Roland is 'the word' in Hungary right now as the Roland M-5000 and M-480 live digital mixing consoles alongside Roland Digital Snakes head out on tour with 'Grease –the Musical'. This eleven date arena tour is produced by long term Roland customers Szatyi Stage Team who, earlier this year, supplied an all Roland setup to produce the live stage sound for local TV2 channel shows 'Rising Star' and 'The Voice'.
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'Grease –the Musical' stage from the front of house position.
Hungary, November 25th, 2015 – Roland is 'the word' in Hungary right now as the Roland M-5000 and M-480 live digital mixing consoles alongside Roland Digital Snakes head out on tour with 'Grease –the Musical'. This eleven date arena tour is produced by long term Roland customers Szatyi Stage Team who, earlier this year, supplied an all Roland setup to produce the live stage sound for local TV2 channel shows 'Rising Star' and 'The Voice'.
Ideal for a large theatre and live sound applications such as the 'Grease' production, the M-5000 was chosen as the FOH console for the tour primarily because of its unique O.H.R.C.A configurable architecture. O.H.R.C.A stands for three key concepts: Open; High Resolution; and Configurable Architecture. This internal architecture is not fixed to any configuration and can be freely defined within a range of up to 128 input or output channels or busses, allowing the operator essentially to 'build' a console to suit the application. Each path can be used as a mixing channel, AUX, matrix, subgroup buss or MIX-MINUS buss in any input/output configuration delivered at a pristine 24-bit/96kHz sound quality. O.H.R.C.A supports Dante™, MADI, Waves SoundGrid®, and REAC audio protocols, as well as audio delivery over video using SDI, DVI and SFP cabling. The M-5000 also has two REAC (Roland Ethernet Audio Communication) ports which allow extra I/O boxes to be added via Cat5e cable at 96kHz. A third REAC port can be used for connecting to monitors or recording.
Roland M-5000 Live Mixing Console at the front of house position.
Mr. László Szatmári, owner of Szatyi Stage Team described the M-5000 and O.H.R.C.A design as a solution to fit all the different areas of work his company is active in, such as live sound, broadcast, rental/hire and production. 'We wanted to find a variable console for many different applications for the long term future. All the new functions and sound quality (of the M-5000) impressed all of our team. We enjoy the huge creativity and possibilities that Roland gives inside this new concept'.
For the 'Grease' tour, the M-5000 is connected to 2 x Roland S-2416 (24 x 16 Modular Stage Unit) which are set up as a redundant connection using the Roland XI-REAC expansion interface. The XI-REAC provides an additional 2 REAC ports with 40 inputs x 40 outputs per port. The rear panel of the S-2416 provides AES/EBU connectivity (25-pin D-sub type) for 8 channels of input or output, enabling connection to speaker processors, amps, and other devices capable of AES/EBU input or output. Input via AES is assigned to channels 25 through 32 and output is selectable by a mode switch. With two REAC connectors – a main and a backup – a redundant REAC network is possible. If a problem occurs with the main line, operation instantly switches to the backup with no break up or click/pop in sound. What's more, use of Neutrik™ Ethercon™ connectors assures both a reliability and ruggedness for any type of environment. The S-2416 is also the first Digital Snake capable of a cascade connection. Switching the device to Cascade mode and connecting another Digital Snake makes it possible to expand inputs and outputs up to 40x40 channels.
Roland M-480 48 Channel Live Digital Mixing Console was chosen as the console for the monitor position.
The M-480 48 Channel Live Digital Mixing Console was chosen as the console for monitor position. Inputs from the band on the stage to the M-480 are provided by the Roland S-4000S-3208 Digital Snake (32x8 Modular Stage Unit) and a Roland S-1608 (16 x 8 Modular Stage Unit) split separately from the analog output.
Commenting on the Grease project, Gergὄ Márkus, Sales Manager at Roland Eastern Europe said, “Mr. Péter Halász, sound engineer from Grease, has used the M-480 many times and he likes Roland Digital Mixers because the reliability and stability is always 100%. After they checked the sound quality of the M-5000 he was really impressed with the sound improvement. The new snake heads with added AES/EBU outputs made it possible to add the Martin Audio amplifier which gives excellent sound quality with M-5000. The engineer particularly liked the user fader layers on the M-5000, describing them as 'essential' for handling that type of mixing structure, and also the Anchor function as 'genius'. The USB I/O feature is really helpful for this show because they are using Ableton Live for backing tracks'.
Full product list:
1 x Roland M-5000 Live Digital Mixing Console
1 x Roland M-480 Live Digital Mixing Console
1 x Roland S-4000S-3208 32 x 8 Modular Stage Unit
1 x Roland S-2416 Digital Snake 24x16 Stage Unit
1 x Roland XI-REAC Expansion Card
For more information in Europe: lisa.baldwin@roland.com
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More information on the Roland M-5000 and M-5000C
The M-5000 is based on a platform known as O.H.R.C.A, which stands for three key concepts: Open; High Resolution; and Configurable Architecture. This internal architecture is not fixed to any configuration and can be freely defined within a range of up to 128 input or output channels or busses, allowing the operator essentially to ‘build’ a console to suit the application. Each path can be used as a mixing channel, AUX, matrix, subgroup buss or MIX-MINUS buss in any input/output configuration. All paths are delivered at a pristine 24-bit/96kHz sound quality. This open audio architecture supports Dante, MADI, Waves Sound Grid, and REAC audio protocols, as well as audio delivery over video using SDI, DVI and SFP cabling. The intuitive and flexible workflow is key to the design of the control surface of the M-5000 with a 12-inch colour touchscreen, 28 channel faders in four groups, multifunction knobs and buttons, ‘selected knob’ functions and an entire user assignable section. The displays are bright, colour-coded and highly visible in any light. The M-5000C measures 30 inches (74 cm) in width and weighs just 70 pounds (32kg), offering all the flexibility and power of the M-5000 console but in a smaller footprint - making it the ideal choice for touring, broadcast, theatre and live performance.
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