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S31 Digital
Mixing Console
S31 : Overview
Favoured by multitudes of sound engineers all over the world, the S31 brings DiGiCo ownership within easy reach of everyone with flagship audio quality, power and flexibility all in a compact frame that will travel easily in a car. With its increased functionality and accessibility, the S31 opens even more doors to limitless mixing creativity, at an astonishing price point.
The S31’s expanded work surface is as intuitive as it familiar, with three 10-inch multi-touch screens over three banks of 10 faders, giving clear visual feedback and control of 30 channels simultaneously. With 48 flex-channels, the equivalent of 16 busses and benchmark 96kHz performance, the S31 is in every sense worthy of the DiGiCo badge.
Based on the same pioneering design approach as the industry-leading SD-Range, the S31 boasts the same proprietary algorithms plus a new ARM QuadCore RISC processor which runs in harmony with the FPGA core. The result is faster processing with lower power consumption, all packaged in the workflow that the industry’s most respected engineers rely upon – now available to everyone.
- 48 Flexi Input Channels
- 16 Flexi Aux / Sub-Group Busses
- LR Master Buss
- 10 x 8 Full Processing Matrix
- 21 Dynamic Equalizers
- 96kHz Sample Rate
Under The Hood
Familiar to the touch and built for the road, the S31 offers mixing without limits. The integration of a high power QuadCore SoC with high bandwidth memory, a low power 484-ball array FPGA and a fourth-generation control SHARC DSP offers unprecedented power today as well as the potential for a future processing upgrade path. The compact footprint of the S31 has no relationship to the scale of processing power going on under the polycarbonate worksurface
Visual feedback is further reinforced by the HTL (Hidden Till Lit) functionality of the encoder rings, while parameters currently not in use are automatically greyed out, always drawing your attention to the right controls.
The triple screens aim to aid the new user learning curve and remove distractions by not only giving you more channels to view at any one time, but also allowing one screen to be used as a setup or master whilst the others are utilised for operation. All touchscreens are responsive to EQ shaping, with fine-tuning available via the tactile and intuitive rotary encoders.
Altering the Channel Bank layout, and mixing and matching any channel, aux, group, control group, or matrix within a bank, is easily accomplished by drag and drop at the touch of a screen.
I/O
The console’s rear panel offers 24 Mic inputs and 12 Line outputs, a UB MADI interface for DAW recording, in addition to dual DMI (DiGiCo Multichannel Interface) option card slots, interfacing to industry formats such as Analogue, MADI, Dante, Waves SoundGrid, or Calrec’s Hydra 2 Network.
*SPECIFICATIONS*
General Specifications
48 x Input flex-channels Mono/Stereo (equivalent of 96 DSP channels)
46 busses: 16 x flexi-busses Mono/Stereo (equivalent of 32 DSP busses), Stereo Master (2), Solo busses (2 stereo, 4 total), and 10 x 8 Matrix (8)
10 x Control Groups
1 x Compressor per channel and buss
1 x Gate per channel and buss (switchable to ducker, or compressor with side chain access)
16 x assignable 32 band Graphic EQs
8 x FX engines (reverbs, delays, w/modulation and enhancer)
21 x assignable DiGiTuBes
21 x assignable Multiband Compressors
21 x assignable Dynamic EQ’s
User definable Macros
An extremely high power headphone amplifier with 1/4 inch and mini jack socket.
96kHz as standard
24 mic/line inputs
12 analogue outs
2 AES/EBU I/O (mono)
Word Clock I/O
1 GPI and 1 GPO
DVI out (for an external monitor)
2 DMI Card slots (up to 64 I/O per slot)
2 Ethernet connections for Networking
2 x 24 segment master/solo meters
Touch sensitive rotaries with integrated switch & HTL
3 x multi-touch screens
31 x touch sensitive moving faders
4 x layers of banks of 10 faders
Customisable bank and channel layout
Snapshots
Integrated USB2 Audio I/O interface for recording and playback of up to 48 channels
Audio Specification
Sample Rate 48kHz, 96kHz
Processing Delay 2ms Typical @ 48k (48 Stereo Channels, Stage Input Through L-R Buss to Stage Output) 1.1ms @ 96kHz
Internal Processing Up to 40-bit, Floating Point
A>D & D>A 24-bit Converter Bit Depth
Frequency Response +/- 0.6dB (20Hz – 20kHz)
THD <0.05% @ Unity Gain, 10dB Input @ 1kHz
Channel Separation Better Than 90dB (40Hz – 15kHz)
Residual Output <90dBu Typical
Noise (20Hz – 20kHz)
Microphone Input Better Than -126dB Equivalent Noise
Maximum Output Level +22dBu
Maximum Input Level +22dBu
Processing Channel Specification
Input Channel
Input Name: User-Defined
Channel Selection: Mono / Stereo
Input Routing: Main Input
Analogue Gain: -20 to +60dB
Phase: Normal / Reverse
Digital Trim: 40 to +40dB
Delay: 0 – 682ms
DiGiTuBe Drive: 0.01 – 50.0
Bias: 0 – 6
LPF: 20 – 20kHz, 24dB/Oct
HPF: 20 – 20kHz, 24dB/Oct
Insert A: (Pre EQ/Dyn) On/Off
Equalisation 4 Band EQ: Parametric or Dynamic (Low/Lowshelf, Lower-Mid/Lowshelf, Upper-Mid/Hishelf, Hi/Hishelf)
On/Off
Freq; 20 – 20kHz
Gain; +/- 18dB
Q: 0.1 -20 (Parametric) / 0.10-0.90 (Shelf)
Dynamics 1: Single or 4 x Multiband (3-Band)
Compressor; On/Off
Threshold; -60 – 0dB
Attack; 500us – 100ms
Release; 5ms – 5s
Ratio; 1:1 – 50:1
Gain; 0 to +40dB
Hi Crossover; 20Hz – 20kHz
Lo Crossover; 20Hz – 20kHz
Knee; Hard, Med, Soft
Dynamics 2: On/Off
Gate / Ducker Threshold; -60 – 0dB
Attack; 50us – 100ms
Hold; 2ms – 2s
Release; 5ms – 5s
Range; 0 – 90dB
Key; Any Source
Key Listen
Freq/Width; 20 – 20kHz
Compressor; On/Off
Threshold; -60 – 0dB
Attack; 500us – 100ms
Release; 5ms – 5s
Ratio; 1:1 – 50:1
Gain; 0 to +40dB
Link; Any Channel / Buss
S/C Source : Any Source
S/C Listen : On/Off
S/C Filter Freq/Width: 20Hz – 20kHz
Insert B: (Post EQ/Dyn) On/Off
Mute: Channel Mute
Solo: Solo Buss 1 / Solo Buss 2 / Both,
Channel Safe: Socket Properties, Input Route, Mono/Stereo, Label, Filters, Trim, Delay, Tube, Insert A, EQ, Dyn1, Dyn2, Insert B, Aux, Group Assigns, Pan, Fade, Mute, Direct Outs, Full Safe
Output: Routing Buss,
Insert A, Insert B,
Direct: Post-Fade
Fader: 100mm Motorised Fader 8 to +10dB
Processing Channel Specification
Aux / Group / Matrix Output
Name: User-Defined
Phase: Normal / Reverse
Digital Trim: -40 to +40dB
Delay: 0 – 682ms
DiGiTuBe Drive: 0.01 – 50.0 Bias 0 – 6
LPF: 20 – 20kHz, 24dB / Oct
HPF: 20 – 20kHz, 24dB / Oct
Insert A: (Pre EQ/Dyn) On/Off
Equalisation 4 Band EQ: Parametric or Dynamic (Low/Lowshelf, Lower-Mid/Lowshelf, Upper-Mid/Hishelf, Hi/Hishelf)
On/Off
Freq; 20 – 20kHz
Gain; +/- 18dB
Q: 0.1 -20 (Parametric) / 0.10-0.90 (Shelf)
Dynamics 1: Single or 4 x Multiband (3-band)
Compressor; On/Off
Threshold; -60 – 0dB
Attack; 500us – 100ms
Release; 5ms – 5s
Ratio; 1:1 – 50:1
Gain; 0 to +40dB
Hi Crossover; 20Hz – 20kHz
Lo Crossover; 20Hz – 20kHz
Knee; Hard, Med, Soft
Gate / Ducker Threshold; -60 – 0dB
Attack; 50us – 100ms
Hold; 2ms – 2s
Release; 5ms – 5s
Range; 0 – 90dB
Key; Any Source
Key Listen
Freq/Width; 20 – 20kHz
Compressor On/Off
Threshold; -60 – 0dB
Attack; 500us – 100ms
Release; 5ms – 5s
Ratio; 1:1 – 50:1
Gain; 0 to +40dB
Link; Any Channel/Buss
S/C Source: Any source
S/C Listen: On/Off
S/C Filter Freq/Width: 20Hz – 20kHz
Insert B: (Post EQ/Dyn) On/Off
Mute: Channel Mute
Solo: Solo Buss 1 / Solo Buss 2 / Both,
Channel Safe: Mono/Stereo, Bus Mode, Label, Filters, Trim, Delay, Tube, Insert A, EQ, Dyn1, Dyn2, Insert B, Group Assigns, Fade, Mute, Direct Outs, Full Safe
Output Routing: Outputs, Insert A, Insert B
Fader: 100mm Motorised Fader 8 to + 10dB
