Soundcraft Si Performance 3 Digital Mixer features 32 mic inputs, eight analogue line inputs, AES in and out, 16 analogue line outputs, headphone monitor out, a 64×64 channel expansion slot and another 64×32 expansion slot each capable of using any of the Si series option cards including CAT5 or optical MADI. Each input boasts dedicated processing for high pass filter, input delay, gate, compressor and parametric EQ is. It has 8 VCA busses, 8 mute group, FaderGlow, and color backlit name displays on every channel. All of the the 14 aux/group mixes can be configured as 14 mono mixes or 8 mono plus 6 stereo mixes, and the matrix mixes can be mono or stereo. There are four mix busses dedicated to the internal Lexicon FX processors, as well as the left, right and center busses. All of these busses have options for mixing left/right + mono/center or left/center/right. Each bus features a compressor, 4 band fully parametric EQ, graphic EQ and delay.
Si Performer Highlights
D.O.G.S. (Direct Out Gain Stabiliser) – Prevents manual change of a mic gain control affecting direct out levels, perfect when 2 consoles share a stagebox or when recording the channel direct outputs.
DMX interface – control sound and light from the same device.
Security Lockout – Lock the whole console or just selected elements, manage the security with theusers and profile settings.
Assignable Fader Layers – Customise each of the four fader layer pages to meet your needs or add/insert faders to accommodate that additional mic that was not in the patch list!
Copy & Paste – Copy whole channels, busses, mixes, Lexicon™ effects, a single part such as the EQ or multiple parts like the channel gate and compressor.
Personal Monitoring Interface – When used with the Si BLU link option card, the Si Performer is a perfect partner to the dbx PMC16 Personal Monitoring System , using simple Cat5 cabling for easy setup.
TOTEM™ – The One Touch Easy Mix; press a single key to mix to an AUX, FX or Matrix bus, the surface and monitoring instantly reconfigure to allow instant mixing to your chosen bus on the faders.
BSS® GEQ – With a BSS GEQ on every bus there is never any need to assign from a pool of resources and you will never ‘run out’ of processing.
1 Control = 1 Function – With each control dedicated to a given function there is never any ‘layering’ of controls or navigating through screens; this allows the Si Performer controls to be labeled on the surface just as they would have been on an analogue mixer.
Global Mode Controls – A row of rotary controls above each fader assignable at the touch of a button to be GAIN, PAN or HPF for all of the inputs allowing instant access to the core functions.
Soundcraft FaderGlow® – Illuminates the fader slots according to function with clearly defined colours for FX, Stereo, Linked Mono, GEQ, POST Fade Aux, PRE Fade Aux; you’ll never be lost again!
Instant Access Keys – Dedicated keys on the front panel for STORE, RECALL, NEXT, MUTE 1-8, TAP TEMPO and more negate the need to dive into screen & context menus.
Function Focus – Whenever a control is moved or SELect key pressed the screen displays information about the channel identifying the absolute value of the controls and the channel name, number etc.
Key Features
32 mono mic inputs
8 line inputs
80 channels to mix possible
LCR panning
Pre/Post selection per input per bus
Soundcraft FaderGlow™
GEQ on every bus
20 sub-group / aux busses
4 FX busses
8 Matrix busses
LRC Mix busses
4 Stereo Lexicon Effects engines
Delay on inputs and outputs
8 Mute Groups
8 VCA Groups
AES in and out
Colour backlit LCD screens per fader
DMX interface
Freely assignable insert loops
Harman HiQnet integration
Dual option card slots
Color touch screen interface
Analogue/Digital: Digital
Frame Sizes: 80
Stereo Channels: variable
Digital I/O: Yes
FX Processors: 4
Fixed Send (Group) Buses: 0
EQ Bands: 4
Variable Send (Aux) Buses: 24
Returns: 8
Direct Outputs: Yes
Matrix Buses: 8
Main Bus Out: LRC
Dimensions (WxHxD): 940 x 170 x 536mm; 37 x 6.7 x 28.75
Weight: 21.5kg; 47.5lbs
