LONDON, United Kingdom – At PLASA 2012, HARMAN Professional
is introducing its HiQnet Audio Architect™ configuration and control software,
marking a new era in the HARMAN HiQnet platform. HiQnet Audio Architect
represents the single-most comprehensive audio networking solution for
professional fixed install applications, providing integrators with a unified
platform for system design, programming and custom control.
HiQnet Audio Architect enables a greater level of
integration for the end-user by combining the functionality of predecessor
software applications HiQnet System Architect™ and HiQnet London Architect™.
The new software platform will provide system-focused configuration of over
100 HiQnet products from AKG, BSS, Crown, dbx, JBL and Lexicon. It merges
the open-architecture DSP backbone of the BSS Audio Soundweb London family with
the comprehensive workflow and customizable control of HiQnet System Architect.
In adding the feature set of HiQnet London Architect to the
HiQnet System Architect software platform to create HiQnet Audio Architect, the
HiQnet team has included numerous user experience and workflow enhancements in
order to provide the operator with as much depth and complexity as each system
requires. It cleverly hides advanced features from a more novice user but does
not inhibit the design of a large-scale system. The workflow paradigm
introduced in System Architect 2 and adopted by JBL Performance Manager™
carefully guides the designer from start to finish, and presents a cleaner
workspace by displaying only the tools appropriate for each and every stage of
the design.
Being launched alongside HiQnet Audio Architect is HiQnet
Motion Control™ – an Apple iOS app which enables customized control interfaces
designed in Audio Architect to be imported on iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch
devices for mobile system control. Dedicated design templates are available
within Audio Architect for the configuration of customized interfaces, which
can be used to control devices from BSS, Crown, dbx and JBL. HiQnet Motion
Control is available from the Apple App Store and will also function with
HiQnet System Architect prior to the availability of HiQnet Audio Architect.
HiQnet Audio Architect positions itself as the
most versatile software application available today for the network
configuration, by providing the ability to route the emerging AVB open
standard, Cirrus Logic CobraNet and Audinate Dante audio network protocols, as
well as HARMAN’s proprietary BLU link high-channel, low latency digital audio
bus, all within a single application. By providing the ability to route the
three most widely-adopted audio network protocols within a single interface, a
system designer educated in the use of HiQnet Audio Architect can flexibly move
from one network platform to another without being experienced in multiple
software packages. The BLU link digital audio bus offers a highly complementary
solution to any network – whether AVB, CobraNet or Dante – by enabling far
greater routing flexibility and the added benefit of alleviating bandwidth from
the primary network.
“The introduction of HiQnet Audio
Architect is a major milestone in the vision of the unified, end-to-end HiQnet
networked audio system. We are now offering the all-in-one design, routing and
control solution that the professional AV community has been waiting for. No other manufacturer can match the diversity
of product offerings and the versatility of networked audio routing within a
single software application as HARMAN will now provide through HiQnet Audio
Architect – and this phase of the HiQnet program is really only just
beginning,” stated Adam Holladay, Market Manager, HARMAN System Development and
Integration Group.
HiQnet Audio Architect, the network topologies it configures
and controls, and the accompanying HiQnet Motion Control iOS app will be demonstrated
at PLASA on the HARMAN stand 1-E21.
HARMAN HiQnet™ is the world's first
connectivity and control protocol that integrates all product categories in the
signal chain for professional audio systems of all types, size, and
applications. HARMAN HiQnet no longer requires the user to manage multiple
disparate operating systems or be responsible for programming individual signal
processors, speaker controllers, wireless microphone systems, and mixing
consoles. HiQnet was developed by engineers from across HARMAN’s Professional
Division and is coordinated by the System Development and Integration Group
(SDIG), a team of dedicated systems specialists based in Salt Lake City,
Utah.
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