Calrec Audio's new Artemis console made its UK debut at BVE this month. Based on the award-winning Apollo platform, Artemis utilises the same core technologies such as Bluefin2 and Hydra2 which equips the console with an enormous routing and processing capacity.

Bluefin2, the next generation of Calrec's trademark Bluefin High Density Signal Processing platform, provides substantial resources at multiple sample rates. At 48kHz, Bluefin2 gives Artemis up to 640 channel processing paths, 128 program busses, 64 IFB/Track outputs and 32 auxiliaries.

Central to the Artemis console is a dedicated integrated router so that its I/O functions can be performed by Calrec's next-generation networking system, Hydra2.

Hydra2 uses high capacity 8192 x 8192 cross-point routers and makes available a variety of I/O units to provide analog, AES, MADI, SDI and Dolby E formats. All use copper or fiber connectivity, and can be fitted with GPIO cards. Console routers can be connected together to form large networks, and stand-alone routers will also be available.

As with all Calrec consoles, the inclusion of full automatic hot-swap redundancy is part of the system architecture - on Artemis all DSP, control processor, router, power supplies, and connections are fully redundant.

Using a combination of OLED displays, touch screens, and light-emitting knobs the soft Artemis control surface not only provides instant visual feedback, but a flexibility which enables the user to reconfigure the desk on the fly.

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