ALLEN & HEATH DLIVE S5000 Control Surface & DM32 Mixrack

摘要

Allen & Heath's dLive basically doubles everything the iLive did, for around the same price. Leaps and bounds, people! On paper, Allen & Heaths new flagship digital console series, dLive, looks to be tremendous value. It doubles the I/O processing power of the iLive series, with 128 × 64 fully processed I/O, and makes the leap into 96k processing. All for the price of a 4WD, not a house. Check it out for yourself, just hold up the price and specs side by side and go crosseyed like you're doing a magic eye. At first it has the outline of a garden variety tabby, then boom, out pops a three-dimensional jungle cat! If the dLive can deliver on sound and ergonomics as it has in price and specs, it could be king of the jungle. The dLive series comes in three console variations: the S3000 is the most compact with 20 faders and a single touch screen; the S5000 supplied for this review has 28 faders and dual touch screens; and the big kahuna S7000 ups the fader count to 36. An external screen can be connected to all of the dLive consoles which will especially please S3000 purchasers. Unlike analogue replacement-style consoles, like the Qu series, these are only control surfaces; the engine is contained in the MixRack. Let's head down to the stage end to take a peek at the brains behind the setup.