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New at IBC 2023
Making its IBC debut this year is Calrec’s ImPulse1 IP audio processing and routing engine. It’s designed as a powerful and cost-effective ST2110 solution for single console scenarios, joining the multi-console, industry-established ImPulse. Announced earlier this year, ImPulse1 is a compact 1U solution with an optional second core for redundancy and a new, 128 input channel DSP pack offering entry-level pricing.
With the introduction of ImPulse1, Calrec is offering a range of options to suit any size installation. It works with Argo Q and Argo S control surfaces, and/or Calrec Assist, a browser-based GUI, ideally suited to remote working, multi operator and/or headless operation. Cores with smaller DSP licenses can be offered without hardware redundancy. ImPulse1 is designed for small to medium single mixer applications and is offered with an all-new DSP license of 128 input channels without compromising its ST2110 capability. With a small overall form-factor, it’s immediately attractive for compact installation sites, such as outside broadcast and fly pack applications, where space is at a premium. Furthermore, it doesn’t compromise on features and DSP power; it has DSP options ranging from 128 to 384 input channels and benefits from the DSP features from the larger ImPulse core.
Also on show
Calrec’s Argo audio mixing control platform, which won NAB Product of the Year in 2023, is returning to IBC with both the Argo Q and Argo S. Calrec’s Argo is a new approach to audio mixing, with a flexible control philosophy that breaks the traditional geographic tie lines between processing and control.
Argo is fully modular with interchangeable hardware panels and uses Calrec’s time-served Assist UI at its core. This means that whether you are working on physical hardware panels or on a remote GUI, the user interface is both familiar and easy to drive. Its modular panel system encourages broadcasters to adapt surface hardware to meet their unique requirements, ensuring a richer user experience, helping operators move around the surface faster, and it means the desk can easily be split for sub mixing or mixing in other locations. Argo comes in two sizes with two mid-level rows of interchangeable panels on the larger Argo Q model, and one mid-level row on the compact Argo S model. With an expanded version of ImPulse at its core, Argo customers benefit from thousands of DSP paths, providing a futureproof solution.
Calrec has also introduced a comprehensive system of user templates to instantly change the hardware user interface to meet changing requirements and user preferences. Argo’s physical control surface is also more streamlined, using optically bonded touchscreens to provide unrivalled visual feedback, making it easy to find what you need, while being familiar to existing users.
ImPulse
ImPulse is the most powerful DSP engine on the planet and has native SMPTE 2110 connectivity, allowing up to four large consoles on one core. It’s compatible with the Calrec Assist web interface as well as Calrec’s Apollo and Artemis consoles to provide a simple upgrade path for existing Calrec customers moving to an IP domain. It provides 3D immersive path widths and panning for next-generation audio with height and 3D pan controls, flexible panning and downmixing built-in.
RP1 Remote Production
Calrec’s 2U RP1 remote production unit takes users’ favorite Calrec console anywhere in the world without ever leaving the studio. A remotely controlled processing engine like RP1 means control rooms can be used to mix feeds from multiple remote venues. Remote production models produce more live coverage with minimal resources.
Many networks around the world have been successfully using this REMI/at home production model producing the largest sporting events – in fact Calrec has more experience in REMI/at-home production models than any other audio console manufacturer.
Since July 2023, an extended DSP license has been offered as an optional upgrade path for existing RP1 customers and optional with new units. This will increase the number of virtual control faders to 72 and the DSP to:
- 96 mono equivalent channel paths
- 24 Aux send paths
- 96 Direct outputs
