HOME mc² DSP

Lawo’s HOME mc² DSP app is a microservice-based, virtual audio processing core with the equivalent feature set of the A__UHD Core, hosted on CPU-based standard servers.

With instantly familiar A__UHD Core features, it is part of Lawo’s HOME Apps offering, providing processing on demand with ­superior connectivity, elasticity and scalability for today’s and tomorrow’s production requirements.

HOME mc² DSP is designed for use in tandem with Lawo’s mc² mixing consoles and is able to instantiate a (virtual) mixing system at the press of a button wherever audio processing capability is required fast—and perhaps unexpectedly. With all features known from the A__UHD Core FPGA hardware in a completely redesigned CPU-based package, HOME mc² DSP allows operators to spin up mc²-grade DSP processing on demand with hitherto unavailable granularity.

HOME mc² DSP fully leverages the agility afforded by the abstraction of processing functionality from the hardware with all the ­benefits of Lawo’s Flex licensing and subscription model: users can freely allocate subscription credits, either locally or ­system-wide, to any available HOME App—whether audio or video.

HOME mc² DSP’s primary purpose is to provide audio processing in situations where no A__UHD Core is available or where remaining within the HOME Apps realm is more practical. It allows users to spin up a processing core with vastly different channel counts to perfectly match each specific use case.

The mc² DSP app boasts the same ultra-low latency as its hardware companion. All capabilities and features are so similar that operators are unable to tell whether their console surface controls a hardware-based A__UHD Core, or the HOME mc² DSP app.

Scaling automatically with future CPU developments, HOME mc² DSP can provide up to several thousand DSP channels where needed, with support for mono, stereo, 5.1, and a host of NGA immersive mixing formats, plus automatic downmixes.

• Runs on CPU with the same latency as A__UHD Core
• mc²-style processing channels (identical to A__UHD Core)
• Up to 2048 Inputs
• Up to 256 AUX busses, 96 Groups, 96 Sums (simultaneously where desired)
• 32 infinite Automix Groups
• Sampling rate: 48kHz
• Virtual Loopbacks (vLoopbacks)
• Support for: mono, stereo, 5.1, immersive audio

• Downmixes for stereo, 5.1 and immersive processing channels
• AFL 1: stereo & surround, PFL 1 stereo; AFL 2: stereo, PFL 2 stereo
• Compatible control surfaces: mc² consoles, crystal Controller console, headless mixing systems
• Supported audio formats: ST2110-30 (incl. RAVENNA, AES67), NDI, SRT and Dante*
• Tone generator: Sine, White Noise, Pink Noise, EBU Stereo, BLITS 5.1
• Commercial flexibility through Lawo Flex

(*) Dante support is a future product development.