CALREC AUDIO
Putting Sound In The Picture
As broadcast specialists for more than 35 years, Calrec is exclusively dedicated to excellence in audio mixing for on-air and live production. This understanding has helped Calrec develop a range of consoles relied on by the world’s most successful broadcasters.
Broadcasters are increasingly demanding more versatility and integration from their audio equipment. In the current fast paced, technologically progressive era, TV companies want to ensure that their systems can produce programmes efficiently and to the required specifications. For their audio systems to be able to achieve this, greater consideration has to be given to their networks as a whole and how efficiently they can be controlled. Calrec has designed its range of consoles to meet these demands.
AHEAD OF THE PACK
Throughout Calrec’s history, its team of innovators has anticipated major changes, and consistently provided superior products that have allowed forward-thinking broadcasters to remain one step ahead: Calrec introduced the world’s first true stereo broadcast console and the first point-source surround microphone in the 1970s, anticipating the growth of multichannel broadcast audio. Calrec produced the world’s first digitally controlled assignable broadcast console in the early 1980s, predicting the separation of control surfaces from networked processing hardware. In 2006 Calrec launched Bluefin, the world’s first console processing engine based on FPGA (Field Programmable Gate Array) technology, enabling broadcast consoles to work efficiently with true discrete-channel 5.1 surround for the first time. Bluefin2 and Hydra2 continue this
tradition. Bluefin2 provides elegant processing for 5.1 production with no resource-sharing, and Hydra2 enables broadcasters to build powerful networks and multi-studio solutions
22 November 2013 CALLISTO
Callisto is designed for broadcast professionals who need to produce creative and engrossing broadcast audio easily, but may not require the full resources of Calrec’s Apollo and Artemis audio consoles. Calrec kept the Callisto user interface simple and straightforward to ensure that Callisto’s highly intuitive user interface would be suitable for a broad range of operator levels. Users control the console via a 17-inch multitouch screen inspired by familiar tablet technology, with a straightforward interface that uses established finger gestures to navigate the system. The crisp, high- resolution display provides elegant controls and clear presentation of information.
Callisto simplifies even complex workflow tasks, such as creating mix-minus feeds, with common procedures just one tap away, while each channel strip has only the most essential mechanical controls. Callisto uses Calrec’s award-winning
Bluefin2 technology at its core, and the same
which encourage the use of third party control protocols.
THE NEXT GENERATION
The Apollo, Artemis and new Callisto consoles all leverage the increased power of modern FPGA technology, provide more digital audio
channels for 5.1 surround production, and more user-friendly control surfaces to deal with them. These control surfaces are flexible to accommodate operator’s needs - and in the case of Callisto, the intuitive and straightforward user interface simplifies tasks and speeds up workflow. This enhanced flexibility and control
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integral Hydra2 router technology as the Apollo and Artemis consoles. Bluefin2 and Hydra2 technologies are in use 24 hours a day at hundreds of facilities across the globe, and are still the most advanced audio processing technologies available.
Callisto has a pool of 180 channel
processing paths, which can be assigned as mono, stereo, or 5.1 channels. As with all Calrec consoles, there is no resource-sharing across the DSP, so all facilities are available on all channels at all times. Callisto has eight groups, four mains (all of which can be mono, stereo, or 5.1), 16 auxes, and 32 tracks.
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