Yamaha launches Rivage PM10, first new generation console for digital mixing

The new Rivage PM10 is emerging as one of the most powerful and flexible digital mixing systems developed to date.

Yamaha has just opened a new era of live sound consoles. For over a decade, Yamaha's PM1D and PM5D digital mixing consoles have been essential around the world for large-scale live music productions.

Now, with the new Rivage PM10, which brings even greater levels of quality, flexibility, functionality and reliability to the iconic PM name, it aims to become a new flagship of the brand that will once again redefine the digital sound console market.

The Rivage PM10 includes many of Yamaha's exceptional innovations and is a true milestone in the large format digital mixing console market.

Most important in the design of the Rivage PM10 has been Yamaha's quest to provide the best possible sound. This is achieved with the newly developed RY16-ML-SILK hybrid microphone preamplifier.

This unique design features an analog section that delivers a smooth, natural sound, even at high gain levels. It is combined with a 96 kHz 24-bit A/D converter, and Yamaha's enhanced VCM digital modeling for Rupert Neve Designs transformer circuitry and renowned Silk processing.

The sound engineer can have a completely transparent sound input path or, using the 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 individual input.

With the Rivage PM10, Yamaha has taken its collaboration with other manufacturers much further. As well as forging a closer link with Rupert Neve in the development of the RY16-ML-SILK, new VCM models of the Rupert EQ773, Rupert Comp 754, Rupert EQ810 and Rupert Comp 830 are being introduced.

Additionally, Yamaha has collaborated with TC Electronic to include two amazing reverbs: the VSS4HD room simulation and the highly creative “NonLin2” stereo, as featured on their popular System 6000 devices.

Yamaha has also worked closely with Eventide to add the H3000-Live ultra-harmonizer as a future standard for the Rivage PM10 system.

An intuitive console

The system is controlled via a user interface that will be familiar to all Yamaha console users while offering even more flexible operation. One of the most important and attractive aspects of the Rivage PM10's control surface is a comprehensive Selected Channel section. This was a key element of the PM1D and PM5D consoles and is a key aspect of the Rivage PM10's user interface design. 24 The control surface's channel strips extend virtually seamlessly over both displays. 15-inch touch screens, while the rotary encoders feature horseshoe ring indicators for optimal visibility.

If necessary, a third display can be added via a DVI socket. Other innovations include greatly improved Scene functions, dual monitor buses, the ability to use up to 384 effects processors at once, and four USB connections for data storage, mouse and keyboard control, and two-track USB recording.

At the heart of the Rivage PM10 system is Yamaha's newly developed TWINLANe ring network, which can handle up to 400 channels of 96 kHz, 32-bit audio over distances of up to 300 meters. TWINLANe can connect up to eight RPio622 units and, at launch, up to two CS-R10 control surfaces and up to two DSP-R10 systems (to be expanded in a future update).

The RPio622 features six of Yamaha's new RY card slots, into which three different types of I/O cards can be inserted, providing up to 96 microphone preamplifiers per rack. Additionally, the RPio622 and DSP-R10 feature new HY card slots (two and four, respectively) for more I/O (only one HY card slot is needed on both the RPio622 and DSP-R10 to connect units to the TWINLANe network) while the system's three hardware components feature two of Yamaha's popular MY card slots.

Featuring the CS-R10 control surface that also features 8 x 8 local analog I/O and 8 x 8 AES3 I/O with sample rate conversion, the fully expanded RIVAGE PM10 system can accommodate more than 3000 I/O. A new optional HY-Dante card can be used to integrate multitrack recording or other hardware, including other Yamaha digital consoles.

Chihaya ‘Chick’ Hirai, director of the Pro Audio division at Yamah, highlighted that “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 happens, it would constitute a benchmark in the market similar to what PM1D and PM5D constituted at the time. Therefore, I am very pleased to say that, with the RIVAGE PM10, that time has arrived. We believe that the RIVAGE PM10 will constitute another milestone in the history of digital sound consoles. This system will be the most flexible, easiest to use and most reliable for all major events.”

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