Avid VENUE 7 Enhancements Provide the Power and Flexibility Needed for Sound Engineers to Deliver High-Quality Performances
February 18 2021 - 10:34AM
Avid® (Nasdaq: AVID) today announced the immediate availability of
the next generation of its VENUE live sound software – Avid VENUE
7. Introducing a host of new features and enhancements that empower
engineers and sound designers to deliver large-scale concert
performances, broadcast events and house of worship and theater
productions with unparalleled quality and efficiency, the Avid
VENUE 7 update represents the Avid VENUE | S6L system’s most
significant software release to date.
Avid VENUE software now supports I/O sharing across three Avid
VENUE | S6L systems, providing more workflow flexibility while
reducing costs and complexity without any negative impact on sound
quality. Support for I/O sharing makes it easy for users to add a
broadcast console or second monitor console to their setup or
enable fast switchover at festivals and concerts. With I/O sharing,
microphone feeds can be split digitally over the network so
engineers only have to build one set of I/O racks, providing
significant cost savings for touring productions and reducing setup
times. Plus, all I/O configurations fully support Avid’s True Gain
technology, which automatically manages gain compensation to ensure
proper signal levels are maintained for each engineer.
In an industry first, Avid also announced that users can now
send and receive up to 128 channels of audio between Avid VENUE |
S6L systems and Milan™ (media-integrated local area network)
certified devices – including loudspeakers, amplifiers and other
pro audio devices – with the new MLN-192 Milan Option Card and
latest Avid VENUE software. Seamless plug-and-play connectivity
lets users distribute audio with ease to Milan-enabled devices over
an Ethernet AVB network, with no switch configuration or IT
expertise required. Engineers and sound designers can benefit from
the speed, interoperability and reliability that the
industry-standard Milan protocol brings to live sound without any
fear of audio dropouts or signal degradation.
“As the world’s first live sound console to be certified by the
rapidly growing Milan protocol and the only one to offer
gain-compensated I/O sharing between three systems, this is more
than just a software update – VENUE 7 truly takes a giant leap
forward,” said Dana Ruzicka, SVP & GM of Audio & Music
Solutions at Avid. “Although live performances have been hit hard
by the ongoing pandemic, Avid remains fully committed to innovating
for the live sound industry. We’re doubling down with the biggest
software release since shipping the S6L system, giving engineers
and sound designers the power and performance they need to deliver
the best possible live sound productions.”
“In live sound you need reliability, rapid deployment, and high
fidelity,” said Richard Bugg, Avnu Alliance® Pro AV Segment Chair.
“The Avid VENUE | S6L is the industry's first live sound console to
be Milan-certified, guaranteeing it will work with other
Milan-certified devices, giving users a fast and dependable
solution with expanded functionality.”
The Avnu Alliance is a community creating an interoperable
ecosystem of low-latency, time-synchronized, highly reliable
networked devices using open standards through certification.
VENUE 7 also provides superior control of delay compensation to
help users tackle plugin-heavy mixes with complex routing
requirements. Aligning busses and matrixes is simplified through
Automatic Delay Compensation (ADC) settings, while the new Input
Delay Alignment command makes it easy to align selected input
channels to compensate for any plugins inserted on those inputs.
Using Avid’s True Time technology, this provides the most
comprehensive alignment of audio signals of any solution on the
market, ensuring more granular control and visibility over how
delay gets managed across the system.
Additional new Avid VENUE software features include:
- Effortless USB recording and playback – easy
2-track recording and playback using a USB flash drive connected to
the S6L control surface provides ultimate flexibility. Users can
perform basic live stereo recordings, play back stereo tracks for
pre-show entertainment or walk-up music, play music between acts,
and even trigger sound effects or cues for theater
performances.
- Mix more creatively and easily – new mixing
features let users expand their creative possibilities. They can
add analog warmth and color to mixes with HEAT available on every
input channel, shape sounds freely with unlimited graphic EQs on
all output busses, enable parallel mix control, or filter out
frequencies with HPF and LPF on every output channel.
- Enhanced processing and routing possibilities
– four new post-fader plugin inserts and one post-fader
hardware insert on every input channel make VENUE 7 ideal for
automixing workflows. 400 plugin slots available across all S6L
systems and engines allow for better VENUE show file compatibility,
while bus-to-bus routing offers the freedom and flexibility to
route any Aux or Group to any other.
The new Avid VENUE 7 features and functionality are now
available for all customers on an active support contract. For more
information, visit Avid.com/S6L.
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television shows, news programs and televised sporting events, and
celebrated music recordings and live concerts. With the most
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