Waves to Bring DSP Add-On Card to Yamaha's AW4416

WAVES LTD. announced a partnership with Yamaha Corporation of America, an established leader in digital audio, with the development of the Y56K add-on DSP cards for the Yamaha AW4416 Professional Audio Workstation. The cards will be loaded with six (6) of Waves proprietary audio processors, including the acclaimed L1-Ultramaximizer, Renaissance EQ, Renaissance Compressor, TrueVerb, SuperTap 2-tap, and DeEsser.

The Y56K cards are designed to plug into one or both of the 2 expansion slots on the back of the AW4416, giving the user flexibility of assigning any of the Waves processors for up to 8 processing chains. Each card has 2 (two) 100MHz Motorola 56k-series DSPs providing considerable raw power for the Waves processors. An additional benefit to the user is the inclusion of ADAT Lightpipe input/output on each Waves card. Full automation through the console is supported.

"Yamaha Pro Audio is very excited about the versatility this powerful card adds to AW4416's already potent feature set," states Wayne Hrabak, Yamaha Pro Audio Marketing Manager. "Waves' reputation for excellence in software processors, definitely enhances AW4416's customer appeal."

"Waves is excited to offer this powerful audio processing to the AW4416 Professional Audio Workstation," states Orly Nesher, COO of Waves. "The power of Yamaha's AW4416 workstation combined with our award-winning DSP effects will give audio professionals and hobbyists the best in audio processing."

Combining powerful technological innovations from its successful digital products into one unit, the Yamaha AW4416 is currently delivering. An optional front-mounted CD-RW drive, which enables mastering as well as loading and/or backing up data, is available. The AW4416 contains full 32-bit DSP capabilities (similar to the Yamaha 02R digital console), 44 fully-automated audio inputs, 17 motorized faders, four fader and mute groups, eight bus and eight aux sends plus stereo, and stereo cue busses. An integrated 16-track recording system-complete with sampling, editing and mastering capabilities-retains true 24-bit, 48 kHz resolution without compression of any kind. Two 32-bit on-board effects may be routed to any bus or input channel include scene, channel, EQ, dynamics and effects. Storage options include an internal hard drive and CD recorder and a SCSI interface for data backup to an external drive. The AW4416's FLASH ROM operating system enables software upgrades to be loaded from CD or the Internet.