Allen & Heath S5000-DM48 User Manual

ALLEN&HEATH

Design for Live

Design for Live

There is something inherently thrilling about live sound. The
immediacy of the direct interaction between the performers and
the audience, the potential for anything to happen, the need to
get it right first time – this is what makes live mixing so addictive.
As the demands for more and more I/O and increasingly
complex systems grow, there’s a danger of concentrating on the
technology rather than the performance. Our design goal for
dLive

dLive was to create the ultimate mixing system, with plenty of
processing and flexibility to handle the most demanding live
scenarios, while at the same time giving the engineer intuitive
tools to comfortably keep all that power at their fingertips, freeing
them to focus on the live mixing experience.

S3000
& DM32

XCVI Core

The power of dLive emanates from the XCVI Core – pioneered by the Allen & Heath R&D team using next
generation FPGA technology, with 36 parallel virtual processing cores generating enough power for
160x64 channels of processing at 96kHz sampling rate. Six parallel mixing engines within the Core
calculate over 10,000 cross points per sample, while the FPGA router has capacity for 3,000 x 3,000
audio paths. The massive power of XCVI (25 billion operations per second) allows dLive to deliver 128 full
processing inputs and 16 stereo FX returns, a configurable 64 bus architecture, variable bit depth for
ultimate

ultimate precision and noise performance, a virtually infinite mix headroom thanks to a 96bit accumulator,
and class leading latency at an ultra-low 0.58ms.