Following the Quantum 338, DiGiCo has announced the Quantum 225DS mixing console, extending its Quantum range in a compact and robust worksurface.
Quantum 225DS incorporates all of the design features introduced in 2020 with the Quantum 338, and uses three large-scale, seventh-generation FPGAs to continue the Quantum legacy.
‘The console merges tried and tested workflows with immense processing muscle, bold innovation and all of the Quantum features, giving you the ultimate tool set,’ the company says. Quantum 225DS brings two 17-inch, 1000 nit, high-brightness multitouch screens with both a meter bridge and soft quick select buttons for quick and intuitive operation. Forty-one individual TFT LCDs display channel information and metering, bank information, macros and more to guide users to the controls needed. There are also 25 100mm touch-sensitive faders in two banks of 12, plus a dedicated user-assignable master fader with high-resolution metering.
The 225DS supports upt o 72 input channels with 36 buses and a 12x12 matrix, as well as Mustard Processing channel strips, Spice Rack plug-in style native FPGA processing, Nodal Processing and True Solo features as standard.
Despite being a smaller format console, connectivity includes local I/O in shape of eight analogue inputs, eight analogue outputs and two AES I/O (four channels). Quantum 225DS offers two redundant Madi In/Out ports at 48kHz, which can also be configured as four Madi I/O. At 96kHz, this acts as two Madi I/O with full channel counts.
The console offers the option to add a single or dual loops of Optocore. On each loop, which is 504 channels of audio, there can be up to 14 DiGiCo racks, or a combination of racks and tie-lines around the loop. With dual Optocore loops, that totals 1,008 Optocore channels of audio and 28 racks running. In addition, the engine has a 48-channel UBMadi interface to connect a laptop via USB for 48 channels of recording and playback.
There are also two dedicated DMI slots to accommodate the growing family of DiGiCo DMI card options. Allowing the console connectivity to be configured for the demand of a tour or event, operators may plug in a Dante module, or the latest automatic mic mixing module. Each dedicated DMI slot provides an additional 64x64 I/O.
There is also an option to add Waves connectivity to utilise SoundGrid processing, giving 64 x 64 additional I/O.