Yamaha has released a new firmware update to its RM-CR audio processor, RM-TT tabletop array microphones, and the recently announced RM-W wireless microphones.

The 1.2 update delivers several new features and improvements, including microphone grouping, a device finder tool that detects and updates Yamaha components, a web interface management option, and more.

Yamaha UC senior director of technical sales and marketing, Holger Stoltze says: “When we engineered our new ADECIA and RM series conferencing solutions, we did so with the understanding that these systems had to be flexible enough to meet the evolving needs and requirements that continuously take place in conferencing environments.”

He adds: “Today’s firmware update is a reflection of our continuous improvement to these product lines to ensure the investments organisations make in Yamaha continually stay up to date and provide the best management experience and audio quality.”

The 1.2 firmware updates the Yamaha RM-CR audio processor and RM-TT tabletop array microphones and adds the new RM-W Wireless microphones to ADECIA solutions. This allows for automatic detection, integration, and tuning for the room environment. Among the new features to the firmware is microphone grouping, which controls the mute behaviour between separate microphones attached the RM-CR audio processor.

Another new feature is the device finder tool, which allows the firmware to update any RM component in the network, eliminating the need to go through the RM-CR. Finally, the SNMP functionality is expanded to offer additional capabilities.

Within the ADECIA solution, Yamaha’s RM-CG ceiling microphone, RM-TT tabletop microphones and RM-W wireless microphones feature voice tracking technologies to allow lively conversations to be picked up and delivered clearly to the far end. The voice tracking function automatically selects the microphone closest to the person speaking for superior voice capture, and its human voice activity detection technology anticipates additional voice locations for seamless conversation pickup.