Inputs and Outputs

• 32/16 locking XLR inputs, each with:
  • Recallable XMAX™ Class A mic preamps
  • +48V phantom power
• Stereo tape input (RCA jacks)
• 16/8 XLR line-level Mix outputs
  • Four 300 ms alignment delays on the last four Mix outputs
• 2/1 DB25 jacks mirror 16/8 line-level Mix outputs
• 3 XLR main outputs (left, right, mono/center) with analog trim pots
• S/PDIF digital output on removable option card
• Headphone output with volume knob and selectable source
• 1x1 MIDI I/O (for future implementation)

Channels and Buses

• 32 internal channels
• 25 mix buses
  • 16 aux mix buses
  • 3 main mix buses (left, right, mono/center)
  • Stereo solo bus
  • 4 internal FX buses (2 reverb, 2 delay)
• Fully integrated, continuously bidirectional, 52-in/34-out, FireWire 800 direct recording interface (24-bit, 44.1/48/88.2/96 kHz)

UC Surface Live Mixing and Control Software

• Designed specifically for live sound mixing
• Multiplatform support for Mac®, Windows®, and iPad®
  • Windows 8 multi-touch-compatible for large touchscreen mixing (touchscreen not included)
  • Flexible and expandable computing options: Use a laptop with or without a touchscreen, an iPad, or any combination
• Contextual-based navigation for quick, intuitive access to all mixing functions
• 8 Mute Groups with All On and All Off
• Scene Store and Recall
  • Global Scene Storage: all current StudioLive RM settings
  • Up to 99 at a time
  • 8 Quick Scenes for instant scene save/recall—like “speed dial” for scenes
  • Automatic Global AutoStore
  • Customizable naming (for example, "Saturday Gig" or "Main Worship Service")
• Individual channel-strip setting storage
  • Up to 100 at a time, plus…
  • 50 channel-strip presets included for drums, bass, guitars, keyboards, and vocals
  • Copy and paste among channels and buses
  • Can be saved as user presets
  • Can be browsed by category (Drums, Vocals, Horns, Guitar, Bass, and more)
• Contextual Presets System 
  • Presets filtered by Channel Types
  • Quickly audition presets on the fly 
    • Edit auditioned preset before loading 
    • Exit Audition mode with out loading to return to previous settings
    • Save and load presets on all platforms including iOS 
• Filter DCAs
  • Unlimited groups
  • Automatic group creation using Channel Types 
  • Custom groups
• Security features to monitor and restrict access to the mixer’s controls

Other Actively Integrated Software

• Capture™ one-click recording software with true virtual soundcheck (Mac/Windows)
• Studio One® Artist full-featured digital audio workstation software (Mac/Windows)
• QMix™-AI wireless monitor-mix control from an iPhone®/iPod® touch
• Nimbit® online “direct to fan” marketing, sales, and distribution service

 Networking Connections

• USB jack and included Wi-Fi LAN adapter provides direct wireless control (when used with a wireless router, not included)
• Option card slot for future expansion
  • 2 FireWire S800 ports and 1 Ethernet control port on removable option card
  • Thunderbolt, Dante, and AVB cards coming soon

Signal Processing

• Dual Fat Channel signal processing on all channels and buses with:
  • Variable highpass filter -6 dB/oct., sweepable from Off to 1 kHz (main channels and aux's only)
  • Variable lowpass filter on the mono/center bus
  • 4-band fully parametric EQ
    • Low EQ: sweepable from 36 Hz to 465 Hz, ±15 dB, switchable shelf or peaking
    • Low Mid EQ: sweepable from 90 Hz to 1.2 kHz, ±15 dB, variable Q 0.1 to 4.0
    • High Mid EQ: sweepable from 380 Hz to 5 kHz, ±15 dB, variable Q 0.1 to 4.0
    • High EQ: sweepable from 1.4 kHz to 18 kHz, ±15 dB, switchable shelf or peaking
    • Master EQ On/Off
  • Compressor: Threshold -56 to 0 dB; Ratio 1:1 to 14:1, LIM=∞:1; Attack 0.2 to 150 ms; Release 2.5 to 900 ms; Makeup Gain 0 to 28 dB; Soft Knee switch; Auto Mode with 10 ms Attack and 150 ms Release
  • Gate with sidechain: Threshold: 0 to -84 dB; Attack: 0.02 to 500 ms; Release: 0.05 to 2 sec;
  • Bandpass Key Filter: 40 Hz to 16 kHz; second-order resonant bandpass filter Q (0.7) with Key Listen function
  • Limiter: Variable Threshold -28 dBfs to 0, ∞:1 Ratio
  • Pan
  • Stereo link for input channels and aux buses
  • Polarity reverse (input channels only)
  • Quick A/B comparisons of two complete sets of Fat Channel settings for each channel and bus
• 15 graphic EQs (for the first 12 aux buses plus the Main left, right, and mono/center buses)
• 4 32-bit floating point effects processors (2 reverb, 2 delay) on dedicated buses

Hardware Controls

• 32 LED meter grid
• Front-panel Mute All button temporarily mutes all inputs and outputs
• +48V Meters button to display phantom power assignment on the meter grid
• Headphone source selection between Main and Cue

Digitalia

• High-definition Burr-Brown analog-to-digital converters (118 dB dynamic range)
• Unlimited-headroom, 32-bit floating point, digital mixing and effects processing
• Internal sample frequency 44.1, 48, 88.2, 96 kHz

Physical

• 4U/3U rack-mount steel chassis