The Vi400/600 Control Module is designed to directly replace the Vi4/6 ‘silver box’ Control Module and provide a faster processor, more reliable performance with hard-soldered DisplayLink-based graphics outputs rather than the PCI graphics card of the original system. The new module runs a variant of V6.x software, but with a cut-down feature set compared to Vi000- series consoles, appropriate to the capabilities of the Vi2/4/6 surface and Local Rack. A useful application for this upgrade would be to give an existing surface a new lease of life and allow it to function as an emergency backup surface, rather than being disposed of, when a full Vi5/7000 upgrade is purchased.
The control surface will externally remain a Vi4 or 6, but will identify as a Vi400 or 600 on its main Menu screen.
Note that the control module upgrade is also available for Vi2 consoles, which will become Vi200 once upgraded.
Features:
Features available when a Vi2/4/6 console is upgraded with this option:
- New-look 3D-Vistonics touchscreen graphics, as Vi000-series consoles
- 30-second Fast-boot
- Faster surface response, particularly on layer changes
- Functioning Setup buttons for encoder USER mode assign and F1-6-key assign
- Shure Mic Monitoring
- Full-featured ViSi Remote, with EQ, Dynamics & metering (V6.2 s/w and ViSi Remote V3.2 onwards)
- ‘Mirroring’ of two consoles (V6.2 s/w onwards)
- Ability to control the console on-line using Virtual Vi as well as the Control Surface
- Input channels assignable to Master Bay feature (V6.2 s/w onwards)
- Increased number of insert points (64) and tie lines (128)
- Ability to use the upgraded Surface with either a Vi4/6 ‘Classic’ Local Rack, or a Vi5/7000 Local Rack *
- Local I/O can either use original passive breakout box on Classic Local Rack, or ABB on Vi5/7000 Local Rack
- Ability to benefit from future software updates on the V6.x software platform (new features may be restricted compared with Vi000-series due to the limitations of the surface and DSP in the Local Rack)
*Features from Vi5/7000 that are NOT available with the Vi4/600 Control Module upgrade are:
- 128 inputs not available (channel count remains at 96ch assuming minimum of 3 DSP cards in Classic rack, or 5 or 8 DSP cards in a Vi5/7000 Local Rack).
- 96kHz sample rate operation not available
- BSS DPR 901ii Dynamic EQ not available
- vMIX automatic microphone mixing not available
