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— New cards allow the V-1200HD broadcast and live video production switcher and M-5000 Live Sound Mixing Console to expand I/O with REAC, Dante™, MADI, SDI, Waves SoundGrid®, DVI and SFP protocols —
NAB Show, Las Vegas, NV, April 13, 2015 — Roland is launching several new expansion interface cards at the 2015 NAB Show that significantly extend the audio and video I/O capabilities of both the V-1200HD Broadcast and Live Video Production Switcher—also debuting at the NAB Show—and the M-5000 Live Sound Mixing Console. Roland’s new XI-Expansion Interface Cards future-proof the V-1200HD and M-5000 by enabling them to interoperate with any equipment supporting the REAC, Dante™, MADI, SDI, Waves SoundGridR, and DVI digital audio and video transport protocols.
Previously introduced for use with the M-5000 audio console, the XI-REAC, XI-Dante, XI-MADI and XI-WSG (Waves SoundGrid) cards also expand the flexibility of the new V-1200HD video switcher by enabling it to operate in a wider range of broadcast and live production applications. Similarly, the new XI-SDI, XI-DVI and XI-SFP cards allow de-embedding and embedding of audio directly from or to video signals by the M-5000. Both the V-1200HD and the M-5000 feature two available XI-Expansion Interface card slots.
When used with the M-5000, the XI-SDI, XI-DVI and XI-SFP expansion interface cards add direct audio I/O capabilities for video workflows. The XI-SDI and XI-SFP cards both support 16 audio inputs from embedded SDI audio and outputs at 48 kHz plus video throughput, fixed as through 1 to 2 and 3 to 4. The XI-DVI card provides two audio I/O channels from HDMI signals at 48 kHz plus a single video throughput fixed in a configuration of through 1 to 2.
When installed in an expansion slot in the V-1200HD, the XI-SDI, which features two built-in video scalers, allows 16 channels of audio at 48 kHz to be embedded/de-embedded via each of the four bidirectional BNC terminals. Video handling capabilities of the XI-SDI card may be configured as four inputs, three inputs and one output; two in and two out; one in and three out; or four outputs. Similarly, the XI-DVI card features two built-in scalers and can handle either one video/48 kHz audio input and output, two video/audio inputs, or two outputs, via a pair of bidirectional DVI connections.
The new XI-SFP expansion card adds space for two non-MSA compatible (INF-8074i, rev 1.0) small form-factor pluggable video transceiver modules. The four video signal paths through the card may be configured as four inputs, three inputs and one output; two in and two out; one in and three out; or four outputs. The XI-SFP also features two built-in video scalers and supports 16 bidirectional channels of audio at 48 kHz.
The XI-REAC when used with the M-5000, provides two REAC ports that each handle 40 audio inputs and 40 audio outputs. The XI-Dante card offers a primary and a secondary port, plus a control port, and supports 64 bidirectional audio channels at 48 kHz or 32 bidirectional channels at 96 kHz. The XI-MADI features two sets of connections, each offering BNC and optical connectors, plus a video sync BNC connector. Two sets of 32 bidirectional MADI channels at 96 kHz or two sets of 64 bidirectional channels at 48 kHz are supported. The XI-WSG adds three 48 kHz- or 96 kHz-capable SoundGrid Ethernet ports to the I/O capacity of the M-5000.
When an XI-REAC card is installed in a V-1200HD expansion slot, a single port is available, operating in Slave mode, offering 16 bidirectional audio channels at 48 kHz allowing for bidirectional communication with other Roland REAC enabled devices. The XI-Dante card also supports 16 bidirectional audio channels at 48 kHz. The XI-MADI expansion interface card also adds a single port, and is capable of passing up to 16 bidirectional audio channels at 48 kHz. The XI-WSG card provides a single 48 kHz-capable SoundGrid port.