Lumo at a glance
On-Hertz Lumo is a complete mobile radio studio in a simple and intuitive software. It is more than a radio automation system or transmission software. Lumo is intended to facilitate outside broadcasting and bring extreme mobility to radio makers.
"Lumo empowers you to make radio differently."
Main features
General features
- web-native touch-friendly user interface usable on any recent device such as an iPad, Android tablet,...
Mixing features
- 4 microphone channels with gain trim, high-pass and low-pass filters, 4-band parametric EQ, dynamics (expander/gate, compressor, and limiter) and panning
- gain-sharing auto mixer on microphones
- 3 rundown players with auto replay-gain
- 1 launchpad player (sometimes called jingle or cart player)
- 2 stereo "contribution channels" (Phone and Studio) with gain trim, stereo mode selector (LR, LL, RR, and L+R), 4-band parametric EQ and dynamics
- 2 N-1 bus sent back to contribution sources
- 2 stereo auxiliary inputs with gain trim, stereo mode selector (LR, LL, RR, and L+R), 4-band parametric EQ and dynamics; typically used to connect an external source such as a DJ mixer, or a live band
- 2 (post-fader) auxiliary buses
- a brick-wall limiter on each bus (PGM, Phone N-1, Studio transmission N-1, Aux bus 1 & 2)
- a routing matrix to flexibly route inputs and outputs channels from and to your sound card
- 64-bit floating-point audio processing
Playout features
- import playlist from popular automation solutions or make your own rundown
- rundown with auto and live-assist modes
- mix/crossfade editor (sometimes called segue) with trimming and volume envelope edition to fine-tune your transitions + shortcuts and normaliser
- separated pre-listening player
- plays most of the existing media file format, performing re-sampling on the fly when necessary
- build around the popular and ultra-performant PostgreSQL database
Communication (VoIP/AoIP) features
- a VoIP telephony system (SIP/RTP) with dedicated N-1 bus
- an IP codec (SIP/RTP) to transmit to the studio, with dedicated N-1 bus
- an IP mono bi-directional comm channel (SIP/RTP)
- talkback to phone and auxiliary inputs
- tone generator to test the transmission line
Technical support
Our goal is to maintain and continually improve our user documentation, just like our products.
If you encounter any difficulties, we encourage you to first consult this documentation by searching using the text field in the title bar above. Chances are, the solution is already there.
If you think you've found a bug in one of our software, a fix may already be available. We therefore encourage you to check if a new version addressing this issue is available by consulting the product release notes.
If unfortunately you haven't found a solution, we invite you to email us at support@on-hertz.com. To ensure prompt response, please include the following information in your email:
- The name and exact version of the product you are using: in the right corner of the title bar of our application's web interface, you will find a question mark icon. Clicking on it will reveal the "About" option, which opens an information dialog box. In the middle of it, you'll find an icon to copy all necessary information to the clipboard.
- A precise description of the problem, if possible explaining how to reproduce it: to help our engineers to quickly reproduce, understand, and identify the source of the problem, a detailed description is essential.
- The latest log files: all our microservices write log files; please attach the relevant files.
Continuous improvement
On-Hertz is committed to continuous improvement, to which end the specifications and characteristics of our products are subject to change without notice.
To help us improve our documentation, we invite to report any omission or inaccuracy found in this manual by email to intercom@on-hertz.com.