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[Andrew Broughton]

Ok, so looking into this system more, it seems very impressive.
If I have this right, it can actually do up to 30 stereo mixes and 2 PFL buses?
It seems like if I reduce the mix/group count, I can do more than 2 PFL buses. That would be interesting for personal monitor mix applications if each player could have their own PFL...

[Andrew Broughton]

Anyone know how to get sends-on-fader mode with the director software?

[richard_cooper]

Anyone know how to get sends-on-fader mode with the director software?

Click the Mix button on the channel strip for the bus you want sends on fader for will give you sends on the input strips, or clicking the mix button on an input strip will give you sends for that channel on the output strips. You can also right click the strips in the top part of the screen instead of the mix buttons. Hope that makes sense.

[Andrew Broughton]

Got it. Thanks, Richard!

[Aisle 6]

I have now owned a d-live (replaced my Avid Profile) since OCT. 2015 and have spec'd one for several major national tours now. Most folks who have seen me operate on it have commented on the sound of the mix being great and they loved how the board looked/operated.
I even had it at a big festival where there were already three consoles at FOH. I would have used any of them, but given I was touring this band with a show on the d-live and this band was the second headliner, I thought I would throw it in as well. There was a Midas H1000, Midas Pro2 and an Avid Profile at FOH. The d-live was seen as the poor cousin of the bunch, but sonically, it presented one of the best sonic signatures of the day.
The great news is that it has been great on the road in and out of trucks. Never missed a beat. The software updates are very effective and the next one is apparently offering DCA Spill. Cannot wait.
Keep up the great work A&H.

[Andrew Broughton]

Looks like the 2 big features missing right now are Preview and the ability to run 2 consoles off 1 DM rack with gain sharing/compensation.

I take it the other manufacturers with a "mixer in a rack" like this are much lower-end products like Presonus, Behringer, Yamaha's TF or way higher-end products like LCS. It seems like A&H might be alone in this sector.

[Aisle 6]

Looks like the 2 big features missing right now are Preview and the ability to run 2 consoles off 1 DM rack with gain sharing/compensation.

I believe that the gain sharing feature will be released this month as well as DCA spill and other great features. Preview would be also be great.

The CPU in the stage rack has many, many advantages. I am a fan for sure. : )

[MikeHarris]

Sorry for this long post...but our clients upgrade path followed budget & technology.
FOH Midas XL8...monitors DSP5D w/ 2x Aviom cards. Goal was give more channels to bands in ears and eventually progress to iPad mixing and wireless in ears for 8 singers..as well as transitioning from KMS105's to wireless. First step was to replace Aviom mixers with A&H ME-1's..still using the 2 universes' from the Yamaha..but soon replaced by a DM64,therefore moving up to 40 channels in each ME-1. While awaiting software updates from A&H the singers moved to ULXD/d:facto. To move them to wireless In ears required outputs to not be local..but in rack room with DM64. 8xPSM900 were integrated while awaiting the multiple-user iPad upgrade...which came online early December for successful Christmas shows.
Final step is to try to eliminate the analog input scheme (DL252>>DM64) so a DN9650 with  Dante card and A&H Dante card (+that $250 adaptor) as a AES50 to Dante conversion..bringing networking to the Midas...delaying it becoming a obsolete boat anchor.

[Andrew Broughton]

I see there's now a "C-series". Other than a more compact surface, I'd like to know what the differences are.

http://www.allen-heath.com/dlive-home/

[Don T. Williams]

Andrew, according to the Pro Sound News item, dual touch screen 24 fader surface with 64 X 32 mix engine is $21,500.00.  If that's correct, that is a significant price reduction from the current S series surfaces and mix engines.

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