Calrec extends ImPulseV’s capabilities into Grass Valley's AMPP, so broadcasters choose how and where they deploy their audio production without choosing between functionality, quality and flexibility.
Calrec extends ImPulseV’s capabilities into Grass Valley's AMPP, so broadcasters choose how and where they deploy their audio production without choosing between functionality, quality and flexibility.
Calrec is a British manufacturer of broadcast audio mixing consoles, used on live sport, news and entertainment by the world’s most demanding broadcasters.
ImPulseV is Calrec’s Tier 1 live production audio mixing and routing engine, designed to be hosted across public cloud, private cloud, COTS hardware or software-defined production platforms. It uses Calrec’s patented x86 optimal core processing to bring proven broadcast DSP into those environments while maintaining the performance expectations of high-end live production. Calrec provides the broadest range of deployment options in the industry, using the same control surfaces and DSP technology throughout.
This is about more than virtualization. ImPulseV and AMPP OS deliver operational cohesion - common orchestration, shared control, scalable infrastructure and elastic resources aligned to live production demands. Audio and video consolidate on a single platform, and one DSP adapts, without loss of quality, to every production no matter it’s requirements.
Impulse V and AMPP are both deployable in public cloud, private cloud and on COTS hardware. Enabling our customers to use the same control surfaces, DSP and video production technology across every deployment.
Common orchestration, shared infrastructure, flexible compute, flexible licensing and shared control across audio and video - Instead of two parallel operating models to run, and support. Choose how you want to run your world.
Audio engineers work the trusted workflows they already know, on Argo Q, S and M surfaces or the Assist application. Capability scales; the operator experience does not change.
Built for the most demanding customers.
- Argo Q, S and M surfaces
- Web-served Assist application
- True Control 2.0 remote control
- Proven broadcast DSP, virtualized
- Public cloud, private cloud or COTS
- Audio connection through Dante/NDI/2110
- Console Control and via AMPP Control
- Audio production is done in a single environment with video
- Vision mixing, replay, playout, graphics all as per usual
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Outside Broadcast trucks can benefit from the flexibility to run their usual hardware vision mixing and audio surfaces but use flexible COTS compute and a shared infrastructure, adapting to the needs of each event as it comes.
Calrec surfaces mix audio over True Control 2.0 from a different site to the I/O, alongside the video production running in AMPP, without being co-located with the sources. One cloud production environment for both video and audio.
Your flagship shows can be produced using a full crew and traditional audio surface, before reverting to automation or browser-based operation for smaller shows. AMPP and Impulse V scale up and down during the day based on your requirements for each show.
Your clients have an expectation around quality but not even production has the same budget. Flexible compute, licensing and operation with Impulse V and AMPP mean whether it’s a Tier 1 event or a local production you can quickly spin up the tools required. But more crucially, you maximise your investments by utilising your production stack for more clients.
Short-term ImPulseV license terms and OpEx-based AMPP deployment let resources scale with the demands of each production. Drive your audio with the browser based app for small productions, before scaling up to bigger productions using a full Calrec surface.
Talk to the Grass Valley alliances team about Calrec on AMPP.
