Yamaha’s digital mixing consoles have won widespread acceptance throughout the professional audio world. At Winter NAMM, Yamaha showed the new 01V96 mixer, which aims to provide the same kind of performance as its more-expensive ancestors like the DM2000 and 02R96, in a more affordable format suitable for the home or smaller professional production studio.

The suggested retail price of the 01V96 is $2,499 (US).

The new model offers 24 analog and digital channel inputs, expandable on-board to 40 channels, and units can be cascaded for applications that require more. Every input channel provides independent compression and gating/ducking processors for dynamics control, 4-band parametric channel EQs that are fully sweepable from 20 Hz to 20 kHz, with bandwidth variable from 0.1 to 10 and a +/-18dB gain range, and channel delays with a maximum delay of 452 milliseconds (96 kHz mode). The stereo bus, eight mix buses, and eight aux buses each have individual compression and EQ, as well.

24-bit/96-kHz operation is standard in the 01V96. You can also work at 44.1 kHz, 48 kHz and 88.2 kHz, depending on the needs of each individual project.

The 01V96 comes with a comprehensive range of on-board effects, 96-kHz compatible, stereo, with 32-bit internal processing. There is enough processing power to run two effects simultaneously at 88.2/96-kHz, and up to four effects at lower sampling frequencies.

Automation on the new mixer is scene-based. There are 99 scene memory slots for complete console setups that can be memorized and called up via mixer panel controls, or recalled remotely via MIDI program change messages.

Like the DM2000, the 01V96 has been designed to integrate tightly with leading digital audio workstations to create a complete production and mixing environment. Extensive support is provided for Digidesign’s Pro Tools® system as well as Steinberg’s Nuendo® DAW – full control of mixing and processing parameters, as well as transport/track-arming control and access to editing functions – directly from the 01V96 control surface.

There’s also a “General DAW” mode that provides compatibility with other workstations.

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Fostex America has announced the introduction of a compact, self-powered monitor system. The new model follows the successful design of the company’s model PM-1, a larger version now selling at Fostex Dealers.

“We’re very positive about the PM0.5.” comments Fostex product manager Derek Badala. “It fills a price/performance niche requested both by our dealers and our customers. There is a definite place in the market for this kind of compact, high performance monitor.”

The 5″ low frequency driver has been designed to deliver extremely pure music reproduction by employing the latest technology in cone material. The cone uses a mixture of cut and milled fibers that are made from aromatic polyamide. It is then impregnated with resins to simultaneously achieve high rigidity and optimum damping.

An olefin film is thermally adhered to the surface of the cone to control frequency response and to establish long-term reliability. The center dust cap is made of non wood cellulose material and is also impregnated with resin. Finally, the voice coil is made of super high purity copper wire to achieve very low distortion.

The .75″ soft dome tweeter employs the Fostex UFLC technology (Poly Urethane Film Laminated Cloth). It is both lightweight and highly stable. Both drivers are powered by specifically matched amplifiers-40 Watts RMS for the woofer and 30 Watts RMS for the tweeter.

The compact PM0.5 measures 7-1/8″ H x 11″ H x 10-1/4″ D (w/heat sink) and weighs 14.3 lbs. each.

“The PM0.5 is ideal for small project studios or even remote recording applications.” Badala explains. “It’s amazingly powerful, despite its size. For example, it generates 105dB SPL at 1 meter across the critical midrange bandwidth from 80Hz to 3kHz.”

Free field response is 50Hz ~ 20kHz +/- 2dB.

Performance is tailored further by the use of cut-off filters: 40 Hz for the woofer and 22kHz for the tweeter. These safeguards prevent the drivers from attempting to reproduce frequencies outside of their performance specifications.

The Fostex PMO.5 will be priced at a suggested retail price of $349 per pair (US).

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