D&R Axum 12 Fader Digital Broadcast Mixer / Console

The AXUM is a modular completely preprogrammed. The broadcast Console that can grow with you and your organization any time, any moment. I/O cards can be shared between systems and a Broadcast station that has decided to use the AXUM as their main and support mixers can be sure to have invested in a future proofproduct. The Axum can be used for small local 4 fader desktop use as well as large scale (128 faders max) production work and everything in between.

A large matrix of 1280×1280 with extensive signal processing on a maximum of 128 stereo channels is available that can be assigned to Sixteen stereo summing mixing busses and sixteen monitor buses as well as directly between the maximum of 4 DSP’s. Imagine a console where you can decide yourself what a switch/encoder or fader will do for you. Not possible?. With the AXUM this is possible and… you can do that yourself by selecting a function out of hundreds of functions simply selectable from a database in your AXUM browser.

Two control surfaces (with their own CRM sections) in different studios sharing the same I/O rack is also no problem for the AXUM platform. Hardware purchasing choices
are straightforward:
Rack ONE accepts a maximum of 21 I/O single slot cards.
Rack TWO accepts a maximum of 40 I/O single slot cards.

A Control Surface Frame starts with 4 faders as a minimum and can be extended to a maximum of 128 motorized faders plus Control/CRM section. Each individual Control Surface Frame can be mounted drop through in a work surface left or right of your script space. Interfacing with studio equipment is with high quality low cost readily available STP cable, also called shielded STP Ethernet cable, see breakout boxes below to choose from.

An internally generated webpage allows you to remotely control all settings anywhere over Ethernet and /or Internet. The MambaNet protocol controls the communication between all system parts linked to each other with world standard Ethernet. It gives such an enormous freedom in system solutions so we hardly can imagine that your needs can not be met with the AXUM. A software Meter application is included and runs directly from the Control Surface, but also from any PC in the network. Also hardware meters can be connected in the network anywhere, thanks to the MambaNet protocol.

Features:

• Self operating mixer
• Engineer operated mixer
• Outside broadcasting
• Video Post production
• Conference mixing
• Routing and Networking Matrix
• 4 to 128 motorized Alps faders
• Faders can be used for channel faders and buss master faders
• Scaleable On-Air/Production Console
• Separated control surfaces and I/O racks
• Control surfaces connected by Ethernet.
• Internal website for console setup. (already pre-programmed in the factory)
• I/O matrix of 1280 x1280.
• 16 stereo summing buses (Prog, Sub, Cue, Comm, 12x Aux) and 4 stereo monitoring busses.
• 16 Talkback busses
• 4 stereo monitor busses per DSP card
• Inputs can directly assigned to the outputs.
• 128 Stereo DSP channels max (4 DSP Cards inserted)
• Digital gain control.
• 6 band comprehensive EQ.
• Enhanced Voice Processing built in.
• Processing presets.
• Module presets.
• Console presets.
• Direct outputs available.
• Converters are 24bit/96kHz.
• Remote in/out.
• Sample Rate Converter optional.
• CobraNet option.
• Phase meters on modules, busses, monitor.\
• High precision Broadcast Clock
• Redundant power supply optional for both Control Surface and I/O rack.

The switches on the channel-strip are software assignable to a function. For instance the ‘ON’ Switch can be above or below the fader. Any Control surface switch can do anything you want it to do, but… to not confuse you we have programmed a factory default assignment that represents the working procedures of the average Radio Studio to start with. Switches have long life dual color LED’s. So every active function is clearly shown. The basic desktop frames are built to use as a drop through frame in a furniture surface. They can accept 2, 3, 4, 5 or 6 pcs of 4 faders sections, or 2,3,4,5 pcs of 4 fader sections and 1 CRM/STUDIO section plus master blind. With two frames (script space in the middle) you can have a maximum of 48 faders with CRM/STUDIO section.If more faders are needed larger frame sizes are available upon request to achieve the maximum of 128 by fader controllable stereo channels this design can handle.

IOCards

• MIC-AD, 4 Mic input GPIO on RJ45. (1 slot)
• LINE-AD, 8 Line input (4 stereo) GPIO on RJ45. (1 slot)
• LINE-DA, 8 Line output (4 stereo) GPIO on RJ45. (1 slot)
• DDsrc, 4 stereo Dig in/out, with Sample Rate Converter GPIO on RJ45. (1 slot)
• Telephone Hybrid card (2 lines). (1 slot)
• Firewire Card. (1 slot)
• Dante Card (1 Slot)
• CRM / Phone output Card (2x balanced stereo line 2x stereo Phones) (1 slot)
• DSP Audio module (32 stereo processing channels, 2 CRM/Studio) (1 slot)
• ENGINE Card, 2 slots (always necessary)
• Power supply card, 3 slots (always necessary)

This example configuration of the AXUM digital mixing console has a control surface of 12 Motorfaders and a CRM/Studio section, ready to be used.

The I/O rack ONE is loaded with the following cards:

• 1x Axum Rack Engine
• 1x Axum Power Supply
• 1x Axum DSP processor for 32 stereo channels
• 1x Mic AD (4xMic input and 8x GPIO
• 2x Line AD (8x mono or 4 stereo line inputs and 8x GPIO)
• 1x Line D/A (8x mono or 4x stereo, 8x GPIO)
• 1x D/D card with sample rate converter (4xAES3 out/in and 8x GPIO)
• 1x CRM D/A Card (2xstereo, 2x Headphone and 8x GPIO)
• 8x Blind frontpanels for more I/O cards
• 4x Break out panels

General:

Matrix up to 1280×1280.
Word clock input or internal generator.
Synchronization
Word clock input or internal generator.
32 kHz, 44.1 kHz, 48 kHz.
Word clock out 75R.
Selectable 75 Ohm termination on word clock input.
I/O Cards:

DSP
32 bit floating point processing.
32 stereo channels.
32 mixing busses.(Program|Sub|Cue|Comm|24x Aux)
6 band fully parametric equalizer.
MIC

Electronically balanced, 2Kohm.
Analog input sensitivity -70dBu up to 20dBu (Pad).
CMRR MIC inputs: 85dB @ 1kHz, maximum gain.
Optional transformer balancing.
Line input

Electronically balanced, 10kOhm.
Input sensitivity 6 dBu, maximum 26dBu.
CMRR Line inputs: 50dB @ 1kHz, maximum gain.
Optional transformer balancing.
Line Output

Electronically balanced, <47Ohm.
Output level 6dBu, maximum output level 26 dBu.
Optional transformer balancing.

CRM Output

Electronically balanced, <47 Ohm.
Output level 6dBu, maximum output level 26 dBu.
Optional transformer balancing.
Headphones out:
– 80mW into 600R.
– minimum load 8 Ohm.
Digital Inputs/Output

Sample rate conversion.
AES/EBU (AES3), S/P-DIF (cinch or optical).
16/20/24 bit.
THD N: -105dBfs @1kHz, 0 dBFS.
Input/Output impedance: 110 Ohm (XLR) / 75 Ohm (Cinch).
Output level: 2 to 5 volt
GPI

5V TTL, 100 kOhm input impedance
GPO

Selection of optical isolated relay or 5V TTL output
Optical isolated relays is max: 50V at 200mA

AXUM dimensions for drop through mounting

4 fader segments:
Width                         : 192mm
Height                        : 399mm
Drop through hole      : 380mm x 192mm
Front Panel Thickness: 3.5mm

CRM section:

Width                         :96mm
Height                        : 399mm
Drop through hole     : 380mm x 96 mm
Front Panel thickness: 3.5mm

Patch panels are

1HE and 19″ rack mountable.
There are 6 models to choose from.