Main Features - Roland M-5000 Quick Start Manual

Main Features

The M-5000 is Roland's next-generation flagship mixing console, featuring a perfect user interface for operating a 96-kHz mixing engine loaded with
original Roland technology.
The M-5000 can flexibly transform its configuration and functions to accommodate a wide range of situations with its large complement of
outstanding features.
The following key words encapsulate the novel technology built into this unit.
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Let's take a look at each feature.
Configurable Architecture
The M-5000's mixing engine freely changes its configuration and functions to accommodate the situation. This means it's not possible to define the
M-5000 as a mixer having a specific number of input channels and output buses. For instance, it can become an FOH mixer with 100 input channels at
one time, and a monitor mixer having 60 output buses at another.
Just how is this unbelievable functionality achieved?
The M-5000 is provided with internal channel strips for 128 channels. These channel strips can freely be used as either input channels or output buses.
You, the user, can assign these any way you like. When considering the configuration, keep in mind that talkback, oscillators, monitor speakers, and
other such functions also each use up one channel strip, and plan accordingly.
Now let's take a look at some actual examples of the kinds of mixer configurations you can achieve using these functions.
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Standard
5 75 monaural input channels
5 6 stereo input channels
5 Main LR/C
5 24 AUX
5 8 MATRIX
5 Monitors, talkback, oscillator, headphones
(6 channel strips used)
2
Monitor mix
5 48 monaural input channels
5 8 stereo input channels
5 Main LR
5 54 AUX
5 Monitors 1 and 2, talkback, oscillator, headphones
(8 channel strips used)
So what do you think? It's clear that the M-5000 has an extremely powerful mixing engine.
High Resolution
All elements installed in the M-5000 operate at a sample rate of 96 kHz. Not only AD/DA but the mixing engine as well operate at 96 kHz. All effect
algorithms operate at 96kHz.
The analog input and output section that has such a big impact on mixer sound quality also incorporates Roland expertise with even further
refinements. The discrete microphone preamps in the input section has been exclusively designed for 24bit/96kHz operation of the M-5000,
enhancing the signal-to-noise ratio for unaffected, high-resolution sound.
Audio input and output combining these examples of analog and digital technology achieve powerful sound with added easy naturalness and a
sense of high resolution --- just what you'd expect a flagship unit to deliver.
Open
The M-5000 is provided with two slots for installing interface modules to expand input and output. A variety of formats are supported for installable
interface modules, including MADI and Dante as well as REAC, with even more types to be added. Each of these expansion slots provides an
additional option of bidirectional input and output on up to 160 channels (when at 48 kHz) or 80 channels (when at 96 kHz), assuring expandability of
the M-5000 on into the future.
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FOH mix
5 79 monaural input channels
5 8 stereo input channels
5 Main LR/C
5 10 subgroups
5 6 AUX
5 8 MATRIX
5 Monitors, talkback, oscillator, headphones
(8 channel strips used)
4
Broadcast
5 72 monaural input channels
5 6 stereo input channels
5 Main 5.1 + stereo downmix (8 channel strips used)
5 8 subgroups
5 8 AUX
5 4 MIX-MINUS
5 8 MATRIX
5 Monitors 1 and 2, talkback, oscillator, headphones
(8 channel strips used)