Lawo has announced new Radio software release 7.0, an update that applies to the company’s new diamond broadcast mixing console, Power Core mixing engine, and Lawo VisTool GUI screen-builder software. Users with ruby, sapphire and crystal mixing consoles and legacy Nova17/Nova29 routers can also upgrade.
The new release coincides with the debut of diamond, Lawo’s newest mixing console for radio on-air, production, MCR, remote-control and OB applications. It offers personalized workflows that can be set, saved and recalled from any studio in the networked facility, high-resolution fader displays, context-sensitive controls that indicate function using RGB color backlights, and the Virtual Extension option that integrates HD touchscreens directly into the mixing surface to provide customizable visual controls.
In addition, 7.0 updates On-Air Designer, the configuration software used to program the functions of Lawo radio mixing consoles and audio cores, with support for the new diamond mixer, allowing the programming and recall of saved parameters and settings including motorized fader settings, programmable context-sensitive user keys, select source icons to be shown on diamond’s fader-adjacent displays, and also to configure support for the new diamond Virtual Extension modules.
Further, the release offers a new graphical look, incorporating elements from Lawo’s new LUX design system into the diamond GUI, and within VisTool (the screen builder software used to construct customized touchscreen-capable control environments for broadcast studios). Another notable part of the upgrade makes it possible for VisTool to be an Ember+ provider, adding control of routing matrices via Ember+ as an integral part of its control suite.
“We are very proud of the fact that the Lawo radio development team are highly skilled engineers with personal roots in on-air radio broadcasting,” says Johan Boqvist, senior product manager, Radio. “The constant improvement to our Radio software is based not only on our own experience in the field, but from our clients and partners worldwide. Our team loves collaborating with Lawo users — it ensures they receive the best possible tools, workflows, and experiences from our products.”
In addition to the major new features already mentioned, numerous other improvements and fixes have been added, including the ability to define up to 32 aux buses for diamond consoles, improved substitution workflows, DMS control for VCAs, and high-granularity EQ for use in production and TV master-control environments.
Lawo Radio software release 7.0 is available for download now; customers can find the release notes and download the software by visiting www.lawo.com and clicking the “Download-Center” button.
