Omnia .11 Installation And Operation Manual page 3

President's Note: Welcome to Omnia.11!
Cleveland, Ohio
September, 2010
If you love Rock-and-Roll there's a good chance you'll understand the following scenario.
Consider how daunting it must have been for the Beatles to follow-up "Sgt. Pepper," or what the
next concept was in Pete Townshend's mind after the worldwide acclaim of "Tommy."
Personally, I always wonder how Bruce Springsteen contemplates his next project after the
completion of many of his masterpieces.
Well processing gang, seems I now understand the predicament! Your overwhelming acceptance
of Omnia processors parallels the above scenarios for all of those artists. OK, so maybe there
won't be a "processing rock opera", but the popularity of Omnia, as made by you, has put it in
rock-star status among broadcastings elite! Humbly....I wish to thank each and every one of you
for your dedication and support.
Now, Omnia embarks upon the next phase - or tour - of this wonderful journey. You know, Mr.
Springsteen said it perfectly, "One day, we'll look back on this, and it will all seem funny." He's
right, as I look back on all this, it's been - and remains - an amazing ride!
Now it's time for us to offer you our follow-up as we present Omnia.11. A lot of anticipation
awaits Omnia.11, and our goal was to climb the charts again, with a bullet. By now you're heard
or read all of the stuff from the marketing gang. So I'll spare those details. But it is important to
note that aside from the effort undertaken to create Omnia.11, there's a tremendous team who
deserve recognition for this product. As said in other communiqués, Omnia isn't just "Frank"
anymore. Now you get to hear and see the results of that statement. Omnia.11 resides on a whole
new firmware platform, which incorporates both DSP and an industrial grade quad-core PC. I
believe this is a first in the processing realm. In order to do this, the Omnia team worked
extremely hard to assemble a platform that is powerful, flexible, and ready for the future. It's my
view that our platform design and firmware selection will create possibilities the 'other' guys are
still dreaming about. So in addition to a great sounding processor, you also possess a device that
is designed for the ever changing technical landscape we find in broadcasting today.
To that extent, Rob Dye, Bill Mohat, Ed Zmuginsky, Corny Gould, and Mark Manolio are to
thank for their creativity. Additionally, there are quite a number of end-users who shared their
ideas with us, and we're extremely grateful for the input from everyone.
I've always felt that competitive quality sound is what ultimately sells a processor, not the
number of bands or the latest whimsical features we see offered by others. In Malcom Gladwell's
book "Outliers," he details numerous stories about how various people reached their level of
success. The short form answer is that it takes close to 10,000 hours of work or practice to reach
this lofty goal. Pretty insightful stuff! I have no doubt that my algorithmic running mates Rob
Dye and Cornelius Gould have long surpassed this milestone. Their efforts, input and insight to
the algorithms in Omnia.11 are worth a book unto themselves. Ask Corny about the multitude of
hours we spent in our development lab going over algorithm performance and breaking down the
barriers to achieve increased performance in what is today Omnia.11.
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