Fairlight US - Provider of Professional Audio Production Solutions

EVO

As a mixing surface EVO excels its mid-range price point with in-line controls and detailed full-color displays for every fader. The center section is designed around Fairlight's revolutionary self-labeling Xynergi keys, for full tactile control of recording, editing and mixing. EVO's built-in professional monitoring section makes simple sense out of complex surround mixing, capable of fully automated mixes in multiple formats simultaneously. And with 36-bit floating point audio throughout the signal path, you'll have the headroom and precision for the most demanding applications.

Xynergi

The Xynergi Media Production Center organizes and delivers all the media processing tools needed for high-end audio for video production in all widely used surround formats. The system is based around a completely new concept in tactile control harnessing the awesome ‘green’ processing power of Fairlight’s CC-1 digital media engine and Fairlight’s integrated PyxisTrack video.

Xynergi with Xe6

The affordable Xe6. The Xe6 is an all new six fader extension module for Xynergi that adds a high quality yet cost-effective tactile mixing control to the Xynergi hardware platform. Up to four Xe6's can be installed providing a traditional console-like hardware interface engineered to Fairlight’s demanding standards for quality and robustness. The Xe6 is designed using a new generation of color OLED displays, touch sensitive moving faders and fully assignable encoder controls. It fits neatly into the physical setup of the Xynergi controller, elevating this platform to fulfill the full range of audio production tasks from recording and editing through to fully automated mixing.

Anthem

Anthem is multi-configurable digital audio console for facilities wanting to offer music recording and mixing together with dedicated audio post production services. Anthem is powered by the awesome CC-1 media processing engine and effectively delivers three consoles in one with Fairlight's legendary sound quality and ultra-low latency required for the music industry.

Constellation

Constellation offers the ultimate system for the most demanding of post production environments. The system provides control through all stages of project creation including large format mixing. Powered by CC-1, Constellation delivers a unique and unrivaled user experience

Station

The Station is a complete solution for the smaller studio undertaking full production and mixing of the majority of short form, commercials and radio work, it is also part of the Family of products and is the ideal partner to the Anthem or Constellation Console as part of a multi-room production system in a larger facility.

Satellite

Satellite is a powerful and productive audio for video post production system and is powered by Fairlight’s amazing new CC-1 FPGA media processing engine. It combines legendary ‘Fairlight-fast’ editing with an array of recording and mixing features. The essence of its power lies in the seamless integration of essential production tools such as non linear video and plug-ins delivering a truly compact but all-encompassing post system.

Pyxis Family

Pyxis is a family of non-linear video player/recorders designed for use in audio post production, film dubbing, telecine capture, screening rooms, ADR list preparation and control functions in ADR recording studios.

Pyxis is easily installed on any suitable PC platform running the Windows XP™ operating system. Pyxis can operate as a standalone system, under SONY™ 9 pin control, or as part of a multi-system, facility-wide network using standard Ethernet as its connection protocol.

There are four products that comprise the Pyxis family. These include a Standard Definition player/recorder (PYX-S), a Standard Definition player/recorder with Genlock and SDI I/Os utilizing the Decklink Extreme card (PYX-PRO), an HD/SD Networkable player (PYX-P), an HD/SD player recorder with SDI and Genlock utilising the Decklink Single Link HD card OR the Decklink Dual Link HD card supporting 4:2:2 uncompressed video for the highest possible video quality (PYX-HD). All versions support either uncompressed or compressed video formats in NTSC or PAL and at any frame rate including 24 and 23.98 in the HD versions for film productions. In addition all HD versions can reference Tri-Level sync as the master timing reference. LTC can be generated at any required rate so Pyxis can easily be used as a master in all dubbing room applications. All Pyxis configurations are supplied with a PCI Communication card for 9 Pin and video sync, a CD containing system software, a hardware dongle to enable licensing, installation guide and a communication cable.

Workflow Solutions

Workflow tools currently consist of MediaLink-AV, a server based application to optimize TCP traffic to multiple workstations. AudioBase III, a server based WEB server for Sound effects and other audio media. Virtual Studio Runner, a powerful new Trafficking and Ingest solution and finally AV-Transfer, the ultimate file conversion utility, allows you to open, play and export audio files and projects in today’s leading professional formats.

CC-1 FPGA Engine

Fairlight’s Revolutionary Crystal-Core Engine is a PCIe card that is installed in any compliant host PC operating Windows XP.

The CC-1 Engine forms the basis of a variety of powerful systems, from simple low-cost recording/editing platforms to massive large format consoles with integrated Hi-Definition video. Since the CC-1 Engine runs on a standard Windows PC, the system plugs seamlessly into virtually any existing IT infrastructure. However, no other PC hosted system provides the power and dedicated performance of the CC-1 Engine. CC-1’s architecture allows multiple engines to be linked to form massive systems, providing a level of scalability that far exceeds any other competing platform.

CC-1 Engines can be licensed in 5 different configurations

1. 32 Channels / 24 Busses / 110 Physical I/Os
2. 64 Channels / 24 Busses / 110 Physical I/Os
3. 96 Channels / 32 Busses / 110 Physical I/Os
4. 144 Channels / 56 Busses / 164 Physical I/Os
5. 230 Channels / 72 Busses / 212 Physical I/Os

Where additional I/O is required over and above that provided by the SX-20 and the MADI connectors supported on the CC-1 card itself, a CMI (Crystal MADI Interface) card should be specified. This card requires a physical PCI space in the PC chassis but does not connect to a PCI bus on the motherboard. It connects directly to the CC-1 PCIe card via a proprietary cable. The CMI card can be used in conjunction with a CC-1 card to support a maximum of four SX-48 units and a physical maximum of 212 discrete inputs and outputs for any one Crystal-Core system.

CC-1 Summary

Fairlight’s modern CC-1 FPGA media engine effortlessly delivers unprecedented processing power with virtually zero latency. The technology is so powerful that 230 Hi Resolution audio channels can be processed concurrently, each with eight bands of EQ and three stages of dynamics by a single CC-1 card hosted in a Windows PC.

In addition, the engine provides enough processing power to support a large format mixing system with access to 72 mix busses, 220 physical I/Os, a comprehensive monitoring system, a fully integrated 192 track DAW, on board HD/SD video and access to most popular 3rd party Plug-ins.

Not only is CC-1 more powerful than any other processing engine, it is also sonically superior with its ability to record at sampling frequencies up to 96 kHz and manipulate audio at 72 bit floating point.

An investment in Fairlight’s FPGA technology is also an investment in future proof hardware design as many new features and capabilities can be delivered in software form without the need for an expensive hardware refit.

SX-48

Fairlight’s SX-48 Signal Exchange extends the CC-1 platform with flexible and cost-effective I/O. Up to FOUR SX-48 units can be connected to a single CC-1 card via MADI providing up to 192 channels of discrete I/O per engine. The SX-48 is designed to accommodate all standard sampling frequencies from 44.1Khz to 192 KHz. Fairlight’s renowned I/O can be installed in eight channel modular blocks, allowing numerous combinations of up to six cards of analogue and/or digital I/O to be mixed together in each SX-48 unit or added later if required. The SX-48 locks to external Sync at any frame rate and accepts HD Tri-level sync, Video Sync, Word-Clock or AES as references. Your browser may not support display of this image. Fairlight’s Total Studio Connectivity Protocol (TSCP) allows intelligent management of all SX-48 I/O resources on the TSCP network.

SX-20

Fairlight’s SX-20 is a versatile “Sync I/O Toolbox”, and is a required component of any base CC-1 system. The SX-20 includes two Microphone/Instrument preamps plus two additional balanced analogue inputs, 12 balanced analogue outputs, four digital inputs and eight digital outputs. In addition, SX-20 includes powerful simultaneous independent multi-machine 9-pin control, with Fairlight’s industry leading precision and accuracy.

If that isn’t enough, SX-20 provides for Sync at any frame rate including HD Tri-level sync, Video Sync, Word clock, AES and LTC. The unit also generates LTC at any standard rate. When combined with CC-1, SX-20 provides all the capabilities required for a wide variety of audio production and post-production tasks.

PyxisTrack

PyxisTrack is an Integrated SD or HD video option available for all CC-1 systems.

PyxisTrack provides an integrated SD or HD video file player hosted on the CC-1 platform. The PyxisTrack output appears in the editing screen centralizing all audio and video references in one logical area.

PyxisTrack is a video file player which can play OMF, AVI, QuickTime, Mpeg2 files from a local drive or stream over a network.
PyxisTrack supports the Decklink card options for Genlock.