RTW TouchControl 5 Monitor Control & Meter - Dante based AoIP monitor controller with metering-5" touch screen

RTW TouchControl 5 - Metering meets Monitor Control

Meet TouchControl 5, our Dante® based immersive monitor controller with metering.
Built on our long and proud legacy of making broadcast-ready monitor controllers, it features a 5” intuitive touchscreen and a small footprint that preserves valuable space at your desktop.
It even features RTW standard precision metering, including SPL, measured using the built-in microphone.
  

Up Front

On the front of TouchControl 5, the integrated microphone feeds the SPL measurement, and it can also be used for talkback. The 5” touchscreen is user configurable, as is the pushable rotary knob.

Key Features

• Immersive table-top monitor controller and meter with 5” touch display and 32 Dante®-channels
• Support for stereo- surround and -immersive speaker formats including 5.1 and 7.1.4
• Comprehensive monitor control feature set with speaker calibration, SPL measurement, bass management and up to 4 sources/destinations
• RTW precision metering with customizable bargraphs and support for international loudness standards
• Toolbox with independently routable leveling and talkback
• Customizable view pages
• Built-in microphone preamp with +48 V phantom power
• Built-in calibrated microphone for talkback and SPL measurement

• Powerful Headphone Output: 1/4 inch Headphone output with the option of monitoring a user-defined downmix
• Analog Speaker Output: 3.5mm speaker output with the option of monitoring a user defined downmix
• Easy Setup with Web-based Interface
• Power over Ethernet (PoE – IEEE 802.3af compliant)
• Sample rate up to 96 kHz
• Assignable knob press action: DIM, Mute, Recall of Calibrated Level
• Lockable Operation Mode: Fool-proof setup with access only to relevant controls. Prevents unintentional operation during showtime

Stereo, Surround, Immersive

With support for up to 32 Dante® channels in and out, RTW TouchControl 5 can handle channel configurations from stereo to 22.2.

Among the many supported formats you will find 5.1 and 7.1 surround as well as 7.1.4 and 9.1.6 immersive.

Monitor Control. Tried. Tested. Approved.

Tried, tested, and approved by many broadcast engineers around the world, you find the very same monitor control engine that you might know from our legacy surround monitor controllers.

The list is long, but let’s emphasize downmix, DSP-powered speaker calibration (using the internal microphone OR manual set), SPL readout, 4 input sources, speaker set selection (up to 4), solo, cut, swap, phase, mono, dim, mute and test tone generator.

The source compare feature lets you toggle between sources for easy comparison and lets you set individual delays for each of the sources.

On the output side, you can set up four speaker sets and easily switch between them or you can listen to your work with your favorite headphones using the headphones output.

Controls and meters on your monitor page

The SPL meter shows the measured sound pressure level in your room, and you can show SPL either as a bar graph or as a number – or both.

The downmix instrument outputs your surround or immersive mix in stereo and mono.
The downmixed signal can be monitored on speakers or phones or sent to any destination in your audio network.

Each speaker can be muted or soloed, and you can invert polarity.
The talkback feature lets you talk to speakers or any destination in your Dante network.

LF Boost lets you boost your LFE channels with 10 dB and Surr. Att. attenuates the surround channels with 3 dB.

Speaker Level Calibration

The speakers in your setup can be calibrated with regards to level, delay and EQ. The support for measurement microphones, the built-in test tone generator and the live-input SPL meter is the optimal tool combination for calibrating your speaker levels to ensure they are perfectly aligned.

Loudspeaker DSP Section

Each speaker has a DSP section for ultimate control. You can set individual delay, gain and phase, and a 8-band EQ is available for each speaker in your setup.

Calibrated speaker levels can easily be recalled by the press of a knob.

Bass Management

Up to two LFE channels with adjustable crossover frequencies can be adapted to your requirements using the bass management. Full-range speakers and smaller speakers can be finely tuned to each other and operated in the same system, while HP filters for bass-controlled speakers, all-pass filters for other speakers and an additional SUB output channel for formats without LFE are also available.

RTW Metering inside

As you know, metering plays a significant role in any RTW device, and so it does in the TouchControl 5.

The PPM metering engine is taken from our high-end TouchMonitor meters, and you get a wealth of ways to tailor your own metering experience, including scales, color settings and more.

True Peak metering is of course part of the metering story, as well as VU and ‘British PPM’.

So beside the level control fader instrument, the RTW TouchControl 5 also comes with a comprehensive equipped PPM meter for reliable measurement of any Dante® channel.
TouchControl 5 supports all the different scale types need for a professional production environment.
 

TP20: +3..-30 dB
Dig60: 0..-60 dB
Dig40: +20..-40 dB
Dig20: 0..-20 dB
Dig0: 18..0 dB
Dig18: +18..-18 dB
ARD9: +9..-60 dB
DIN5, +5..-50 dB

DIN10: +10..-50 dB
Nordic: +12..-42 dB
BRIIa: 7..1
BRIIb: -12..+12
BRIIa ext: 7..1
BRIIb ext: -12..+12 dB
ZOOM1: +1..-1 dB
ZOOM10: +10..-10 dB

The switchable peak hold indicator, peak memory and over indicator complete the functionality.
Between the bargraphs of a Stereo-PPM, there is a correlation indicator that helps identifying stereo correlation problems.

The Moving Coil instrument is available in 2-channel stereo mode.

It provides several scales and setting options. The PPM (British) or VU displays can be shown as single or combined, vertical or horizontal instruments.

Loudness scales or a combined PPM and Loudness display (BBC mode) are also available.

Built-in Microphone for SPL or Talkback

RTW TouchControl 5 features a built-in microphone that can be used for calibrated monitoring.

Alternatively, it can be used for intercom talkback and can address any node in the audio network .