The Vi2000 is Soundcraft's new digital mixer for live sound

This solution, that can be seen at the Earpro stand at the Afial show 2016, combines control surface concepts based on the Vistonics interface with the integrated DSP and core inputs and outputs, SpiderCore.

The Vi2000 is the latest addition to the Vi series of live digital mixers Soundcraft. In a compact and cost-effective form factor, Offers high mixing power to installation markets, Touring & Corporate.

This digital mixer combines control surface concepts based on the Vistonics interface (also included in Vi3000 models, Vi5000 and Vi7000) with the Soundcraft SpiderCore, a powerful integrated DSP and core inputs and outputs, based on Studer technology, so compact as to be housed inside the control surface itself.

With V6.1 software for mixing consoles, Vi2000 benefits from BSS DPR901ii dynamic equalizer via insertable process module, which also includes a multi-effects Lexicon, as well as the ability to insert any external device.

Plus a full set of integrated micro/line inputs and outputs, configurable for up to 48 micro/line inputs and 16 line outputs, using combinations of XLR modules from 16 channels in 4 slots located at the back, the Vi2000 includes 2 expansion slots 64 canals, that allow you to connect up to 2 MADI-based stageboxes.

alternatively, these 2 slots offer access to the wide range of D21 input/output option cards, Enabling all industry standard audio formats. The total count of inputs and outputs of the Vi2000 is 246 entries and 246 Outputs.

Like other consoles in the Vi series, an integrated 64 Dante interface×64 channels offers a direct recording/playback connection via Ethernet for any PC- or MAC-based recording software and allows integration into a Dante network, existing.

The Dante interface is complemented by an additional MADI optical interface, designed for recording signals or for connecting core Soundcraft Realtime Rack Plug-in, adding the power of Universal Audio's UAD plug-ins to the Vi2000's crystal clear sound quality.

This list of features is completed with a design of 1,15 meters wide and with 16 input faders and 8 output, that allow the console to accommodate applications with space and budget constraints.

Patented features like Faderglow, microphone monitoring VM2 and Vistonics offer a very intuitive mixing experience. The sound quality of this mixer is ensured by a DSP environment of 40 floating-point bit, on which Studer algorithms run, Bss, Lexicon and Dbx.

The Soundcraft Vi2000 mixing console, which is the result of the integration of Harman in different disciplines of professional audio, It is presented at the stand that Earpro has in the living room Afial, that is being celebrated since 26 to the 28 April at the Madrid Arena.

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