Broadcast Audio Processor

The Broadcast Audio Processor is your versatile playout application based on softGear™ microservice architecture running on commercial-off-the-shelf hardware. softGear’s flexible architecture is designed to accommodate your current and future audio needs by allowing additional processing blocks as required. The Broadcast Audio Processor offers a robust, standalone solution with transmission path protection that allows you to integrate with any playout system.  As a result, you can customize your automation, master control, and graphics engine.

Broadcast Audio Processor solves Nielsen® Watermarking and Dolby® encoding challenges!

In a nutshell

• Apply different Nielsen® Watermarking SIDs to different channels? Absolutely!
• Need to encode some of your signals using Dolby Digital®/Dolby Digital Plus® encoder? No problem!!
• Care about bringing the loudness to proper level prior to encoding? Easy!
• Peace of mind with hardware relay bypass to protect your main feed and more!

In today’s distribution systems, you need to be able to adapt to various audio distribution requirements for domestic and international networks. The key elements: audio-shuffling, audio pre-processing, Nielsen® Watermarking and Dolby® encoding must be configurable and able to accommodate any workflow requirement. This includes one to one and one to many relationships between processing components. Careful audio pre-processing to maintain the BS-1770 standard and the creation of metadata describing loudness parameters is also critical for optimum Dolby® encoding in today’s workflows and is mandatory for future encoding workflows. An automatic hardware bypass is another vital component to provide peace of mind in case of a hardware malfunction or a power disaster. The comprehensive user interface is a must for day-to-day operation and initial configuration. Combined with the Dashboard™, the Broadcast Audio Processor simplifies audio workflows and brings ease-of-use to the critical component of the modern broadcasting architecture.

Broadcast Audio Processor
SG-BAP-PKG softGear™ SG-BAP-PKG bundle can enable Dolby® RTLL micro-service, Nielsen Watermark Encoding micro-service, and Dolby Digital®/Dolby Digital Plus® encoding micro-service.