Anaheim, CA (January 17, 2020)—The new DiGiCo Quantum338 digital mixing system has been announced, sporting new design features and enhancements as well as the speed of the company’s other Quantum desks in a smaller format console.
The DiGiCo Quantum338 is based around seventh-generation FPGAs and includes 128 input channels with 64 busses and a 24 x 24 matrix, all with full channel processing. A “dark mode” is available, to be used on the desk’s three 17-inch, 1000-nit high-brightness multi-touch screens, allowing both the meter bridge and soft quick select buttons to be displayed on each screen.
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There are also 70 individual TFT channel displays, and the floating Quantum chassis features 38 x 100mm touch-sensitive faders laid out in three blocks of 12 fader banks, along with two dedicated user-assignable faders, each complete with high resolution metering.
The desk offers 32-bit ADC and DAC converters, which are built into Quantum338 as standard, alongside six single or three redundant MADI connections, dual DMI slots and a built-in UB MADI USB recording interface.
Mustard Processing, Spice Rack, Nodal Processing and True Solo, all launched last year for the Quantum 7, are also standard on the Quantum338. Mustard Processing is a set of channel processing strips that work alongside standard Quantum channel processing. Each Mustard processing strip provides a choice of two pre-amp modelers, a four-band EQ (including all-pass filters), four different boutique style compressor models and a gate/ducker. Quantum338 is equipped with 36 mono Mustard processing strips, which can be used on any channel type.
The Spice Rack, meanwhile, supports plug-in-style native FPGA processing options, allowing users to build a rack of up to eight insertable processors. The first of these is the Chilli 6—a six-band multi-band compressor that allows control of all parameters, including DiGiCo’s release shape control.
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