Genelec updates its GLM software for an unmatched user experience

The new generation GLM 4 now offers Genelec SAM monitor users the benefits of Mac Catalina compatibility, a sleek new user interface, and a set of useful new tools.

Genelec has updated his software GLM to configuration, calibration and control of audio monitoring systems. The new generation GLM 4 now offers Genelec SAM monitor users the benefits of Mac Catalina compatibility, a sleek new user interface, and a set of useful new tools.

Al minimize the negative influence of room acoustics About listening, the GLM 4 provides a truly unparalleled sonic reference, wherever the user chooses to work. GLM 4 thus boosts creativity, producing mixes that play consistently in other rooms and monitoring systems.

Based on decades of research on data from thousands of studies around the world, GLM 4 fully integrates with the powerful digital processing built into each SAM device, allowing each monitor and subwoofer to be networked for individual configuration and calibration, according to the user's specific acoustic environment.

He reference microphone The GLM allows you to precisely analyze the acoustics of the room, after which the AutoCal tool optimizes each monitor and subwoofer to adjust the level, the delay based on distance, the phase at the subwoofer cutoff frequency and the equalization of the room response. At that time, the user has additional options available for manual adjustment, thus achieving, if required, complete customization.

This level of flexibility makes the GLM 4 the perfect tool, both for those users looking to fine-tune an already acoustically treated room, and for those working in more complicated environments, perhaps not acoustically designed for creative use of audio.

Compatible with Windows and Mac, including OS 10.15 Catalina, GLM 4 arrives with a renewed user interface for faster, more intuitive and easier navigation.

Hexagonal design

Created in collaboration with the renowned industrial designer Harri Koskinen, this new interface combines a clean and attractive aesthetic with a unique character that users will find logical and pleasant. Koskinen has been inspired by a hexagonal design that supports the idea of ​​natural growth, as the GLM helps develop one's listening skills and also allows the system to be easily expanded, from mono monitoring to a complex immersive system, as the user's needs evolve.

GLM 4 offers all the features of its predecessor GLM 3, along with a set of significant improvements, including dedicated configuration and control functions for immersive monitoring systems and excellent compatibility with a growing number of international audio monitoring standards in mastering, broadcast, OTT and cinema.

The new update allows the configuration storage, both locally and in the Cloud, providing the user with complete mobility, with Cloud support always at hand to facilitate remote consultations to the Genelec team of audio experts.

Coupled with the innovative digital processing built into all Genelec SAM monitors and subwoofers, the GLM 4 offers the user unique benefits that no other calibration system can offer. GLM 4 implements fully scalable systems from mono and stereo to more than 80 channels of immersive audio, making it the most advanced, flexible and economical calibration system on the market. The tight integration between hardware and software also ensures the best system performance and widest possible dynamic range, and allows the user to switch between monitoring configurations without having to use extra outputs from their DAW, or invest in expensive additional equipment.

Additionally, because system control and optimization are executed at the end of the chain (on the same monitors and subwoofers), GLM 4 users benefit from a low and constant latency without having to bypass any monitoring software located on the master audio output. This facilitates the creative process by avoiding the need to switch between “recording” and “mixing” modes, and once calibrated, the GLM 4 settings are saved within the monitor or subwoofer itself, preventing accidental changes from occurring, thus making the GLM 4 the perfect system for multiple users in the same room and demanding production environments.

The CEO of Genelec, Siamäk Naghian, comments that "GLM 4 is the result of many years of continuous research into the effects of room acoustics on monitoring system performance, and will help optimize the user's workflow, raising the quality of their mixes. In line with our design philosophy based on sustainability, GLM 4 is also fully compatible with all previous generations of SAM systems. This means that professional users can, not only be assured that GLM 4 is the most advanced, efficient and intuitive system calibration standard on the market, but also ensures that Genelec SAM systems are an extremely secure and scalable long-term future investment.”