ROB WARMOWSKI: Hey. We’re here at AES 2006, and it looks like Fairlight is about to start the Dream 2 presentation. Let’s check it out.

FAIRLIGHT REPRESENTATIVE 1: Good afternoon. Welcome, a very warm welcome to Fairlight and to what promises to be a very memorable AES because today Fairlight announces a breakthrough representing today the future of media processing platforms. The technology is called Crystal Core, and it’s effectively an engine on one silicon chip.

It’s a groundbreaking application of FPGA technology that is poised to obsolete DSP housed based systems. It overcomes the limiting factors of botth older but same material technologies and deliver an engine that supports expansion, diversity, and emerging standards.

Let’s talk about what you can get on this engine, okay. Let’s introduce you to the engine because the engine that’s powering everything on the Fairlight stand is this guy right here, it’s a PCI card.

FAIRLIGHT REPRESENTATIVE 2: Turn it around. Yeah.

FAIRLIGHT REPRESENTATIVE 1: Oops, sorry. Sorry, [PH] Doug. One FPGA sitting under there does everthing. What can that deliver? Okay? It can deliver an audio platform. There’s 230 hi-res audio channels in there with dedicated processing. That means eight bands of EQ for every single one of them, three stages of dynamics processing for every single one of them. It also hosts video, HD and SD. It has a 64-channel audio bridge to the VST world and it has ReWire connectivity at the same time. Not only that, it is a complete mixing engine. It has automation, it has a complete monitoring system in there, all multiformat, and even more impressive it can support up to 220 physically connected I/O’s, so you can actually get audio in and out of it. It’s pretty handy.

FAIRLIGHT REPRESENTATIVE 2: It helps.