Yamaha Pro Audio’s

Introduction

Yamaha Pro Audio, Inc. is a company which is part of

the Yamaha Corporation group.

It offers a complete line of beginner professional audios products

for the live sound and sound reinforcement markets.

It has a long history of introducing significant products for the

professional audio market such as the PM-1000 modular mixing
console, the REV1 and SPX90 digital signal processors, and the
01, 02R, PM1D, PM5D, QL5, M7CL, CL5, and PM10/7 Rivage
digital mixing consoles.

Yamaha products have received the most nominations in the area

of technical achievement in the TEC Foundation TEC awards 20-
year history.
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The PM series of analog mixing consoles

The first PM mixer manufactured by Yamaha was the PM200.

Introduced in 1972, it was a monaural mixer with unbalanced
inputs and outputs.

The PM400 was an upgraded mixer with a stereo bus and

balanced inputs and outputs.

Yamaha PM3500/40

Yamaha PM4000
The Yamaha PM1000 mixing console was a significant product in the
professional audio industry because of its many advanced features and
reasonable price.

Introduced in 1974 it incorporated many innovative features such as a

modular design using channel strips and output strips, a 4 bus design, and
an output matrix mixer.

Because it was manufactured by an established company it was readily

accepted in many audio industries including sound reinforcement,
recording, and audio for video.

It also established a reputation for being rugged in the often abusive

environment of touring sound reinforcement.
The PM2000 featured a hard chassis construction for rigidity and durability
on the road.
"One of the tests we are still using is our 'flight case test'. During
prototyping we order a custom flight case - not even a very sturdy one -
and place the console in it.

The flight case is stood on end, and then tipped over in both directions and
allowed to fall to the floor.
If the console powers up immediately and works flawless after that ordeal,
then it passes the test.

The PM3000 was the first mixer to use voltage-controlled amplifiers

(VCAs) in a mixer designed specifically for sound reinforcement.

It used a custom VCA design using discrete hybrid ICs

The PM4000 introduced stereo auxiliary buses and fully

parametric Equalization on the input channels.

The PM5000 was a hybrid analog mixer with a digital control system which
provided scene recall.

In 1999, Yamaha debuted a first of its kind, all digital large format console,
The PM1D system.

With scalable I/O configuration the total channel count could be brought up
to 320 mic inputs.

Though, to achieve this impressive channel count, the system required

multiple modular I/O boxes along with separate Digital Signal
Processor(DSP) racks, power supply racks, and computer system engines.
Yamaha's next desk, the PM5D did away with the external rack system,
reducing the channel count to 48 mic pres, and requiring only an external
power supply unit.

The Yamaha PM5D-RH(remote head-amp) was all of the functionality of a

PM5D in a 10 space rack that only required a PM5D-RH control surface.

In 2007, Yamaha won a Technical Grammy for its NS-10 studio monitor, a
speaker that dominated the mixing of pop and rock music throughout the
world for at least 20 years.

The speaker was inducted into the Mix magazine Technology Hall of Fame
in 2008.

The M7CL and the CL5 series were both among Yamaha's more affordable
line, and the first to incorporate the Dante protocol.

With great usability, they were not known for sound quality.

In 2014, Yamaha announced the release of a new PM series digital

console, the PM10 Rivage system, equipped with Rupert Neve Designed
"Silk" modeling pre-amps.