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<blockquote data-quote="Chris Johnson" data-source="post: 93316" data-attributes="member: 975">Re: Soundcraft VI1 Digico SD9Having used both extensively, here would be my impressions:First off, its worth saying that both the soundcraft Vi and Digico SD range sound excellent, so no worries there. You are looking at 2 products that are up with the best of them in terms of audio quality.I would suggest that the vi1 is a quicker &#039;walk up&#039; board than an SD9That said, the SD range is more flexible in general, in terms of processing and layout.On the IO front, I would give a big +1 to digico. As standard you have 3 madi ports that can handle 56x56 IO each, so you have lots of stagebox/recording flexibility. On the vi1 you only have 1 expansion port, so less flexible by far.Not sure whether you care or not, but a nice-to-have feature with the digico is that you can install a waves card in an SD9, and do internal waves plugins with the addition of a soundgrid server.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Chris Johnson, post: 93316, member: 975"] Re: Soundcraft VI1 Digico SD9 Having used both extensively, here would be my impressions: First off, its worth saying that both the soundcraft Vi and Digico SD range sound excellent, so no worries there. You are looking at 2 products that are up with the best of them in terms of audio quality. I would suggest that the vi1 is a quicker 'walk up' board than an SD9 That said, the SD range is more flexible in general, in terms of processing and layout. On the IO front, I would give a big +1 to digico. As standard you have 3 madi ports that can handle 56x56 IO each, so you have lots of stagebox/recording flexibility. On the vi1 you only have 1 expansion port, so less flexible by far. Not sure whether you care or not, but a nice-to-have feature with the digico is that you can install a waves card in an SD9, and do internal waves plugins with the addition of a soundgrid server. [/QUOTE]

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