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New Guangzhou theme park has Ovation controlling huge Dante system.
Theme parks worldwide have been convinced for some years that Merging Technologies’ Ovation Media Server and Sequencer is the key to unlocking creativity and enhancing the visitor experience. The latest venue to embrace the technology is the Guanzhou Chimelong Wild Animal Park in China. This park had its opening ceremony on January 14th 2020, and features an ambitious installation completed by local Merging Partners, Dreamula. In a matter of weeks, the park was forced to close because of the COVID-19 pandemic, but has recently reopened. The park is a night safari theme with around 45 different zones relating to different animals, such as the Panda Park, Swan Lake, Giraffe Playground and so on. Each zone has its own sound system, projectors, lasers and LED screens
all connected via Ethernet to a central control room where the Ovation server and Medialon Show Controller are located. Each zone has completely different requirements according to its individual theme and that adds to the complexity. The audio network is a complete Dante solution and the Ovation server has Yamaha AIC128-D Dante accelerator cards installed with each one providing 128 I/O at 48kHz. All audio media files are stored on Ovation along with the cue data. Ovation uses its powerful virtual mixing console to send approximately 70 audio signals to 41 amplifiers in the 45 zones. Every zone’s timeline and volume can be controlled independently or grouped in the Ovation mixer. The entire audio routing map is set up and stored in a Symetrix Radius NX 4X4 audio processor. Ovation uses ASCII commands to
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