Avid Technology : What’s New in VENUE 5.6 Software for S6L

As always, VENUE software updates are a combination of user requests, new functionality, and bug fixes. For this VENUE 5.6 release, we've taken the requests from monitor engineers around the world and implemented their most desired features and added that to the ever-growing list of S6L capabilities. VENUE 5.6 is intended to make a monitor engineer's life much simpler, and certainly offers them more customizable workflows on the S6L.

VENUE 5.6 is now available to download at no charge if you have an S6L system and a valid Avid Advantage Elite Live support contract-you'll find the installer in your Avid Account.

Here's what VENUE 5.6 brings to S6L:

• Give your musicians control-with the introduction of the VENUE | On-Stage iOS app, allowing control of mixes using mobile devices.
• Simplify your cue workflow-Monitor A and B added as input sources to the matrix mixer.
• Faster access to more mixes-enjoy an improved Sends on Faders workflow.
• Greater I/O options-use any stage or console I/O for hardware inserts.
• More control and customization-with a range of new control surface and software workflow enhancements.

Let's start at the top, with the number one request from VENUE users-the iOS remote app. With mobile devices in the hand of almost every musician and engineer, empowering musicians to control their own mixes eases up the workload on the monitor engineer and removes the need for a heap of hardware and cables. At the request of our users, we've developed a free app that works on all iOS devices (running iOS 10 or newer), that enables control of all levels and pan to aux mixes, as well as level, pan and mute control of the mains mix. With this easy-to-use app, up to 16 users can simultaneously connect to a single VENUE | S6L system and each choose a mix to control. It's as simple as plugging in a WiFi Router to your S6L's ECx port, connecting to that WiFi network with your iOS device, and opening the app. Every connected S6L will show up as a system available for connection. Just click the system you wish you connect to and you will be shown a list of available mixes on that system. Touch the mix you wish to modify and you will see all of the member faders of that mix on your screen. Scroll to any send you wish to modify and turn it up or down. If you're modifying a stereo mix, you'll see a pan knob above each fader. To pan any send, click the pan knob and a large pan encoder will pop up-click the center of this encoder and drag in the direction of the desired pan. The app even offers a 'Fine Mode' for those of us with smaller devices to allow users to make detailed changes to levels.