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Soundcraft Vi1 is lower priced but still offers features like its larger siblings

With the Soundcraft Vi Series established as a favourite digital desk on both the touring, broadcast and installed sound scenes, Soundcraft have taken this platform to another, more affordable level with the launch of the Vi1 console at prolight+sound 2010, Frankfurt. The Vi1 is was designed for all users which have asked for a smaller, lower-priced desk that still has the acclaimed Vistonics user interface, and of course the sound quality established with the Vi Series.
A complete standalone console package with 32 channels of analogue input to 27 analogue outputs, plus six digital inputs, four stereo effects returns and six digital outputs in one chassis. As standard, Input to mix capacity is 46chs, but by adding a stagebox (compatible with the existing Vi racks), simultaneous channel count increases to 64. Channels are routable to 24 multifunction busses, plus LR and Mono Mix busses. Up to 8 of the busses can be configured as Matrix mixes, each with up to 16 sources.
The Vi1's surface is just over a metre wide, and includes 16 motorised channel faders with fixed and user-definable layers, eight output/VCA faders and two master faders.
Instantly familiar to anyone who’s driven a Vi6 or Vi4, the new Widescreen Vistonics interface is an absolute stopper wich also retains the same ‘walk-up’ user-friendliness of the other Vi consoles. This new development displays all parameters for 16 channels side by side, on a single 22” Vistonics touch screen. The upper half of the screen handles the output section control as well as cue list or menu displays. Parameter control is via two rows of 16 rotary encoders. Exactly the same channel functionality as the Vi6 and Vi4 is available here, along with all the same core snapshot, talkback and monitoring facilities.
The Vi1 inherits many of the facilities of its larger siblings, including Soundcraft FaderGlow, four stereo Lexicon effects engines, BSS Audio graphic EQs on all output busses, and integral dynamics on all channels.
The desk is compatible with Vi4 and Vi6 show files through the Virtual Vi offline editor, which is available as a free download from soundcraft.com.
Powerful, compact and affordable Soundcraft Vi1 digital console
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