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Sound SOUNDCRAFT VI SERIES™ Gets Offline Editing And Multiple Stageboxes photo: Soundcraft VI SeriesTM Offline Editor Perhaps even more wel- comed by any engineer using the Vi Series is the ability to set up shows and configurations offline on a PC, which can then be downloaded to the desk from a USB memory drive. First, starting in March, the desks will The Vi Offline Editor soft- support multiple stageboxes. This means ware will be downloadable free from the that a digital patchbay can be created www.SoundcraftDigital.com website start- The Soundcraft Vi Series where the engineer can select the 64 ing in March and can be run standalone inputs to a Soundcraft Vi6™ (or 48 on goes from strength to strength in any location and the file transferred at the Soundcraft Vi4™) from a selection any time. All routing, naming, EQ and and continues to gather new of inputs available on any of the con- dynamic settings and so on can be pre- friends as Soundcraft announc- nected stageboxes. So, for example, with configured offline. This also provides new two stageboxes connected, there are 128 engineers a superb opportunity to “test es even more new features inputs to select from; with three there out” the console on their laptops before and facilities for this impres- would be 172, and so on. getting hands on. The editor can also be sive digital console. configured to control the DSP core in the The Vi Series stagebox is the main input/ absence of the desk control surface, and output interface for the system, with up thus can provide control of audio in an to 64 mic/line inputs and 32 line outputs emergency. 5 available, or AES/EBU digital cards can take the place of mic/line I/Os.