Crest Audio and Waves design Tactus, an innovative digital mixing system

Tactus is a digital platform developed to work with Waves' eMotion for SoundGrid mixer..

Tactus is a system that is managed and customized through its touch screen, offering all the tools needed for mixing, addressing and processing.. This device has been designed by Crest Audio to work with the Waves eMotion for SoundGrid mixer, allowing the use of live events from audio processing plug-ins created by Waves.

Tactus hardware includes the Tactus.FOH unit, the system's audio processing core, and the Tactus.Stage unit, a stage box with 32 tickets and 16 Departures. The modular capacity of the system, that interconnects via standard Gigabit Ethernet cabling and an internal Gigabit switch, allows multiple configurations in terms of number of channels.

Tactus.FOH is managed by Waves' SoundGrid processing-networking platform, which ensures very low latency in precision audio processing. Combined with the eMotion mixer for Waves SoundGrid, results in a high-performance mixing platform in terms of performance, audio quality and flexibility.

The Tactus.FOH unit provides 8 local microphone/line inputs and performs the functions of audio signal processing engine.

The Tactus.Stage unit includes 32 microphone/line inputs and 16 line outputs. Digitally controlled microphone preamplifiers, high quality, have extremely low input noise, a high response speed, a very low THD and an adjustment range of 66 dB in steps 1 dB, which allows maximizing the dynamic range. A built-in Gigabit Ethernet switch makes networking easy. It is also possible to combine input units / output Tactus.Stage to get a total of 64 stereo inputs and 32 stereo outputs.