Roland has joined Audinate’s Dante audio networking with support offered as an optional expansion card for the new M-5000 Live Mixing Console.
‘We have been working closely with Roland for some time now, and the culmination of the new M-5000 console with Dante networking will be extremely well received in the market’ says Lee Ellison, CEO of Audinate. ‘Dante offers the most extensive portfolio of networked products in the pro audio market and we are thrilled to welcome Roland into the Dante family.’
Roland’s adoption of Dante addresses serves system integrators, consultants and pro audio professionals wanting add to REAC, Madi and Waves SoundGrid that the console’s OHRCA platform also supports – making the M-5000 one of the most openly networked audio consoles currently available.
‘The Roland pro audio line-up is one of the most comprehensively integrated audio solutions available and with the ability to now integrate with Dante networks, it delivers an enormous amount of power and flexibility to our clients,’ says Roland Corporation US VP, John Broadhead.
The M-5000 uses Roland’s new ORCHA platform, delivering definable audio paths, supporting multiple format protocols and 96kHz audio throughout the system. The M-5000’s internal mix architecture is not fixed and can be freely defined for mixing channels, auxes, matrices, subgroup buses and mix-minus buses of up to 128 audio paths. The M-5000 – along with the Dante Expansion card – will be available early 2015.
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Roland M-5000 live sound console
