DiGiCo S21 Mixing Console with 2x Blank DMI Slots

The DiGiCo S21 is a 48 channel mixing console with 21 physical faders and 2 x 10” multitouch screens. Using state-of-the-art FPGA technology, the S21 provides the same high quality audio as the legendary SD-Range.

DiGiCo S-Series

DiGiCo consoles are used on many of the biggest live sound tours and events around the world and the compact S-Series made this pedigree of audio performance available to every part of the industry, with Stealth Digital Processing™ introducing a new standard of audio quality, power and flexibility not seen before at its price point.

DiGiCo’s world-renowned innovation, deep feature-set and flagship audio quality of our high-end digital consoles is within reach of everyone. How? Meet the S21 – a world-class DiGiCo mixing console at an astonishing price.

Based on the same pioneering design approach as the industry-leading SD series, the S21 boasts the same proprietary audio 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.

Under the Hood

Familiar to the touch and built for the road, the S21 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 S21 has no relationship to the scale of processing power going on under the polycarbonate worksurface.

The two touchscreens each provide 10 channel strips, giving not only clear visual feedback and control of 20 simultaneous channels for a single user, but also the possibility when mixing large shows for more than one operator to take advantage of the newly designed drag, swipe and drop feature that simplifies custom fader layouts.

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 dual screen concept aims 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 other is utilised for operation. Both 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 S21’s local I/O section includes 24 mic/line inputs, 12 line outs, two mono AES/EBU, and two DMI (DiGiCo Multichannel Interface) card slots which interface to standard industry formats such as Analogue, MADI, Dante, Waves SoundGrid, or Calrec’s Hydra 2 Network.

The console connects seamlessly with the DiGiCo remote I/O D-Rack providing an additional 32 inputs and up to 16 outputs.

Get instant access to 32 fully integrated low-latency Waves stereo MultiRacks, each with up to eight plug-ins per rack, by fitting the DiGiCo SoundGrid DMI card linked to external SoundGrid or DiGiGrid servers, giving a total of 128 additional I/O.

Key Features

• 48 Flexi Input Channels (mono/stereo)
• 16 Flexi Aux / Sub-Group Busses (mono/stereo)
• 10 x 8 Matrix with full processing
• Fully assignable channel layout
• 24 local mic/line inputs and 12 line outputs
• 2 DMI slots to expand the I/O as desired
• Snapshots for seamlessly changing many parameters at once
• Offline software
• iPad control
• Compatible with the DMI-AMM for automatic microphone mixing
• OSC control of snapshots

WORKSURFACE

• 21 x 100mm touch-sensitive, motorised faders
• 2 x 10” Multi-touch screens
• 2 x 24-Segment Master/Solo LED meters
• 1 x ¼” Headphone socket
• 1 x 3.5mm Headphone socket
• 1 x USB 2.0 slot
• 26 x Touch-sensitive rotaries

REAR

• 1 x PSU
• 24 x XLR Mic/Line Inputs
• 12 x XLR Line Outputs
• 1 x XLR AES/EBU Input (2 x channels)
• 1 x XLR AES/EBU Output (2 x channels)
• 1 x GPI ¼” Jack
• 1 x GPO ¼” Jack
• 1 x UB MADI (USB Type B Audio I/O interface for recording and playback of up to 48 channels)
• 1 x Word Clock I/O BNC
• 1 x DVI port
• 2 x Ethernet ports
• 2 x USB 2.0 slots
• 2 x DMI slots (up to 64 I/O per slot)

AUDIO SPECIFICATIONS

• Sample Rate: 48kHz or 96kHz
• Procesing Delay: 2ms Typical @ 48K (60 Stereo Channels,
• Stage input Through L-R Buss to Stage Output) 1.1ms @96k
• 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 Noise: <90dBu Typical (20Hz-20kHz)
• Microphone Input: Better Than -126dB: Equivalent Noise
• Maximum Output Level: +22dBu
• Maximum Input Level: +22dBu

SIGNAL PROCESSING

• 48 Flexi Input Channels (Mono or Stereo)
• Analogue Gain
• Phase Inversion Control
• Gain Tracking
• Digital Trim (-40dB to +40dB)
• Variable Delay (0ms to 682ms)
• DiGiTube*
• HPF/LPF (-24dB/Oct)
• 4 Band Parametric EQ / Dynamic EQ*
• DYN 1: Compressor, Multiband Compressor*
• DYN 2: Compressor with Side-Chain, Keyed Gate, Ducker
• EQ/Dyn Order Control
• 2 Insert Points per Channel
• Channel Mute
• Channel Direct Output (pre-mute, pre-fade, postfade)
• Record Send and Return
• 16 Flexi Aux/Sub-Group Busses (Mono or Stereo)
• Phase Inversion Control
• Digital Trim (-40dB to +40dB)
• Variable Delay (0ms to 682ms)
• DiGiTube*
• HPF/LPF (-24dB/Oct)
• 4 Band Parametric EQ / Dynamic EQ*
• DYN 1: Compressor, Multiband Compressor*
• DYN 2: Compressor with Side-Chain, Keyed Gate, Ducker
• EQ/Dyn Order Control
• 2 Insert Points per Channel
• Channel Mute
• Channel Direct Outputs
• 1 LR Master Buss
• 10 input x 8 output Full Processing Matrix
• 10 Control Groups (CGs)
• 2 Solo Busses (Stereo)
• 16 x 32-band GEQs
• 8 x Internal Stereo FX Processors
• Reverbs
• Delays
• Audio Enhancer
• Choruses
• Flanger
• Stereo Thicken
• * Up to 21 DiGiTubes
• * Up to 21 Dynamic EQs
• * Up to 21 Multiband Compressors

PHYSICAL

• Dimensions: 763mm (w) x 586mm (d) x 295mm (h)
• Weight: 19kg (65kg with optional flightcase)
• Flightcase: 846mm (w) x 467mm (d) x 866mm (h) (Optional)
• Power Requirements: 90-264 VAC, 47-63Hz Auto Sensing. 208 watts, 232VA
• Product Code: X-S21-WS

OPTIONS

• Flightcase
• Compatible DMI Cards:
• A3232
• ADC
• AES
• AMM
• Aviom
• DAC
• Dante
• Dante64@96
• Hydra 2
• KLANG (audio only)
• MADI B
• MADI C
• ME
• MIC
• Waves