Calrec MPTS 2025 Preview

Calrec has been putting sound in the picture for more than six decades and is still pushing the boundaries of audio broadcasting with a full range of connected technologies enabling broadcasters and content providers to scale their processing directly in the cloud.

Across this two-day broadcast event in London, Calrec will be showcasing its award-winning Argo M with internal DSP, Argo S console with ImPulse1 engine and Type R IP mixing system. These solutions will all be controlled by Calrec’s new award-winning True Control 2.0 remote production capability, giving broadcasters the flexibility to scale their remote productions, implement disaster recovery, boost remote operations, create back-up scenarios and apply enhanced mixing by expanding the number of products they can connect to.

Featured products at MPTS 2025:
True Control 2.0 – Access anything from anywhere
NAB Product of the Year 2025, True Control 2.0 delivers expanded levels of control in two key areas. Firstly, it gives users far greater levels of remote control without the limitations of mirroring or parallel controlling, with control of an expanded feature-set including EQ, dynamics, routing, direct outputs and delay. More fundamentally, it gives broadcasters and content providers unparalleled flexibility to scale their remote productions as needed by expanding the number of products it works with. True Control 2.0 allows any of these products to remotely control any other True Control 2.0 enabled product. True Control 2.0 is available on Calrec’s Argo Q, Argo S, Argo M and Type R audio control surfaces, ImPulseV cloud-based audio mixing solution, and ImPulse and ImPulse1 cores. Calrec has also now introduced Apollo+ and Artemis+ into the True Control ecosystem.

Argo M – 356 channels of internal DSP at your fingertips
Also compatible with True Control 2.0, Calrec’s Argo M console uses the same multi award-winning technology that powers Calrec’s established Argo platform to deliver the same feature set and operational familiarity in a compact 24- or 36-fader footprint. Ideal for small to medium-scale applications, Argo M is a plug-and-play broadcast audio solution. It boasts integrated DSP processing and built-in analogue and digital audio I/O and GPIO, 3 x modular I/O slots for further expansion, and a MADI I/O port via an SFP.
Available out of the box with up to 356 channels of internal DSP, Argo M also has the ability to connect to an ST2110 networked environment and to an existing ImPulse core alongside other Argo surfaces. It can quickly create multi-console IP environments, and can add additional external DSP paths with ImPulse, ImPulse1 and ImPulseV as production demands grow. Calrec’s True Control 2.0 allows a single surface to control multiple DSP engines located anywhere, providing versatility and virtualisation.
From May 2025, users will be able to access extra busing via an aux booster upgrade path on all three Argo consoles, ImPulse and ImPulse1.
MIDI is now available on the Argo platform to support DAW control.

Argo S with ImPulse1 – Multi-award-winning IP mixing solution
Calrec will also demonstrate its award-winning Argo S audio mixing console paired with an ImPulse1 audio processing core on a True Control 2.0 network, which brings unrivalled flexibility, IP-native supercharged DSP, unwavering remote-control capability, and future-proof technologies built around Calrec’s ImPulse technology and Assist UI.
It means that whether you are working on physical hardware panels or on a remote GUI, the user interface is both familiar and easy to drive. Calrec's comprehensive system of user templates enables operators to instantly change the hardware user interface to meet changing requirements or user preferences. Argo’s physical control surface uses optically bonded touchscreens to provide unrivalled visual feedback and allows users to build definable functions and apply them as templates. This functionality helps operators move around the surface faster and makes it more intuitive.
Calrec's ImPulse1 IP audio processing and routing engine is a smaller, yet powerful, cost-effective version of the industry-established ImPulse. ImPulse1 is a compact 1U solution, with an optional second core for redundancy, and a new 128-input channel DSP pack offers entry-level pricing.

Type R – The IP building blocks for your TV or radio station
Calrec will showcase its Type R modular, expandable IP mixing system on the stand, controlled by True Control 2.0. It too is designed to encourage customers to take advantage of distributed production and flexible workflows. Its four hardware panels can create a variety of system types; they can be simplified for less technically minded DJs or be loaded with lots of features added for full operational control by skilled operators. Type R’s flexible, fully 5.1 capable IP core enables broadcasters to benefit from virtual working practices and automated broadcast workflows on a cost-effective SMPTE 2110-compliant IP backbone.
From Summer 2025, users will be able to access the next Type R software upgrade, which provides the following key features: off air record, enhanced GPIO talkback, monitor selector follow, mix minus bus user labels and large DSP pack with 32 aux buses.

MPTS 2025 – Audio session not to be missed
Calrec's Director of Product Management, Henry Goodman will be chairing a remote production session in the Audio Theatre on Thursday 15th May at 11:20am with EMG/Gravity Media Chief Facility Engineer - Paul Sykes, Technology Director - Narinder Ball and Lead Audio Engineer – Neil Ottley. The session titled: Solid as a ROC: Unlocking Efficiency in Remote Production: Key Insights From EMG/Gravity & Calrec Audio will discuss how to unlock efficiency in remote production, with key insights on efficient workflows and operational concepts, so you can maximise utilisation of your resources wherever they are.

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