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RƎLAY VRX

Meet the Virtual Radio Mixer.

Real Virtual Radio.

Meet RƎLAY VRX: the world’s first true Virtual Radio Mixer. Not just a screen controlling hardware in a rack somewhere — it’s a real broadcast mixer that’s completely software based. Mixing, processing, routing; all at your fingertips. Works on today’s powerful off-the-shelf PCs and laptops. Able to mix all the audio sources on your PC. And your AES67 network, too. Great in the studio; amazing on the road.

 

Professional Radio Production on your PC

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Lawo RƎLAY brochure

RELAY brings professional radio production to your PC. Mixing. Streaming. Processing. Even routing. AoIP-ready, so you can mix and route both networked and PC audio. With touch-screen GUIs so intuitive, talent can learn it in minutes. No exotic hardware needed: just install RELAY software on your PC or laptop, and go to work.

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Intuitive Touchscreen Mixing

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Some on-screen mixers are full of more colors, bells and whistles than you can shake a stick at. Pretty confusing. We designed RƎLAY VRX to look like something more familiar. You guessed it – a radio mixer. With faders, on / off buttons, bus assignments and other controls right where you expect them to be. Some cool extras, too, like per-fader confidence meters and snapshot recall. No cryptic icons to decipher, or paging through option screens; RƎLAY VRX’s intuitive design helps talent do what they do best: create great radio.

Automatic Mixing

Talent has a million things to keep track of. Especially when producing a talk show, sportscast, roundtable interview or live remote. That’s why RƎLAY VRX8 includes Lawo AutoMix — the same amazing automatic algorithm found on our award-winning ruby and sapphire mixing consoles. AutoMix makes it easy to engineer shows like these with RƎLAY, in just four simple steps.

Just add sources to the AutoMix bus, and the intelligent algorithm takes over, invisibly riding the gain. You can weight sources too, to give your Host priority and duck other mics, phone or Skype callers, or remote guests. So talent can spend more time creating content, and less time minding meters. Hear it for yourself.

Applications

Ready for Remotes

RƎLAY is great in the studio. And it shines just as bright on remotes. Just tuck your RƎLAY-equipped laptop into its backpack, throw in mics and headphones and a Lawo audio gateway for I/O, and you’re ready to hit the road. And because your laptop can run codecs, playout, Skype and other broadcast apps alongside RƎLAY, it’s almost like having your whole studio on the road with you.

Tailored to Talkshows

Small mixers are perfect in the studio for talk shows, round table discussions and sports broadcasts. So RƎLAY is equipped with features optimized for multi-mic shows, like AutoMix (see above). And Autogain, an ingenious one-click function that optimizes mic gain while talent talks. And VST support for sweetening selected sources. Even four independent mix-minus outputs with talkback for callers, remote hosts or in-studio guests. Consider those talkshows tamed.

More than just a Mixer

Yes, RƎLAY VRX is an audio mixer. But it’s also so much more. RƎLAY is middleware — which means it can simultaneously connect to audio hardware, software, and a variety of third-party plugin apps that do the broadcast-y things you want to do. Audio processing apps. Phone apps for callers. Codec apps for remotes. Playout software. Livestream encoders. And many more. RƎLAY sees any and all audio devices and lets you instantly start using them to create.

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Eager to Network

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RƎLAY natively mixes audio supplied by apps on your PC. And it’s AES67-compliant too — which means you can also mix AoIP audio streams from your studio network. Or from local I/O devices. And then distribute it to the network for live broadcasting, web streaming, or archiving.

But RƎLAY isn’t limited to in-studio work. It works beautifully on today’s powerful touchscreen laptops, which means you can literally take your studio with you to cover breaking news, conduct interviews, or mix remote broadcasts — and send them back to the studio using a WAN, LAN or 5G link. Just imagine the possibilities.

Sweet Suite

At Lawo, we’re all about great audio. So every copy of RƎLAY VRX includes something very special: the Lawo Processing Suite. VST plugins based on the same tools found in our high-end mc² live-performance mixers. Modules can be applied to any input. VRX8 comes with AGC, two compressors (with and without EQ), delay, expander, limiter, graphic and parametric EQ, and a 5.1 panner. VRX4 comes with compressor, SCF compressor and parametrix EQ plugins. So you can shape, sweeten and squeeze to your heart’s content.

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Specifications

VRX8 Features
  • 8-channel stereo audio mixer for Windows PCs, with all functions controlled via touchscreen-enabled Graphical User Interface.
  • Mix up to 8 channels, mono or stereo, from a pool of 24 audio sources.
  • Each fader strip contains input confidence metering, on/off button, assignment buttons for Program, Record and PFL busses, and
  • Settings (to edit Autogain, AutoMix, pan/balance and processing such as EQ and Compression).
  • Two stereo mixing busses, Program and Record / Conference bus.
  • Four stereo headphone outputs, each with independent monitor source selector and level control.
  • On-screen monitor speaker control.
  • Switchable bargraph meter can measure Program, Record / Conference bus, or Headphone output.
  • An N-1 output (mix minus) can be created for up to 4 of the 24 audio sources.
  • 8 Snapshot buttons for easy recall of commonly used setups.
  • 16 User keys give fast access to functions such as a COUGH switch, monitor DIM, TALK to N-1, GPIO commands, etc.
  • Large time-of-day clock with several timer functions.
  • Operates in Fullscreen or Taskbar mode; screen can be “docked” to provide fast access to other PC program controls.
  • Password-protected Admin mode gives access to audio sources and processing, snapshot and User key definitions and all other global settings.
  • Supports RAVENNA / AES67 streams via PC NIC, plus all non-proprietary audio interface drivers: ASIO, WDM, WASAPI and MME.
  • Optional OnAir 4 interface provides access to external broadcast devices.
VRX4 Features
  • 4-channel stereo audio mixer for Windows PCs, with all functions controlled via touchscreen-enabled Graphical User Interface.
  • Mix up to 8 channels, mono or stereo, from a pool of 12 audio sources.
  • Each fader strip includes input metering, on/off button, talkback and “easy processing” buttons (prepared in Admin mode to apply signal processing such as EQ and Compression).
  • One stereo Program mixing bus.
  • One stereo Monitor bus output to both headphone and monitor speaker feeds, with individual level control. Users can monitor Program, or any predefined audio source.
  • An N-1 output (mix minus) can be created for up to 4 of the 12 audio sources.
  • 16 Snapshot buttons for easy recall of commonly used setups.
  • Large time-of-day clock with several timer functions.
  • Operates in Fullscreen or Taskbar mode; screen can be “docked” to provide fast access to other PC program controls.
  • Password-protected Admin mode gives access to audio sources and processing, snapshot and User key definitions and all other global settings.
  • Supports RAVENNA / AES67 streams via PC NIC, plus all non-proprietary audio interface drivers: ASIO, WDM, WASAPI and MME.
  • Optional OnAir 4 interface provides access to external broadcast devices.
PC Requirements
  • PC with Intel I-5 or I-7 quad-core CPU or better, with a CPU benchmark of 10,000 points minimum (based or ratings from cpubenchmark.net).
  • Dedicated graphics card recommended for best performance.
  • Windows 7, 8, 10, Windows Server 2012 R2, or Server 2016.
  • 8GB RAM, 2GB drive space.
  • Gigabit Ethernet LAN connection (preferably PTP aware).

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