Easy Digital At Last
Digital mixing consoles are certainly not new, but the evolution toward a truly intuitive, easy-to-use interface has been long and at times fraught with growing pains. If you’ve been delaying a move to digital because of interface or operational issues, the wait is over. The Yamaha M7CL Digital Mixing Console offers professional digital console performance and features for live sound in a 32- or 48-channel system that can actually be easier to use than a conventional analog console. It sounds great, too.

Centralogic™ Brings It All Together
Yamaha’s Centralogic™ interface takes the most direct approach to giving you maximum operational ease and efficiency in a digital console. Rather that trying to simulate the feel and workflow of an analog mixer, Centralogic™ goes straight to the heart of the matter, simplifying digital operation to the point where it is actually as intuitive as analog … if not easier. A touch-panel display combined with Yamaha’s acclaimed selected channel concept and a straightforward navigation system – no layers, one-function physical controls, and all digital controls can be accessed through just two main display screens – lets you focus in on any operation directly and instantly. In fact, the entire 32-channel or 48-channel console can quite easily be operated from the 44.2-centimeter-wide (that’s a little over 17 inches) Centralogic™ section alone.

Two Approaches to Total Access

Adjusting M7CL input and output levels is easy since individual 100-millimeter motor faders are provided for each channel. You have two ways to access the other mix controls – via the Selected Channel display or the Overview display. In fact, you can access the entire console via just these two displays – no need to flip through endless pages and menus to find the function you need. Here’s how …

Overview
The Overview display – the console’s default display – gives you a standard view of the 8 channels selected via the Centralogic™ navigation keys. These keys, arranged in an exact replica of the 8-channel channel groups on the console, let you instantly bring any group of 8 channels to the central controls with a single button-press. You can then touch any row of controls on the display screen to focus on them – pan, or bus send, for example – and adjust via the corresponding multi-function encoders immediately below the display. It really is that simple, and armed with the information you have read in this brochure so far you should be able to perform a basic mix on the M7CL without even having to open the manual.

Selected Channel
To adjust pan for a channel, for example, simply press the channel’s [SEL] key and rotate the console’s physical PAN control. The same applies to preamp gain, dynamics, high-pass filter, EQ, and bus send control. Adjustments are clearly shown on the display as you make them, and if you press any of the Selected Channel encoders the Selected Channel display will appear, showing you the current status of all mix parameters for the currently selected channel. You can also zoom in on any of the on-screen parameters for in-depth control by simply touching the parameter on the screen. When you’re focused on an individual parameter the multi-function encoders below the display screen adjust the corresponding parameters in the display.

Virtual Effect and GEQ Rack

Effects and graphic equalization are indispensable for most live sound applications, and having them built in is one of the many attractive features that only digital consoles can provide. The problem, sometimes, is finding them. Not so in the M7CL: just touch the RACK button on the display and the virtual effect and EQ rack pops right up for instant, easy access. A few quick touches on the screen and you can easily patch effects or graphic EQ into any channel and output. Another touch or two and you can get right inside the effects for detailed editing. The M7CL lets you use up to 8 signal processors simultaneously – normally that’s up to 4 effects and 4 graphic EQ units. But since the effect units can also function as graphic EQs, you can use more EQ units if you don’t need all 4 effects.

High-resolution Effects
Yamaha digital effects are highly regarded in the professional sound field for a very good reason: they are simply the best. The M7CL gives you an outstanding range of top-quality effects from ambience and echo to modulation and distortion. Whether you simply need to add a touch of natural-sounding reverb or manipulate a sound for other-worldly effect, the M7CL offers everything you need built in and ready to roll. The M7CL also comes with Yamaha’s superlative Add-on Effects REV-X package, providing some of the best, most natural-sounding ambience effects available anywhere.

Standard or Flex15 GEQ
The M7CL’s standard graphic EQ modules offer a full 31 bands forprecise response shaping and feedback control. If your application requires even more EQ capability than the standard EQ modules provide, the M7CL offers Flex15 GEQ: each GEQ module functions as two 31-band units with 15-bands available at a time. You can use up to 16 channels of Flex15 GEQ!

Direct EQ Control
The M7CL makes adjusting any of the 31 bands on the graphic equalizer modules direct and easy. Simply touch the EQ unit you want to adjust in the virtual on-screen rack, touch one of the band selectors, then use the 8 Centralogic™ faders to directly adjust the corresponding EQ bands. Other convenient-control features include the ability to instantly reset any band to nominal simply by pressing the appropriate [ON] key.

The Time To Go Digital Is Now

If you’re planning to build or upgrade a mid-size sound system – installed or portable – now’s the time to move up to a top-performance, easy-operation digital system based on the M7CL. This is one digital mixing console that lets you concentrate on sound without being overwhelmed by the technology.

• 48 or 32 mono microphone/line inputs, 4 stereo inputs, and 3 mini-YGDAI card slots (a total of 56 or 40 mixing channels).
• 16 mix buses, LCR bus, 8 matrix channels, and 8 DCAs assignable to 16 omni outputs.
• Virtual effect and EQ rack: up to 4 simultaneous multi-effect processors; up to 8 simultaneous 31-band graphic EQs.
• Centralogic™ interface: central, logical, and intuitive.
• Dual power modes: use the built in power supply, or add an external PW800W power supply unit (optional) for failsafe dual-supply operation.
• Compact and lightweight: 48 channels in the space and weight normally required for 24.

M7CL Product Movie