Mackie has introduced its Broadcast Professional line of equipment with the Soundscape 32 processor/hard disk recorder and the Soundscape I/O 896 eight-channel audio interface.
One Soundscape 32 provides 32 tracks of 24-bit recording up to 96 kHz sample rates, digital and analog audio I/O, real-time mixing, DSP-based effects and fade processing, low jitter clock timing and synchronization. The unit has two internal IDE hard drives and two pullout drive bays for drives of up to 137 GB each, for more than half a terabyte (TB) of storage capacity.
An expanded Soundscape system can have four units with 128 simultaneous audio tracks played from more than 2 TB of hard drive storage and 112 inputs and 128 outputs.
The I/O 896, developed by Mackie Designs and Apogee, includes eight channels each of AES/EBU digital I/O, analog I/O and ADAT Optical.
The unit supports MADI and optional FireWire I/O. It can support sample rates up to 96 kHz, regardless of format.
Mackie Debuts Broadcast Pro Line
Mackie Debuts Broadcast Pro Line
