NAB 2023: Waves Cloud MX audio mixer now Dante compatible

Waves Audio is demonstrating its Cloud MX audio mixer, which is now Dante-compatible through Audinate’s Dante Connect, at NAB 2023.

Cloud MX is a 100% cloud-based audio mixer, delivering pristine audio, high-precision mix control, and creative processing capabilities with Waves plug-in integration – in a scalable, broadcast-ready cloud workflow. It offers a broad range of industry-leading audio processing plug-ins, enabling broadcast engineers to integrate studio-quality audio processing directly in their cloud production workflows. Cloud MX remote operator control options include support for touchscreens plus tactile mixing with the Waves FIT Controller.

Dante Connect is a cloud-based solution that allows production teams to deploy Dante connectivity on cloud-based environments. The mixer is now fully Dante Connect-compatible, providing its audio mixing and processing abilities in Dante-based environments. Cloud MX’s new compatibility with Dante Connect allows broadcasters and media organisations to easily integrate the advanced audio processing and mixing capabilities of Waves Cloud MX with Dante Connect.

This new solution allows up to 256 channels of audio to be captured at remote locations and then mixed, processed and delivered from anywhere in the world. It is suitable for broadcasters seeking to reduce costs and complexity, allowing minimal equipment on site to send audio out for production.

“Waves is delighted to join Audinate in announcing compatibility,” said Noam Raz, Waves Live division general manager. “Following the successful Waves Cloud MX AWS FTR, and with the Cloud MX and Dante Connect proven interoperability, broadcast professionals can now benefit from a superior-sounding cloud-based mixer, with high-precision mix control – with superior uncompromising sound quality.”

“We’re pleased to collaborate with Waves in deploying this important new technology, putting new tools in the hands of broadcasters,” says Josh Rush, chief marketing officer at Audinate. “Dante Connect works with professional production software like Waves Cloud MX to enable broadcasters to easily capture, mix and produce audio in remote locations.”