Sound Devices has announced Astral v8.20, an ‘expansive and impactful’ set of feature upgrades for the Astral Wireless all-in-one RF toolkit. Designed to address all aspects of wireless operations in location sound, live sound, and fixed installations the update brings over-the-air firmware updates, new features and a wide range of web app usability enhancements.
Update features include Multiple Astral Outpost Network support that allows the ARX16 and ARX32 to connect to up to eight outputs for command and control of transmitters across extended NexLink coverage, a new TV Channel Finder that automatically detects and displays TV channels to avoid assigning frequencies within the 6MHZ–8MHz bandwidth.
Additionally, a new Whip Antenna Length menu tells users the necessary length of a whip antenna by frequency range, and several quality-of-life improvements are added to the web app for the RTSA and Receiver Channel View.
‘Sound Devices is committed to delivering not only Global RF solutions, but also making RF workflows for RF engineers easier and more robust,’ says Sound Devices VP of Sales, Andy ‘Baggy’ Robinson. ‘The Astral Wireless series is the most full-featured RF toolkit ever created for the wireless professional and v8.20 greatly expands its ability to deliver in the most critical situations. We’re are eager to see RF engineers around the world push these new features to the limits of what they can achieve.”
New Features:
- Support for simultaneous NexLink communication via multiple Astral Outposts.
- New firmware update menu includes the ability to wirelessly update Astral transmitter firmware.
- The ability to exclude specified frequency ranges from the AutoAssign and manual assign process.
- New Whip Antenna Length tool.
- TV Channel Finder algorithm.
- Improvements to the Web App.
More: www.sounddevices.com