AMSTERDAM — RTW is expanding its focus on visualizing audio in broadcast, production, post production and quality control to now also comprise monitor control.
In fact, RTW is no newcomer to monitor control, as it has a long history of providing advanced monitor controller devices that are still in use at many broadcast stations. However, the focus has been on metering in recent years, but the company now makes monitor control a focal area as well with TouchControl 5.
TouchControl 5 is a monitor controller and audio meter with an intuitive user interface and a small footprint that preserves valuable desktop real estate, featuring a 5” touchscreen, as well as a rotary knob that also functions as a push button for easy access to dim or mute functions. The screen layout can effortlessly be customized by the user via a browser-based application, and TouchControl 5 is able to control up to 32 AoIP audio channels, making it compatible with audio formats from mono to immersive within a Dante audio network.
“We are very happy to now be shipping TouchControl 5 to our global network of distributors and dealers,” says Andreas Tweitmann, CEO of RTW.
On the rear panel, a single ethernet port provides both AoIP connection, as well as PoE (Power over Ethernet), for TouchControl 5 users. Further, a studio-grade microphone input with phantom power and a similarly high-quality headphones output is available. The mic input could be used for adding a dedicated talkback microphone, but if preferred, TouchControl 5 also features a built-in microphone. Finally, an analog line out connection makes it easy to add a pair of external speakers in case they are not already connected via AoIP.
TouchControl 5 comes with basic 4×4 Level Control, Simple Fader, 2×2 or 4×1 Control and on the metering side Basic PPM with True Peak and Phase. The optional license structure was chosen in order to make the solution as flexible and scalable as possible, without forcing users to have features they may not need.
Finally, the TouchControl 5 feature set can be expanded further by adding the Premium Metering license, which includes PPM and True Peak Metering, PPM Scales (TouchMonitor style), VU meters and British PPM.
— With reporting from RBR+TVBR in Kaiserslautern, Germany
