Avid announces the availability of a new version of Avid VENUE software for its Avid VENUE | S6L live sound mixing system, powered by the MediaCentral Platform.
Theater productions are complex, requiring extensive programming of scenes. Based on feedback from Avid’s community of theater sound designers, operators and system integrators, Avid VENUE 5.4 software delivers a host of updates to the Avid VENUE snapshot and events architecture that streamline, accelerate and enhance the programming of theater productions.
Updates to Avid VENUE | S6L’s snapshot architecture enable sound designers to significantly streamline, speed up and enhance the programming of theater productions. Avid VENUE 5.4 also adds functionality to enable programming and workflows that were previously time intensive, and in some cases, impossible.
Enhancements to snapshots include new momentary (non-sequential) snapshots, snapshot groups, and parent/child snapshots, and aux sends (up to 96) can be added to the snapshot Scope. Events updates give sound designers and engineers much greater flexibility to trigger events via external MIDI commands, LTC/MTC timecode values, the channel color and X&Y switches on the control surface, meter levels, and more, making almost all parameters available as triggers and actions. These enhancements are not only for theater productions, but also other complex live sound productions.
Avid VENUE 5.4 also allows users to freely assign outputs between networked S6L systems sharing I/O for better collaborative flexibility, enabling engineers to assign Stage 64 outputs per output card instead of having to assign a Stage 64 entirely to one S6L system or another.
This improves the versatility and application of a shared I/O S6L system, for example where a front of house engineer needs dedicated control of a set of outputs that are feeding a PA system, while the rest of the outputs are controlled by a monitor engineer feeding in-ears, monitor wedges, etc.
“These latest innovations to Avid’s VENUE Software are part of Avid’s commitment to providing the most advanced tools and workflow solutions for our esteemed community of live sound customers,” says Dana Ruzicka, vice president and chief product officer at Avid. “With Avid VENUE | S6L’s growing success in the theater market, Avid VENUE 5.4 Software gives sound engineers the speed, flexibility, and efficiency they need to support the biggest, most complex theater and other live sound productions worldwide.”
Customers with a valid Avid support plan can download Avid VENUE 5.4 software from their Avid Account free of charge.
