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<blockquote data-quote="Josh Millward" data-source="post: 39761" data-attributes="member: 970">Re: Toa has a digital mixerWell, there are others, Yamaha has the DSP5D and other variants of their install line of products. Of course, I work at MediaMatrix and we have had this kind of thing going on with remote control since the mid 1990&#039;s. Granted, the newer N series products, with the integration of &quot;build your own&quot; iPad user interface and &quot;build your own&quot; signal flow offers a lot of flexibility and it allows whoever is building the configurations to do it the way they want. (you want 15 parametric EQ&#039;s on every input? It seems like overkill to me, but go ahead... here are the tools.) Also, the MediaMatrix N platform supports fader packs from J.L. Cooper, if you need real handles, and you can dynamically change what channels and/or functions are attached to what handles at what times. If you wanted a complete mixing console with the NION DSP engines behind it, an Australian company called Smart AV has their Smart Console which does exactly this. One of the huge benefits of using something like the NION platform is that it is basically infinitely expandable and infinitely configurable and offers interesting options that are totally unheard of by others. In my spare time I&#039;ve been working on setting up a pair of NION n6 Dante units with 32 inputs by 16 outputs (configured in this system as 8 stereo) with a friendly user interface for live operations. I&#039;ve chosen the NIONs with Dante because I can directly connect a computer that has the Dante Virtual Soundcard via a simple wired Ethernet connection and instantly do track recording or track playback for every input channel in the system. Or, with the flexibility of Dante, I can take other input devices that connect to the Dante network and just bring them into the system via the network connection instead of being required to use analog sources. This is an exciting little project and it will be fun to give it a try one of these days.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Josh Millward, post: 39761, member: 970"] Re: Toa has a digital mixer Well, there are others, Yamaha has the DSP5D and other variants of their install line of products. Of course, I work at MediaMatrix and we have had this kind of thing going on with remote control since the mid 1990's. Granted, the newer N series products, with the integration of "build your own" iPad user interface and "build your own" signal flow offers a lot of flexibility and it allows whoever is building the configurations to do it the way they want. (you want 15 parametric EQ's on every input? It seems like overkill to me, but go ahead... here are the tools.) Also, the MediaMatrix N platform supports fader packs from J.L. Cooper, if you need real handles, and you can dynamically change what channels and/or functions are attached to what handles at what times. If you wanted a complete mixing console with the NION DSP engines behind it, an Australian company called Smart AV has their Smart Console which does exactly this. One of the huge benefits of using something like the NION platform is that it is basically infinitely expandable and infinitely configurable and offers interesting options that are totally unheard of by others. In my spare time I've been working on setting up a pair of NION n6 Dante units with 32 inputs by 16 outputs (configured in this system as 8 stereo) with a friendly user interface for live operations. I've chosen the NIONs with Dante because I can directly connect a computer that has the Dante Virtual Soundcard via a simple wired Ethernet connection and instantly do track recording or track playback for every input channel in the system. Or, with the flexibility of Dante, I can take other input devices that connect to the Dante network and just bring them into the system via the network connection instead of being required to use analog sources. This is an exciting little project and it will be fun to give it a try one of these days. [/QUOTE]

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