Calrec announces Callisto, its elegant new broadcast console

Designed for live broadcast applications and focused on intuitive operation, Callisto simplifies the most complex actions, such as the creation of mix-minus sends, with the most common processes just a “touch away”.

Calrec Presents these days at IBC its new Callisto audio console, for live broadcast applications. Callisto has been designed for broadcast professionals who need to easily produce creative, quality audio, but do not need as many resources as those available on the Apollo and Artemis consoles.
Henry Goodman, sales director at Calrec, assures that “the interface has been designed to be simple and direct, throughout the design process we have not only focused on features and capacity but on the user experience as a whole.”

Callisto has a refined mechanical design, with a fine construction achieving a minimum content of material and components. An exquisite design in the power distribution makes the console 30% more efficient compared to an Artemis Light. Access for maintenance is from the front of the console and the entire surface can be disassembled with only 12 screws.

When designing the new console, Calrec has focused on making the Callisto GUI very intuitive and suitable for a wide spectrum of operators. The user controls the surface through a 17" multi-touch screen inspired by the operation of tablets, with a very simple interface that uses established finger movements to navigate the system. The display offers elegant controls and a clear presentation of information.

Designed for live broadcast applications and focused on intuitive operation, Callisto simplifies the most complex actions, such as the creation of mix-minus sends, with the most common processes just a “touch away”.

The other Callisto displays are fully configurable to show bus, output and loudness meters, and incorporate dedicated meters for routing and process information per fader.

The control surface is available in 32 and 44 fader configurations. Each channel includes the most essential mechanical controls, including a fader, two configurable control cells and gain potentiometer.

Callisto uses Calrec's award-winning Bluefin2 technology in the core, and the same 8192 x8192 Hydra 2 router as the Apollo and Artemis consoles. Bluefin2 and Hydra2 technologies are used in hundreds of installations around the world 24 hours a day, being the most advanced audio processing technologies available today.

Callisto with Bluefin2 has a set of 180 processing paths, which can be configured as mono, stereo or 5.1 channels. As with all Calrec consoles, there is no sharing of resources in the DSP and therefore the entire process is available on all channels at all times. Callisto has 8 groups, 4 main outputs (all can be mono, stereo or 5.1), 16 auxiliaries and 32 tracks.