Soundcraft Realtime Rack: Universal Audio plug-in manager for Vi mixing consoles

Available in the Iberian market through Earpro, Soundcraft's Realtime Rack Manager allows any console in your Vi Series to have access, via Madi, to a comprehensive library of Universal Audio's award-winning UAD plug-ins.

Realtime Rack is a single-rack DSP processor developed by Soundcraft, Capable of processing sixteen channels with up to eight plug-ins each. Presented as a novelty at the Earpro in Afial 2014, where it was connected to the new Vi3000 digital live mixer, this manager allows any Vi Series table to access, via MADI, to a comprehensive library of award-winning UAD plug-ins from Universal Audio.

In addition, This unit also offers the possibility of daisy-chaining up to four units to achieve 32, 48 Or 64 channels with the same Madi interface. Robust and resistant design, This system is geared towards live use, with redundant power supply and power and connection status indicators on the front panel.

With a connection to the table via the standard optical Madi protocol, Audio signals can be routed to and from the unit as inserts or effects loops with minimal latency of 2 Ms (including internal latency compensation for phase alignment of multiple plug-ins per channel). In addition, an Ethernet connection allows all active plug-in assignments and control settings to be stored on the console itself, as a Cue List of the Vi Tables Show.

The plug-ins are controlled via an Apple MacBook or Mac Mini computer, via Thunderbolt to Realtime Rack. By using an external touch monitor, you can achieve more elegant and precise control that will fit perfectly with the Vistonics touch screen workflow on the table. Alternatively, you can control the drive via an iPad, using a standard VNC client app, as iDisplay.

Among other advantages, Installing Realtime Rack software makes plug-ins used with the console available for DAW software used on the same Mac computer as well, via a single Thunderbolt connection to this unit. Presets stored with the Realtime Rack program will be available within the DAW, allowing plug-ins to be used during the remix of a live recording without having to be directly with the mixing console.

Soundcraft Realtime Rack is available in two versions: Core, pre-configured with fourteen classic Harman and UAD plug-ins, and the Ultimate version, Includes 72 plug-ins with emulations of some legendary analogue systems from companies such as Neve, Studer, Lexicon, Manley, etc.