User manual SOUNDCRAFT VI SERIES BROCHURE

[. . . ] Pristine sound quality is assured by a combination of Soundcraft ultra-low noise mic amp designs and Studer advanced 40-bit floating point digital audio processing. And complete security is assured by diagnostics of the separate control surface, local rack and stagebox power supplies from the mixing position, with the facility to add second redundant supplies to each. With a competitive price tag and compatibility with the groundbreaking Harman HiQnetTM communications protocol, the Soundcraft Vi6 and Vi4 are the flagship consoles in what is fast becoming a full range of high performance Soundcraft digital live sound mixers. The Soundcraft Vi4TM packs all the powerful Vi functions and features into a smaller footprint console for use in applications where space is at a premium. Vi4 Input Faders Mix Channels Output Busses 24 72 35 Vi6 32 96 35 PAGE 4/5 VistonicsTM II. Free yourself from mental mapping. At the heart of the Soundcraft Vi control surface lies the patented VistonicsTM II system. Obviating the ergonomic limitations of arranging controls around or adjacent to a flat TFT screen, Vistonics II builds the rotary encoders and switches right onto the touch screen. [. . . ] The last paste operation can be quickly reversed with an UNDO function. Blocks or individual parameters within a channel are selected for copying via touch screen selection on the same intuitive VistonicsTM II screens that are used for audio control functions. Advanced Library functionality allows a user to select any set of parameters in use on the desk, for example a single channel EQ setting or a group of channels set up for a drum kit, to be stored in the internal library and recalled at will. These libraries can be exported to, or imported from, a USB memory stick, allowing users to build up their own portable channel and processing libraries that can easily be transferred to any Vi console they have to work on. This is done independently of the Show Files which already allow entire desk settings to be exported. Within the software are a number of useful libraries of EQ and Dynamics settings to suit common applications. A second Cat5 connection allows daisy chaining or full redundancy capability, ensuring the network remains uninterrupted should a cable be broken. The Soundcraft A-NET® 16V card provides direct digital connection on a single Cat5e cable from the Aux or Group outputs into an Aviom® A-NET® Pro16TM Series Personal Mixer (compatible with A-16II and A-16R). The Pro16 System enables musicians on stage to be fed with up to 16 subgroups of instruments or vocals which they can then mix to their own taste using their own on-stage controller. The card includes a switchable test tone and stereo pair linking via DIP switches. The CobraNetTM card allows up to 32 channels of input or output signals (or a combination of both) to be received by or sent from console onto a CobraNetTM network. In addition to the optional card choices, an optical MADI interface is fitted as standard, allowing direct connection to a Pro Tools HDTM recording system via a third party converter box or any MADI compatible device (eg SSL XLogic Delta-Link). Along with the ADAT card, the MADI card offers a simple recording solution for the Vi Series. Additional MADI cards may be fitted by exchanging with other I/O cards, in order to connect additional stageboxes or other MADI equipment. Using a MADI connection on the Vi Series local and stage racks, the Optocore DD2FE interface allows not only the connection of up to 128 channels of audio onto the Optocore network, but also the Vi Series is able to remotely control the microphone preamplifiers in either its own stagebox or the Optocore LX4AP stagebox, giving an additional degree of flexibility and allowing multiple consoles and stageboxes to be interconnected with full redundancy. Soundcraft Vi6 Front of House Optocore Redundant Ring Optical MADI Soundcraft Local Rack DD2FE ID1 Optocore Stagebox Stage 2 LX4AP ID4 ADAT The ADAT card provides two optical eight-channel ADAT inputs and outputs, with selectable 44. 1/48/88. 2/96 kHz operation. Optical inputs and outputs are provided on Toslink connectors and can be used to record to, for example, an Alesis HD-24 hard disk recorder or other device with ADAT inputs and outputs, and receive playback audio. four per I/O. DOLBY E The Dolby E card decodes the audio channels from a Dolby E or Dolby Digital stream and allows them to be patched into separate inputs on the console for mixing. Each card provides two full decoder sections, and can dramatically save external hardware cost, space and weight. SDI The SDI card can de-embed up to 16 audio channels from an SDI (Serial Digital Interface) stream, and re-embed them back on to the stream for onward transmission in a broadcast environment, saving high costs of external units and, of course, weight. These channels may be patched in to any input as usual. AES/EBU OUT AES/EBU IN AES/EBU Optocable Redundant Loop Each stagebox analogue input card (8 inputs) can be replaced by an optional AES/EBU input card which holds 4 pairs of AES/EBU inputs, with built-in Sample Rate Convertors. Similarly, each analogue output card (8 outputs) can be replaced by an optional AES/EBU output card which holds 4 pairs of AES/EBU outputs. PU SH PU SH 1/2 1/2 LOCK PU SH 3/4 LOCK PU SH 3/4 DD2FE ID2 DD2FE ID3 LOCK PU SH 5/6 LOCK PU SH 5/6 LOCK PU SH 7/8 LOCK PU SH 7/8 LOCK LOCK Soundcraft Local Rack Soundcraft Stagebox Stage 1 Soundcraft Vi4 Monitors PAGE 16/17 A better user experience through better ergonomic design. VistonicsTM II and Soundcraft FaderGlowTM are just part of what makes Soundcraft Vi SeriesTM digital consoles such intuitive and creative tools. By optimising the density of faders and controls on an operating surface that measures just 175cm x 73cm (Vi6) and 145cm x 73cm (Vi4), the live sound engineer is able to reach all critical areas of the console comfortably from a central point, without straining or leaning over. The angle of the touch screens has been carefully chosen to ensure that the engineer can always view display data clearly during the show. [. . . ] <-126dBu (150 source) Residual Noise, Stagebox line output; no inputs routed, Mix fader @0dB . 20Hz to 20kHz/Pink/White Noise, variable level Input & Output Levels Stagebox HP Filter . HF: 20Hz-20kHz, +/-18dB, Q= 0. 3-8. 7 or shelving Hi-Mid: 20Hz-20kHz, +/-18dB, Q=0. 3-8. 7 Lo-Mid: 20Hz-20kHz, +/-18dB, Q=0. 3-8. 7 LF: 20Hz-20kHz, +/-18dB, Q= 0. 3-8. 7 or shelving Metering. Internal 20-segment LED bargraphs plus 9-segment gain reduction meters for all inputs and Outputs. [. . . ]