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

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

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

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

This unique console design features an analog section that delivers a smooth, natural sound, even at high gain levels, which is combined with an A/D converter 96 kHz y 24 bits, 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 completely transparent sound input path or, using Silk Red and Blue modes and the Texture control of the selected channel on the console, to be very creative with the color and character of each specific entry.

Con Rivage PM10, the company has taken another step in its collaboration with other manufacturers. In addition to forging a closer bond with Rupert's Name in the development of RY16-ML-SILK, new VCM models of Rupert EQ773 are presented, Rupert Comp 754, Rupert EQ810 y Rupert Comp 830.

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

Intuitive and flexible

The system is controlled via a user interface that will be familiar to anyone who works 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 fundamental in the design of the user interface of the new console.

The control surface's channel strips extend virtually seamlessly over the two touchscreen displays. 15 inches, while the rotary encoders have horseshoe ring indicators for optimal visibility. If required, A third screen can be added using a DVI socket.

Other innovations include greatly improved Scene functions, 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 USB two-track recording.

At the heart 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 metros. 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 (which will be expanded in a future update).

The RPio622 unit features six of Yamaha's new RY card slots, to insert three different types of I/O cards, thus providing up to 96 rack mic preamps. Besides, both the 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 units 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 and analogue I/O 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, director of the Pro Audio division at Yamaha, “for several years, the market has been wondering when Yamaha would launch a new advanced digital console for large-scale productions. We have always said that, when it happened, It would constitute a reference point in the market similar to what happened at the time with PM1D and PM5D. Therefore, I am very pleased to say that, con Rivage PM10, that moment has arrived. We believe it will constitute another milestone in the history of digital sound consoles.. This system will be the most flexible, the easiest to use and the most reliable for all large events”.

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