Soundcraft has launched a mid-market partner console in the Soundcraft Si3 that comes in one chassis — console surface, all input and output connections, power supply. This compact footprint desk can directly handle 64 mono inputs, 4 stereo inputs and has full connectivity for all 35 output busses (24 Aux/Group, 8 Matrix and Left/Right/Centre mix buses). The Si3 includes four Lexicon effects processors, 12 VCA groups, eight Mute groups and bar graph metering for 35 bus outputs.
All the day-to-day mixing operations are carried out adjacent to the channel faders. A crisp OLED display clearly shows important channel data for every fader on the desk, while in the center section, OLEDs provide the same for the output faders. Soundcraft has revisited the control topology employed on the Spirit 328 and 324 digital consoles.
The model is this – above each fader is a rotary encoder, the function of which changes according to the mode selected. This ‘bank’ of encoders, known as the VCS or Virtual Channel Strip can be set to control every function of a channel (known as Channel mode), so mic gain, EQ, dynamics, auxes, panning are all controlled as if you had a normal analogue channel strip laid sideways in front of you. The VCS also incorporates all the switching you would find on an individual analogue channel strip (48v, Phase Reverse, EQ in etc.). Alternatively, in what is called Global mode, each encoder controls the same function for each channel.
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