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The PreSonus StudioLive RM16AI 16-Input Rackmount Digital Mixer and controlled with battle-ready UC Surface software for Mac, Windows and iOS, the StudioLive RM16AI 32-channel, 25-bus rack-mount Active Integration digital mixers are scalable, compact and 100 percent recallable. Like all StudioLive Active Integration mixers, the RM series delivers unrivaled sound quality, XMAX Class A solid-state preamps, amazing DSP performance, direct Wi-Fi and wired LAN communication, fast and intuitive workflow, an onboard FireWire S800 interface and a tightly integrated software suite for Mac, Windows and iOS, creating a streamlined working environment for both live and studio use. The RM16AI has 16 mic inputs and 8 Mix outputs and mounts in three rack spaces. Otherwise, the two mixers are identical in every respect.
Complete recallable touch control
PreSonus UC Surface control software for Mac, Windows and iPad was carefully designed for intuitive and quick performance in a live mixing environment but also serves well in the studio. When you're mixing a live show and the heat is on, you don't have time to search for controls and meters, as you must do with most digital mixers. You never have that problem with a StudioLive RM-series mixer because every control you need to mix a show is under your fingers in PreSonus UC Surface remote-control software for Mac, Windows and iPad.
Battle-ready software
We call UC Surface "battle-ready" because some live gigs seem like a war zone, with danger at every turn. UC Surface has your back, enabling you to accomplish your mission quickly and confidently. UC Surface is extremely reliable and its layout provides quick, intuitive access to everything you need during a show or studio session.
The power of Active Integration
StudioLive RM-series mixers are based on Active Integration (AI), a complete, networked, tightly integrated hardware/software ecosystem in which every touch point in the system interacts to enhance the user experience and solve practical problems in ways not previously possible.
Actively integrated software
PreSonus StudioLive RM-series mixers are tightly integrated with a suite of free, state-of-the-art software that helps you mix and record better and have more fun doing it. The StudioLive RM Software Library comprises the latest version of PreSonus tightly integrated software bundle: UC Surface control software for Mac, Windows and iPad and Capture multitrack-recording software and Studio One Artist DAW for Mac and Windows. In addition, QMix-AI aux-mix control for iPhone/iPod touch is available free from the Apple App Store. All of these applications are designed to communicate with each other and with the mixer.
Capture
Capture is the first digital audio multitrack-recording application designed to make live recording quick and easy. With the look and feel of industry-standard digital multitrack hard-disk recorders, it is instantly familiar to every musician and engineer.
Studio One
Studio One is a completely modern professional environment for music recording, mixing, mastering, sharing and collaboration. It's Internet-savvy and provides a complete solution, from riff to release, combining the features you really need with the ease of use you always dreamed of.
QMix-AI
If you have a StudioLive RM-series mixer, your new onstage personal monitoring system is probably already in your pocket. With free PreSonus QMix-AI software, up to 14 musicians can simultaneously control their StudioLive RM-series mixer's monitor (aux) mixes using an iPhone or iPod touch. Each musician can control one of 16 aux mixes. And QMix-AI is incredibly easy to set up and use.
Nimbit
Nimbit is a powerful all-in-one sales, marketing and promotion service that allows you to share audio content as well as organize, market to and manage a fan base. Uses can also create a profile, an online store and promote upcoming events. A Nimbit Free account is included with your StudioLive RM; it includes many of the service's best features and is comparable to many other paid services. If you want more features, you can add a la carte features or upgrade to a Nimbit Premium account and take advantage of everything Nimbit can do.
With Active Integration, all parts speak the same language
All of the applications in the StudioLive RM Software Library are on the same software platform and support the new capabilities introduced with Active Integration technology. For example, you can save and load StudioLive RM mixer scenes with Capture and then open the Capture Session in Studio One; the Studio One mixer is set to match your StudioLive RM mix scene, including fader values, mutes, pan and FX send mixes. Fat Channel settings are loaded into Studio One's Fat Channel Native Effects plug-in. You can also share presets between the Studio One Fat Channel plug-in and UC Surface. Channel names entered in UC Surface, Capture or QMix-AI are broadcast throughout the network.
Wi-Fi and wired networking
PreSonus StudioLive RM-series digital mixers' Active Integration technology includes powerful real-time, direct, wired and Wi-Fi remote control over a variety of features, using free Mac, Windows and iOS software.
It's easy to create a StudioLive RM-series wireless network
Creating a wireless network may be new to you but no worries: PreSonus made it easy to connect your StudioLive RM mixer to a wireless network. If you connect a wireless router to your StudioLive RM mixer with an Ethernet cable, the system assumes (just like Mac OS X and Windows) that you have permission to be on that network and your mixer automatically connects to it. If you want to go wireless, you can scan for available wireless networks and scroll through them by name. If you name your wireless network "StudioLive, " your mixer will even connect automatically.
A gigantic console in a few rack spaces
If a StudioLive RM mixer were an analog console, it would have 4-foot-long channel strips packed with knobs and buttons or it would require a massive outboard rack of expensive signal processors! Instead, all that processing fits in three (RM16AI) or four (RM32AI) rack spaces under software control.
Dedicated I/O
View the front of a StudioLive RM-series rack-mount mixer and you'll see a straightforward jackfield with XLR channel inputs, XLR mix outputs and other important connections. With a StudioLive RM-series mixer, every channel has an individual analog XLR mic input on the front panel. Every aux mix has a dedicated XLR Mix Output on the front panel, mirrored in DB25 connectors on the rear. You never have to guess which input feeds which channel or which aux mix goes to an output because they're always the same. Aux Mix 1 goes to Mix Output 1, Aux 2 to Mix Out 2 and so on. It's all part of a design that enables you to work quickly and without confusion.
The sound is pure PreSonus
Getting a great-sounding mix depends in part on how good the mixer's components are and how well the algorithms perform. That's especially true with RM Series analog (but digitally recallable) XMAX mic preamps. The StudioLive's XMAX Class A preamplifiers deliver more headroom, deeper lows, smoother highs and a richer overall sound than the preamps found in competing mixers. High-headroom, 32-bit floating-point processing is used for all digital mixing. The Burr-Brown digital converters on every input and output are state-of-the art, with 118 dB dynamic range.
Recallable Preamps
Until now, recallable mic preamps meant using a cheap integrated circuit that compromised sound quality in favor of digital recall. PreSonus didn't want to change the sound of PreSonus superb Class A preamps, so PreSonus came up with a separate digital volume-control circuit ahead of the analog preamp. Voila! Digital recall of quality analog mic preamps!
MAX Headroom
At PreSonus, know that the mic preamplifier is a key component in the sonic quality of a recording. StudioLive AI-series mixers include custom-designed, high-voltage, discrete, XMAX Class A microphone preamplifiers that are suitable for use with all types of microphones.
Jet-powered synchronization
The StudioLive RM mixer's synchronization to your computer is stable and robust, thanks to JetPLL synchronization technology. JetPLL incorporates noise shaping to virtually remove all audio-band jitter, ensuring near-perfect clock performance and optimal converter performance when networking two or more digital-audio devices.
Complete store and recall-instantly
With UC Surface, it's very quick and easy to save all of your StudioLive RM settings for quick setup and recall-unlike some digital mixers. Two factors work against getting that Perfect Mix with an analog mixer. First, the Perfect Mix can be hard to reproduce a week, day or hour after you perfect it. And second, a good mix should be dynamic: levels, effects and EQ should be tailored to each song or segment of the show, service or presentation. This adds up to a lot of settings to remember and reset at every performance.
Safe, sane and secure
If you've mixed many shows, you know that securing the mixing station can be crucial when you step away for any reason. Securing your wireless remote control system is an even bigger issue because a hacker could be anywhere in the venue. That's why StudioLive RM-series mixers with UC Surface software have security features that effectively protect the entire system-in addition to whatever protection your wireless router affords. UC Surface lets you set permissions that determine which features can be controlled from each iPad or laptop on the network.
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