Allen & Heath has announced the release of firmware V1.5 for its AHM series of matrix processors that introduces a host of new features designed to streamline workflows for system integrators and engineers, including EQ Ganging, All-Pass Filters, NTP Support and user permissions.
The EQ Ganging feature allows users to temporarily and rapidly gang together any parametric EQ in the AHM, enabling relative, absolute, or mirrored changes. Additionally, a PEQ band bypass option has been added to be able to more quickly punch a single PEQ band in or out, and the Q bandwidth is tighter for demanding applications.
In addition, each band of loudspeaker processing now benefits from an All-Pass Filter, switchable between 1st and 2nd order, and stereo output zones can now be configured with a mono sub. Further, crossover frequencies can now be linked or unlinked per band for added filter flexibility and control.
AHM 1.5 also includes Network Time Protocol (NTP) Support, a granular System Manager permissions feature that allows for up to 10 password-protected user profiles as well as the ability to patch zone outputs directly to input sources — all designed to optimize system management and security.
“With the release of AHM V1.5, we’re addressing the needs of both traditional commercial integrators and live sound system engineers,” says Samantha Potter, Install and Commercial Audio Manager at Allen & Heath. “It further reinforces AHM’s unique value proposition: combining all the tools that classic integrators need for their job with the speed and flexibility of the production world to deliver performance-quality audio in fixed and flexible installations with continually expanding control options.”
Integration with the IP series of hardware controllers has also been expanded. The new XPoint mixer rotary function for IP1 and IP6 transforms a single rotary control into a full room mixer, providing end users of all technical levels with customized controls. An IP identify function and new display options for IP1, IP6, and IP8 are also included.
