Richard "Fez" Ferriday now Director of Sales & Marketing; sits on AES sessions. CDC six gets US debut

	Richard Ferriday, Cadac

CADAC has appointed Richard "Fez" Feriday as director of sales and marketing, with global responsibility for sales and marketing of the CADAC portfolio of audio mixing consoles and high definition networking products. The move sees Ferriday take on direct responsibility for the company's global distributor network and its North America sales and service subsidiary, newly located in Minneapolis, under the management of technical support manager Mitch Mortenson.

The new North American sales and service HQ provides warehousing and greater space for expansion of the product demo facilities, the company says. The move is in anticipation of an equally successful launch of the CDC six in the US and Canada, to that in Europe and Asia.

The 139th International AES Convention in New York sees the US launch of the CDC six, the company's new medium format live sound console. The CDC six is based around a further development of CADAC's advanced, highly acclaimed gesture-operation user interface. With the same superlative audio performance and incredible low latency of the CDC eight, the CDC six represents a major ergonomic advance in user operation. The traditional fixed physical controls have been replaced by an intuitive "high agility" user interface, accessed via a 16:9 23.5" optically bonded touch screen, resulting in a fast, logical workflow without the compromises dictated by hardware-centric designs. The layout of the screen, encoders, and OLEDS naturally leads to an instinctive use of "touch and swipe," where the faders follow the swipe of the screen, ensuring full control at all time of any combination of inputs, outputs, or VCAs displayed on the screen.

The CDC six -- and the CDC eight -- are being shown at AES in demo room 4A1 with the latest software update. This provides signal clocking enhancements that are designed to improve sonic performance still further; described as having "a definite noticeable improvement on sound quality."

All being shown are the MegaCOMMS audio network components, the CDC MC Router, and CDC MC MADI and CDC MC Dante network bridges. MegaCOMMS is CADAC's proprietary high definition audio network designed especially for live performance applications. With an industry leading sub 400µs system latency (from on-stage inputs to outputs -- including all console processing and all AD/DA conversions), MegaCOMMS' micro second latency performance compares with the millisecond specifications of competing digital consoles and audio networks. The unique latency is married with phase coherence, the result of complete sample synchronization before summing, to provide exemplary audio performance in a digital audio network, capable of transmitting up to 3,072 channels of bi-directional 24-bit/96kHz audio, control data and clock, on up to 150m of RG6 cable.

Ferriday will also be participating in two sessions during the AES Live Sound Expo; "Theatrical Console Automation" on Friday, October 30 at 2pm, and "Modern Digital Mixing Console Fundamentals: A Practical and Ergonomic Approach" on Saturday, October 31 at 12pm.