ESS Audio Announces First Sales of Harman's Soundcraft Vi3000 Console in PolandHarman Soundcraft's Polish distributor ESS Audio has fulfilled the first of its first batch of orders for the new Soundcraft Vi3000.The first two companies to take delivery are W Sound from Szczecin, run by Mariusz Wegielek, and Modussound of Sieraków Slaski, headed by Artur and Lukasz Kedzia. Both confirm they already have the consoles out on tour. ESS Audio demonstrated the new features of the much-anticipated console to its customer base, and at the same time staged an open day for the Vi3000, which coincided with the European premiere of JBL Professional's new VTX V20 loudspeakers and included two days of training. The event was supported by Oskar Tarczynski (from ESS Audio) and Ed Jackson (from Harman Professional). The Soundcraft Vi3000 boasts many new attributes. In addition to what the company says was the much requested access to Universal Audio's plug-ins (via the new Soundcraft Realtime Rack plug-in processing engine -- which also integrates with the rest of the Vi Series consoles), the console also provides an analog infrastructure via the I/Os on the back and has built-in MADI and DanteVistonics graphics. In addition to the Dante/MADI record feed outputs, the console provides MIDI, USB, Ethernet, DVI out, redundant power supply, and other connections. According to W Sound's Wegielek, "The Soundcraft Vi3000 is the ideal solution for medium-sized touring companies such as ours. The capability of the board, the price of the controller and additional peripherals like the stage rack or expansion cards, make it impossible to look at any alternatives." "The immediate driver for the purchase was to acquire a console that would meet most of the riders from the middle range of touring artists -- and after almost a month of use, it has been a big hit," Wegielek continued. "The response from our sound engineers could not be more positive, and our Vi3000 is working almost every day, earning us money." 
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