Soundcraft Vi3000 User Manual

Why mix through a single, central screen
when you could see the full picture?

Vi3000 empowers live sound mixing engineers to work
intuitively. The new 3D Vistonics™ interface places control
knobs directly in the touch screens that provide the visual

feedback, while FaderGlow™ illuminates fader tracks to
provide at-a-glance mix status. Try it. You’ll never want to go
back to ‘mixing through the keyhole’.

96

INPUTS
TO MIX

24

STEREO
BUSSES

IN THE BOX

DSP & LOCAL I/O

OPTIONAL
REALTIME
RACK

FX

24

INPUT
FADERS

EXPANDABLE

I/O

BUILT-IN

MADI

BUILT-IN

64

OPTIONAL
64 CHANNEL
STAGEBOX

Vistonics.

Touch. See. Mix.

The Vistonics interface is central to the Vi3000 design philosophy, providing
direct access to all functions with maximum information and visibility at all times.
16 switches and rotary encoders are built into each Vistonics screen, so where
you look is where you control. Functions are colour-coded and change according
to the selected mode and one touch of the screen is all it takes.

The blue input stage and routing screen allows
adjustment of input delay, mic gain, digital trim, high and
low-pass filter frequency, channel patching, channel
naming and stereo pairing.

The 4-band fully parametric EQ is graphically displayed
with the settings for boost/cut, frequency and Q
(bandwidth), with the main screen showing the composite
EQ curve. Frequency is displayed in a similar style to a
radio tuner scale for easy assimilation, and the HF and
LF bands can be switched to shelving EQ.

The dynamics section controls Noise Gate with attack,
hold and release, and a key facility with filtering. The gate
can be replaced with a De-Esser function. Working in
series with the Gate, the full-function compressor maps
gain reduction metering onto the LED meter in the fader
area, with full control of threshold, ratio and release with
an independent Limiter section and overall gain makeup.

Two areas of the channel strip allow access to routing
and control of the output busses, arranged in 2 banks.
The All Busses mode allows assignment to each of the
busses as an Aux, Group or matrix output, with additional
stereo pairing controls if busses are required as stereo
sends.

Subsequently within each channel strip setup, busses can
be switched on or off with level control and individually
switched pre or post fader, pre-EQ or pre-compressor.

The final section of the channel strip controls the Pan,
Insert and Direct out functions, with assignable LR and
C, or LCR panning modes. Inserts can be switched pre or
post EQ/Dynamics or post-fader, with the Direct output
send assignable to pre-filters, pre-EQ/dynamics, post
EQ/dynamics and post-fade points.