SSL Soundscape V6 System overview
Soundscape V6 is a highly evolved DAW application that benefits from nearly 20 years of development. It specialises in audio only recording, editing and mixing; it does not have MIDI sequencing or offer Virtual Instruments for creative composition, instead it offers a specialised, elegant, versatile, functionally advanced user environment with the capacity to support a wide range of approaches to workflow. The V6 DAW software is intrinsically tied to the presence of an SSL MX4 PCIe card (or its predecessor the Mixpander); the DAW utilises the DSP power and extremely low latencies (4 samples) of the card and its high channel count fibre optic MADI I/O connectivity. The system employs SSL’s Soundscape Hybrid Core Audio and Processing engine which uses a combination of the MX4 DSP and the host computer CPU/RAM resources with drivers that are designed from the ground up to gain optimum performance from latest generation multi-core PC Processors and Windows 7 Operating Systems (32 Bit or 64 Bit).
Mission Critical Applications
Soundscape V6 is designed to satisfy the requirements of professional recording engineers in sophisticated, demanding, high pressure environments. Historically Soundscape has enjoyed an enviable reputation for total reliability and stability and V6 maintains and builds upon the tradition. Soundscape V6 offers up to 128 channels of simultaneous recording and playback at 24bit/96kHz, whilst running large amounts of plug-in processing and utilising sophisticated mixer architecture to deliver complex monitoring set ups… and it does it elegantly without over-stretching the host computer. It offers truly professional performance and stability.
Benchmark Audio Quality
The SSL brand is synonymous with the highest standards of audio performance, setting quality standards for others to follow. Soundscape V6 maintains these standards at every step of the production process. In addition to expected high quality recording, a suite of SSL plug-ins that includes the SSL Channel EQ, Channel Dynamics and Stereo Bus Compressor provide processing tools with the perfect balance of precision and unique tonal character. For those who mix inside the box Soundscape V6 offers a superior Double Precision digital mix bus.
Optimised For Real Time Performance
The Soundscape V6 flexible mixer architecture, true multi client operation and stunning ‘near zero’ latency creates a powerful system with the versatility to create multiple (or duplicate) multi channel record feeds, to create multiple headphone/artist monitor feeds or to build Mix Minus monitor feeds in Broadcast applications with SSL Console Grade quality processing.
State Of The Art I/O
The MX4 PCIe card offers 128 channels of fibre optic MADI I/O presented as a pair of 64 Channel connections. MADI fibre is a lossless digital audio format that can be combined with SSL Alpha-Link audio format converters, connected directly to suitably equipped consoles, or integrated with Broadcast Routers to deliver a very high channel count with uncompromising audio quality.
Read More about MX4 and Alpha-Link audio converters.
Advanced Shared Network Workflow
V6 offers true collaborative workflow at the very heart of its architecture. It is designed to accommodate and encourage collaborative file and project exchange between multiple audio engineer ‘seats’ either working independently with remote file distribution/exchange or connected locally via a gigabit Ethernet or Fibrechannel network and central storage (NAS or SAN) infrastructure. V6 is optimised for multi file format workflow with the facility to use Soundscape Take, standard Wav and Broadcast Wav file types with different bit-depths on a single timeline without conversion, dramatically speeding workflow.