Soundcraft Realtime Rack Ultimate
UAD Powered Plug-Ins for Soundcraft Vi Series Live Sound Consoles
The result of a unique collaboration between live sound mixing experts Soundcraft and renowned plug-in manufacturer, Universal Audio, the Soundcraft Realtime Rack brings industry-standard UAD studio plug-ins to the Soundcraft platform. The Realtime Rack hardware and software delivers tight integration of Soundcraft Vi consoles and UAD Powered Plug-Ins, with (48 kHz) sub-2 millisecond latency and full snapshot store and recall with Soundcraft's CUE/Snapshot system. Realtime Rack’s robust SHARC-based processors run audio over standard Optical MADI connections and dual-redundant internal power supplies ensure that audio signals keep running, even in the event of a power supply failure. Soundcraft Realtime Rack brings the stability of DSP and the sound quality that Soundcraft and Universal Audio are known for in a scalable, low-latency processing environment. The Realtime Rack Ultimate Live includes 74 of Universal Audio's authentic hardware emulations and award-winning UAD plug-ins.
Key Features:Hardware
- Durable 1U Rack enclosure
- 4 SHARC DSPs on-board
- Dual-redundant internal power supplies with failover detection
- Each Realtime Rack unit processes up to 16 channels of a MADI stream
- (add additional units for 32, 48 or 64 channels)
- Runs a huge library of UAD Powered Plug-Ins and UAD Direct Developer Plug-Ins
- Dual-Thunderbolt host connectivity
- One set of MADI optical I/O (64 channels @ 48 kHz)
- Word Clock I/O (BNC) and Input termination
- Sample Rate support from 44.1kHz to 96kHz
- Clock Support for the following formats: Internal, MADI, Word Clock
Software
- Purpose-built Realtime Rack application for inserting UAD plug-Ins
- Networked integration with select Soundcraft Vi consoles – allows full remote snapshot triggering and storing
- Create, store and recall channel strip presets
- Create, store and recall snapshots