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Sound Devices has just released firmware update 2.18 for the 788T. New features include custom-named multiple user presets, quick arming and disarming of tracks from the front panel, and the ability to delay outputs to compensate for wireless video latency!

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Just a heads up that shipments of the RF Explorer Spectrum Analyzer are delayed. We'll keep you updated and get them delivered as soon as we can.

Recently we were asked by a customer if Movie*Slate could interface with a DEVA's rolls and cut to log the accurate time codes of each take.

Movie*Slate currently can't interface directly, but by setting Movie*Slate to "Auto-Start Shots" and "Auto-End Shots" and using a reed relay to alternately connect and disconnect timecode, we can get Movie*Slate to behave the way we want.

Of course, the reed relay coil needs to get its control signal from somewhere. In the case of our customer, he was using the excellent RollLogic which not only provides the control signal but the relay as well! In the example used in the video, we use the GPIO of the 788T which defaults to logic high when rolling. The 788T manual states it's capable of sourcing 500mA at +5V, and so the Radio Shack reed relay is a good match. With it's internal resistance of 250 Ohms, it sinks only 20 mA.

We hope you enjoy this video, and please remember - BE CAREFUL! We aren't responsible if your 788T blows up and all the magic smoke escapes.

Click here to view the "schematic."

Friends of Gotham Mason Jar Music got a great write-up in SonicScoop today (and they mentioned us! Squeee!) If you're looking for more, check out the piece they did last year on the Zaxcom rig they used for The Sea in Between.

Dante is an established audio networking protocol that allows 32 channels of digital audio to travel over gigabit Ethernet with extremely low latency. We're seeing an increasing number of manufacturers adopt the protocol including Focusrite, JoeCo, Yamaha, Sound Devices and now Lectrosonics. - GSC

Lectrosonics Introduces Aspen Dante Network Processor
32 x 32 channel Plug 'N Play network audio transport
lectrosonics.com

Rio Rancho, NM - May 2012. Meeting the demand for reliable network audio transport, Lectrosonics has developed the SPNDNT network processor to expand the ASPEN digital matrix processor family. The new network processor is much more than a simple network interface. Instead, it is a full featured DSP processor that can address both the ASPEN and Dante matrices and add mixing, gain, and delay functions to the digital audio signals. Any of the 48 final mixes in the ASPEN matrix can be assigned to any one or more of the Dante channels for transport to other endpoints in the network. Dante signals can also be imported into the ASPEN matrix in a local processor sub-system for mixing with other local and network signals, and then routed onward to other local or network devices.

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