Building on Calrec’s established Argo platform, the new Argo M plug-and-play SMPTE 2110 native console offers the same feature set and operational familiarity as the larger Argo Q and Argo S models in a compact 24- or 36-fader footprint for small-to-medium applications, and shares their ‘everything anywhere’ approach.
Argo M features integrated DSP processing and no networking or PTP sync required for independent operation. It also has built-in analogue and digital audio I/O and GPIO, three modular I/O slots for further expansion, and a Madi I/O port via an SFP.
‘All our broadcast customers are looking for more flexible workflows while still having the right monitoring and metering tools in front of them without the need for ancillary equipment,’ says Calrec General Manager, Sid Stanley. ‘Argo M helps them to redefine their production models and retain all that in a cost-effective way. It caters for a variety of workflows; cores and surfaces can be geographically diverse to enable remote and distributed production, as well as supporting interoperable networking and stage-box interfacing via AES67/ST2110-30 with ST2022-7 dual-network/packet merging redundancy with either 1G or 10G connectivity.’
Argo M supports 5.1.2, 5.1.4, 7.1.2 and 7.1.4. immersive paths for input channels, buses, metering and monitoring as standard, and the Calrec Assist UI for remote control on a standard web browser. Meanwhile, the Calrec Connect AoIP system manager makes IP streams easy to manage and adds essential broadcast functionality.
It is available with 304 or 356 internal DSP processing paths, while external ImPulse and ImPulse1 processing cores can expand processing capacity to 432 DSP paths as well as provide additional redundancy. This enables customers to expand Argo M as their production demands grow. With up to four Argo surfaces able to share access to a pair of redundant ImPulse cores, Argo M can also connect to an existing ImPulse core alongside other Argo surfaces to create multi-console environments. While the introduction of ImPulseV gives Argo M access to cloud-based DSP packs, with scalable and secure cloud-native DSP processing core and control software on demand.
Launched at the same time, True Control 2.0 builds on Calrec’s RP1 True Control implementation to provide expanded levels of control in two key areas.
First, it provides users with far greater levels of remote control without the limitations of mirroring or parallel controlling, with control of an expanded feature-set including EQ, dynamics, routing, direct outputs and delay.
More fundamentally, it gives broadcasters unparalleled flexibility to scale their remote productions as needed by expanding the number of products it works with. True Control 2.0 is available on Type R, ImPulseV, Argo M, Argo Q and Argo S, allowing any of these products to remotely control any other True Control 2.0 enabled product. Moreover, any one of these controller consoles can access up to five other consoles simultaneously.
True Control 2.0 enables users to control multiple consoles across different venues and extending control to Calrec’s Assist headless utility also allows broadcasters to access core functionality even when no physical faders are available.
More: http://calrec.com
