Optocore AutoRouter multiplies the possibilities of the Helsinki Music Center

El Helsinki Music Center (Music house), an important venue that hosts concerts, a television and a recording studio, has updated its infrastructure Optocore existing with the addition of an AutoRouter smart patchbay.

He Helsinki Music Center you have decided to trust the distributor Intersonic for the supply of AutoRouter of OptoCore, which will release the Digico SD8 del FOH so that it can function transversally throughout the complex, including productions intended for television and streaming. Jori Tossavainen, studio head, gives more details about the integration: "With this update we decided to free the old DiGiCo SD8 from its FOH position, and deploy it as a portable unit within its own flightcase (and as a monitor table). At the same time (...) we were able to free up an SD rack that could move alongside the SD8. They are now used throughout the venue and are connected by the AutoRouter to the main system."

Beyond the AutoRouter system, the Helsinki Music Center has integrated a couple of devices Optocore M8 TUESDAY, as well as a new console DiGiCo Q338 with a loop Optocore and FOH, replacing the previous SD8. In the broadcast and recording part, the previous Studer consoles have been replaced by three consoles Theirs mc² 56 for control rooms through a Ravenna network, and the Anubis and Horus interfaces of Merging Technologies. The overall budget for the update was around 700,000 euros.

As a result of the deployment of Optocore, los Changeover times between productions have been reduced, which is vital given the scale of some of the productions. "With this system we have reached the point where we should have been since the opening day. We have a good distribution of the signal between the consoles, and a digital split, as well as a multipurpose use for the old SD8," he remarks. Tossavainen.