Andreas Jaeger wrote:On the new manual with marked as December 2023 (downloadable on the Support Site) the new Feature is not marked as for the Constellation 4ME 4K.
Its described, but no Sign that it is only for this model.
So i hope, (in future Updates) this will be in all Constellation mixers !
On the Same manual cover they dont mention the the Constellation 8K anymore
Anyway No they are not build on the same Architecture!! Atem Constellation 2ME and 4ME are build on an entirely different FPGA platform. Hence the big issues they had releasing it and getting it stable. As there has been a LOT of new firmware to make these models up and running.
The Constellation 8K still runs on the Older higher tier Xilinx platform which the older Atem 4K series also ran. But just a higher ball count version that had more 12G transceiver ports available on the chips.
For the Constellations 2ME and 4ME to lower the prices and availability of the chips they changed to a different range of FPGA's. Probably still Xilinx but different architecture.
And from what i heard is that the Constelation 8K chips are running pretty much at the Max capacity at the moment. Which means that they dont have processing room left for the Audio routing stuff.
All In All - The 8K Flagship is pretty much dead in the water when it comes to new features! Highly reliable switcher with a great set of features.!! Our OBV's are running on the 8K switchers.
But yes i would have likes to see the audio routing feature on the 8K. As i now had to spend 7K into an AJA FS-4 to be able to embed 16 channels of audio into my PGM out..
Which is around the same money which i would pay for a Constellation 4ME 4K.. Which got the audio routing feature 2 weeks after i bought the FS-4