At the upcoming NAB 2012 Show, April 16-19 in the Las Vegas Convention Center, HARMAN’s Studer will unveil the Studer Vista 1 Compact, priced at less than $80,000. The new desk comes complete as a single chassis, with control surface, I/O connections and DSP all integral, considerably reducing weight and footprint.
The new desk is highly suited to both fixed and portable systems, such as newsrooms and game shows, and its compact size works for Outside Broadcast and ENG vans.
The Vista 1 is based largely on the Vista 5, offering the functionality of Studer’s Vistonics user interface and Studer Vista control surface, plus features such as true broadcast monitoring, talkback, red light control, GPIO, N-x (Mix Minus) buses, snapshot automation and DAW control.
With an integral DSP engine of 96 channels, the Vista 1 can handle mono, stereo and 5.1 inputs with ease, and is provided with 32 mic/line inputs, 16 line outputs and eight stereo AES inputs and outputs on rear panel connections. Both 32-fader and 22-fader models are available.
The standard Studer D21m card slot on the rear allows for I/O expansion with MADI, AES, AoIP, ADAT, TDIF, CobraNet, Dolby E/Digital, SDI connections etc. A MADI link can connect to any of the Studer Stagebox range for XLR connectivity as well as other formats.
New to the Vista family on the Vista 1 is an integral jingle player, played from audio files on a USB jingle stick (such as station ID or background FX), and triggered by a series of eight dedicated keys in the master section.
The Studer Vista 1 also features a redundant PSU. RELINK integration with other Studer Vista and OnAir consoles means the Vista 1 can easily share signals across an entire console network.
Other new products from Studer at NAB include a new Vista Compact remote bay, Lexicon FX engine, RTW MT7 Metering Option for Vista consoles, EMBER broadcast/news automation control protocol and a Livewire AoIP card for the D21m system.
Visit HARMAN at NAB 2012 in Booth #C2619, and visit HARMAN’s Studer online at www.studer.ch.
