12 Live Broadcast
The introduction of broadcast software for DiGiCo mixing consoles puts the features that have made them the top choice for the Olympic Games and the world’s biggest live events in the hands of broadcast engineers.
Features like 5.1 surround sound mixing and monitoring, built-in MADI I/O as standard, video embedding options, mix- minus output per channel and a constantly expanding software platform are proving very appealing to audio engineers working in radio, TV and OB production environments. As such, DiGiCo consoles have been deployed at high profile events like Wimbledon and the 2014 Commonwealth Games, and on the sets of Saturday Morning Kitchen and Education Walthamstow. DiGiCo brings these powerful broadcast consoles to the market at a much lower cost than many other console manufacturers.
Designed and manufactured in the UK, DiGiCo consoles are known for their sound quality, processing power, large TFT LCD touchscreens, 96kHz sample rates, Stealth Digital Processing, intuitive, analogue feel and easy- to-use GUI. The power and flexibility of DiGiCo’s innovative console architecture is thanks to the sophisticated FPGA (Field Programmable Gate Array) platform that forms the core of the mixers. DiGiCo Managing Director James Gordon explains that FPGA is combined with Tiger SHARC DSP processing to offer an extremely versatile mixing platform:
“Digital consoles are usually based on a fixed architecture of DSP that is very rigid. Our FPGA technology allows the
DiGiCo Managing Director James Gordon
console to be loaded with theatre specific features one day, and then catered to a broadcast
environment the next by enabling the user to adapt the software for each application.”
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It is actually incredible that a console as compact as the SD11 can offer 5.1 mixing and monitoring
James explains that DiGiCo is able to increase the functionality of the software as the tools that compile the FPGA chips refined, by a large degree:
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“This FPGA architecture also allows us to expand the products, and we can get 25 percent more on a chip today than we could five years ago. The most recent example is with SD9, which NEP Visions used at Wimbledon this year. The desks they ordered were originally a 16-flexi bus product, and the update has made it a 24 bus desk - a 50 per cent increase in functionality! Never before has an analogue or digital desk manufacturer been able to add features and expand a product like we have.”
With the increased efficiency of FPGA comes the availability of powerful and unique features offered in small format consoles like DiGiCo’s 24-fader SD9 and the rack mountable SD11.
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