Imagine having a powerful fully-featured low-latency mixer that you can take anywhere. Imagine touch control of all your I/O connections and all your mixer functions.

Imagine feeding individual cue mixes to each band member.

Imagine this being the front and back end of your favorite DAW.

Imagine all this capability on stage with no DAW.

Imagine this all happening with the quality of audio that you never dreamed possible, whatever the sample rate. Add your other Merging I/O units and see your system instantly expand into a monster whilst retaining full control from Anubis. This is what being on the ‘network’ really means.

There is no need to dream; Music Mission can do this and so much more.

THE MIXER

Based on mixing console topology, the Music Mission brings you a full mixer with an ultra-low latency DSP mixing engine totally embedded into the Anubis, fully controllable from the Anubis TFT without even the need of a DAW, tablet or external program.

A complete mixer and more.

Full channel strips from top to bottom. With local and remote control of preamps, EQ, Dynamics, Reverb, Sends, Auxes and features such as; Pan, Solo, Solo PFL, Mute, Linking, Grouping, Naming and more.

The Music Mission embeds multiple mixers which allows you to create from one to five different mixes for your performers’ cues or programs. Different input sources or a unique mix balance can be routed to any outputs, thanks to the flexible bus routing.

Added are 18 x Snapshots to save and fully recall any of your mixer, masters, songs or setups with the possibility to customize your mixer layouts.

Whether you are a single musician or professional engineer, we made sure that you can operate the Music Mission with ease, no matter your skill level.

MONITORS & CUES

The Music Mission provides all the necessary Monitoring controls with; Ref, Dim, Mono, Downmix and exclusive monitoring Mutes. Along with A/B speaker set support, 2.1 and 2.2 with crossover and built-in crossfeed for headphones.

Advanced Monitor features with full control over your Performers’ Cues.

Create and Monitor your artists’ cues, interact and talk to any musician or all of them at once. The Music Mission includes monitoring features that are the equal of large scale consoles.

The Anubis Ultra-low Latency Cue Mixers are the perfect tools to put your musicians at ease and have them deliver the best performances possible. Cues can be used when recording, overdubbing, playing live or for independent program distribution.

We made sure that you can monitor with an ideal feature set and are able to listen any output while keeping full control over what comes out of your mixers.

BUILT-IN EFFECTS

Included free in every Anubis are 3 high quality effects that can operate at the highest PCM frequencies. Apply those effects to your monitoring, recordings or live performance on any Strips, Buses or Returns and recall at any time one of your 18 available effects snapshots.

MERGING EQ:
The Anubis Music Mission 4 band EQ is built on the existing and universally acclaimed quality of the Pyramix EQ-X and offers Extreme Definition filtering at sampling frequencies up to DXD (352.8kHz).
EQ can be applied to any inputs (Local or Peered) or to any bus output (e.g. for headphones or room correction). 21 EQ instances are available at any sampling rate

MERGING DYNAMICS:
The Anubis built-in FPGA Dynamics section includes multi-modules. 1 X Gate, 1 X Compressor and 1 X Limiter that can be combined in series. With each module having its own parameter values.
Limit your outputs buses or strip channel, apply compression to your strips, gate your snares or kick, compress and limit your vocals, compress your drums in parallel and more. The Dynamics can operate in Mono or Stereo mode (Link Dyn).
64 x DYNAMICS instances are available at 1FS (44.1/48kHz).

BUILT-IN EFFECTS

MERGING REVERB:
An ideal stereo reverb to put your performer at ease. Apply reverb in your ultra-low latency mixes on vocal, guitars, drums and more. Dial in your parameters from a simple user-friendly interface and quickly give your performer a sense of space. Using low diffusion values will increase the reflexional effect and perform as a Delay.
The perfect solution for your performer’s CUE. Apply effects to your performers’ ultra-low latency cue mixes and give them the perfect listening environment with Equalization, Compression and Reverb on their channel inputs to get the best performance out of your artist. Those effects can be used in standalone, or can be routed back to a DAW for recording or for loopback processing applications.

3 SENDS for Externals
Users can also use their favorite external hardware. If you have a distortion pedal or an analog hardware EQ, the Music Mission has 3 SENDS for externals so that you can quickly integrate those into the mixer and apply those effects to any Channel Strip.

PEER & UNITE

Anubis being a network audio interface brings you even more flexibility than conventional USB or Thunderbolt audio interfaces.

Adding AoIP devices over your network is much more than conventional Daisy-Chaining.

Included in all missions are tools that allows the user to Expand, Monitor, Mix and Route any I/O anywhere over your network with quick and simple solutions. What’s even better is that all this can be done from a single Anubis and even be in operation with standalone devices interconnected.

Simplifying Audio over IP with a finger tap

With the Anubis Peering feature you are a finger tap away from expanding your Anubis I/O’s.

UNITE is an automatic AoIP Stream patching feature included in our Drivers that allows a user to quickly connect I/O streams between the Anubis and the System/Driver without the need for any AoIP knowledge or additional application.
With UNITE, connect your devices I/O streams and be operational quickly in a click!

The Music Mission is expandable to 48 inputs channels and 24 outputs within the Anubis mixer, when adding AoIP interfaces to your setup.

The concept of software based Missions allows for designing very versatile and highly dedicated applications, upgradable in time, and precisely targeting the requirements of today’s professionals.

The Monitor Mission is the central node of all Music and Recording Studios, its extreme sound quality fulfills the essential requirement of all Mastering Studios.

The large number of supported surround formats will please all Film and TV Post Studios and its AoIP standards support makes it the perfect choice for Broadcast Studios, OB Vans or Editing Rooms.

The Anubis compactness and robustness makes it the ideal choice for Location Recording and Live Events monitoring.

MONITOR CALIBRATION

Under the hood, Anubis embeds some DSP for audio filtering and mixing purpose. In a monitor controller, filters are very useful in many situations such as room correction, bass management, active channel speaker filtering, headphone adjustment, etc. Each output channel can be adjusted with a parametric EQ offering visual and precise adjustments.

On each speaker set, bass management may be engaged and the output channels may be shared and/or split. This offers wonderful flexibility for any speakers system setup. As an example LFE channels can be routed to the subwoofer in Speaker set A and the same subwoofer can drive the bass content in Speaker set B. You can then go from A to B with a simple click or via a footswitch event.

On top of filtering, delays up to 200ms may be added on the 32 output channels for Speaker position adjustment and/or video synchronization.

SOURCES SELECTION , SUMMING & AUTO-DOWNMIX

Whether monitoring through a Speakerset, Headphones or a Cue, you can listen to any available Source regardless of its format. The auto down-mixer can make it fit whichever format you want to listen in. Anubis handles everything from mono all the way to Dolby 9.1.6, Auro and even NHK 22.2!

Anubis even allows to "on the fly" monitor any Ravenna/AES67 stream present on the network without needing to configure it as a source. Ideal to keep large AoIP networks well onto the radar.

Merging's 30 years of leadership in pioneering technologies such as DSD/DXD means you get the ultimate digital audio summing right within your monitoring box.

A visual audio metering page gives an overview of all audio within the Anubis including monitors/sources name, channel set, trims, patch and peaks.

BEYOND AUDIO

The audio quality and functionalities are the core of the product but additionally you have :

• Web remote access
• Protools / Pyramix preamp remote control
• GPIO for record light, talk, presets recall, subwoofer cut and many more
• MIDI I/O in Anubis presented as a local MIDI port to DAWs present on the network
• Instant save/recall

IN THE FIELD

The modularity and versatility of the Monitor Mission has been proven by a variety of use cases. Here are some examples where this Mission has been used in an unexpected fashion:

• As an audio terminal for journalist thousands of kilometers from the mixing desk
• As an AoIP sniffer on large network system
• Near the conductor in an orchestral recording environment
• Multi player coms and hub in a e-sport environment.
• High-End HiFi world for its AD/DA converter quality and support of all audio format such as DXD and DSD

The Commentary Unit Mission focuses on providing a very easy to use implementation of a broadcast commentary box, targeted at journalists commenting on all kinds of On-Air live events such as sport, e-sport, radio programs and more.

Once running the Mission, the unit offers monitoring and commentary features for one single or two commentators, with all necessary microphone, headphone and speakers’ connectivity, best in class mic preamp and headphone amp and AD/DA directly in the box.

While giving access to traditional Analog I/O, the Commentary Unit Mission implementation also focuses on purely AoIP network audio integration, offering all required standards such as AES67, RAVENNA, ST2110, ST2022-7, NMOS as well as full remote access for operation and configuration through a full featured Web Interface and a Web Socket REST API.

The Commentary Unit Mission user interface is entirely customizable to allow immediate usage of the unit when in live environments with minimal training for the simplest, mistake proof operation.

MONITORING

Both commentators are offered the monitoring of 8 stereo Programs, 2 mono Intercoms, their own Sidetone and the Sidetone of the other commentator.

Both monitoring busses are patched by default to the unit’s internal headphone outputs but can be also routed to other outputs through the network.

Any of these inputs can be hidden and renamed for a better and safer user experience. Various monitoring options are also available to customize the monitoring behavior when On-Air, when talking, when receiving signal from the Intercoms or when receiving commands from the broadcast console.

COMMENTING

When operating the unit, both commentators can control their access to the On-Air output, can Mute their microphone (Cough Cut) and can talk to up to 4 available Talkback outputs.

All these controls can be configured to be hidden, locked, latch/press-release, renamed, to offer an as safe and easy to operate experience. Various monitoring options are also available to customize the monitoring behavior when operating these controls.

EFFECTS PROCESSING

The Commentary Unit Mission offers separate effects processing for both commentators and both signal paths, the On-Air and the Monitoring (Talk and Sidetone) paths. EQ and Dynamics are available on these 4 paths.

MERGING EQ:
The Anubis Music Mission 4 band EQ is built on the existing and universally acclaimed quality of the Pyramix EQ-X and offers Extreme Definition filtering at sampling frequencies up to DXD (352.8kHz).

MERGING DYNAMICS:
The Anubis built-in FPGA Dynamics section includes multi-modules. 1 X Gate, 1 X Compressor and 1 X Limiter that can be combined in series. With each module having its own parameter values.

REMOTE CONTROL

The Commentary Unit Mission offers various ways of controlling both commentators’ actions:

• The unit touch screen can, optionally, be shared by both commentators
• All the unit’s physical buttons can be custom mapped to any commentator’s actions
• A fully featured Web Interface allows for controlling both commentators separately, as well as giving access to all parameters of the unit for remote technical operators
• A REST API permits taking full control of the unit through web socket for the complete broadcast orchestrator integration
• GPI/O commands can be mapped to all functionalities

CUSTOMIZE

The Commentary Unit Mission can entirely be customized to simplify the interaction with the operator.

Programs and Intercoms can be renamed or hidden, while being still accessible remotely by a technical operator.

On-Air, Mute and Talkback buttons can be renamed or hidden.

Monitoring behavior of all buttons have various settings to accommodate most operator’s habits.

ONLINE SHOP

The Commentary Unit Mission comes as an option that can be purchased from the Merging Online Shop .

At purchase a key will be issued, the user must then open the Merging License Manager from either: MAD, VAD ANEMAN or MT Discovery to make the Commentary Unit Mission available.

Note: Supported as of Firmware version 1.4.0 and higher.

New from Merging Technologies comes Venue Mission, a feature-rich and highly versatile software, designed to transform the management of audio workflows through Anubis, the brand’s popular audio interface.

Packed with features, including a 16-channel mixer, Venue Mission delivers precise control over four monitors. Supporting up to 16 mono or stereo inputs and accommodating a wide range of sampling rates, it seamlessly handles local analogue inputs and incoming audio over IP streams.

With Venue Mission, users can show or hide mixer inputs on each monitor, adjust input delay from 1.4 ms to 20 ms, and customise input names with colour-coded labels, providing a new level of control and personalisation - and, as with all Anubis missions, Venue Mission remains fully compatible with AES67.

Designed for multiple users, Venue Mission is the ideal choice for applications across a broad spectrum of scenarios, from orchestral live performances to complex band monitor setups, smaller bands operating without designated monitor engineers, orchestral studio recording sessions and even speaking booths or ADR studios.

Performers can enjoy direct access to their tailored monitoring mixes while microphones and instruments inputs can be shared across the network, enabling remote control and monitoring by the PA mixer or recording engineer.

Enhancing Anubis’s extensive software range, Venue Mission addresses the key concerns of professional musicians and audio technicians, offering powerful audio management and an unparalleled level of control across the Anubis ecosystem through a user-friendly interface.

PERSONAL MIXER

Building on the features of Personal Monitor, Venue Mission’s Personal Mixer mode takes audio control to the next level with a host of additional stand-out features.

Users can now enjoy solo and mute capabilities on each input, for precise audio isolation and management. The inclusion of a powerful 4-band parametric EQ on inputs, as well as a 12-band parametric EQ on monitors, ensures fine-tuned audio shaping with exceptional precision.

Dynamic processing tools such as gates, compressors and limiters are available for both inputs and monitors, enhancing audio quality and control and with low-latency box processing, audio engineers can achieve impeccable sound quality without sacrificing speed.

The enhanced mode gives users the ability to limit access to specific processing parameters, granting administrators control over who can modify critical settings, simplifying collaborative efforts while ensuring the integrity of the audio setup.

REMOTE CONTROL

Venue Mission’s features include a Remote Control mode, offering preamp access through a web app, so users can easily fine-tune their audio inputs remotely, ensuring optimal sound quality from any location.

For those using Pyramix, the Remote Control feature provides a unified, compact user interface, allowing seamless preamp control within your preferred workstation environment. Streamlining the setup process is made easy with an additional web app for the loading and saving of Anubis presets. Monitoring AoIP stream status and configuration is equally straightforward through the web app, granting real-time insights and control.

Dedicated Windows and MacOS remote apps can be used to mirror control, providing accessibility from multiple devices while simplifying access to web services and other essential tools, all designed to enhance the end user experience. Anubis also supports ANEMAN as an audio stream monitoring tool, ensuring robust audio management.

For users of Avid Mic/Pre protocols and Lawo Home, Anubis offers native support, offering users the power and convenience to optimise their audio setup, in the studio or on the move.

DEPLOYMENT

Merging’s Anubis Audio Console requires minimal wiring, making installation, cabling and setup quick and intuitive. A mic stand fixation feature allows for flexible positioning in various recording or live environments while both mic preamp and monitor mix functionality are positioned within a single unit, making physical setup simple and overall workflow more efficient.

To alleviate the workload of Front of House (FOH) and Monitor engineers, Anubis gives musicians direct control over their monitor mixes, reducing the need for constant adjustments.

While serving as a standalone solution, Anubis remains fully interoperable with a wide range of consoles and Digital Audio Workstations (DAWs), ensuring seamless integration into existing audio systems.

The inclusion of loopback monitor streams enables quick and convenient monitor checks and facilitates RF broadcasting without the need for additional equipment.

Anubis’s robust unibody chassis is designed to withstand the rigours of professional use, while built-in interoperability with existing solutions through various protocols, including AES67-Dante, AES67-MADI (via Hapi MKII bridge), and AES67 RAVENNA, offers maximum versatility and compatibility with different audio ecosystems.

ONLINE SHOP

The Venue Mission comes as an option that can be purchased from the Merging Online Shop .

At purchase a key will be issued, the user must then open the Merging License Manager from either: MAD, VAD ANEMAN or MT Discovery to make the Venue Mission available.

Note: Supported as of Firmware version 1.5.6 and higher.