SSL Launches First Ever Live Sound Console at Prolight + Sound 2013

	Solid State Logic Live

Solid State Logic, a manufacturer of creative tools for audio professionals, announces the launch of Live, the first SSL console for live sound production at Musikmesse/Prolight + Sound 2013, running April 10-13, in hall 5.1, stand B.73. The company says Live brings SSL's unique approach to audio quality and console ergonomics to sound for the stage. SSL has been involved with analogue and digital audio console innovation for over 35 years.

"So many people have been asking us to make a console for live for so long and the time has come," states Antony David, managing director at SSL. "It has been a couple of years in the making because we like to get things right at SSL and we are very confident that we have created a console engineers will fall in love with. It is very exciting to be entering a completely new area of the industry, with a new technology platform and a fresh approach to how a live console should sound and how to give engineers a control surface that helps them deliver exceptional performances. We are really looking forward to how the professional live sound community reacts."

Live is a flexible and powerful digital audio console designed specifically to meet the demands of all aspects of live sound production. The company says it is suited to touring or installation, front of house or monitors, to venues and arenas, houses of worship and concert halls, to anywhere where audio quality is important and engineers require power, complete flexibility and a user interface that puts them in control.

Live is all about power and control. Based on SSL's new Tempest processing platform, Live has plenty of power and it is deployed in a uniquely versatile way. Live has 976 inputs and outputs and 192 full processing audio paths at 96kHz. How those paths are configured is extremely flexible with power allocated to channels, auxes, stem groups, and masters configured to suit the needs of each show. All processing is built into the console surface and it has a collection of I/O connectivity built into the frame. A full range of Stagebox I/O connects to the console via MADI with the potential for larger systems to make use of SSL's own Blacklight technology that carries up to 256 channels of bi-directional audio and control via a single fiber connection.

Live's control surface combines multiple tablet style multi-gesture touch screens with hardware ergonomics, visual feedback, and a collection of new features. It enables engineers to work exactly how they work today, whether they prefer new touch screen or classic hardware technology, or to combine them both, and offers new and better ways of doing things that will make life less stressful and more creative according to the company.

Live's audio quality is a primary design feature right the way through from studio grade SuperAnalogue mic preamps, 24bit/96kHz A/D D/A conversion, to 64bit internal processing and 96khz operation throughout. An array of channel processing tools bear the classic SSL tone. Live features a collection of 30 new effects and audio analysis tools, which take SSL's studio grade processing and re-craft it for live.

The company says SSL has taken a fresh look at the way professional engineers work and created an inspired console that builds upon the way things are done today and offers the potential for a new, exciting and more creative way to work tomorrow.

Live is due to ship in September 2013.