Solid State Logic recently announced major improvements to its range of live consoles with the launch of the new Remote Tile (fader panel) and V4.7 software. The software update - free for all SSL Live users - includes an update to SSL's Super Query workflow, TaCo with enhanced features (remote control from a tablet), a new transfer function analysis tool, a new Auto Pan effect and the ability to control the console from an external touchscreen.
The new 12-fader Remote Tile provides a simple way to add extra faders to any SSL Live console, or to a PC running control and configuration from SSL's SOLSA software. The Remote Tile is identical to the integrated fader panels on the Live consoles, featuring 100mm touch-sensitive motorized faders, solo/mute, Query and select buttons, quick controls, individual channel LCD displays and a full set of navigation buttons. Up to two Remote Tiles (24 faders in total) can be connected to any SSL Live console or SOLSA PC via USB.
In addition to the Remote Tile, the V4.7 software for SSL Live extends control to an external touchscreen. Engineers can now have direct touch control, from a second touchscreen, of their overview and automation screens, without having to change focus on the console's internal touchscreen.
The new software also adds significant functionality to TaCo: the SSL Live tablet control system for Apple and Android tablets. The TaCo app's Engineer Mode provides control of the processing parameters for each path (EQ, dynamics, pan, delay, all-pass filter) and the console's entire internal effects rack. This new capability makes it easy to use TaCo as a comprehensive control interface for the Live L100 and L200 consoles, for PA tuning, for artists' personal monitoring and for the stage monitor engineer.
The Super-Q technology on SSL's Live consoles becomes even more powerful in V4.7. Users can now make Query requests directly from the touchscreen, temporarily replace the Focus Fader with the required path and assign a single User Key as a universal 'Clear Query' button.
The new Transfer Function Analyser tool can be placed anywhere in the console's internal effects rack. Its main purpose is to measure acoustic spaces, but it can also be used to measure any audio system, from a loudspeaker to an external processor. The tool measures the fixed-point-per-octave transfer function and the impulse response of a system, and can also display magnitude, phase and coherence, as well as the impulse response, on screen.
The new Auto Pan is an automatic panning effect with a variety of modulation controls and an easy tempo link function. Auto Pan lets engineers create attractive, fully automated and highly customizable panning effects, with controls for Pan, Width, Rate, LFO mode, LFO Reset (LFO phase adjustment), Steps and Smooth (step crossfade control).
