Fairlight Announces Next Generation Audio Engine for Post Production – The CC-2

Specializing in high-end live and post production audio, Fairlight has announced their second generation audio engine – The CC-2. Based on their proprietary technology, this incredibly powerful engine on a single PCIe card can host over 1000 channels.

Supporting beyond 1000 channels, CC-2 is Fairlight’s most powerful audio engine to date.

Fairlight has taken into consideration the growing demands of current surround sound formats. The CC-2 arms users with a stable option who not only require an audio engine that can handle massive workloads, but also one that can handle just as much processing with speed and efficiency.

Announced at NAB 2014, Fairlight’s CC-2 price and release date are TBA.

Here are full details from Fairlight’s Press Release:

Fairlight (NAB Booth C1459), world renowned for providing the fastest audio production tools, and peerless sound quality, has raised the bar again with the release of its next generation audio engine. CC-2 is based on Fairlight’s Crystal Core Technology, powering their entire range of high-speed digital audio mixing, recording and editing systems, delivering guaranteed performance and increased efficiencies in the largest and most complex productions.

One Thousand Channels

Track counts and surround formats of today’s film and television productions require a more advanced and more scalable alternative to outdated DSP based solutions, which is why Fairlight has moved to the more advanced FPGA-based CC-2 technology. Providing 1,000 hard disk playback channels, 100 live inputs and 100+ output buses available, the CC-2 system is the fastest and most powerful audio engine ever made, perfectly suited to today’s submersive surround sound formats, including Dolby® Atmos™, DTS® MDA and NHK’s 22.2.

Enhanced Productivity

Tightly integrated with Fairlight’s editing and mixing environment, the new CC-2 enables a range of productivity-enhancing features including an entirely new 64 bit codebase, advanced delay compensation, and faster than real-time bounce to name just a few. With equalisation, dynamics, plug-ins and inserts always on every input and bus with near zero latency, unlimited headroom and legendary sound quality, Fairlight users will now be able to tackle larger projects, with more tracks, more processing power, and more speed with ease.

Accelerated Workflow

CC-2 is a quantum leap in processing power and when combined with Fairlight’s intuitive user interface, tactile control surfaces featuring their patented, self-labelling Picture Key Technology, and tight integration with third-party storage, media asset management systems or video collaboration environments, Fairlight delivers the fastest workflows of any system on the market. When faced with tight deadlines, you can rely on Fairlight to help you deliver a quality product, on time, every time, at least 20% faster than on competitive systems.

Invest in your future

Continuing a long tradition of seamless upgrade paths, Fairlight has ensured that CC-2 is also compatible with audio hardware purchased for CC-1. This means that owners of Fairlight systems don’t need to replace their current audio interfaces and control surfaces to upgrade to CC-2. Existing investments in Fairlight’s high-quality hardware continues to be supported, maximising the return of investment on existing equipment.

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