Every Brainsalt server is built around one requirement: a venue that opens every day of the year, and a show that has to be ready every time it does. Bandwidth and outputs are the two numbers that decide which one a job needs.
B8/B9 Series Server
The current range. Up to 30 GB/s of internal bandwidth, and up to sixteen signal outputs at 4K on a B9, or four of them carrying 8K. Where a job needs many smaller screens instead, external quadrant splitters divide a 4K output into four at 2K — taking a Pro to as many as 64 of them, and an Entry or Compact to 16 — and Backstage addresses each of those quarters as an output in its own right, with its own routing, warp and blend. The splitter is not a workaround the software has to be told about; it is a layout the software already understands.
Those two numbers answer different questions, and it is worth keeping them apart. Bandwidth decides what the server can play: resolution, frame rate and how many streams at once, whether those streams are uncompressed or NotchLC. The outputs decide what leaves the machine — each one carrying whatever region of the composed picture is routed to it, or a whole 8K frame where that is what the screen wants.
Three models. Compact is the 1U machine: four outputs, a lower bandwidth ceiling, and no add-on card slots. Entry drives four outputs at 4K or eight at 2K, has its own lower ceiling, and takes up to four add-on cards; it has no genlock. Pro is the one that reaches sixteen outputs, carries the widest bandwidth of the three, adds genlock, and mounts its data drives in swappable bays reachable from the front of the chassis.
B8/B9 Series Server
Server Configurator
For specifying a new server. Bandwidth and output count are what decide which model a job needs, and the configurator takes those and returns what meets them — along with every hardware option that server can carry. A specification comes out complete, before anyone writes a quote.
Server Configurator
Server Add-Ons
The same hardware options on their own, plus the software options the configurator does not carry. This is the page for a server that already exists: audio in analog, ADAT, MADI, AES or Dante, genlock inputs for pixel-synchronous output, the A16 and A32 converters that can generate that reference for one server or a whole cluster — or a replacement unit.
Server Add-Ons
End of Life
Servers we no longer sell, each with the current model that replaces it. Kept published because an installation commissioned ten years ago is still running, and whoever maintains it needs to know what is in the rack.
End of Life
The software is part of the server
Backstage, Brainsalt Hub and Conductor Full arrive with every server. What they do, and how they divide the work, is on the Software page.
Software
