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<blockquote data-quote="Marc Lopez" data-source="post: 132551" data-attributes="member: 7061">Re: Marc Lopez of Yamaha Commercial Audio Q&amp;AHi Justice,I don&#039;t want to spoil all the anticipation... <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin&nbsp; &nbsp; :D"&nbsp; data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />~:-D~:grin:There is a lot more to tell, but we&#039;ll have to wait a while longer for those details.&nbsp; What I can say is that the control surface is very luxurious in person – roomy and ergonomic, everything is accessible in a comfortable arm&#039;s length.&nbsp; The new faders feel great and all the switches and encoders are what you would expect from a system of this caliber.&nbsp; It&#039;s much more grand in person than the photos give it credit for.I&#039;ve been asked some questions several times which I think are worth explaining:- Can the system process more than 144 channels?&nbsp; Yes, in a future update, Engine Cascade mode (using 2 engines) will allow 288 inputs to be mixed to the 72 Mix+36 Matrix+Stereo A/Stereo B outputs.- Why does the system use TwinLANe for its primary I/O Transport versus Dante like the other Yamaha consoles?&nbsp; The basic system specification is 144 inputs, 72 Mix + 36 Matrix + Stereo A + Stereo B = 256 potential channels on the console network before any direct outputs or external insert I/O.&nbsp; The current Gigabit Dante specification allows for 256 channels at 96kHz.&nbsp; We needed a transport that would have more channel count &quot;headroom&quot; to account for direct outputs and external inserts, or if there was more than one system on the network with additional unique I/O requirements.&nbsp; TwinLANe can handle 400 channels at 96kHz/32-bit with only 12 samples of latency (0.125ms).&nbsp; TwinLANe is not intended to be an industry-wide &quot;standard&quot;, but rather think of it as the console &quot;backbone infrastructure&quot;, or even a vast improvement to the PM1D 68-pin cabling.&nbsp; Yamaha understands the importance of Dante and we included Dante connectivity as a key part of the system, but we had to meet the basic technical specification of the mixing system itself.&nbsp; And because of the card slot modularity, future cards can be developed and utilized as system needs are required.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Marc Lopez, post: 132551, member: 7061"] Re: Marc Lopez of Yamaha Commercial Audio Q&A Hi Justice, I don't want to spoil all the anticipation... :D~:-D~:grin: There is a lot more to tell, but we'll have to wait a while longer for those details. What I can say is that the control surface is very luxurious in person – roomy and ergonomic, everything is accessible in a comfortable arm's length. The new faders feel great and all the switches and encoders are what you would expect from a system of this caliber. It's much more grand in person than the photos give it credit for. I've been asked some questions several times which I think are worth explaining: - Can the system process more than 144 channels? Yes, in a future update, Engine Cascade mode (using 2 engines) will allow 288 inputs to be mixed to the 72 Mix+36 Matrix+Stereo A/Stereo B outputs. - Why does the system use TwinLANe for its primary I/O Transport versus Dante like the other Yamaha consoles? The basic system specification is 144 inputs, 72 Mix + 36 Matrix + Stereo A + Stereo B = 256 potential channels on the console network before any direct outputs or external insert I/O. The current Gigabit Dante specification allows for 256 channels at 96kHz. We needed a transport that would have more channel count "headroom" to account for direct outputs and external inserts, or if there was more than one system on the network with additional unique I/O requirements. TwinLANe can handle 400 channels at 96kHz/32-bit with only 12 samples of latency (0.125ms). TwinLANe is not intended to be an industry-wide "standard", but rather think of it as the console "backbone infrastructure", or even a vast improvement to the PM1D 68-pin cabling. Yamaha understands the importance of Dante and we included Dante connectivity as a key part of the system, but we had to meet the basic technical specification of the mixing system itself. And because of the card slot modularity, future cards can be developed and utilized as system needs are required. [/QUOTE]

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