By Staff, September 30, 2003
Sennheiser Electronic Corporation is introducing the Innova SON Sy80 console at Booth 1075. Designed for live sound touring, fixed installation, and broadcast applications, the Sy80 features a brand new control surface, new software, and a unique new technology that allows users to define the function of any fader on the console.
Innova SON's Sy80 features 80 inputs, 80 outputs, 80 faders, and 48 mix busses housed in a new chassis weighing less than 176 pounds. Combined with a new version of the company's real-time console software manager, Sensoft 8, and a new DSP module built around the latest SHARC digital signal processors, the Sy80 offers greater mixing capabilities than ever before.
Sensoft 8 software introduces two new and very important features -- XFAD (patent pending) technology and the Fader Configuration System -- that allow users to define the function of each and every fader on the console surface
. For example, faders configured to control mix busses may be designated as mono, stereo or LCR, auxiliary or matrix masters, audio subgroups, or VCA group masters. A virtually unlimited number of VCA groups may be created.
Faders designated as inputs may be configured as mono, stereo or multiple XFAD expanded faders. Building on the company's philosophy that Innova SON is "the new way to watch sound," the new, unique XFAD technology goes beyond the traditional concept of layers, instead introducing the notion of "development" and "deployment" faders. An unlimited number of inputs, such as a group of drum channels, may be assigned and "stacked" beneath a single "development" fader for control by that fader. The user may then designate a "deployment" zone of faders anywhere on the console where the relative levels of individual inputs assigned to the "development" fader may be displayed when selected.
Similarly, users are presented with visual cues regarding inputs assigned to mix busses. For example, selecting a matrix buss master fader presents the engineer with the relative levels of all channel faders assigned to that matrix output.
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