CDC six US Debut at AES: See, Hear, and Feel the Advanced Live Mixing Console in Demo Room 4A1The 139th International AES Convention in New York sees the US launch of the Cadac CDC six, the company's highly praised new medium format live sound console in the Cadac demo room 4A1, October 29 - November 1. The CDC six is based around a further development of Cadac's advanced 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 The traditional fixed physical controls have been replaced by an intuitive "high agility" user interface, accessed via a 16:9 23.5" optically bonded touch screen, resulting in a fast, logical workflow without the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. This unique interface makes the CDC six an extremely intuitive console for any level of user to setup and use. 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, incredibly, improve that exceptional sonic performance still further; described as having "a definite noticeable improvement on sound quality." Also 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 a 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 absolute 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 3072 channels of bi-directional 24-bit/96kHz audio, control data and clock, on up to 150m of RG6 cable. Key Cadac personnel will be on hand to demonstrate and explain the exceptional features and performance of the CDC six, CDC eight, and MegaCOMMS network, including director of sales and marketing, Richard "Fez" Ferriday, US technical support manager Mitch Mortenson, and marketing manager James Godbehear. Ferriday is also be participating in two sessions during the AES Live Sound Expo; "Theatrical Console Automation" on Friday, October 30, at 2:00pm, and "Modern Digital Mixing Console Fundamentals: A Practical and Ergonomic Approach" on Saturday, October 31, at 12:00pm. 
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