Yamaha Rolling Showroom at AES 2011 in NY

The Yamaha Rolling Showroom will be making a stop at the 131st AES Convention in New York this weekend.  Our rolling showroom is a completely customized 53' expandable trailer that's fully equipped with everything needed to showcase our line of products. Our knowledgeable team of experts will be on hand to demonstrate and answer any questions you might have.  The latest additions to our product line will also be on display, these include the; Dugan MY-16 Auto Mixing Card, Rupert Neve Designs 5045 Primary Source Enhancer, and our MY4-AEC Acoustic Echo Canceller Card.  If you're interested in these or any other part of the Yamaha Commercial Audio line be sure to stop by booth #T2 to say hello!

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M7CL, LS9 & DME Classes are Coming to the Northwest

Yamaha Commercial Audio Training Seminars will be holding classes on the M7CL, LS9 & DME units during the second week of November in Redmond, Washington.  There are three days of training in all; Novemeber the 8th will feature the M7CL for Advacned Users class, the following day YCATS will hold two classes for the LS9 and wrapping it up on the 10th will be the class for Digital Networks & System Design.

Direct links to the signups are posted below.  You'll also find each class's curriculum on the signup page just in case you want to get a bit more information on the training before you commit.

M7CL For Advanced Users Signups

LS9 Workshop Signups

Digital Network & System Design Signups

-Nick Lucini

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This Just In! Yamaha Commercial Audio House of Worship Website Now Online

So, the console is busted in your church. You are thinking of installing a shiny new sound system, but you just don't know where to look for answers?

Yamaha Commerical Audio has just launched a resource webpage for members of the house of worship community. Here are a few features of the webiste:

- Training Event Calendar,
- Photo Gallery
- How To Training (Tips, tricks and training videos for Yamaha consoles)
- "Which Mixer is Right for Me?" Questionnare (Answer a few questions and get a better idea of what console you need)
- News

Please visit http://www.yamahacommercialaudiosystems.com/worship/

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New Studio Manager V2.3.3-4 for Mac OS X

The latest version of the Studio Manager V2 shell software for Mac OS X was released on Sunday by Yamaha Japan.  This version includes an uninstaller which has the ability to remove older versions of Studio Manager.  Minor bugs & errors have also been corrected as part of the version upgrade.  It hasn't been expressly stated and confirmed yet but according to the Lion Compatibility Chart at YamahaProAudio.com this version should play nicely with OS X Lion. You can download the latest version of the Studio Manager V2 host from Yamaha's Global Site.

-Nick Lucini

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New LS9 Firmware & Editor Released

Yamaha has just announced the release of their latest version of firmware (1.30) for the LS9, they've also introduced a new version of the LS9 Editor (2.1.4). Dugan-MY16 users will especially enjoy this update as it has given the LS9 the ability to move insert points to post fader in the signal path. This applies to input channels, mix channels, matrix channels, stereo channels, and the mono channel on the LS9. The recall safe feature has also been updated to compliment the new post fader inserts. The channel link function has been altered and a few bugs have been removed from the software as well. Below you'll find the links to the Yamaha website with the full description of changes & links to the downloads.

LS9 Firmware: http://www.yamahaproaudio.com/downloads/firm_soft/ls9/ls9_frm.html
LS9 Editor: http://www.yamahaproaudio.com/downloads/firm_soft/ls9/ls9_edt.html

-Nick Lucini

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