Lawo R3LAY VRX Turnkey Studio with 8 fader Virtual Radio Mixer

LAWO R3LAY VRX 8 fader Virtual Console Turnkey Studio - all you need in one package!

Everybody’s been talking about virtualization. Finally, it’s here: RƎLAY virtual radio software from Lawo.
RƎLAY brings professional radio production to your PC. Mixing. Streaming. Processing. Even routing. AoIP-ready, so you can mix and route both networked and PC audio. With touch-screen GUIs so intuitive, talent can learn it in minutes. No exotic hardware needed: just install RƎLAY software on your PC or laptop, and go to work. Perfect for production, live studios, newsrooms — even remotes and OB work.
Welcome to real virtual radio. Welcome to RƎLAY.

Complete Turnkey Virtual Studio Content:

Meet the Virtual Radio Mixer.

You love your smartphone. Why? Because it replaced so many everyday things. It virtualized, then combined them. When you use your phone to look up a friend’s details, you’re using a virtual Rolodex. Read the news? It’s a virtual newspaper. Look at the time? A virtual wristwatch. Skype someone? Virtual closed-circuit TV! Powerful pocket computers (your phone) have virtualized nearly everything. IT geeks calls this “dematerialization”.

What your smartphone does for your personal life, RƎLAY does for your radio studio. Nearly everything traditionally done with hardware in a rack can now be accomplished with software on a COTS PC. RƎLAY unifies the software production environment, allowing you to mix and route audio to and from all your audio software and hardware sources — something nearly impossible with basic OS tools.

It’s a bold new world. One that can be extended to add new features, new capabilities — even travel with you to where the action is. With RƎLAY, your studio can run smoother, cost less and do more.

MIX. ROUTE. STREAM. MONITOR.

Choose from four RƎLAY Virtual Radio apps designed to serve broadcasters’ needs: multi-channel software for PC sound card replacement, multi-touch virtual mixers, and graphical, onscreen cross-point routing with DSP processing. (Optional)

Some on-screen mixers are full of more colors, bells and whistles than you can shake a stick at. Pretty confusing. We designed RƎLAY VRX to look like something more familiar. You guessed it – a radio mixer. With faders, on / off buttons, bus assignments and other controls right where you expect them to be. Some cool extras, too, like per-fader confidence meters and snapshot recall. No cryptic icons to decipher, or paging through option screens; RƎLAY VRX’s intuitive design helps talent do what they do best: create great radio.

AUTOMATIC MIXING.

Talent has a million things to keep track of. Especially when producing a talk show, sportscast, roundtable interview or live remote. That’s why RƎLAY VRX8 includes Lawo AutoMix — the same amazing automatic algorithm found on our award-winning ruby and sapphire mixing consoles. AutoMix makes it easy to engineer shows like these with RƎLAY, in just four simple steps:

Just add sources to the AutoMix bus, and the intelligent algorithm takes over, invisibly riding the gain. You can weight sources too, to give your Host priority and duck other mics, phone or Skype callers, or remote guests. So talent can spend more time creating content, and less time minding meters.

TAILORED TO TALKSHOWS

Small mixers are perfect in the studio for talk shows, round table discussions and sports broadcasts. So RƎLAY is equipped with features optimized for multi-mic shows, like AutoMix (see above). And Autogain, an ingenious one-click function that optimizes mic gain while talent talks. And VST support for sweetening selected sources. Even four independent mix-minus outputs with talkback for callers, remote hosts or in-studio guests. Consider those talkshows tamed.

MORE THAN JUST A MIXER

Yes, RƎLAY VRX is an audio mixer. But it’s also so much more. RƎLAY is middleware — which means it can simultaneously connect to audio hardware, software, and a variety of third-party plugin apps that do the broadcast-y things you want to do. Audio processing apps. Phone apps for callers. Codec apps for remotes. Playout software. Livestream encoders. And many more. RƎLAY sees any and all audio devices and lets you instantly start using them to create.

RƎLAY natively mixes audio supplied by apps on your PC. And it’s AES67-compliant too — which means you can also mix AoIP audio streams from your studio network. Or from local I/O devices. And then distribute it to the network for live broadcasting, web streaming, or archiving.

But RƎLAY isn’t limited to in-studio work. It works beautifully on today’s powerful touchscreen laptops, which means you can literally take your studio with you to cover breaking news, conduct interviews, or mix remote broadcasts — and send them back to the studio using a WAN, LAN or 5G link. Just imagine the possibilities.