In response to requests by its users, Outline has updated Newton’s firmware. The update implements a most significant workflow addendum that allows users to seamlessly save and recall whole-platform snapshots of all its functional parameters and settings right on its board.
The possibility of saving and recalling a complete Newton operational status as snapshot turns in handy for addressing different usage scenarios in multipurpose rooms and venues, whereby different portions of sound system need to be activated (and/or optimised) at specific configurations of walls’ and floor partitioning, for example – or when specific event types in the same venue rely on different suppliers of technical services, each with their own production setups, to minimise setup times, and avoid any mismatch in routing, clocking, sub-systems balance and tuning.
Concert-wise, as well as in festival settings, snapshots allow users to precisely manage guests’- and main artists’ injection setups, each of them starting off a perfectly clean slate at soundcheck, for saving the achieved operational balance at the end of rehearsal, just to load it back again by exact running order at showtime – regardless of whichever host is actually hooked to the system (as snapshots reside right within the very Newton machine).
Moreover, as firmware update 98 allows Newton users to choose which specific elements of its logic blocks get to be saved in each snapshot instance (and then be recalled at will), system engineers tasked with the alignment and optimisation of (even the most) complex PAs, will now be able to run checkup- and troubleshooting test routines in full compliance to previous service status.
For total signal dependability implemented in firmware update 98, safe areas are provided to protect outputs groups (which can’t be overridden by snapshot recall), as well as user-defined safety switch for whichever type of control function that can be locked to its current status as “recall safe”.
