The launch of Roland’s M-5000 live mixing console signals the company’s adoption of Audinate Dante and Waves SoundGrid network/integration alongside its own REAC networking as part of the new OHRCA platform.
Roland’s partnership with Waves has resulted in the development of a SoundGrid expansion card for the M-5000 console, bringing digital Audio-over-Ethernet networking and real-time processing for live, broadcast and music production. SoundGrid technology supports uncompressed, multichannel, low-latency digital audio over Ethernet networks, with low-latency environment for high-precision audio processing.
Together with a server, a Mac or PC host computer, SoundGrid and Waves MultiRack provides access to the multitude reverbs, equalisers, compressors and other tools from Waves, as well as other SoundGrid-compatible third-party plug-ins. It also enables FOH engineers to record and perform virtual soundchecks.
‘Waves has a tremendous track record in the studio, and we are thrilled that engineers using our new console will be able to use all those same tools live as well as the additional power of SoundGrid networking – an ideal situation,’ says Roland Corporation US VP, John Broadhead.
The M-5000 live mixing console sits on the new OHRCA platform – Open, High Resolution and Configurable Architecture. This offers freely definable audio paths, supporting multiple audio protocols, with 96kHz sound quality throughout the system. The M-5000’s internal mix architecture is not fixed and can be freely defined for mixing channels, auxes, matrices, subgroup buses, mix-minus buses within a range of up to 128 audio paths allowing the user to create a console structure to suit the needs of the application.
‘Waves is pleased that live engineers working on the Roland M-5000 can now use Waves MultiRack and the SoundGrid platform, making it easier than ever to bring Waves studio-quality audio processing to the stage,’ adds Waves EVP of Sales & Marketing, Mick Olesh.
The Roland M-5000 will be available Q1 2015 with the SoundGrid optional card available in the summer.
See also:
Roland M-5000 live sound console
Roland adopts Dante networking
