Avid® (Nasdaq: AVID) recently announced the availability of a new version of Avid
VENUE™ Software for its award-winning Avid VENUE | S6L live sound system.
Building on Avid VENUE | S6L’s success in the theatre market, Avid has delivered a
host of new workflows and capabilities powered by the MediaCentral® Platform, the
industry’s most open, tightly integrated and efficient platform designed for media,
to help sound designers and operators take on the world’s biggest and most
complex theatre and other live sound productions.
Theatre productions are extremely complex, requiring extensive programming of
scenes. Based on feedback from Avid’s respected community of leading theatre
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 theatre productions.
Updates to Avid VENUE | S6L’s Snapshot architecture enable sound designers to
significantly streamline, speed up and enhance the programming of theatre
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 Avid VENUE’s Snapshots system 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 colour and X&Y switches on the
control surface, meter levels, and more, making almost all parameters available as
triggers and actions. These enhancements are extremely powerful tools to program
not only theatre 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 significantly improves the versatility and
application of a shared I/O S6L system, for example where a FOH 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.
Avid VENUE | S6L is a fully modular, scalable live sound mixing system that
delivers best-in-class functionality for a range of live sound mixing applications,
including front-of-house, monitor, broadcast, theatre, and more. Featuring modern,
touchscreen workflows and the industry’s most advanced live sound engine, Avid
VENUE | S6L offers unprecedented power to easily handle large, complex tours and
events. With tight integration with industry-standard Pro Tools®, Avid VENUE | S6L
functions as the perfect front-end to the MediaCentral Platform, the most fluid end-
to-end media management and distribution platform in the industry.
Customers with a valid Avid support plan can download Avid VENUE 5.4 software
from their Avid Account free of charge. For more information, visit avid.com/S6L.
