Following the announcement of their collaboration, DirectOut and Vivivaldy have announced a custom service that permits audio professionals to easily set-up remote productions using standard internet connections.
Addressing increasing demand for remote interaction between artists and sound engineers, ViViD is a suite of consultancy and turnkey packages that include Vivivaldy VPN solutions combined with DirectOut Ravenna products – including Prodigy.MP and ExBox.RAV. DirectOut’s Ravenna implementation allows uncompressed real-time audio over IP transmission with ultra-low latency or with buffer times all the way up to 500ms.
‘Before the spreading of Covid-19, the demand for internet remote productions was already there but the pandemic has definitely increased it,’ says Luca Giaroli, responsible for ViViD at DirectOut ‘In this evolving scenario ViViD allows audio professionals to achieve this, no matter their IT knowledge.’
Prodigy.MP is used in ViViD packages equipped with microphone preamplifier modules to collect analogue audio signals at the artists’ locations while the headphone’s outputs serve for monitoring purposes. The built-in DSP also allows local equalisation and mixing at zero latency. The Vivivaldy infrastructure is capable of connecting distant locations and allows them to communicate at ultra-low latency of less than 15ms to enable live cross-monitoring.
ExBox.RAV, DirectOut’s new Ravenna-to-Madi converter feeds audio packets via the network at higher latency for secure and reliable transmission, assured also by Vivivaldy’s re-transmission mechanism. With the control software globcon the entire set-up can be managed remotely at any location on the network.
‘We see great opportunities thanks to the cooperation between our two technologies, each one empowering the other and allowing our customers to keep on working together as though they were all present in the same room or studio,’ says Vivivaldy founder, Luca Di Chio. ‘In our opinion this is the future, as it is not only a question of overcoming the limits currently imposed by the pandemic, but also to optimise audio production processes.’
ViViD packages can be purchased or rented.
More: www.directout.eu
