RTL Belgium
Case Study: The Power of an All-Virtual Workflow
Just bring Your Own Voice and Content
RTL Belgium’s Magenta project has delivered an essentially hardware-free, virtualized radio workflow. Gone are the consoles and other hardware tools. Touchscreens and items that make sense to content producers rather than operators provide an intuitive user interface. As a result, onboarding new radio talent has become super easy.
This is made possible by a virtual cart where users can tweak levels using virtual faders, and so on, when they need to. The project is based on the aim to remove all clutter typical of traditional radio studios by simplifying operations and minimizing distractions for self-op radio hosts and DJs.
In a way, we had to dismantle our traditional production workflows and virtually rebuild them from scratch.
RTL Belgium – Full Case Study
In this executive case study, Lawo, M&I Broadcast Services (OmniPlayer) and Pluxbox present RTL Belgium’s Magenta project that has delivered an essentially hardware-free, virtualized radio workflow.
Lawo Products in use at RTL Belgium
VSM virtual studio manager (the backbone of the entire system).
Lawo VisTool virtual radio studio environment. The Pluxbox user interface is embedded in VisTool. Both Pluxbox and VisTool control the (hidden) OmniPlayer playout servers, of which there are two—one per radio station.
Power Core software-definable, high-density I/O, mixing, processing and routing engine in each on-air studio.
mc² audio production consoles for cross-media formats (TV and radio)
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