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Omnia.9

This is not a stereo expander trick. It's demodulated left / right audio level. So in mono, it would sum together, and still be loud.

It's like driving a composite clipper harder. The same thing would happen...only in the case of Omnia.9, the audio doesn't collapse into the horriffic distortion of a typical composite clipper because of the psycho-acoustic masking applied in Leif's unique clipper. The Omnia.9 also lacks the extreme amounts of cross-channel hash typical in driving composite clippers this hard due to the same distortion management scheme.

-C




amfmsw said:
Not to throw a wet blanket on this party, but in the REAL world, not laboratories and dummy loads, how does the process perform? I mean the world of multipath, hd-analog mixing, and ESPECIALLY high frequency blending and mono mixing in weaker signal areas. If the station is loud as dickens in stereo, but drops when blending, it would sound terrible. Not all listeners live and drive in the 54 dbu contour. You've got antennas as moving targets at 65 mph. If the stereo is louder than the mono mix, it would seem pretty useless.

Now, don't get me wrong, I'm a BIG fan of the Foti products. One of the early adapters. Well engineered and bulletproof. But this has me puzzled. Looks like it's being fed through an old Fisher Space-Xpander!
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Get a demo, and see for yourself. If Breakaway was any indication of what the O.9 has to offer, I've gotta say that Omnia did the right thing by picking up Leif and his box, otherwise, had it gone to another company..................
 
amfmsw said:
thanks for addressing my concerns all.
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If I may modestly comment, Leif's done an incredible job with this. As someone posted prior, it's best to get a demo and see for yourself.

-Frank Foti
 
Hi Leif,

I just received my Omnia 9 demo. Unbelievable! I am however having issues getting remote access to it. It has a valid ip, gw, dns. How do I browse to the config remotely like you would with a Omnia 1 or 11? Am I missing something?
 
You have to IP in and download the remote software from the unit itself.

Use port 7380, then select download remote software.
 
Love the very simple loudness meter on the Omnia 9...any chance that will be released as a free utility like Orban has just released? That would be a cool tool to compare the 9 to other processing sources.
 
BobOnTheJob said:
Love the very simple loudness meter on the Omnia 9...any chance that will be released as a free utility like Orban has just released? That would be a cool tool to compare the 9 to other processing sources.
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If you are referring to the other processors, you can do that with the 9 itself... It has two composite inputs, so you can plug in two external processors, switch between them and the Omnia 9, as well as observe the spectrum (FFT), audio (scope, RTA) and R.128 loudness for all three. The 9 will also decode those MPXs, so you can listen and compare the two processors between them and the 9.

That's the set-up we've recently used for the Omnia FM processor range presentation (One, 9 and the 11) and what we've had on the CABSAT show as well (this photo, for some reason, received most likes on Facebook ;)).


Regards,
Goran Tomas
 
Goran Tomas said:
BobOnTheJob said:
Love the very simple loudness meter on the Omnia 9...any chance that will be released as a free utility like Orban has just released? That would be a cool tool to compare the 9 to other processing sources.
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If you are referring to the other processors, you can do that with the 9 itself... It has two composite inputs, so you can plug in two external processors, switch between them and the Omnia 9, as well as observe the spectrum (FFT), audio (scope, RTA) and R.128 loudness for all three. The 9 will also decode those MPXs, so you can listen and compare the two processors between them and the 9.

That's the set-up we've recently used for the Omnia FM processor range presentation (One, 9 and the 11) and what we've had on the CABSAT show as well (this photo, for some reason, received most likes on Facebook ;)).


Regards,
Goran Tomas
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The 9's no longer in my possession...it's been pressed into service. I was hoping to have that app on my PC and feed it from my frequency agile mod monitor to compare the competition.
 
You can use Leif's MPX tool. It has the same loudness meter there too.
-C
 
Any chance MPX Tool will find its way into the 11? I love the sound and texture of it, the 6 band limiter is stupid clean, but compared to the 9, and the AirAura it's rather skimpy on analysis/metering options. I hoping all that is coming in the next update? There's a lot of tabs that don't do anything on the 11.
 
cgould said:
You can use Leif's MPX tool. It has the same loudness meter there too.
-C
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I don't see it in the MPX Tool picture. The one on the 9 has a beautiful multi-color L and R horizontal bar graph with a single numerical number on the right side that shows the relative loudness--very simple. If it's on there, I'd like to pursue it. Can you confirm that it is there? Also, will this work with demodulated audio or do I need to have a sound card that can feed it with a composite signal?
 
WNTIRadio said:
Any chance MPX Tool will find its way into the 11? I love the sound and texture of it, the 6 band limiter is stupid clean, but compared to the 9, and the AirAura it's rather skimpy on analysis/metering options. I hoping all that is coming in the next update? There's a lot of tabs that don't do anything on the 11.
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MPX Tool will be added to Omnia.11 in a later release. It's always been planned for. We've just released V: 1.1, and more of those tabs are now active. This release added a few more processing tools, refines a few algorithms, and brings more utility functions to life.

-Frank Foti
 
Frank, great to hear! Is this update going to be a download or swapping of the CF card again? I am currently running on 1.03 on two stations now.

FFoti1 said:
MPX Tool will be added to Omnia.11 in a later release. It's always been planned for. We've just released V: 1.1, and more of those tabs are now active. This release added a few more processing tools, refines a few algorithms, and brings more utility functions to life.

-Frank Foti
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