than a compact range. “The recession has lasted longer and is hitting harder than was foreseeable in all spheres of business. The pro- audio sector is not immune, so


ranging from 48 to 72 mono and eight stereo inputs. Up to eight of the two new rack-mountable I/O units, the Rio3224-D and Rio1608-D, can be used in a variety of configurations, communicating via a scalable Audinate Dante digital audio


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network. Multiple CL series consoles can share control of the same I/O rack unit. Reportedly, the CL consoles are the first to feature built-in Dante networking as a standard feature. Every CL console customer will also receive a copy of Steinberg’s Nuendo Live, a new multitrack live sound recording software based on the Nuendo audio workstation. It features 32-bit floating-


point resolution, up to 192kHz recording sample rates, a single-window user interface, a 60-second pre-record buffer, an unlimited number of recording channels, multitrack output option for virtual soundchecks, and auto-save. Additionally,


tracks are created on startup and armed simultaneously while easy marker track management helps to create markers on the fly. As PSNEuropeApril went to


press, Yamaha revealed that pre- orders of the series had “massively surpassed” expectations. “Pre-orders for the CL5 had outstripped projections by two to one on the first day of the show alone,” revealed Karl Christmas, Yamaha senior manager, Commercial Audio (UK). Over 50 high-profile sales and rental companies have made an early investment in the series, including Orbital in the UK and Neumann & Muller in Germany. www.steinberg.net www.yamahacommercialaudio.com


Interest was high during the launch of the CL series in Frankfurt


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