Soundcraft VI SERIES BROCHURE

Soundcraft, Harman International Industries Ltd., Cranborne House, Cranborne Road, Potters Bar, Hertfordshire EN6 3JN, UK

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Beyond intuitive.

Direct access to all functions with

maximum information and visibility at

all times.

A unique integration of touch screens

and encoders eliminating complex and

fatiguing mental mapping.

A compact operating surface with a

perfectly optimised control density.

A pristine audio path with highly

acclaimed mic preamplifiers gives

possibly the cleanest sound of any

digital console available today.

The time has come to forget the

console and focus on the creativity.

The time has come for Soundcraft

Vi Series™ digital live sound consoles.

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Thirty years in the making.

With more than 30 years in the

usiness, no-one knows more about

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live sound mixing than Soundcraft. In

our opinion, there’s simply no point in

presenting the live sound engineer with

the undeniable power and flexibility of

digital audio technology if all that

ower is locked away in an ill-

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conceived and inaccessible mixer that

confuses the operator and impedes

orkflow. That’s why our digital live

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sound consoles put the engineer at

the heart of the process, just like our

analogue mixers do. The product of a

development team that combines

unrivalled Soundcraft live sound know-

ow with the impressive digital audio

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expertise of our sister company Studer,

the Soundcraft Vi6™ and Soundcraft

i4™ are third generation digital live

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sound consoles which abandon the

layering and central assignability

concepts of other designs in favour of a

system that’s altogether more intuitive.

Say goodbye to the learning curve.

Say hello to Soundcraft Vi Series™

digital live sound consoles.

The Soundcraft Vi4™ packs all the powerful

Vi functions and features into a smaller

footprint console for use in applications

where space is at a premium.

Vi4 Vi6

Input Faders 24 32
Mix Channels 72 96
Output Busses 35 35

The Soundcraft Vi system consists of

three elements: the compact, space-

saving control surface, the local rack

containing the SCore Live processing

engine and a stagebox which connects

conveniently to the local rack via Cat5

or Cat7 cable, with fibre optic

interfacing available as an option.

The 32 fader Soundcraft Vi6 control

surface delivers simultaneous mixing of

96 mono inputs into 35 outputs, with

24 insert send/return pairs assignable

to any of the input or output channels.

Up to 5 stageboxes can be connected

to create a digital patchbay from which

the engineer can select available inputs.

All input channels can have direct

outputs in addition to their internal

routing to 32 Group/Aux/Matrix busses,

and the main LCR and LR busses.

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 HiQnet™ 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.

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Vistonics™ II. Free yourself from mental mapping.

At the heart of the Soundcraft Vi control

surface lies the patented Vistonics™ 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. With the visual information and

operational controls combined in one

area, the burden of complex mental

mapping is removed from the operator,

streamlining workflow and enhancing

the creative process.

Each Vistonics II interface controls

eight input channels, and comprises a

touch screen with 16 rotary encoders

and 16 switches.

A simple touch of the screen is all it

takes to access channel functions

including routing, input gain, digital

gain trim, delay, high and low pass

filters, 4-band fully parametric EQ,

compressor, limiter, gate, de-esser and

pan, with immediate access to a

sophisticated visual status display and

straightforward controls.

In addition, a dedicated Vistonics II

interface is provided for output

processing control, and also functions

as a complete meter overview display

for all inputs and outputs, as a

snapshot cue list display, and as a

display for diagnostics information.

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Touching the chosen function area on the Vistonics

channel strip opens up the corresponding control panel in

the lower area, with that area being highlighted to easily

identify which part of the channel strip is active.

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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

nd stereo pairing.

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The four-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.

Two areas of the channel strip allow access to routing and control of the output busses,

arranged in two banks. The ALL BUSSES mode allows assignment of each of the busses as

an Aux, Group, or Matrix output (maximum of 16 Matrix busses possible), 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, or switched pre or post fader, with a global mode allowing pre or post EQ feeds.

The 16 switches and rotary encoders change function

The dynamics section controls a 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.

according to the mode selected. This real ‘where you look is

where you control’ philosophy makes operation of a

Soundcraft Vi Series™ console highly intuitive.

Touch and control. Digital live sound mixing the way it should be.

The key to the intuitive operation of

the Soundcraft Vi consoles is the

Vistonics II channel strip display that

functions both as a permanent

overview of all the current settings for

8 channels per screen, and as the

access point for immediate hands-on

control of any of those settings. Simply

touching the screen in one of the six

vertically stacked touch zones

immediately opens out that part of the

strip onto the 16 real knobs and

switches mounted directly on the lower

part of the display, allowing

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, with the Direct output send assignable to pre-filters, pre-EQ/dynamics, post

EQ/dynamics and post-fade points.

immediate, tactile, analogue-style

control. The colour-coded context-

sensitive graphics around the knobs

make it abundantly clear which type of

function is being adjusted, and a clear

white highlight is a constant reminder

of which channel is being controlled.

Touching the screen again is all it

takes to move to another area of the

channel strip, or to close down the

control area.

HiQnet™ integration allows the simple

creation of Cue Lists from console

snapshots, MIDI events and HiQnet

Venue Recall commands, which can

be used to trigger changes in amplifier

levels, loudspeaker processing EQ and

routing across an entire HiQnet

system. Compatibility with the HiQnet

protocol also enables the console to

receive and display system diagnostic

messages from other devices on the

HiQnet network.

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