New Products Winter 2013
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NEW PRODUCTS WINTER 2013 2 PAGE 4 9 10 12 3 PAGE 12 StudioLive™ PRM1 Capture™ 2.0 StudioLive™ AI 32.4.2AI Measurement Live-Recording Active Integration Digital Mixer Microphone Software PA Systems Sceptre™ Eris™ Studio One® 2.5 ADL 700 Studio Studio Digital Audio Vacuum Tube Monitors Monitors Workstation Channel Strip 20 22 24 26 4 ™ NEW StudioLive 32.4.2AI. 32 re al channels, a wealth of new features, Wi-Fi LAN adapter included, and the 5 Active most processing power of any compact Integration. We heard it for years: “When are you coming out The powerful product 32+1 with a 32-channel mixer?” We could have just stuck digital mixer. number of XMAX™ Class A preamplifiers eight more channels onto our StudioLive 24.4.2. But ecosystem that changes how we wanted to give you much more than that. More you work and create. signal processing. More effects. Wireless connectivity. 32 New features that our customers have asked for. number of accessible channels without What’s the opposite of a bunch of products that have to resort to bank switching StudioLive 32.4.2AI is a 32-channel, don’t even know that each other exist? next-generation digital mixer featur- An ecosystem where every part of your signal ing 32 XMAX™ mic preamps, 32 chain communicates wirelessly. Seamlessly 4 channel line inputs, 4 number of subgroup buses integrated software internal FX buses with shared inter- with reverb faces and common 14 and signal-processing al- number of aux (monitor) mixes gorithms. And vastly more processing power than anything 48 x 32 input and output streams of delay, that’s come before. built-in FireWire S800 interface mute groups, To achieve that requires a real computer. Quick Scenes, a 48x34 So Active Integration is based on a cut- FireWire S800 audio interface, ting-edge OMAP™ 5 multicore, 2 GHz Cortex-A 16 number of 31-band graphic EQs pre-in- and much, much more. computer-on-a-chip. With a 32-bit, 96 kHz serted on each aux mix and main bus The new StudioLive 32.4.2AI can be wireless- multistream CPU, Wi-Fi, 100 Mb Ethernet, USB ly remotely controlled from a laptop, iPad, or iPhone/ 2.0, and lavish amounts of 532 MHz LPDDR2 SD iPod touch using the included USB WiFi module and RAM, it’s the perfect host for PreSonus’ current 2 GHz a third-party wireless router. speed of multicore OMAP 5 CPU A real multicore CPU on board.xxxx Control 14 different monitor mixes. and future hardware and software. Naturally, it ships with a powerful suite of produc- Bottom line: Active Integration is a growing tivity software: VSL-AI, SL Remote-AI, QMix™-AI, Other digital mixers have wimpy little QMix-AI handles “processor” chips. The new 32.4.2AI has a full-on it without breaking a ecosystem that delivers a highly integrated and Capture™ 2.0, and Studio One® Artist 2.5 DAW with 10,000 OMAP™ 5 multicore, 2 GHz, Cortex-A CPU that lets the digital sweat. Both of our flexible workflow on stage and in the studio. times more onboard RAM than built-in upload to a free Nimbit® account so that you StudioLive 24.4.2 (Honest! We’re not 32.4.2AI speed your workflow and improve your sound in ways newest competitors just dream kidding!) can share and sell your performances. other compact digital mixers can only dream of. of doing this. Neener, neener. Four 32-bit DSP No computer needed. Smaart® Room Analysis, effects engines 6 Dedicated USB 2.0 port and includ- System Delay and Output Check wizards …with the extended power of the Active Inte- ed Wi-Fi LAN adapter for wireless on every bus plus Spectrograph and RTA 7 communications with SL Remote-AI on every channel and bus. gration CPU: two processors loaded with rich, ™ detailed reverbs and two armed with precise for iPad and QMix -AI for iPhone. delay effects. QMix QMix QMix QMix AI AI AI AI StudioLive Six mute groups Remote-AI …with All On and All Off functions. Mute groups allow multiple channels to be muted and unmuted with a single button. With six mute groups, a FOH engineer Browsible Fat Channel Thunderbolt and can assign drum chan- See page 28 for nels to one mute group, presets are organized into 9 Dante options. the horn section to anoth- categories (DRM – Drum, BAS – Bass, StudioLive 32.4.2AI’s option card slot ships more details about er mute group, backup GTR – Guitar, KEY – Keyboards, HRN – with dual FireWire S800 ports but by the end of vocalists to a third, etc. Horns, PRC – Percussion, VOX – Vocal, 2013, you’ll be able to upgrade your 32.4.2AI the new StudioLive So when the horn section SYS – System, MIS – Misc.), so you don’t mixer to Thunderbolt for ultra-low latency takes a break, you can have to scroll through 99 presets to find computer connectivity or to Dante for easy 32.4.2AI mixer. mute the entire section and kill all those open your favorite bongo preset. networking. mics instantly. Or when the lead vocalist and guitarist come out for their Page/Plant acoustic jam, you can mute the entire drum kit at once. New, obese,double Fat Six Quick Scene buttons, Channel Info Page with… Channel with A/B compare Mixing four bands in one night and need to naming synchronization. New to StudioLive Dual memories on 54 high-pass filters; 60 gates; quickly store each scene? The Quick Scene but- 32.4.2AI is the Channel Info Page. From this 60 compressors; 60 4-band, fully tons are at your fingertips. These buttons allow screen, you can view the channel or bus number parametric EQs; and 60 limiters you to store six different scenes without having and create a custom name for each channel give you two different sets of to add them to the library and name them. Now or bus. These names are stored on StudioLive settings at any time (think dark you can get set up for total recall even faster. 32.4.2AI and are broadcast to the entire network, vs. bright overheads, for exam- so VSL-AI, SL Remote-AI, and QMix-AI will ple)—and the ability to instantly compare them. display names in the channel strips. This works In fact, it adds up to 468 different processors at the other way as well: Labeling a scribble strip your fingertips.That’s more in software will also broadcast it to the network, than double the processing including StudioLive 32.4.2AI. power of the competition, QMix QMix QMix QMix AI AI AI AI including Mixer X. StudioLive Remote-AI Full laptop control Check outputs fast Set speaker delay Kill feedback instantly Fix room acoustics iPhone monitor control Full iPad mix control Record multi-track Edit, enhance, produce Reach fans. Sell songs. PRM1 8 with ™ 9 SL Remote Measurement AI (free down- ™ ® -AI load) ® Microphone ® ® QMix Output Check ® Room Analysis ™ Upload out of Studio One Smaart System Delay ® Spectrograph Smaart with 2.0 Studio One Artist Virtual StudioLive-AI Wizard Smaart Wizard Smaart Wizard (free download) in just two mouse clicks with to your free Nimbitstore New with new Capture 2.5 full-feature DAW Facebook With our new PRM1 measurement micro- phone and free Virtual StudioLive / Virtual ™ StudioLive-AI (VSL) mixer-control software Seamlessly integrated AI software suite can optimize your PA system to the venue, then take you from Riff to Release . with Smaart® Measurement Technology, all StudioLive digital-mixer owners can have a complete, powerful, and affordable au- hen you compare dio-analysis and correction system. W A measurement, or “reference,” micro- 32-channel digital mixers, ask some hard phone is special type of condenser micro- questions about the software that is — or is not phone that is designed to provide an accurate reproduction of a room’s sound character- — included. It makes a huge difference. istics for use with audio-analysis tools, such Does the mixer come with a 1-click as real-time analyzers multi-channel recording program? Can you (RTAs) and spectrographs. While measurement “shoot the room” with a professional measure- microphones can be quite ment and analysis program and then optimize expensive, the affordable the performance of your PA system? PreSonus PRM1 delivers high-quality results. Can onstage musicians control their own The PRM1 employs a mixes with iPhones or iPod touches? Does the ¼" pre-polarized elec- iPad program that comes with the mixer do tret-condenser capsule and delivers a linear everything you want it to? frequency response be- Is a real DAW program, with unlimited tracks tween 20 Hz and 20 kHz. Like most measure- ment mics, it has an omnidirectional polar and loads of plug-ins, included? pattern. Sensitivity is rated at -37 dB/Pa, EIN Only one 32-channel digital mixer can give (A-weighted) at 26 dB, S/N ratio at 70 dB, you all this and more: StudioLive 32.4.2AI. dynamic range at 106 dB, and maximum SPL at 132 dB SPL. ™ The mic has an all-metal chassis and comes 33 XMAX mic on high-voltage (30V) ency. Finally, XMAX is preamp design is Talkback mic 48-in/34-out Thunderbolt and JetPLL Sync. format through a wide with a clip, foam windscreen, and hard case. preamps. power rails that de- all Class A circuitry, high headroom, low preamp with FireWire S800 Dante options. Synchronization to range of frequencies Check out the forums. liver more headroom, with no crossover noise, wide dynamic 48V phantom digital recording inter- StudioLive 32.4.2AI’s your computer is sta- ensuring near-perfect and is extremely Users think our XMAX deeper lows, smoother distortion, and range, extended power and face (24-bit, 44.1 kHz option-card slot ships ble and robust, thanks ™ clock performance robust and tolerant preamps sound better highs, and a richer delivers purer, clearer, frequency response, independent level and 48 kHz) makes with dual FireWire to JetPLL synchro- and optimal converter of wide variations in than the ones on overall sound.