I have a show coming up in a room with a Digi Venue Profile console at FOH. With the SC48's I always just wrote a show out in D-Show and loaded it. After looking on the Avid website to see if there were any updates I see that there is software that is called Venue. Will the D Show files no longer work on the Venue console? Are they really charging $149 for someone to use an offline editor or is that software for something else?
Avid Folks! Offline Editor Question for Venue
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Re: Avid Folks! Offline Editor Question for Venue
Uh....
The software is Venue. All AVID live consoles use it; SC48 or D-Show with side cars and FOH/Stage racks... The $149 price is for *console owners* who need to update existing consoles running Venue 2.9.x or earlier.
The stand-alone editor is Venue. It is almost identical in function to the version running on the console (things that are console-specific, like plug ins, can't be accessed). It's free.
Any show file created by either version of the Venue software will load on *any* AVID Venue-series mixer. It will ask you to confirm changes it might make to account for differing console configurations (DSP, mostly).
Uh....
The software is Venue. All AVID live consoles use it; SC48 or D-Show with side cars and FOH/Stage racks... The $149 price is for *console owners* who need to update existing consoles running Venue 2.9.x or earlier.
The stand-alone editor is Venue. It is almost identical in function to the version running on the console (things that are console-specific, like plug ins, can't be accessed). It's free.
Any show file created by either version of the Venue software will load on *any* AVID Venue-series mixer. It will ask you to confirm changes it might make to account for differing console configurations (DSP, mostly).
Re: Avid Folks! Offline Editor Question for Venue
Do you mean D-Show is the stand alone editor, right?
The actual Venue console software wasn't available to purchase the last time I was on the Avid website... it's been years... I use those consoles maybe once a year since I own something else. This just happen to be a one off where it would be quicker to load a file on a foreign console than pull a snake.
I really just want to make sure that the D-show files still load before I spend a hour writing a show on it.
Do you mean D-Show is the stand alone editor, right?
The actual Venue console software wasn't available to purchase the last time I was on the Avid website... it's been years... I use those consoles maybe once a year since I own something else. This just happen to be a one off where it would be quicker to load a file on a foreign console than pull a snake.
I really just want to make sure that the D-show files still load before I spend a hour writing a show on it.
Re: Avid Folks! Offline Editor Question for Venue
VENUE 3.0 Standalone Software now available - Avid Pro Audio Community
VENUE 3.0 Standalone Software now available - Avid Pro Audio Community
Re: Avid Folks! Offline Editor Question for Venue
Avid (fromerly DigiDesign), from top to bottom, make the following consoles:
D-Show
Profile
Mix Rack
SC-48
All of these consoles run the same software: Venue.
Avid (fromerly DigiDesign), from top to bottom, make the following consoles:
D-Show
Profile
Mix Rack
SC-48
All of these consoles run the same software: Venue.
Re: Avid Folks! Offline Editor Question for Venue
And to expand on what Steve posts: The Venue software is universal to all models, any operational differences are caused by the physical control surface's ability access the functions.
Processing and i/o come in 2 fundamental flavors - the FOH/Stage rack combo where FOH does the "mixing" and Stage does the physical i/o and AD/DA conversion; and the Mix Rack, which combines those into 1 rack, but with less expansion capability (shipped with 2, max of 3 DSP cards to the FOH shipping with 3, max of 5). The SC48 is essentially a stock Mix Rack with a "honey, I shrunk the Profile" surface on top of a flat, double wide rack.
The control surfaces are the D-Show and Profile. The D-Show is big and spacious with lots of dedicated encoders and buttons, the base unit can be expanded with side cars to a scale that rivals large frame analog desks. The Profile is more compact, requiring more layers and multi-function encoders. The SC48 is the shrunken version.
The Venue Standalone will let you specify the target console configuration. Using 48 inputs instead of 96, limiting the number of graphic EQs, etc will reduce the amount of DSP the base console requires and can leave you with enough to instantiate another plug. The only thing you can't do in the stand alone is instantiate plugins. You'll have to do that manually at the console, but when you save the show file back to your USB stick the plugins will be there. You can't edit the plugs offline but they won't need to be redone next time you use that show file.
AVID has a good user forum and searches there tend to be very productive. Avid Live Sound Systems - Avid Pro Audio Community
I enjoy mixing on our Venue systems...
And to expand on what Steve posts: The Venue software is universal to all models, any operational differences are caused by the physical control surface's ability access the functions.
Processing and i/o come in 2 fundamental flavors - the FOH/Stage rack combo where FOH does the "mixing" and Stage does the physical i/o and AD/DA conversion; and the Mix Rack, which combines those into 1 rack, but with less expansion capability (shipped with 2, max of 3 DSP cards to the FOH shipping with 3, max of 5). The SC48 is essentially a stock Mix Rack with a "honey, I shrunk the Profile" surface on top of a flat, double wide rack.
The control surfaces are the D-Show and Profile. The D-Show is big and spacious with lots of dedicated encoders and buttons, the base unit can be expanded with side cars to a scale that rivals large frame analog desks. The Profile is more compact, requiring more layers and multi-function encoders. The SC48 is the shrunken version.
The Venue Standalone will let you specify the target console configuration. Using 48 inputs instead of 96, limiting the number of graphic EQs, etc will reduce the amount of DSP the base console requires and can leave you with enough to instantiate another plug. The only thing you can't do in the stand alone is instantiate plugins. You'll have to do that manually at the console, but when you save the show file back to your USB stick the plugins will be there. You can't edit the plugs offline but they won't need to be redone next time you use that show file.
AVID has a good user forum and searches there tend to be very productive. Avid Live Sound Systems - Avid Pro Audio Community
I enjoy mixing on our Venue systems...