Page 1 of 6 VirtualNet Accounts Dep. From: "Gunther Becker" <gbecker@broadcast.za.net> To: <russelj@broadcast.za.net> Sent: 04 July 2013 01:06 PM Subject: FW: Lawo Partner Newsletter June 2013 From: Lawo Partner Newsletter [mailto:lawo.news@lawo.de] Sent: 14 June 2013 10:25 To: gbecker@broadcast.za.net Subject: Lawo Partner Newsletter June 2013 Dear Lawo Partner, Welcome to the first June issue of the Lawo Partner Newsletter with information on products, events, installations and the company. Topics are the Lawo Representative Meeting in September, a new theater brochure, how customers can download demo licenses, the summer festival tour of the mc²56 and Eclipse GT in France, a report on radio installations, the RAVENNA seminar that took place in Germany as well as latest product releases. Plus: the Lawo mc²56 is nominated... Save the date As in previous years, we will hold a Representative Meeting the day before the IBC. You are cordially invited to join us for product- and sales-relevant information and enjoy an evening event with dinner and the annual "Representative of the Year Award" ceremony.
Page 2 of 6 Date: Thursday, September 12, 2013 Time: Approx. 1pm till late Meeting location: Heineken Experience, Stadthouderskade 78, Amsterdam Evening location: Surprise! Agenda: Will be distributed in due time Registration is now open: Register via e-mail to juliane.sandner@lawo.de by August 19 at the latest New theater brochure New sales tool: our new theater brochure is now available as download and in print in the languages German and English. Please click here for downloading the German or the English version. It is also available in the Download Area under the heading "Application Brochures". Lawo organizes more and more workshops in theaters and opera houses. Current example is a workshop in the theater of Magdeburg / Germany. We will keep you posted about upcoming theater workshops and seminars. V pro8 video processor: sales material available Please visit the Lawo Download Center for the latest sales material on the V pro8 video processor. Log-in, select the folder name "Marketing and Communication" and click in the checkbox of the folder "Documentation partner trainings". The respective files are: V pro8_rs.pptx (presentation about the features and benefits) V_pro8 1RU comparison chart.pdf (comparing different competing devices with the V pro8) V_pro8 sales support material.pdf (detailed description of the videoprocessor) Get familiar with the V pro8, the first Lawo video product of the V-Line series. V pro8 with new Software Release In May, the latest V pro8 Software Release v1.0.4.2 has been published. It is available for all registered users in the Lawo Download Center. Beside bugfixes and enhancements like colour bar test patterns or block mode for the PPMs, the most significant new features are:
Page 3 of 6 Surround Downmix: Each SDI output has two downmix engines, 5.1 and 7.1 Monitoring SDI audio output channels via MADI Dolby E aligner: Dolby E signals can be detected and their timing controlled For details please consult the release note which is also available in the Lawo Download Center. Demo license JADE and EDIT downloads They had their premiere at the NAB Show and the Prolight+Sound: the Demo License Code Cards, distributed at these trade shows for the first time to visitors of the Lawo booth. These plastic cards with a code printed on the front side enable customers or potential customers to download demo licenses for the JADE and EDIT software. It's easy: your customers just go to the web page www.lawo.de/demo and have to enter the "code" JADE-EDIT-001, their name and their e-mail address. They will receive an URL for downloading the JADE and EDIT software and also a license keys for activating the licenses. Duration of validity is 60 days. If you want to use these cards, please contact MarCom. However, the demo licenses can be also acquired by just entering the code mentioned above. Lawo mc²56 and Eclipse GT on live tour in France Lawo mixing consoles are currently on a "Tour de France", performing at the biggest and most prestigious Live Music Events in France 2013. All the festivals are mixed for live broadcast on an mc²56 of the latest generation, integrating RAVENNA audio-over-ip technology, as well as on an Eclipse console. The festival tour will be produced by Sombrero and Co, the largest production company in this field in France. Sombrero s sound division Yasta cooperates with some of the most renowned French sound engineers who will be working on our mc²56 and Eclipse consoles during the festival summer. Upcoming dates and events: 18.- 25. June Hellfest (Clisson, Bretagne) 5. -7. July Festival Beauregard (Château de Beauregard, Normandie) 15.- 22. July Vieilles Charrues (Carhait- Plouguer, Finistère) 14. -18. August La Route du Rock (Rennes, St. Malo, Bretagne) 20. - 26. August Rock en Seine (Saint-Cloud, Paris, Ile de France) 9. -19. October Jazz Nancy Pulsation (Nancy, Lorraine) 1. -6. December Transmusicales de Rennes (Rennes, Bretagne) Project outline: New studios of Radio 24 in Zurich now on-air
Page 4 of 6 Lawo's Swiss Partner SLG Broadcast set up a handsome installation in Switzerland: in April, Radio24's new studios went on-air. The installation at Radio 24 comprises two on-air studios with Lawo sapphire consoles, one layout studio with a Lawo crystal, and 25 editorial workplaces with Lawo JADE; signals are supplied by a central Nova29 and two Nova17 matrices. Very special is the integration of the equipment supporting the particular workflow of Radio 24. The central system tool, SLG's "SysToolBox", controls webcams and screenbuttons, further devices include voice processors, codecs and many more. A detailled application note about this installation will follow within the next weeks. Follow us on facebook to get the info when the article is online. Latest news on RAVENNA ARD.ZDF medienakademie, the training institute of the German public broadcasters in Nuremberg, held a seminar on audio data transfer via IP networks. About 70 participants from mainly German broadcasters gathered to learn more different technologies and the benefits of RAVENNA. Andreas Hildebrand from ALC NetworX and Stefan Ledergerber from Lawo supplied information on technology, and Sascha Schwoll of German broadcaster SWR reported on the application of this technology in a huge event in Hamburg, the Church Convention of the Protestant Church ("Kirchentag") with more than 130.000 visitors, around 2.500 individual events and more than 40 broadcasters who all used feeds supplied via a RAVENNA network. A press release about this event will be published shortly. The seminar presentations are available on the Lawo Download Center: Log-in, go to the Lawo Download Center, select "Marketing and Communication" and klick in the checkbox in front of "Documentation partner trainings". The relevant presentations are: RAVENNA_Introduction.pdf RAVENNA_Basics_of_Packet_Switching.pdf RAVENNA_requirements_IT_Infrastructure.pdf RAVENNA_Partnership_Model.pdf New DSHS Release
Page 5 of 6 End of May, the new release v4.22 for the Lawo Dual Self Healing Star (DSHS), was published. It comprises some significant changes: The MKII router now supports the DSHS structure The 8k high-performance router replaces the previous Ripper & Router combination Benefits: The network setup is simplified a lot The system performance has been increased significantly The risk of failure has been reduced even more. No need for an additional UPS any more as the control system is integrated into the HD core frame Additional main features of this release include support for the new line of DALLIS I/O cards 941/85, 941/86 and 942/86, the 946/17 3G-SDI card and the microphone card 941/53 with fantastic performance features. Plus many usability features that you can find listed in detail in the release notes. So from now on enjoy our even more reliable and ultra-redundant working machine in the DSHS setup. New DALLIS line cards 941/84 and 942/82: Several new DALLIS line cards have been released, that will be supported by the upcoming mc²/nova73 HD Release 4.24, the already published DSHS Release 4.22, and the upcoming Radio Release 4.2. These cards are sucessors of the DALLIS cards 941/83, 941/85: 8 Input & 8 Output Channels 941/86: 8 Input Channels 942/86: 8 Output Channels The cards feature an excellent dynamic range (119 dba), very low harmonic distortion (THD+N 0.0005%) and extremely low latency while keeping an excellent linear phase response (Inputs: 0.16/0.32ms @ 96/48kHz, Outputs: 0.07/0.15ms @ 96/48kHz)
Page 6 of 6 Resolution Awards Nomination The new Lawo mc²56 has been nominated in the Desk Controller Category of the 2013 Resolution Awards. These prestigious awards are judged by the best-informed readership in the industry - only registered readers of Resolution are eligible to vote. Why not register at the Resolution homepage for the final vote and make the mc²56 the winner desk! Thank you for all your ongoing commitment! Best wishes, Your Lawo MarCom Team Lawo AG Am Oberwald 8, D-76437 Rastatt, Germany, Tel. +49 7222 1002 0, Fax +49 7222 1002 7101 info@lawo.de, www.lawo.de Lawo AG, Registered Office: Rastatt, Amtsgericht Mannheim HRB 707330 CEO: Philipp Lawo / Chairman of the Supervisory Board: Christian Otto, Attorney at Law Visit Lawo on www.lawo.de or on To unscribe please click here. Lawo, 2013