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Compact, Uncompromising Sound and Features
Impressive mixing capacity in a small packag e
The M-300 V-Mixer is the ultimate sol u-
tion for a variety of venues and app lica-
tions. It provides a substantial m ixing
capacity of 32 mixing channe ls, 8 aux
buses, 4 matrices, which repre sent the
highest level in its class. The M -300
V-Mixer seamlessly integrates w ith
other REAC devices. The user c an
directly operate the Digital Snake
preamp, control an M-48 Personal Mi xer, and set up the I/O for the S-4000M
REAC Merge Unit. All of these featur es are contained in a ver y compact size
of 749mm width x 626mm depth x 229mm height, and at a weig ht of 9.8kg
(21 lbs 10 oz). The M-300 is the perfect choice f or any venue with a limited
set-up area, as well as for mobile sound r einforcement. Optional ra ck rails
are also available.
Advanced Control Surface Design
The M-380 and M-400 V-Mixers are h ighly regarded for their ea se of use
and the M-300 continues this tra dition starting with 17 x 100mm motorize d
faders. Central to the M-300’s opera tion is a high-resolution 8 00x480 pixel
color display. Channel Parameters s uch as Gain, Pan, EQ and Dynamics
can be comfortably operated f rom the Channel Edit sectio n located on the
left side of the display. All parameter s can be instantly saved and rec alled
from Scene Memory. The layers of fad ers can be easily switched w ith the
LAYER button. Faders can be accesse d and arranged freely, and s aved as
a User Layer.
Powerful Built-in Channel Effects
Equalization of channels and d ynamics are the foundatio n of any great mix.
The enhanced sound shapin g abilities of the M-300 inp ut channels include
4-band fully parametric EQ as wel l as gate and compression. A Key-In f ilter
can be used for the Gate/Compress or to enable more expressive m ixing.
The 4 multi-effects proces sors can be set to use any of 11 different e ffects
types. In addition to Reverb and D elay, modulation effects suc h as Chorus
and Phaser are also available. Th e M-300’s busses are also e quipped with
8 bands of fully Parametric EQ and Sig nal Delay on each Aux, Matrix a nd
Main output. The M-300 is fully e quipped with all of the soun d adjustment
tools built-in and ready to go.
USB memory recorder/player
Record the output of the M-300 Mai n, assigned
AUX bus or MATRIX bus directly to a USB
memory drive connected to the b uilt-in USB port.
A mix produced with the M-300 can b e saved as
an uncompressed WAV file, without the ne ed for
an external recorder. WAV files on the USB
memory drive can also be pla yed back on the
M-300 and used for background mus ic/tracks.
User settings and mixer data can a lso be saved
to a USB memory drive.
Cutting Edge Features The M-300 interface s with a variety of devi ces
Control remotely from a PC
The M-300 can be controlle d remotely in real-ti me from a PC (Window s) connected via
the USB port. Mixing functi ons on the M-300 can be o perated directly f rom a PC by
using the M-300RCS dedic ated control soft ware which has the sa me GUI as the M-300
color display. (The M-300RC S can be downloaded fr om the Roland Systems G roup
website.) The M-300RCS can also b e operated
in offline mode, allowing d ata for various
settings to be created in advanc e and saved to
a USB memory drive. When you g et to the
venue, load the settings and jum p right into
sound check and rehearsa l.
Control remotely using a wi reless LAN
By enabling Remote Deskto p Connection on a lo cal PC
directly connected to the M-30 0 via the USB, the
M-300 can be controlled rem otely from another PC
using a wireless LAN. A tabl et PC can be used to
control the M-300 from a remote l ocation. For exampl e,
you can be seated in the audienc e to adjust the house
mix during the rehearsal, o r stand onstage to ad just the
monitor mix while consultin g the stage perform er. The
M-300 enables new mixing p ossibilities that y ou could
never achieve with an analog c onsole.
V-LINK - Audio and Visual Sol ution
By connecting the MIDI input /output to the video switch er such as the V-1600HD,
V-LINK automatically synch ronizes the audio of the M -300 with the visual i mages
allowing “audio follows vide o”.
Compact Size: 749 (W) × 6 26 (D) × 229 (H) mm Li ght Weight: 9.8kg
Multi-channel recor ding to a DAW
Forty channels of 24-bit aud io can be recorded dire ctly to a PC (Windows) by
connecting a REAC port to the g igabit Ethernet por t on the PC via a single Cat5 e
cable. Audio is recorded as ind ividual WAV files using C akewalk SONAR and can b e
mixed after recording usin g the
powerful digital audio too ls and
effects in SONAR.
* To use this feature, the CW-RDK REAC driver
kit is required in addition to SONAR.
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32 Mixing Ch
L/C/R Outputs
8 AUX
4 Matrix
Built-in 2 REAC ports a llows flexible syst em configurati on