Calrec Audio is demonstrating its most powerful digital audio console ever, the Apollo, providing more than twice the processing power of the company's Alpha console.
Apollo brings a redesigned control surface with touchscreens, OLED displays and light-emitting knobs for clear feedback about function. Individual operators can instantly configure their own settings.
In assign mode, the console mirrors the assign panels used on previous Calrec designs. In channel strip, or "wild" mode, the panels are configured to resemble an analog design.
Apollo is powered by Bluefin2, the next generation of Calrec's trademark Bluefin high-density signal processing, providing massive resources. Apollo boasts up to 1,020 channel processing paths, 128 program busses, 96 IFB/Track outputs and 48 auxiliaries at 48 kHz.
It can also increase its fader capacity up to double the original size by switching out panel segments with units containing twice the number of faders.
The Apollo is equipped with an integrated router so that I/O functions can be performed by Calrec's next-generation networking system, Hydra2, which uses high-capacity 8192x8192 crosspoint routers and makes available a variety of I/O units to provide analog, AES, MADI, SDI and Dolby E formats.
— Sanjay Talwani, Government Video