The ultimate studio set up for desktop or MacBook to transform these devices into a professional live internet broadcasting receiver or source. Receive and send separate or multiple live streams to and from any type of LUCI app. Provided with a multi-channel sound card, you can get up to 64 streams simultaneously. Use the software stand-alone or combine with more remote LUCI STUDIOs, other network devices or third party professional hardware codecs.
The choice is yours
Use any type of LUCI app to connect to and report live from the field and talk back through the live stream that is automatically sent back to the reporter. Impress your listeners with the excellent audio quality by making sure you have stable internet and an output connection to any radio transmitter to broadcast your LUCI generated content. Check out all features below. Still not sure this is the right solution for you? Get in touch!
Features
- Point-to-point studio audio quality software
- Professional live internet broadcast receiver for remote LUCI reporter streams
- Comes by default with one stereo stream
- Works on: Windows – Mac – Linux
- Receive RTP low-delay streaming, two-way –
- includes sending a return channel
- Transmit RTP low-delay streams from the field –
- includes receiving a return channel
- Support for stream-cloning- receive simultaneous streams from one source and send return streams back to each incoming stream
- Support for multicast streaming connections, transmit or receive
- Full SIP support
- Shoutcast / Icecast source
- Easy multichannel configuration
- Audio codecs: MP2, AAC, AAC-HE, AAC-LD, AAC,LC AAC-ELD, AAC-HEV2, Opus, G711, G722, 24 bit ULCC, FLAC, Linear
- Sample-rate from 44.1 to 384 kHz
Extras
- Ember plus and SNMP remote signalling and control plugin available
- Surround and mutli-channel plugin available
- Video plugin available
- Up -to -64 simultaneous stereo streams per computer / license possible
- Get a MIKI cable to connect your headphones and microphone to your device to ensure studio audio quality
- Constantly updated to the latest IP-technology and standards
- Free help desk via dedicated support centre
- Also available: LUCI STUDIO online installer for the LUCI USB drive only (the USB acts as a dongle and you can use it on any computer without installing and registering the software again).
Supported Devices
- Windows 7, 8, 10 (64-bit only)
- Windows Server 2008, 2012 and higher (64-bit only)
- macOS 10.12 (or higher)
- Linux (64-bit only)
ULCC our own Ultra Low Complexity Codec.
Our ULCC (Ultra Low Complexity Coding) audio codec, has the advantage of LOWER POWER USAGE with recording and playback compared to uncompressed audio, HIGHER QUALITY than any other audio codec and PERFECT for Multichannel Compressed Audio recording!
How to connect LUCI software to LUCI Studio
In most cases LUCI Studio is running on the internal network and reporters in the field will be using any type of LUCI Reporter app on their phone, tablet, PC or Mac. They will need the studio’s static IP-address to stream to via the public internet. Therefore, port forwarding is needed to keep unwanted traffic off networks and only allow access from the LUCI reporter apps.
Create your own phone book
Create a phone book in order to provide your connection details to your reporters. And if you have more stations (i.e. streams) to connect to, it makes it even easier if a proper phone book is available that is simple to correct by you and an easy download and insert for them. Check out the example and a reference CSV formatted phone book on our support page.
Setup LUCI STUDIO as a multi-channel server
It is possible to start LUCI Studio several times simultaneously on the same PC with different settings. Then there are multiple so-called ‘instances’ of LUCI Studio needed. You can receive up to 64 streams. It is also possible to have each instance stream up to eight sample-accurate audio channels. Make sure you have a multi-channel audio plugin when used this way.
Remote Control for LUCI STUDIO
Ember+ is a lightweight remote- control protocol developed by Lawo and L-S-B Broadcast Technologies. It was published as an open standard, and various companies have implemented Ember+ in their products since. So have we. The Ember+ remote control integration will only work with a separate program for LUCI STUDIO instances that have the Ember+ plugin activated.
This way you can monitor all LUCI instances remotely and connect, accept or disconnect incoming streams.
Surround & Multi-Channel plugin for LUCI STUDIO
LUCI STUDIO can simultaneously stream up to eight sample-accurate audio channels per instance, bidirectional. Supported codecs are Linear 24 bit and 24 bit ULCC. This can be used to distribute multichannel live recordings from point to point in high quality.
To setup LUCI STUDIO with a Multichannel stream you need to add and activate the Surround & Multichannel Plugin.
Video plugin for LUCI STUDIO
LUCI STUDIO can be set as a video server, enabling it to receive video from LUCI LIVE showing it in a separate video preview screen and / or to a selected SDI video output. The currently supported format is H264 with bitrates up to 4Mbps. The video can be recorded separately in an mp4 file and combined with the separately recorded audio file with standard video editing software or with our FTP function.
Please Note: For receiving video your CPU needs to have an inbuilt HD Intel® Graphics GPU.
To setup LUCI STUDIO as a video server you need to add and activate the Video Plugin to your license.