More than 10 years have passed since the Yamaha PM1D and PM5D helped define the digital console market. Now the RIVAGE PM10 is here, launching a new generation of PM consoles.

Yamaha Commercial Audio has launched the RIVAGE PM10 digital mixing console, comprised of the CS-R10 control surface, DSP-R10 DSP engine, RPio622 I/O rack, three types of RY cards, and two types of HY cards to provide the flexibility to configure and match the scale and functional requirements of any application.

"Our new flagship RIVAGE PM10 system is the result of more than 40 years of PM Series history and reinforces our passion to provide industry-leading commercial audio products," states Laurence Italia, Vice President/General Manager, Yamaha Commercial Audio. "RIVAGE PM10 will ignite the market for a new era of extraordinary sound, operation, and reliability. Needless to say, RIVAGE PM10 would not be possible without the dedication of the Yamaha Japan R&D team as well as feedback from our customers."

Attention has been paid to console operation, with Yamaha's acclaimed Selected Channel interface allowing all parameters of the selected channel to be directly and intuitively controlled. There are also two large LCD touch screens that provide logical continuity with the faders, offering the same operability as the Centralogic interface in 12-channel groups. In addition to these two interface features, encoder position visibility has been enhanced, as have a number of other details that contribute significantly to improved operability overall.

New features extend the usefulness of the scene memory: "Isolate" enables the engineer to specify entire channel modules including EQ and dynamics libraries that will be protected from recall operations without altering the Recall Safe settings. This is significant for situations where scene memory is heavily used.

The Overlay Filter can be "overlaid" on a current mix to apply temporary offsets to fader and mix/matrix send levels independently from Scene Recall. This is very valuable in situations that require sudden changes and the ability to revert easily to the original settings.

The CS-R10 control surface and DSP-R10 DSP engine are connected via a dedicated Cat-5e ring "Console Network." The DSP engine connects to the RPio622 I/O racks via the newly developed TWINLANe ring network using multi-mode optical fibre. The fact that both networks use simple ring connections facilitates redundancy and reliability.

TWINLANe is an original Yamaha protocol that can handle up to 400 96 kHz audio channels over distances of up to 300 meters with low latency and redundancy for high reliability. Up to two DSP-R10 DSP engines and eight RPio622 I/O racks can be connected in a single ring.

Connection to a computer for multi-track recording and connectivity to the NUAGE advanced production system, Yamaha CL and QL Series consoles, as well as other external equipment is all possible via a Dante network. Dante works with TWINLANe to create an exceptionally flexible, reliable system.