Comprising the Intelli-X² 26 and Intelli-X² 48, the processors were launched last September and set a new benchmark in system management and speaker processing design. Intelli-Ware is designed to provide fast and intuitive control from desktop, laptop and tablet PCs, the interface mirroring the powerful but intuitive design of the hardware, with operation being predominantly icon driven.
Shown on Apex's Frankfurt, the latest version of Intelli-Ware adds a range of features, including a convenient and innovative ganging and copy/paste feature, which can be applied on three different levels: Devices, Channels or processing blocks.
With the new offline editing feature, every preset of any Intelli-X² unit in the network can be edited without recalling a preset in a device. This gives the advantage of being able to prepare a system offline, with the ability to copy and paste any part of the configuration of an existing preset to the current preset. This can be done between different Intelli-X² units, either via Ethernet or WiFi.
Another feature is the possibility to connect an unlimited number of computers to the network, all working on a 'real-time' basis. A solution for, for example, a system tech working alongside a guest-mixer.
The auto-IP feature allows the sound engineer to control the Intelli-X² without the need of being an IT-expert. If there are several network cards in the system, the software automatically discovers them and scans them for possible Intelli-X² devices. Even when some cards are on one network and others on another, Intelli-Ware works seamlessly across all networks. This is a very useful feature in installation projects, as an Apex system does not absorb any of the available bandwidth of a general office network.
(Jim Evans)
