Riedel Communications has launch its Smart Audio & Mixing Engine (SAME), an all-new audio processing software suite that aims to ‘redefine the broadcast audio landscape with unparalleled workflow automation and flexibility’.
Designed to meet the evolving demands of modern audio workflows, SAME is based on the latest commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) server cluster technology to deliver processing capacity that scales with production needs.
With a suite of more than 30 advanced audio processing tools and mixers – spanning automatic leveling and dynamic equalisation to 5.1 upmixing, loudness meters, or signal analysers – it addresses a wide range of applications including voiceover, automated mixing, audio monitoring and in-line process insertion.
‘SAME will open up a whole world of new workflows for the audio production industry,’ says Senior Product Manager, Roger Heiniger. ‘With its powerful automation mechanisms and smart processing tools like fingerprint-based dynamic equalization and automatic loudness-based levelling, it allows professionals to focus on creativity and content rather than getting bogged down by technicalities. We’re excited to see how SAME will enhance productions of all sizes.’
SAME’s Audio Pilot ensures that audio engineers can always maintain the ‘big picture’ of all running productions, offering a comprehensive view of multilocation productions for centralised monitoring and management. The Audio Pilot also introduces a process-independent and mixer-independent audio monitoring system with fully automated monitoring path switching, allowing users to select and listen to any running process instantly across the entire system without the need for manual signal routing.
The new Riedel Stage management platform simplifies the mixing and matching of devices, roles and personnel without the need for protocol or IP knowledge, streamlining operations and reducing set-up and training times. This management backend features strong remote assistance capabilities for remote or at-home production scenarios and is compliant with the highest IT security standards. The browser-based tool also features extensive user-rights management with integration to corporate directories and third-party identity providers (LDAP/AD, SAML etc). Because processing and I/O routing are not tied to a physical location, SAME enables rapid switching between different workspaces and production areas and avoids processing resource bottlenecks and access rights problems associated with traditional monolithic processing solutions.
‘SAME is designed by audio experts for audio experts as a high performance, flexible audio toolkit to solve a variety of live production needs as they arise’, says Executive Director Product Management, Jake Dodson. ‘Together with our new Stage configuration, management and operation platform, SAME heralds a new era of server-based solutions, addressing the industry’s need for flexible deployment models with the ability to flexibly scale in capacity.’
More: www.riedel.net/audio
