Overview
The LXE is designed to be your console. Every knob, every button, every display can be programmed to accommodate virtually any application you come up with. No need to compromise anymore.
LXE is our most modular console ever. Simply group the modules into bays and connect them to your network with a single CAT6 cable. This allows you to use them in tabletop frames, with or without a meterbridge, with no need to cut furniture. Or, you can flush mount them right into your table, easily splitting them as you need.
Full color OLEDs reflect your programming, and the touchscreen GUIs let you interact with your audio in fresh new ways to do everything from pinching and dragging EQ to setting up router crosspoints in your network. ScreenBuilder™ LXE is included so you can create your own touchscreens. And ConsoleBuilder™ is a GUI-based app that allows you to program and configure your hardware surface.
Simply put, there’s never been a more customizable way to work.
Tabletop or Recessed. Meterbridge or Not. Your Choice.
LXE is a fully modular control surface that’s completely customizable for your workflow
Different studios have different ways of working.
Popular around the world, split consoles allow you to position the different parts of the console wherever you like - even in different studios.
LXE makes it easy. Simply group modules into bays, and connect those bays to the switch with standard CAT6 cables.
With or without the meterbridge, input levels are always available on the OLED on the associated channel, meaning they are anywhere you need them.
Glass LXE
A full-blown LXE on a touchscreen surface
Remote LXE
A touchscreen remote control surface for your physical LXE
The Console
The LXE can have up to 32 physical motorized faders, with full DSP processing available on all 32 channels. Surfaces interface seamlessly into the WheatNet-IP Intelligent Network, and utilize BLADE-3s for audio, control and associated logic data flowing on single CAT6 interconnecting cables. The system can ingest and convert virtually all audio formats: mic and line level analog, AES/EBU, SPDIF, AoIP, MADI, SDI and even AES67. Loudness metering, phase control, and full EQ/Dynamics are included.
ConsoleBuilder™ GUI
ConsoleBuilder™ software allows every switch on the surface to be programmed for function, mode, and even color (switches are RGB led illuminated). In fact, built-in software allows every button to be scriptable, letting you create powerful macros for as many controls as you want. Multiple full color OLED displays on each panel keep pace with ongoing operations, and event recall allows painless one touch console reconfiguration at the press of a button. With its inherent control flexibility and ability to access thousands of signals (sources and destinations are limited only by the size of the network), the LXE takes facility workflows and audio control to a new level.
ScreenBuilder™LXE
LXE’s new GUI is has pre-built screens for everything you normally use – metering, clocks, timers, dynamics, EQ, assigns, and more. All are touch-screen accessible with gestures you’re used to using on your smart devices. And, the GUI is just as customizable as the LXE surface. Using our ScreenBuilder™LXE software, you simply drag and drop objects and define their functions via a simple wizard interface. You can store multiple custom screens, if you like, to go with your custom LXE setups.
Optional VoxPro Onboard
Now available with optional VoxPro onboard for a fully integrated mixing, routing, and live editing experience.
Real-time editing is within easy reach instead of in a separate controller off to the side.
Integrating VoxPro into the LXE console surface reduces workspace clutter and gives talent more tools at their fingertips during editing and recording, including control for routing and salvos.
Features
Layers = Compact + Huge
LXE has a cool feature called LAYERS. With Layers, you can have, for example, 8 physical faders, each with four layers. So, you can have up to 32 actual input channels - 8 per layer. Push a button, and the motorized faders and your entire input channel are immediately reconfigured. Up to 8 layers are available to give you a maximum of 32 input channels. This gives you enormous power in a VERY compact space.
everything you need to mix - and a way to make them yours - right there at your fingertips
OLED Screens on the LXE Surface
The small, full-color OLEDs in the modules on the surface provide whatever information is pertinent to what you are doing at any point in time. Turn a knob or push a button and a screen will provide the info you need. These are fully scriptable to present the data you need, when you need it.
ConsoleBuilder™
The LXE comes ready to go, pre-configured to be useable for standard applications out of the box. But with broadcast audio becoming anything but ‘standard’, LXE’s magic is revealed when you use ConsoleBuilder™ to configure and program the LXE to do exactly what you need it to do. ConsoleBuilder™ is a drag/drop/script GUI that puts an exceptional amount of power into an easy to use interface. PGM Assign, Set, EQ ON/Off, Talkback – any of over 25 functions can be assigned to just about any knob, button, or fader. Pretty amazing.
Not surprisingly, it’s an exceptionally powerful interface that’s incredibly easy to use. Here’s how ConsoleBuilder™ works – display shows you the layout of your console – just double click on the button, knob, or OLED you want to configure and a series of screens and tabs lets you program it to be what you need.
Above are examples of how easy it is to configure your console using ConsoleBuilder™. Simply pick the surface feature you want to customize and select the function you’d like from a drop-down menu. For more complex things, you can script to achieve the control you need. You'll also be able to customize many functions of your LXE GUI from here.
The LXE GUI features a “button” navigation architecture to easily access features with a minimum number of clicks. These Function buttons are located across the bottom of the function display area. You may access any desired screen by simply clicking or touching the appropriate buttons.
In Depth
LXE Automix
When airing a panel discussion, forum, or other program where many microphones are located close together, audio operators have their work cut out for them. Simply leaving all the mics open all the time will result in an ugly, comb-filtering effect that will make the room sound hollow. The operator must constantly pay attention to the discussion in progress, and keep unused mics pulled down. There are many opportunities for errors which are obvious to the audience. Automatic Microphone Mixing takes this difficult task out of the hands of the operator.
By engaging this feature on each of the microphones, the operator allows the console to monitor the level coming from each microphone and automatically reduce the gain on mics not being addressed. The level of all participating mics is determined by the weighting assigned to each channel by the weight sliders in the Automix screen. This allows hosts to be assigned a higher weight in order to speak over guests in a lively discussion. It also allows “loud talkers” to be assigned a lower weight so they are more evenly balanced with other speakers. Conversely, “soft talkers” can be assigned higher weighting to compensate for their lower level. The Automixer also does gain sharing, so the overall level will not exceed nominal levels when multiple participants are speaking at once
LXE’s Mix Engine Taps the Power of WheatNet-IP AoIP Networking
LXE is paired with a new addition to the Blade 4 product line, the Blade 4 E. This powerful yet compact (1RU) Blade handles all the mixing and processing required by the LXE control surface. The large front panel display provides metering and status displays, while the rear panel has redundant network connections, redundant AC power, HDMI / USB touchscreen ports, and 12 GPI ports. It’s fanless design allows for studio quiet operation.
WheatNet-IP Extends LXE's Power
Specifications
Coming soon.
