Mediacorp has installed 50 newsroom production workstations equipped with Lawo Rǝlay mixing software at its newly-built Mediopolis in Singapore.
‘Broadcasters today are all buzzing about Virtual Radio, but Lawo has been pioneering virtualisation for nearly a decade, so it’s no surprise that Mediacorp chose our virtual radio mixer solution for their new facility,’ says Lawo’s Southeast Asia Sales Director, Boon Siong Tan.
The new media centre hosts facilities for 12 radio and eight TV stations, as well as originating a number of online streaming channels. The centrepiece of the facility is a 30,000-sq-ft central newsroom, designed around an open workspace concept that allows reporters, producers and talent to create content at dozens of production workstations.
To power these workstations, Lawo’s partner, Broadcast Communications International, supplied and installed 50 copies of Rǝlay VRX4 Virtual Radio Mixer software, part of a family of virtual radio mixer products which run on standard PCs. Each computer is connected to the facility’s AoIP network, giving each workstation’s Rǝlay mixer instant access to audio from network-attached devices such as playout computers, codecs and VoIP servers, as well as audio from local sources.
‘Thanks to Rǝlay, each workstation’s workflow can be identical to all the others, and is easier to manage,’ Tan says. ‘This enhances operational efficiency greatly, since any producer or presenter can now build content – interviews, news pieces or editorials – at a moment’s notice, using any available workstation.’
Rǝlay radio software enables broadcasters to build ‘virtual broadcast studios’ using current off-the-shelf PCs. The Rǝlay line includes VRX8 8-fader and VRX4 4-fader Virtual Radio Mixer, VPB Virtual Patch Bay, and VSC Virtual Sound Card software. All are AES67/Ravenna compliant, and multi-touch capable for easy, intuitive use on touchscreen PCs and laptops. Rǝlay can mix all types of native PC audio using included ASIO, WDM, WASAPI and MME drivers, as well as AES67/Ravenna streams.
Nearly 500 broadcasters have downloaded Rǝlay software since the Rǝlay webshop debuted in 2016.
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