Grass Valley Demonstrates ImPulseV and AMPP Integration

Calrec y Grass Valley At NAB 2026 (booths C6907 and C2408), they combine their industry experience to deliver a software-defined production environment that will integrate Calrec's ImPulseV virtual DSP software with Grass Valley's AMPP cloud-native live production platform.

This implementation, which these days can be seen at NAB 2026, will provide production companies and broadcasters with a unified environment to manage live broadcasts. The partnership between Grass Valley and Calrec offers all the benefits of tight integration and coordination with proven applications from renowned partners on a single platform. The incorporation of Calrec into AMPP OS will begin with the integration of AMPP Control and will evolve towards a Fully native ImPulseV application to run on AMPP.

The collaboration reinforces AMPP's world-class audio capabilities along with its strengths in world-class video production, creating a unique platform for high-end live productions. The association reinforces the industry's direction towards software defined production, los open standards and the collaboration as drivers of innovation. As hybrid workflows continue to develop, the partnership gives broadcasters the confidence to define and scale their own infrastructure requirements, and to fully utilize their resources.

Sid Stanley, director general de Calrec, afirma que “estamos encantados de asociarnos con Grass Valley, una organización que comparte nuestra convicción de que la innovación, las personas y la tecnología definen el futuro de nuestro sector. En el panorama actual de la producción, que evoluciona rápidamente, unas soluciones sólidas y unas colaboraciones de confianza son más importantes que nunca”. “Nuestra tecnología virtual ImPulseV, combinada con el ecosistema AMPP de Grass Valley, crea una propuesta potente, que aúna las mejores soluciones de su clase para ofrecer a las emisoras la libertad de construir, escalar y adaptarse sin concesiones. Esto marca la siguiente evolución de la estrategia de Calrec, dotando a nuestros clientes de verdadera elección, flexibilidad y control en un mundo definido por el software”, añade.

"As our industry transforms, the need for agile, scalable, and future-ready solutions has never been greater. Together, Calrec and Grass Valley are setting a new standard, combining cloud, virtualization, and multi-vendor integration into a seamless ecosystem for next-generation production. The introduction of ImPulseV into this ecosystem is a key milestone, enabling customers to deploy from micro-control rooms to global production environments with speed and precision, tailoring the infrastructure to their needs. needs, and not the other way around.
“This is not just an important announcement for today, but a significant step into the future. “Both Grass Valley and Calrec are deeply committed to continued innovation and investment, because in a world that moves so quickly, standing still is not an option,” Stanley acknowledges.

Adam Marshall, product manager at Grass Valley, says that with the integration of Calrec's ImPulseV into AMPP, we are expanding the potential of software-defined production with world-class audio workflows. Media organizations can now deploy premium audio capabilities in a fully software-defined environment, while maintaining the quality, responsiveness and familiar operator control expected from high-value live production. Whether on-premises, in the cloud or in hybrid environments, everything works within a single unified platform.”

The cohesive integration of Calrec ImPulseV and Grass Valley AMPP is designed to address these challenges, offering common orchestration, shared control, scalable infrastructure, cloud flexibility and in the facilities, elastic features adapted to the demands of live production and a modern software-defined architecture designed for long-term flexibility

Calrec's ImPulseV creates flexible workflows through hardware COTS, public and private cloud, existing processing hardware and distributed resources, contributing to an efficient and flexible hybrid production environment. ImPulseV is part of the Calrec Ecosystem, powered by True Control 2.0, which unifies the company's high-end control surfaces with remote production capabilities. Broadcasters can use True Control 2.0 to manage up to five Calrec consoles or processing cores simultaneously.

By integrating ImPulseV with AMPP, broadcasters' flexibility in managing their assets is further expanded. A single control surface can adapt (without loss of quality) to local, cloud and remote productions. Both ImPulseV and AMPP offer OpEx-based deployment models, allowing broadcasters to expand event coverage. The integration offers scalable audio capabilities, without compromising the operator experience.

Media Infrastructure

Grass Valley is demonstrating the expanded capabilities of its multimedia infrastructure at NAB Show 2026, integrating the routing, he signal processing and the orchestration in a single operational layer that spans hardware- and software-defined environments.

Based on the ACE-3901 gateway card, AMPP Orchestration and the AMPP operating system of Grass Valley, now native to MXL, this approach allows the ingestion, routing, processing and control work in unison via SDI and IP, whether on-premises, in the cloud or in hybrid environments. The result is an infrastructure foundation designed to support elastic production and modernization without the need to replace the entire system.

Adam Marshall, emphasizes that "hybrid production is no longer a model of the future: it is increasingly the norm, and that raises the bar for infrastructure. Customers need a simpler way to connect legacy systems with modern baseband, contribution and cloud-based production workflows, without adding operational complexity. With AMPP OS, ACE-3901 and AMPP Orchestration, Grass Valley brings together hardware and software workflows into a single operational experience, helping customers modernize by pace that suits them best, while laying the foundation for what is to come.”

Central to the updates debuting in Las Vegas is the ACE-3901-GRID application, which extends high-density connectivity from SDI infrastructure to AMPP OS. Now that AMPP OS is native to MXL, it creates a more efficient path between dedicated hardware resources and software-defined workflows. Combined with AMPP Orchestration, this creates a seamless, unified control layer across baseband, IP, and cloud-connected environments.

Signs are no longer limited by format or location. What was once a relatively simple local routing environment has evolved, through hybrid and distributed production, into a much broader operational challenge, with signals now moving across baseband, local IP and remote compressed sources. To address this complexity, AMPP Orchestration consolidates the multi-format routing and cross-platform in a single shared operating environment.

AMPP OS is now natively supported by NDI 6.3 along with Dante audio streams, while TVU MediaMesh contribution feeds and participant video streams via Zoom ISOcloud They can also be received within the same environment, reducing operating expenses and minimizing the need for additional receiving devices. For operations based on existing infrastructure, control remains consistent. TSL Hummingbird provides protocol conversion that enables AMPP applications to manage legacy systems along with software-defined workflows, enabling modernization without replacing established control layers. Infrastructure capacity can also be dynamically adjusted to production demand. LayerCake provides complete production environments, including AMPP compute instances and routing configurations, as predefined templates that can be deployed or collapsed as needed. This changes the infrastructure from a fixed capacity to an on-demand model, adapting to the reality of the operation.

Other AMPP OS updates include NMOS Bridge, which improves device discovery and control in mixed IP environments, integration with GV Orbit for unified orchestration and further enhancements Kaleido-IP X Pro for scalable multi-standard multiple display. The result is a connected infrastructure in which routing, processing and orchestration are presented to the operator as a single system. Signals can move between SDI, IP and cloud environments without intervention, while control and visibility remain consistent throughout the operation.

Connecting resource with AMPP

Grass Valley is unveiling the latest innovations from its partner ecosystem in Las Vegas Alliance focused on addressing real-world operational challenges in live production, content creation and distribution. Television networks, sports organizations and media companies continue to operate in multiple environments, often supported by independent systems. This creates challenges such as duplicated infrastructure, fragmented workflows and increased costs, forcing teams to choose between operational speed and production quality. The Alliance ecosystem solves these challenges through the approach of open design of AMPP, allowing customers and partners to retain the freedom to choose best-in-class solutions, while benefiting from a more connected, cohesive and flexible platform environment. In this way, teams can reduce duplicate tasks, improve agility y simplify operations in line with the Dynamic Media Facility approach.

The Alliance partner ecosystem will be showcased at the Grass Valley booth in the central pavilion (C2408), where partner companies will showcase real AMPP integrations that are already actively benefiting media organizations. In the area of content creation, Grass Valley demonstrates in Las Vegas how its partners are expanding storytelling possibilities. Speed to market is key in social media and news. The NRCS system Digital Joy for newsrooms is natively integrated with Framelight X and broadcast production, reducing friction between story conception, production, distribution and broadcast.

Telestream Vantage It is natively compatible with the Framelight X workflow engine, ensuring that using the industry-leading transcoding tool is as seamless as possible.

Graphics are a critical component of content production and are made easier by native support for scalable HTML5-based graphics. MXMZ in live production, broadcast and content editing workflows, while the new native Swift AMPP applications of RT Software They expand AMPP support with advanced 2D and 3D scene-based graphics offerings.

The Agito robotic camera system Motion Impossible works with him LDX C180 from Grass Valley to enable dynamic camera movements with the planned integration of AMPP control, while the INCAM module from Vislink, natively integrated into the LDX 100 RF camera range, enables new wireless production workflows using public and private 5G networks.

As venue experiences become more demanding, the new Daktronics Show Control integration within K-Frame offers a cohesive production experience that combines control of broadcast outputs and venue displays, all from the same production switcher surface. This includes control of Daktronics' next-generation 1.2mm COB dvLED display, which will be demonstrated live at the Grass Valley booth, showcasing consistent, high-resolution image quality optimized for live production environments, all under the control of Show Control and K-Frame.

Framelight X

Grass Valley reveals at NAB 2026 that speed is the new competitive advantage for real-time production at NAB Show 2026, with the latest innovations in Framelight X content management; a federated environment that connects capture, ingest, editing, and publishing into a single operational workflow without transfers or duplication.
Fully integrated into Grass Valley Media Universe, Framelight For news and content production workflows, this includes phased and integrated migration paths from existing environments, such as Stratus, SQ and non-GV, allowing customers to modernize infrastructure and workflows at their own pace without operational disruptions.

Traditional workflows, based on file transfers and handovers between systems, force content to be stopped before it can move forward, introducing delays and limiting how quickly content can be converted into finished stories. Framelight X addresses this problem unifying content management and production into a single workflow. Content can be accessed at the time of creation or ingestion, allowing teams from different locations and disciplines to work on the same material simultaneously. This creates a seamless path from capture and ingest, through editing and collaboration, to publishing, eliminating duplication and the need for manual transfers.