Yamaha Corporation has announced Version 6.0 firmware release for its Rivage PM series of digital mixing systems bringing ‘a number of significant updates, many requested by end-users’.
Available as a free download for all Rivage PM systems, the upgrade includes Genius.lab for enhanced workflows, an Interphase plug-in for greater flexibility in sound creation, new dynamics and other enhancements.
Genius.lab is a highly customisable macro system that allows users to create a wide variety of actions triggered by key presses, fader operations and Midi messages for engineers to programme events to suit specific situations and workflows. A range of functions can be programmed, with combinations of actions enacted by a single trigger.
Interphase is a time/phase alignment plug-in, which features a simple capture function to sample a brief snapshot of two audio signals. It allows users to align sources in time and phase with each other, for example different microphones on a guitar speaker cabinet, the inside and outside microphones of a bass drum or the microphone and DI signal of a bass guitar.
Also new are the FET Limiter and Diode Bridge Compressor, which have been added to the channel strip. Present on every input and output channel as standard, these emulations of classic devices run without needing to use plug-in resources. In addition, a mix balance parameter has been added to all dynamics types, allowing mixing of the original and dynamics sounds, as well as parallel compression to be applied.
A further requested feature is Custom Fader Mode, which provides two modes to choose from. Scene Mode allows the custom fader bank’s settings to be included in the scene memory. Users can now recall custom fader assignments on a scene-by-scene basis, providing flexibility for setting up their operating environment. The User Setup Mode maintains the same behaviour as before.
Rivage PM v6.0 firmware also includes an LR Nominal option added to the pan setting and a phase function on the output bus. The DM3, DM7/DM7 Compact, DME7 and Tio1608-D2 are now included in the supported device list, while a compatible load impedance setting has been added to the output ports on omni outs and RY16-DA.
‘Yamaha Rivage PM digital mixing systems provide a very powerful and flexible solution for a wide array of mixing situations, together with a comfortable and extremely reliable mixing experience,’ says, Yamaha Professional Solutions Division General Manager of Global Marketing & Sales, Thomas Hemery. ‘We have included a number of user-requested features with v6.0, and are confident that it will be a very welcome update for our customers. Rest assured we will continue to listen to user requests for more features in future updates.’
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