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Features
It was back in 2002 when DiGiCo rst introduced the Touring
world to ‘Virtual Soundcheck’ on the D5 console, and it's been
a key feature on DiGiCo consoles ever since, including
S-Series. It allows any input channel to be sent from
a dedicated pre-processed Record Send point to
any output socket. And with S-Series, multitrack
recording is a walk in the park, thanks to
an integrated 48-channel I/O USB audio
interface, which will talk to any DAW
software.
To listen back to a recording,
just press the ‘Listen to
Copied Audio' button,
and to switch
back to the live
sources,
simply
press
‘Listen to Sources’. And this doesn't have
to be switched for all channels at once.
Each individual channel has its own
Listen controls, so musicians can
play along live to a previous
recording and ne-tune
their performance as
well as their sound.
Virtual Soundcheck
'Aux to Faders' Mode
In addition to the standard ‘Aux to Faders’ function found
on most digital consoles, the S-Series can also assign the
sends to the row of rotaries underneath the screens; a
dedicated ‘Aux Sends’ panel displays every Aux buss in
the current session. Touching a buss on the screen will
activate the buss solo and/or Aux to Faders, which makes
it so simple to create a monitor mix.
Dynamics
Each Input, Aux, Group, and Matrix
benets from full processing at
all times: there's a user-denable
delay (up to 682ms), a HPF and LPF,
a 4-Band Parametric EQ, and two
Dynamic sections.
Dynamics 1 is by default a Single Band
Compressor, but up to 21 Multiband
compressors can also be assigned to
any of the channels or busses on the
console. To make everything nice and
easy, you can work with each individual
band, or all three at the same time;
and the cherry on top is S-Series' Tube
Emulation, 21 instances of which can be
assigned to any 21 processing paths.
With Dynamics 2, the user can select
between a keyed gate, a ducker, or another
Single Band Compressor, but this time with a
sidechain input. Both Dynamics show an RTA
meter, allowing the user to visually determine
the best parameters for the instrument selected.