Hi I'm Justin Spence, product specialist for Presonus Audio and we're at UniqueSquared.com.
We're inside of the computer right now, the internet.
And we're going to be talking about the StudioLive 24.4.2 and its bundled software.
Ok so today we're talking about the StudioLive 24.4.2.
and the bundled software.
It comes with Capture, Studio One Artist, and VSL Virtual Studiolive which is a control
application.
I want to talk about the front end.
It has X max mic preamps, high voltage class A no opp amp design.
High quality converter and this fat channel section, this horizontal channel strip houses
your variable high pass filter, your frequency based gate, compressor, limiter, and four
band fully parametric EQ.
Now the front end coupled with the fat channel yields an unrivaled digital mixer sound, it
sounds amazing.
It's inexpensive so it sounds better than a mixer that would be fifty or a hundred thousand
dollars.
It's a full digital mixer but it's not convoluted so it doesn't work in pages and layers, everything
is on the control surface, it recalls everything.
When using your StudioLive mixer you don't need a computer connected.
However, when you connect a computer over the firewire cable you get a lot more features.
Capture, the easiest to use recording software on the planet is bundled with the StudioLive
so I can launch a session, and it automatically knows that a 24 or a 16 or two 16s are connected
and will configure the track's inputs and outputs for me and create the appropriate
amount of tracks.
All I've got to do there is arm all tracks and then hit record.
It's as simple as that it doesn't get any easier.
Now that I have the tracks recorded into Capture a cool thing I can do is play them back over
this single firewire cable into the channels independently into the mixer.
All I've got to do is hit play and you'll notice on these channels that these meters
are banging.
So these are the input buttons they're lit up right now but turn them off and I'm looking
at the analog or mic preamp mic in line signals coming into the channels.
If I engage the firewire buttons I'm then looking at the streams over the firewire cable
from the computer.
This is great for virtual sound check, this is great for me to actually record my tracks
into capture, stream them back, do my mix with my fat channel, get my faders straight,
use the built in 32 bit effects, and then print a mix or record rather a mix onto the
auxiliary 25 and 36 channels into Capture.
Another great application that comes bundled with the StudioLive 24 and the 16.4.2 too
is the universal control virtual studiolive.
The Virtual StudioLive is basically a mirror image of what's happening on the hardware.
It's a software GUI basically, and anything that happens or anything that I control on
here will happen on the desk.
And anything I change or control on the desk will happen in the software.
So if I disconnect or disengage the input buttons you'll see that they turn off in the
software.
If I put them back on, you'll see them turn right back on in the Virtual StudioLive.
Same thing for the mutes, I can click the mutes off here and you'll see them turing
off on the mixer or the desk.
Same with solo's, just click and drag those off like so or I can turn them right back
on and then they'll turn back on in Virtual StudioLive.
Now the best thing about this is it has studio one's integrated drag and drop feature.
If I'm going to drag and drop a scene or a fat channel all I do is grab it, drag it,
drop it, just like that.
You'll also see that being reflected on the mixer.
I can do my mute change, I can zero out the desk and it's a real time interface.
Same thing with fat channels, effects, and graphic EQ.
Drag and drop, easy to use, use the computer, control the desk.
So that's the super quick overview of the StudioLive and its bundled software.
To learn more about Studio One Artist, Studio One Pro, StudioLive, and other Presonus products
please contact UniqueSquared.com or check us out at Presonus.com to download the free
demo of Studio One.