Aimed at the midrange rental company and installation markets, a brand new MADI card is largely responsible for the dramatic price reduction, by providing a fully digital link from stage to FOH for up to 100m of coax cable, where previously 50m was the maximum run -dispensing with the need for expensive optical fibre.
The worksurface has the D5's instantly familiar and distinctive look - although there is slightly less of it, as the new console provides two (rather than three) input fader sections, each with eight faders, and offers a maximum of 224 inputs and 224 outputs. It shares the D5's built-in dynamics, EQ, matrix, effects, snapshot memories and more.
The system comes in different flavours to suit the user, with four main feature configurations plus a variety of I/O configurations and other options - creating, says the company, a direct replacement for an analogue console.
Standard features include a 25 layered fader work surface, grouped in blocks of eight user definable banks per section, with a meter-bridge and 40 buss DSP engine; configurability for stereo, LCR(S) and 5.1 operations, 64 to 160 input processing channels and 8 fully user configurable macro buttons.
The D1 Live 40 provides 40 mic/line inputs plus 24 line outputs, full D5 input EQ and dynamics processing software, onboard effects, 38 x 8 matrix and 16 VCA control groups. It's supplied with a single FOH DiGiRack, enabling the use of existing copper multicore from stage.
The D1 Live 48DP (Dual Purpose) shares the D1 Live 40's feature set and adds a total of 48 mic/line inputs and 16 IPCs (insertable processing channels) which allow the console to work in both FOH and monitor roles. The D1 Live 48DR (Dual Rack) package adds a second, stage-end DiGiRack to this, providing a fully digital link from stage to FOH by way of 100m BNC coax cables running MADI.
Finally, the D1 Live 56EX is a fully enabled D1 Live system, providing 56 physical inputs on stage and is supplied with local and stage DiGiRacks plus 150m of fibre optic cable.
(Mike Lethby)
