Economy of Scales: Smart AV Smart Console

Once a week , createdigitalmusic‘s Peter Kirn highlights tosh - worthy euphony and audio creation equipment , from crucial to oddball . This week ’s calculator sound command surface , invented by a former thaumaturgist and price like a racing yacht , hits the oddball end .

last , an audio restraint surface that looks like it belongs on a spaceship : theSmart Ab Smart Console . The logical bother with big studio - style sociable consoles is that they physically have too many channels , with hundreds of faders tally to their length . Smart AV ’s solvent is to stretch configurable channels across a touch - sensitive arc on the top of the board . affect a canal , and the surface intelligently sets motorized faders and knobs to that channel . Here ’s where things get a bit strange : scrawl indication for your dissimilar channels in pen on the arc , and a detachable scanner scans them in to be supply in brilliant LED light on the line strips . Assign and grouping faders by tactual sensation . beckon your hired hand in the air over sociable and group them without touching the panel at all . The control airfoil was developed by a former magician , and it shows . The thaumaturgist attracts enormous bunch each time the product is displayed .

This is n’t entirely newfangled technology : I saw it at AES in October . Since then , though , Smart AV has been rounding up distributors , so it is do to the US . Think big studios , not home studio apartment : $ 150,000 is the ballpark for the full console . It ’s just a ascendance Earth’s surface , not a sociable : it ’s a front final stage for systems like Apple Logic Pro . But when I spoke to a product congressman colloquially , SmartAV express optimism that the technology could feel its direction to consumer - grad audio equipment in just a few class . Even before flee cars .

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