Soundcraft increases ViSi Connect options

Soundcraft has increased its option card range in the ViSi Connect family for its Vi Series, Si Compact, Si Performer and new Si Expression range of consoles. Staying with ViSi Connect, the manufacturer has also released its Mini Stagebox range to offer a lower-cost option for stage connectivity systems.

Starting with the new option cards, the first new release is a multi-digital interface card offering 16x16 channels of Firewire or USB connection, together with eight channels of optical ADAT. Also announced are the Dante interface card and the BSS Blu link card, the latter providing an interface to any Harman product equipped with the BSS Blu Link digital audio bus, the most recent of which is the dbx PMC16 Personal Monitor System, allowing the console to feed the monitor controllers directly. These cards supplement the existing Madi (fibre and Cat-5 options), AES, CobraNet, and Aviom A-NET cards.

The 3U Mini Stagebox 32 provides 32 analogue inputs and eight analogue line outputs, with four pairs of AES outputs, providing a total I/O capacity of 32 inputs and 16 outputs. The 2U Mini Stagebox 16 model features 16 analogue inputs and eight line outputs making a 16 x 8 matrix. Either unit connects to any of the Soundcraft Si Expression, Si Compact, Si Performer, Si Series and Vi Series consoles via a Madi card fitted to the option card slot. The Mini Stagebox models contain an integral PSU so are completely self-contained and sit comfortably stage-side.

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