Roland

Roland M-5000

Roland's O.H.R.C.A. flagship: a console whose internal architecture you redraw

Description

The M-5000 is Roland's flagship live console, launched in 2014 to succeed the M-480. Its big idea is the O.H.R.C.A. architecture: instead of a fixed structure (so many channels, so many buses), the user freely allocates up to 128 audio paths across inputs, buses, matrices and groups to suit the show. From my engineer's seat that is a genuine shift in logic: you size the console around the event, not the other way round. Add native 96 kHz, 72-bit summing and multi-protocol openness (REAC, Dante, MADI, AES, SoundGrid) and you get a smarter, more affordable machine than its rivals of the time.

Technical

Specifications

Processing

Max sample rate96 kHz

Surface

Motorized fadersNo
Screens1
TouchscreenYes
SurfaceGrand écran tactile couleur, faders motorisés, zone d'assignation utilisateur (nombre de faders physiques à vérifier)

Recording

Onboard recordingNo

Networking

Networking & protocolsNetwork / Dante / MADI / AES/EBU / SoundGrid
Redundant PSUYes
Redundant networkingNo

Other

ArchitectureO.H.R.C.A. — topologie configurable, jusqu'à 128 canaux/bus répartis librement (voies, bus mix, matrices, groupes)
Sample Rate96 kHz natif
SummingSommation linéaire 72 bits
Io CapacityJusqu'à ~300 entrées / ~296 sorties gérées en patchbays selon configuration
TransportTransport propriétaire REAC ; cartes d'extension Dante, MADI, Waves SoundGrid, AES/EBU, SDI, SFP, DVI
VariantsVersion compacte M-5000C (2016)

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