OCA Alliance Promotes Open Control Architecture Advantages at ISE 2015

OCA Alliance member companies Yamaha Commercial Audio, TC Group and Salzbrenner Stagetec, joined d&b audiotechnik in presenting the current status and future vision of Open Control Architecture, as these relate to the AV Installation and Systems Integration markets, at ISE 2015. The OCA vision of a common remote control standard to the AV industry seems to be picking up momentum.

We’ve recently seen a series of announcements from Mackie and PreSonus introducing digital stage box format mixers - basically replacing the physical control surfaces with iPads and wireless control. In a way, challenging the tremendous success of the very affordable but extremely powerful Behringer X32 digital console family. In response, Behringer now announced its own X Air Series stage box format mixers.

British network and distribution equipment specialist ARG announced its support of the open media networking standard RAVENNA. Together, ARG and ALC NetworX - the company in charge of RAVENNA’s promotion and implementation - have tested ARG’s network equipment to provide optimal support for RAVENNA real-time media traffic.

Studio Technologies will showcase new Dante-enabled products at Audinate’s 2014 AV Networking World Conference, as well as at InfoComm 2014, including a full range of announcer’s consoles, party-line intercom interfaces, headphone/line output interfaces and analog input interface units.

Crown Audio expanded its DriveCore Install (DCi) Series amplifier range with the introduction of its DCi Network Display 8|600ND and 4|1250ND power amplifiers, featuring front-panel status displays and AVB (Audio Video Bridging) connectivity. The new eight- and four-channel DCi Network Display amplifiers combine DriveCore technology with AVB and are compatible with Harman’s HiQnet Audio Architect system setup and control software. Both offer direct drive “constant voltage” capabilities for 70Vrms and 100Vrms amplification without the need for a step-up transformer.

Virtual Soundcard Gets An Update Audinate recently improved its Dante Virtual Soundcard (DVS) software for Windows. The DVS software enables your PC or Mac to connect your favorite audio application directly to a Dante audio network. DVS uses your computer’s …