Greetings, We have recently redone out plant of three stations using The X32 rack consoles from Behringer.
These consoles give you 32 channels of input and output using alsa in rivendell. Controlling them through Rivendell rml is handy and quite easy. With 40 inputs and 25 outputs plus 32 channels of I/O in alsa has completely transformed our stations at a very small price point. No need for switchers routers etc as the the consoles will do all this for you, plus interconnecting studios with AES50 via cat 5, a great plus. If you have a X32 and want to use some of my scripts for controlling it with macros in Rivendell here is a link to them http://dotcom1.net/X32Rivendell The scripts use OSC protocol over ip to send commands to the console. These require environment variables to be set as follows XIP=ip address of console XPT=console udp port (the factory set port is 10023) *MIDI=midi hardware port *If you want to use midi there is also a script ( X32 ) for that, however midi implementation is limited on the X32. use this script as follows X32 channel action ie "X32 5 M" will mute channel five "X32 5 O" will turn channel five on "X32 5 U" will move channel 5 fader to 0db position "X32 5 D" will move channel 5 fader down completely The OSC commands function similarly 5M mute 5ON unmute 5U fader to unity 5D fader down All these can be used in macros in rivendell using the RN command " RN 5U! " *put the commands in /usr/local/bin* *make sure they are executable* *set your environment variables* *create your macro carts* I realize this is a simple implementation of the possibilities but thought it might get you going and thinking. There are many more things you can control on this console with OSC routing, inputs, gain, outputs, monitoring, etc there is a command for every single switch knob and fader, I have only put together what I am currently using and will ad on as I go. To any programmers, there are many c+ code fragments out there for the X32 if you search. wouldn't be too hard to build all this into a standard rivendell switchers option. Cheers Tim Camp WZEW-FM Mobile, Al.
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