Just read a review of the new Fairlight Xynergi DAW, wow is all I can say.
192 tracks, 230 channel, 220 mic inputs via MADI, 72 busses. Upto 72bit FP processing at 384KHz sampling. With all that and 16 plugs per channel, 0.5mS latency. All that massive number crunching is done in the Crystal Core card that uses FPGAs. The card uses 12 Watts of power to provide over 8.6 gigaflops of processing. And the system does HD SDI, trilevel sync and deck control to boot.
Not that any of these number mean much if you can't use the thing and this is where the Xynergi shines. The control unit has a conventional looking qwerty keyboard, LCD panel, jog wheel and a set of rotary knobs but the keys use SLICK (Self Labelling Illuminated Keys) and can display anything including video. This is made good use of by the built in Xplain help, instead of reading through a PDF the system shows you the buttons to press as it goes through the process with you.
More information is available from Fairlight
This thing isn't inexpensive, entry level starts at AUD 22K which is probably cheap for what you get. Fairlight also do video, might be interesting to see what they do on that side of the fence. Fairlight are a very old company that go back to the early days of digital audio, they've been at the cutting edge of synths and the like but never quite seem to hit paydirt, a bit like the old Sonic Foundry.
Bob.
192 tracks, 230 channel, 220 mic inputs via MADI, 72 busses. Upto 72bit FP processing at 384KHz sampling. With all that and 16 plugs per channel, 0.5mS latency. All that massive number crunching is done in the Crystal Core card that uses FPGAs. The card uses 12 Watts of power to provide over 8.6 gigaflops of processing. And the system does HD SDI, trilevel sync and deck control to boot.
Not that any of these number mean much if you can't use the thing and this is where the Xynergi shines. The control unit has a conventional looking qwerty keyboard, LCD panel, jog wheel and a set of rotary knobs but the keys use SLICK (Self Labelling Illuminated Keys) and can display anything including video. This is made good use of by the built in Xplain help, instead of reading through a PDF the system shows you the buttons to press as it goes through the process with you.
More information is available from Fairlight
This thing isn't inexpensive, entry level starts at AUD 22K which is probably cheap for what you get. Fairlight also do video, might be interesting to see what they do on that side of the fence. Fairlight are a very old company that go back to the early days of digital audio, they've been at the cutting edge of synths and the like but never quite seem to hit paydirt, a bit like the old Sonic Foundry.
Bob.