ClearOne has released a range of product enhancements for its meeting and conference room solutions, the BMA 360, CONVERGE Pro 2 and CONSOLE AI software.

The new features include customisable beam pointing for ClearOne’s BMA 360 ceiling tile microphone, native camera tracking in the CP2 DSP mixer and chairman gating ducking. These new features are accessible and configurable through the latest release of CONSOLE AI configuration software, available for download here.

The new features enable integrators to deliver more responsive solutions to suit every client’s unique need, while providing the superior flexibility and ease of use often demanded in modern business and educational settings, according to ClearOne chief executive Derek Graham.

“We’re providing these key enhancements to increase installation and design flexibility while enhancing real-time system management through new customization options,” he says.

“A variety of needs can arise during a virtual conference. With the new ducking, camera tracking and beam pointing enhancements, users and integrators can now employ greater control to ensure optimal operation in any space under any circumstances.”

The new ducking capability, which refers to reducing an input’s gain based on other simultaneous inputs, ensures the hosts’ speech can always be heard above other microphone sources or other audio sources.

Additionally, camera tracking can now originate within the CP2 DSP mixer for VISCA-compatible cameras, enabling the DSP to use serial or IP communication to automatically trigger camera pan-tilt-zoom PTZ presets based on gating or beam information without requiring a third-party control system. Lastly, beam pointing for the BMA 360 now offers full customisation through a new view option and control interface that allows for full beam tuning and articulation.

The BMA 360 is the world’s most technologically advanced beamforming microphone array ceiling tile, delivering unrivalled audio performance and deployment ease. It’s the industry’s only ultra-wideband, frequency-invariant beamforming mic array with uniform gain response across all frequency bands.

CONSOLE AI is a streamlined configuration and control software for ClearOne’s CONVERGE Pro 2 family of digital signal processing mixers (DSPs) that offers integrators advanced options and assistance during system installation and setup. The software helps integrators create audio channel groups without sacrificing individual channel control, provides a seamless design interface for larger systems containing two or more CONVERGE Pro 2 DSPs, and offers distinct design modes for single-room and multi-room designs.

“From Fortune 500 headquarters to community colleges, virtual collaboration and AV distribution are more important than ever before,” Graham adds.

“As a proud innovator dedicated to developing long-term user success and trust, ClearOne will continue to deliver performance-enhancing upgrades and features for our existing solutions as we develop new products and systems to support the future of work.”