Roland Pro A/V announces its support for the Audinate Dante networking with an optional expansion card in the new M-5000 mixing console. (Find out more about the M-5000 here.)
Supporting Dante in addition to REAC, MADI and Waves SoundGrid positions the new M-5000 and its O.H.R.C.A. platform as one of the most openly networked audio consoles on the market. Roland is already notable for offering live digital mixing consoles, digital snake systems, multi-channel recording/playback systems, and personal mixings over Cat-5e/6 Ethernet networks.
“We’re excited to be working together with Audinate in offering Dante connectivity to our users,” states Roland Corporation U.S vice president John Broadhead. “The Roland Pro A/V lineup 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.”
The M-5000 sits on a new platform called O.H.R.C.A., which represents “Open,” “High Resolution,” and “Configurable Architecture” by delivering definable audio paths, supporting multiple audio format protocols, plus 96 kHz sound quality 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 within a range of up to 128 audio paths, allowing the user to create a console structure to suit the needs of the application.
“We have been working closely with Roland for some time now, and the culmination of the new Roland 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.”
The M-5000 along with the Dante expansion card will be available in early 2015.