Tactus Puts You In Touch With Your Mix

TACTUS DIGITAL MIXING SYSTEM

We were kind of nodding off at the news desk, things have been a bit slow. Reading this made us put the kettle on and sharpen the pencils. A few months ago, we were pondering the implications of Waves’ new SoundGrid system, and now we’re starting to see its application pave the way for new audio solutions. Crest Audio has partnered with Waves to create the Tactus Digital Mixing System, a new live mixing system designed to work with the new touch-screen operated Waves eMotion Mixer for SoundGrid. The eMotion Mixer provides a simple, customisable touch-screen (that’s touch-screen only) operating interface that puts all of the audio routing, processing and mixing tools within easy and immediate reach, and allows the use of Waves audio processing plug-ins for live events. The Tactus hardware is made up of the Tactus.FOH, which is the audio processing core for the system, a 32-in/16-out remote stage box called the Tactus.Stage and the eMotion mixer. Everything interconnects via standard Gigabit Ethernet cabling and an internal Gigabit switch. Without Tactus Stage, the Tactus FOH has eight local microphone/line inputs and eight line outputs, or by combining Tactus Stage I/O interfaces you’ll get a total of 64 stereo inputs by 32 stereo outputs. It’s safe to say — modular, Ethernet connected and a full touch-screen mixer… Tactus is going to attract a lot of attention.

Full Details:

Tactus.FOH­ features:

• Primary server for the Tactus mixing system, hosting and supporting the eMotion LV1 software mixing platform.
• The Tactus.FOH will function as a standalone core for an 8 in, 8 out mixing platform.
• 8 balanced mic/line inputs, XLR, TRS and 1/4″ Phono
• 8 balanced outputs – First 4 are male XLR connectors, 2 of which have parallel TRS jacks, plus 4 additional TRS jacks.
• High performance digitally controlled microphone preamps feature:
• Low input noise at both high and low gain settings
• High slew-rate
• Very low THD
• Mic input accepts a +27 dBu input signal without pad
• 66 dB adjustment range in 1 dB steps to maximize dynamic range
• Gain changes on zero crossing to minimize adjustment noise.
• 48-Volt phantom power switchable on every mic input.
• Integral gigabit Ethernet switch for easy networking
• Waves SoundGrid Digital audio network protocol
• Balanced output maximum level switchable between + 24 dBu and + 18 dBu
• Supports sample rates of 44.1 kHz, 48 kHz, 88.2 kHz and 96 kHz
• External word clock input and output
• Two AES digital outputs
• Headphone output with level control
• MIDI in and switchable out or thru
• 3U rack mount package
• Universal input power supply

Tactus.Stage features:

• 32 microphone/line inputs
• XLR mic and TRS 1⁄4″ line inputs
• 16 Line outputs
• High performance digitally controlled microphone preamps feature:
• Low input noise at both high and low gain settings
• High slew-rate
• Very low THD
• Mic input accepts a +27 dBu input signal without pad
• 66 dB adjustment range in 1 dB steps to maximize dynamic range
• Gain changes on zero crossing to minimize adjustment noise.
• 48 Volt phantom power switchable on every mic input.
• Integral gigabit Ethernet switch for easy networking
• Waves SoundGrid Digital audio network protocol
• Balanced output maximum level switchable between + 24 dBu and + 18 dBu
• Supports sample rates of 44.1 kHz, 48 kHz, 88.2 kHz and 96 kHz
• External word clock input and output
• Two AES digital outputs
• Headphone output with level control
• MIDI in and switchable out or thru
• 4U rack mount package
• Universal input power supply

eMotion LV1 Mixer features:

• 64 input channels (mono/stereo)
• 32 stereo busses + return channels
• L/R, center, mono main busses + master channels
• 8 DCA faders, 8 mute groups, 8 user-assignable function controls
• Cue/SIP and talk-back
• EMO-Q4 Equalizer: 4-band EQ with HP and LP per channel
• EMO-D5 Dynamics Processor: Comp/Gate/Expander/DeEsser/
• Limiter/Leveler per channel
• Up to 6 plugins per channel
• Connect to multiple DAWs for recording and playback
• Save and transmit sessions and snapshots from any DAW to eMotion
• Connect and share SoundGrid I/O devices, drivers and applications
• Up to 1000 Scenes/Snapshots
• Up to 96 kHz sample rate
• Automatic plugin delay compensation