50 Friday 13.09.13 theibcdaily
Audio For Broadcast Jünger goes modular
Jünger Audio By Will Strauss
Jünger Audio is to significantly alter the way that it markets its audio processing technology, separating its hardware from its featureset so that it can provide customers with individually tailored products.
The new strategy will see the dynamics specialist’s hardware marketed as universal processing platforms while established brands such as T*AP, M*AP and V*AP are used to identify different application packages.
Explaining the move, Jünger
Audio’s managing director Peter Pörs said: “There is now a trend among some of our customers to use products like the T*AP [Television Audio Processor] for applications such as radio or
PA. Our new strategy acknowledges this and allows Jünger Audio’s highly recognised functionality packages previously known as T*AP and M*AP to live on in
common hardware. “By using a universal
processing platform, the new modularity of our product range will get as close as possible to each customer’s workflow,”
Pörs added.
In practice, the sales process will see customers choose their processor and specify the application area they want to address – be it radio, TV,
Modular citizen: The new Jünger Audio marketing strategy includes introduction of universal processing platform
production or post production – before Jünger Audio delivers the combined hardware and software package. The hardware will be capable of handling transcoding and routing, as well as audio processing, and will offer various methods of control including through automation or third party equipment. Managing audio loudness with the non-destructive Level Magic algorithm will be one of the available features, along with 3G, HD and SD SDI embedded audio handling, with high quality limiters, compressors, delays and equalisers.
The modular approach will allow for specific coding hardware to decode, encode or transcode Dolby-E, Dolby-D (AC-3) and Dolby Digital plus (E-AC-3), as well as HE-AAC formats. 10.A49
Super Nova73 HD Lexicon onboard Lawo
The new compact router from Lawo, Nova73 HD packs quite a punch for its size, according to the manufacturer. Standing at just 7RU high, it is said to offer outstanding routing and digital signal processing capacity as well as the ability to function either as a standalone device or as a core for one of the mc2 series of its digital mixing consoles.
When combined with the mc56 console in particular, the result is said to be a compact and potent package. Anyone who chooses a Nova73 HD will benefit from its serviceability and an easy- to-operate user interface, Lawo says. Its HD technology offers everything you would expect from a modern router, too: 96kHz operation; Dolby-E compatibility; and clock- synchronised switching to video frames or internal DSP. 8C71
The right kind of Hum Emsytech
Peak Limiter.
By Paul Watson Hummingbird Loudness is a new and comprehensive software suite from Emsytech for embedded systems, which has been designed to manage loudness in a broadcast or video delivery.
It is composed of several modules such as a fast Loudness Meter (compliant with ITU BS.1770-3, EBU R128, ATSC A/85 and ARIB TR-B32), quality Live and File ALC, and what the company claims is a state-of-the-art True
In addition, it can handle loudness metadata in AAC, MPEG1 Layer 2 and (E-) AC-3 without having to go through any unwanted decode/encode process.
The Hummingbird Loudness solution is primarily available on Intel x86, ARM Cortex A and Analog Devices’ SHARC processors, and software can be adapted on demand for other platforms. Emsytech offers audio signal
processing software for embedded platforms in the digital TV, radio, multimedia and mobility fields. 8.D82
Studer
By Paul Watson According to Studer, its decision to include Lexicon effects on its compact Vista 1 console will greatly expand the system’s application potential – and it has a point: with an integrated VistaFX engine, it looks as if Vista 1 will now have more appeal in live and theatrical production environments. VistaFX is a suite of effects
processing engines capable of providing high-quality world- renowned Lexicon effects, Studer says. It was released last year as an external engine for the Vista 5 and Vista 9 consoles ranges, but on Vista 1, everything is integral to the console’s DSP system, so no external signal connection or patching is required. The new functionality is available as a software upgrade to existing consoles as well as provided as standard in new systems, and without any loss of mix processing power or I/O capacity. In Vista 1, eight FX
processors are available from two internal FX engines to be patched or inserted onto channels or groups, which can then be assigned by the user to
provide mono, stereo or four- channel effects processors. The latter four-channel mode is especially useful on surround signals where effects may be applied to the four surround channels: L/R/Ls/Rs. Control and adjustment is achieved through standard Studer Vistonics operations, and assignment to a channel or bus is made in the patching windows, using the Channel Insert Point. Touching the FX icon opens up the FX parameter view on the Vistonics area, all
ready for tweaking. Available Lexicon FX types include reverb, chorus/flanger, delay, resonance, reverse pitch shift/pitch effects, and there are hundreds of different presets available with up to 16 adjustable parameters on each one. In addition, FX parameters can be copied/pasted between channels and in and out of the Clipboard Library, where they are stored as part of the snapshot/cue automation system for quick recall. 8.D60
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