Yamaha Announces StageMix Giveaway IPad App For M7CL

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Nov 24, 2010 12:10 PM, By Jack Kontney

At the AES Convention, Yamaha demonstrated its new, openly existing StageMix, an iPad focus for use with its M7CL digital audio console . When related to the manage aspect around a third-party wireless router, the user can manage the blend from an iPad, a rarely utilitarian function for tasks similar to guard EQ and network tuning. The new app is existing at the iTunes App Store.

Yamaha mixer product executive Kevin Kimmel offering a personal product debate in the company's demo room off the AES uncover floor. "We voiced StageMix this fall, but AES is unequivocally the initial chance for people to examine it out first-hand," he said. "The thought at the back this is to enable guard engineers to obviously mount next to the artist in front of their theatre monitors whilst EQ-ing the mix. The iPad aspect gives us the skill to emanate a multitouch blending experience that's very intuitive, only similar to the M7 itself."

The StageMix GUI shows fader chain together with metering, and channels may be tranquil in groups of eight. In practice, there is very small visible latency between iPad gestures and their execution. One underline is the accessibility of a "long-fader" mode. "If you're carrying out in-ear mixes or only need larger fortitude in your faders, the long-fader mode lets you literally do changes as small as a tenth of a decibel on your faders," Kimmel said. "You only spin off a few of the graphics, and those resources are poured in to larger fader resolution."

The app's multitouch abilities add the skill to squeeze multi-part faders together with creation EQ adjustments. A "pinch" move, for instance, may be used to change the EQ, with one-touch skill to lapse to prosaic or a preset value. Once the EQ is set, it may be locked. Another underline inside of StageMix is the skill to store several IP and MAC addresses for wireless routers, so an operative knows that his iPad will talk with up to 5 not similar M7CL consoles without reconfiguring.

Yamaha moreover voiced encouragement for ASIO streaming on the ultimate chronicle of the console, the M7CL-ES. "Basically, this is an ascent to the upgrade," Kimmel said. "The implementation of the ASIO protocol enables the ES chronicle of the console to exercise 48 channels of recording and playback with probably any third-party DAW on the market." The ASIO Stream function requires 3 card slots on the back of the M7CL-ES for connection to SP168ES theatre boxes, that still leaves 3 more slots for other duties.

According to Kimmel, these developments vigilance a renewed life is to Yamaha M7CL. "There's a reason the M7 is such a renouned console," he said. "Yamaha has always been committed to discussion the needs of our customers, and integrating features similar to the StageMix app and ASIO streaming go on to bring uninformed worth to this proven blending platform."