DirectOut – a German audio solutions manufacturer for broadcast, studio, live and installed sound applications – has announced the first major upgrade of its Prodigy.MX following its release as an infrastructure matrix.
The upgrade was shown at The NAMM Show 2024, on 25-28 January, and is being shown at ISE 2024 (held at Fira Barcelona on 30 January to 2 February).
Bundled in the Advanced system license, the DirectOut development team has added new features to extend the scope of its latest Prodigy mainframe. The smart platform now offers a 64×64 Matrix Mixer (MatMix) and 64 Flex Channels, which can be loaded with IIR Filters, Dynamics and Delay PlugIns. The company said 64 Input Managers and EARS for all input channels add redundancy and resilience to the system. To tailor cost-effective solutions, all features can be purchased as part of smaller plug-in bundles or in combination as part of the Advanced system license.
“We are excited to see how our Audio Solution Model (ASM) comes to life with this big upgrade of the Prodigy.MX,” said Claudio Becker-Foss, DirectOut’s CTO. “ASM is an innovative approach developed by DirectOut that focuses on providing comprehensive audio solutions. It is structured as a five-layer model, based on hardware platforms in combination with skins, control protocols, GUI and add-ons. The model allows for flexibility, precision, and the ability to tailor solutions to specific needs. The Prodigy series is our top line hardware platform and the power we can unleash by adding software and firmware features is just stunning.”
DirectOut also announced the availability of the Home control license, enabling the full integration of its Prodigy Series into Lawo’s Home ecosystem. This is intended to provide Prodigy converters with instant IP discovery and registration throughout a Ravenna network, intuitive stream routing, device monitoring, parameter control and the security features offered by the Home platform, all enabled through a single control API.
The Prodigy’s parameters can be tweaked from a Lawo mc²-series console with built-in Home functionality. DirectOut said the decision to support Home natively is based on the benefits the platform offers to the company’s user base.
“With this tight integration, audio operators will be able to access our devices’ comprehensive feature set directly from the convenience of, for example, an mc² console surface,” said Becker-Foss. “Conversely, this tie-up will allow users to benefit from our gateway options into the Dante and Ravenna realms at all sampling rates supported by Lawo’s A__UHD Core.”
