Soundcraft Vi6

This a complete Vi system. The Vi6 was upgraded to a Vi600 and comes with a 56X32 Stagebox, the Local rack and an R&R road case for the surface. The surface is missing caps on a couple of rotaries, other than that, it's in good shape. The road case has two drawers, one has a keyboard mounted in it. If you've ever used one of these you know how good they sound, if not, you'll be pleaseantly surprised. There are a few scratches on the console and road case, typical for an item like this. Item is sold As Is and can be picked up locally or we can arrange shipping at an extra charge. Price is $6750.00 or best offer.

From Soundcraft:

Soundcraft Vi6™ has been acclaimed as one of the most ergonomic, user-friendly and best-sounding large format digital consoles around. Audio quality is assured thanks to the integration of a proven DSP engine and algorithms from sister company STUDER.

Now firmly established on riders and in performance venues around the world, the Soundcraft Vi6™ has been acclaimed as one of the most ergonomic, user-friendly and best-sounding large format digital console around. Audio quality is assured thanks to the integration of a proven DSP engine and algorithms from sister company STUDER, who's digital broadcast consoles like Vista™ and On-Air 3000™ are highly respected in national, state and independent broadcast studios and OB trucks throughout the world.

Ergonomically, the Vi6 offers a wonderfully inviting user experience, thanks to the patented Vistonics™ II 'knobs-on-glass' channel strip interface. As another innovation from STUDER, Vistonics™ provides an incredibly tactile 'where you look is where you control' operating philosophy which combines the speed of access and visibility of controls of an analogue desk with the power of icon-based graphics and fully recallable settings that can only come from a digital console. The provision of 32 input faders plus a 12-fader master section makes changing layers much less frequent, enhancing the speed of operation, and world-class effects and processing from Lexicon and BSS completes the picture.

The Vi6 offers connectivity to almost every type of digital audio format out there, via integration of Studer's D21m modular IO system, and comes complete with a modular remote Stagebox with a choice of either optical or copper connection to the main console. 

FeaturesAudio Channels

• Max number of simultaneous mixing channels
  96 mono inputs into 35 Outputs. Pairs of mono inputs can be linked to create stereo channels.
• Insert points
  24 insert send/return pairs can be configured (using available I/O) and assigned to any of the 96 inputs or 35 output channels.
• Direct Outputs
  All 96 input channels can have direct outputs in addition to their internal bus routing, assuming sufficient I/O is available (eg optical MADI card).
• Busses
  32 Grp/Aux/Matrix, plus main LCR Mix and LR Solo busses (maximum of 16 matrix outputs can be configured).

Connectivity

• Connection from local rack to stagebox: Standard fit: Cat5 or Cat7 cable, with Amphenol RJF connectors. Optional: Fibre Optical interface card (additional cost).
• Max distance, local rack to stagebox: 100m using Soundcraft-approved flexible reel-mounted Cat5 cable, 130m using Cat7 permanent installation cable.
• GPIO facility: There are 16 GPIO contact closure inputs and outputs on the local rack, and 8 inputs and outputs on the stagebox.
• MIDI: There is 1 MIDI In and 2 MIDI Outs on the rear of the control surface.

Offline Editor - Virtual Vi

To compliment the Soundcraft Vi6, an offline editor (Virtual Vi) is available. See below in Downloads section.

Miscellaneous

Controls for Mute Group (x 4) and VCA Group (x 16) assignment. Controls for assignment of Vistonics rows to bus sends (when channel parameters are not selected to Vistonics). Snapshot automation controls. Talkback controls. Controls for Monitor Output level, phones level and Solo Trim and blend level.

The Vi600 upgarde adds:

New-look 3D-Vistonics touchscreen graphics, as Vi000-series consoles

• 30-second Fast-boot
• Faster surface response, particularly on layer changes
• Functioning Setup buttons for encoder USER mode assign and F1-6-key assign
• Shure Mic Monitoring
• Full-featured ViSi Remote, with EQ, Dynamics & metering (V6.2 s/w and ViSi Remote V3.2 onwards)
• ‘Mirroring’ of two consoles (V6.2 s/w onwards)
• Ability to control the console on-line using Virtual Vi as well as the Control Surface
• Input channels assignable to Master Bay feature (V6.2 s/w onwards)
• Increased number of insert points (64) and tie lines (128)
• Ability to use the upgraded Surface with either a Vi4/6 ‘Classic’ Local Rack, or a Vi5/7000 Local Rack *
• Local I/O can either use original passive breakout box on Classic Local Rack, or ABB on Vi5/7000 Local Rack
• Ability to benefit from future software updates on the V6.x software platform (new features may be restricted compared with Vi000-series due to the limitations of the surface and DSP in the Local Rack)