Omnia.9, the latest addition to the Omnia processing family, makes its official debut on Monday, April 11 at the National Association of Broadcasters convention in Las Vegas.
Designed by Leif Claesson in association with team Omnia, the Omnia.9 will be the single most versatile audio processor in the world, containing a myriad of features not previously available in a single unit.
The Omnia.9 was sneak previewed at the annual Dutch Processing Freak Day in The Netherlands several days ago, and-in the opinion of many-stole the show as the single most impressive offering of all shown. 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 was thrilled. "I'm completely beside myself. I can't wait to see the reaction at the NAB. 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, further demonstrates why he's part of the new breed in processing developers. His passion and enthusiasm alone, is worth 1dB in loudness! This illustrates our growth, as we now have two additional amazing people with Leif and Corny Gould, on our team!"
Omnia.9 features separate processing cores for FM and HD-1 and (optional) HD-2 and HD-3. It 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 and WMA Pro formats. A 7" touchscreen front panel, full remote control, on-screen keyboard, dynamically updatable RDS encoder, selectable SSB (Single Sideband) stereo encoder, and adjustable dynamic bass clipping are part of the toolkit. HTTP push support for automation, such as dynamic RDS and streaming song titles, is also standard, as well as scheduled processing preset selection by dapart. Rounding out its feature set, Omnia.9 also has dual, independent power supplies and native Livewire network connectivity, all in a 2RU package.
Leif Claesson and Frank Foti, as well as members of Team Omnia, will be at booth C-3113 to personally show you the Omnia.9 and all of its capabilities.
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