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C A S Q U A R T E R L Y S P R I N G 2 0 2 0 67 XL-AES accessory) that fits on top of the Scorpio via the integrated accessory connector. This is ideal for those who want to use more digital wireless mics. There are six more line inputs and you can even bring in USB audio inputs from a computer application like Skype. There are about 70 physical inputs! Each channel can be routed to any track in any combination and to any of the 10 internal mix busses. Each bus can be an independent mix with its own fader levels. On a big production, the director or script supervisor or anyone can have their own independent mix, and each of those bus mixes can be routed to any of the physical outputs: 12 analog outs, eight AES, 32 Dante, two USB, several headphone outs. It can take any input or bus and send to any output. On the first 16 channels, we have a 3-band parametric EQ, as well as the capability to route to the integrated Dugan Automixer and two independent Automix busses. All mic inputs have phantom, limiter, and delay, as you would expect. Wow! The Scorpio is really the heart of an ecosystem. We have a USB-A port that can be connected to USB-MIDI controllers, and we have decided to go with an open protocol to accept a wide range of third-party controllers. There are cheap, motorized fader controllers that do bank switching, bus sends, etc. You can use multiple controllers because we support USB hubs on the Scorpio and connect as many controllers as you want—and we have customers doing that. We also still support the CL-12, our controller we brought out for the 6-Series. We are working on a CL-16 that will be out soon. You can also use the Scorpio with the SL-6 wireless interface. You can hardwire or Bluetooth connect a tablet using the new SD-Remote app, which is a more advanced version of CL-WiFi. It supports iPads and Androids and USB-A keyboard control, which can be used to enter metadata simultaneously on multiple units (which is pretty slick). The USB-C port can be used for direct file transfer from the Scorpio to a computer and also [as a] USB audio interface which can send anything from the Scorpio. Thank you, you've done a really great job of telling me about your baby. Thanks for giving me some time to rattle on about these things! Sound Devices' Scorpio side view MEET THE WINNERS Outstanding Product – Post Production iZotope's Dialogue Match by Stephen Fitzmaurice CAS Congratulations on the win, Mike! Thank you! We're super excited about that. When we win something like this, it's nice to bring it back to the engineering team and all the other folks that work really hard to make the software possible. They don't get to go out and meet customers and go to the trade shows and stuff like I do. So, when they get an award win like this, it's just really awesome to bring it back and show the people who worked on the product. So, thanks for nominating us and thanks to the membership for voting for us. iZotope finds a way to innovate year after year and has built quite a collection of CAS Awards for its RX products and now Dialogue Match. Thanks for saying that. I think, for me… I've been here about three years now and it's one of the only places I've worked where just about everybody here is also an artist in some way. There are a ton of top-notch musicians here. There are folks from all kinds of different backgrounds that you wouldn't necessarily associate with software. The people that make the things that we release to the world are also people who use those products. I think that's different than what you see in a lot of other companies. On this last development team, one of the key developers is also a circus performer. There are folks that write music for video games. It's a really cool mix of people who have all of the industry chops that you would imagine but they also bring sort of a customer sensibility because they are the folks that get really excited about using the software. For our readers that may not be familiar with the product, who is Dialogue Match created for and what does it do for them? We created Dialogue Match first and foremost for iZotope has become a perennial fixture at the CAS Awards the past few years by continuing to create new and innovative products designed to serve the post community. Their RX software has become a mainstay for dialogue mixers and editors throughout the industry and, this year, their team won the Outstanding Post-Production Product Award for Dialogue Match. I had the opportunity to speak with Mike Rozett, iZotope's principal product manager, who led iZotope's team of programmers, researchers, and quality assurance professionals responsible for the development of this year's winning product.