Orban PC1101 Optimod Broadcast Audio Processing Card (Windows PCIe)

The Orban Optimod-PC 1101 professional Microsoft Windows audio processing card for PCIe bus systems offers dedicated, broadcast-quality digital signal processing on-board for audio processing, mixing, and routing. Optimod-PC processing is more reliable than software-based processors that run native on the computer's CPU because the operating system can never starve Optimod-PC's processor or mixer for processing cycles. This allows more instances of an encoding application to run glitch-free on the computer's CPU, which provides higher reliability and lower operating costs because fewer CPUs are required for large operations.

Optimod-PC works great for both live streaming and on-demand programming. Its three on-board Freescale DSP56367 DSP chips provide a loud, consistent sound by performing stereo enhancement, automatic gain control (AGC), equalization, multiband gain control, peak-level control, and subjective loudness control. Optimod-PC boasts professional AES/EBU digital inputs and outputs, plus balanced analog inputs and outputs that can operate at professional +4dBu reference levels while resisting pickup of hum and noise.

Optimod-PC's audio driver allows it to appear as two standard sound devices to the computer's operating system. With one Optimod-PC, netcasters can replace selected content (such as commercials in a program originally created for radio broadcast) and inject watermark encoding for ratings. This approach maintains the same audio processing path on both program and inserted audio, delivering a polished, consistent sound while eliminating the number one listener complaint: loud commercials.

Features:

• Dramatically improve audio consistency dynamically with that world-renowned Optimod sound
• Most universal professional audio card with features not found anywhere else
• Prevents the top listener complaints: loudness variation and program inconsistency
• Now two sound cards in one, for professional content/commercial insertion systems, and watermark encoding
• Dedicated onboard DSP saves host computer CPU cycles for more streaming encoders and ensures against audio gaps or dropouts
• Network control of audio routing, mixing, and processing
• CBS Loudness Controller controls subjective loudness to ATSC A/85:2011 and EBU R 128 standards