Yamaha opens a new era in live digital sound tables with Rivage PM10

Yamaha's new Rivage PM10 digital mixing console kicks off a new generation of more powerful and flexible live sound tables for large-scale music productions.

For more than a decade, the PM1D and PM5D digital mixing consoles of Yamaha have been essential around the world for large-scale live music productions. now, the new Rivage PM10, which brings to the iconic PM name even higher levels of quality, flexibility, functionality and reliability, aims to become a new flagship of the brand that will redefine the market for digital sound tables.

Yamaha Rivage PM10 includes many of the company's innovations and is already a milestone in the market for large format digital mix consoles. In its design the most important thing has been to provide the best possible sound, achieved with the RY16-ML-SILK hybrid microphone preamplifier, newly developed.

This unique console design features an analog section that delivers uniform natural sound, even at high profit levels, which is combined with an A/D converter 96 kHz and 24 Bit, as well as the company's enhanced VCM digital modeling for Rupert Neve Designs' transformer circuitry and Silk processing.

The audio engineer can have a fully transparent sound input path or, using Silk Red and Blue modes and the Texture control of the selected channel in the console, to be very creative with the color and character of each specific entry.

With Rivage PM10, the company has gone a step further in its collaboration with other manufacturers. In addition to forging a closer bond with Rupert Neve in the development of RY16-ML-SILK, new VCM models of Rupert EQ773 are presented, Rupert Comp 754, Rupert EQ810 and Rupert Comp 830.

The company has also collaborated with TC Electronic to include two surprising reverberations: the VSS4HD room simulation and the highly creative stereo NonLin2, as presented on your System devices 6000. To this is added its joint work with Eventide to add the ultra-harmonizing H3000-Live as a future Rivage PM10 system standard.

Intuitive and flexible

The system is controlled by a user interface that will be familiar to everyone working with Yamaha consoles, offering even more flexible operation. One of the most important and attractive aspects of the Rivage PM10 control surface is a complete Selected Channel section., which was already a key element of the PM1D and PM5D consoles and has now also been instrumental in the design of the user interface of the new console.

The channel bands of the control surface extend almost perfectly over the two touch screens of 15 Inch, while rotary encoders have 'horseshoe' ring indicators for optimal visibility. If necessary, a third screen can be added using a DVI socket.

Other innovations include greatly improved Scene features, dual monitor buses, the possibility of using processors up to 384 effects at once and four USB connections for data storage, mouse and keyboard control, as well as two-track USB recording.

The axis of the Rivage PM10 system is Yamaha's newly developed TwinLANe ring network, that can handle up to 400 audio channels to 96 khz, 32 bits at distances up to 300 metre. With it you can connect up to eight RPio622 units and, at the time of launch, up to two CS-R10 control surfaces and two DSP-R10 systems (to be extended in a future update).

The RPio622 has six of Yamaha's new RY card slots, to insert three different types of I/O card, thus providing up to 96 rack microphone preamps. In addition, both RPio622 and the DSP-R10 system have the new HY card slots (two and four, respectively) for more I/O (only one HY card slot is needed in both to connect the drives to the TwinLANe network), while the three hardware components of the system have two of the well-known my card slots of this audio manufacturer.

By having the CS-R10 control surface, which also has 8 X 8 Local analog I/O and 8 X 8 AES3 I/O with sample rate conversion, the fully expanded Rivage PM10 system can accommodate more than 3.000 I/O and it is possible to use a new optional HY-Dante card to integrate multitrack recording or other hardware, including other Yamaha digital consoles.

As chihaya 'Chick' Hirai has pointed out, Pro Audio Division Manager at Yamaha, "for several years, the market has wondered when Yamaha would launch a new advanced digital console for large-scale productions. We have always said that, when it happened, would constitute a market benchmark similar to that which was the case with PM1D and PM5D at the time.. therefore, I am very pleased to say that, with Rivage PM10, that time has come. We believe it will be another milestone in the history of digital sound tables.. This system will be the most flexible, the easiest to use and the most reliable for all major events".

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