Award winning Omnia.9 to be shown at Broadcast Asia

Omnia.9, the latest addition to the Omnia processing family, will be shown for the first time at Broadcast Asia 2011, June 21-24 at Suntec Singapore.

Designed by Leif Claesson in association with team Omnia, the Omnia.9 will be the most versatile audio processor in the world, containing a myriad of features not previously available in a single unit.

The Omnia.9 was shown at NAB 2011 in April, and received two major industry awards, the Radio World Pick Hit and Radio Magazine Cool Stuff Awards, as well as numerous positive write-ups on many tech blogs and sites. With the addition of Omnia.9, the Omnia family has four exceptional processors tailored to fit the needs of any FM broadcaster, including the price/performance-leading Omnia ONE, world-standard Omnia-6EX and 6EXi, and the competition-obliterating Omnia.11.

Developer Leif Claesson is excited to show off his brainchild. "If you like Omnia.9 even half as much as I am proud of it, I know I've done my job well."

Omnia President Frank Foti echoes Leif's excitement. "Leif's accomplishment with Omnia.9 demonstrates why he's part of the new breed in processing developers. His passion and enthusiasm alone is worth 1dB of loudness! Having amazing people like Leif and Corny Gould on our team is just a further illustration of Omnia's growth and leadership."

Omnia.9 features exclusive "Undo" technology, a source declipping algorithm and program-adaptive multiband expander which removes distortion and adds punch to source material. This corrects over-processed CDs, so common in today's contemporary music.

Other tools include a Psychoacoustic Composite Embedder which allows up to 140% audio peaks in stereo, within 100% total modulation, creating up to 3dB extra treble headroom. Selectable patch points allow convenient auditioning of the audio signal at any point of the processing chain without affecting the master output, and a Studio Output with very low latency for talent monitoring. There's separate processing for FM and HD-1 and, optionally, HD-2 and HD-3, and revolutionary built-in, fully independent encoding and processing of FM analog, Primary Digital (HD-1) and (Optional) Secondary (HD-2) and Tertiary (HD-3) channels for Internet streaming.

Omnia.9 also supports encoding to MP3 (Mpeg-1 Layer 3), MP2 (Mpeg-1 Layer 2), AAC, HE-AAC (including RTSP/3G for streaming to mobile phones), Ogg Vorbis, WMA and WMA Pro, and has a dynamically updatable RDS encoder and HTTP push support for automation, such as dynamic RDS and streaming song titles.