A&H Launches iLive: Revolutionairy Live Mixer  Add your News

Last Plasa show Allen and Heath showed us three brand new products. The show was a little while ago and taked place in London. A remarkeble launch happened. They showed us the revolutionairy i Live, a new, fully digital, live mixer.

The heart of the system is the iDR-64, a 19” rack-mounting modular mix engine providing 64 channels into 32 mixes, which can be assigned as auxes, groups, matrix and main outputs. The iDR-64 is a stand-alone mixer comprising the 8-channel audio interface cards, DSP processing, and communication ports.

The unit is controlled via an Ethernet network and can be connected to a variety of controllers, including the new range of iLive control surfaces, Allen & Heath’s PL range of remote units, third party devices, or a laptop/PC. Two EtherSound ports are provided for low latency remote audio distribution, connection of an additional unit to expand the system to 128 channels, FOH/monitor signal splitting, and the connection of multi-tracks and other EtherSound-equipped devices. All channels and mix masters have EQ, dynamics and delay processing, with on-board FX, and an option for a built-in 32 channel speaker processor.

Branded plug-ins are being developed for the future. There are three iLive control surfaces - the iLive-112, iLive-144, and the iLive-176 – designed to reflect the feel of an analogue console. The faders are motorised and grouped in 3 sections, each with 4 banks, giving up to 176 control strips on the largest size surface. There is a multi-colour backlit LCD display above each fader for labelling and colour-coding channel information. The channel controls for preamp, filter, gate, EQ, compressor and limiter/de-esser are laid out across the top of the surface on rotary controls with LED indicators, while a colour LCD touch screen presents a graphical view of the processing and access to the automation and set up screens. Audio at the surface is handled by 8-channel analogue or digital I/O cards for up to 16 inputs/outputs.

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More info about the iLive can be found on it's homepage and the homepage of Allen & Heath.