Yamaha's award-winning 02R Digital Recording Console is now available with Version 2 software. Hailed the world over for setting the standard in cost-effective professional digital mixing, 02R Version 2 raises that standard by including a long list of new features designed to greatly increase productivity, further decrease the need for peripheral components, and even provide an all-in-one sound processing platform for DVD projects.

Still provided are all the powerful features that have made the; 02R the first choice for professional project and post production studios relying on TASCAM (TDIF-1), ADAT, AES/EBU, and Yamaha digital interface formats - not to mention the versatile cascading options and many on-board processing functions which make the 02R an ideal live mixing and recording console. *See Optional Accessories.

The 02RV2 includes uncompromising features like a versatile 40-input/8-bus configuration, individual channel PEQ and dynamics processors, effects libraries, scene snapshots and full on-board processing functions which make the 02R an ideal live mixing and recording console.

02R Version 2 includes a long list of additional features resulting from extensive consultation with many 02R users worldwide. Added are on-board 24-bit recording capability, various surround panning options, off-line copy-and-paste editing, timecode offset and timecode "capture" for quick location of specific points in a song. There's touch sense fader editing, which allows a fader to be instantly updated by simply moving it. There's a much more versatile I/O assigning of input patched.

Now there's touch sense fader editing, which allows a fader to be instantly updated by simply moving it. There's a much more versatile I/O assigning of input patching and slot and Aux output selection. There is MIDI remote and MIDI control assign, on-board MS stereo decoding, bus channel pairing, more flexible routing assignment and fader grouping, more scene memories, automatic fader start and stop of MD, DAT and CD – and much, much more.

24-bit recording provides high resolution digital audio using two recorder tracks per channel, where a single slot can output up to four channels during recording and track signals are automatically recombined and fed to the 02R during playback.

Surround pan functions support 2+2, 3+1 and 3+2+1 (5.1) modes, to let you move sounds freely around a two dimensional sound space, or along preset circle, ellipse, semicircle, or diagonal trajectories. Surround channels can be transferred directly to a digital multitrack recorder via YGDAI or output via the a