Allen & Heath’s dLive has landed

The high-end spec and DEEP processing of the new live mixer range creates a “fully developed ecosystem”.

In the unstoppable march of mixer development, Allen & Heath are surely the front-runners. It was mere months ago we were talking up the Chrome editions of the hugely popular GLD live mixer series, not to mention the constant twists and turns of the British company’s moves in the DJ market. While the GLD series is pitched to appeal to smaller venue solutions as well as large-scale events, the latest string in the A&H bow, announced today, is a touch more extravagant in terms of appearance and capabilities.

dLive comes across as a series designed to cater towards festivals, touring bands and the larger live venues with the various models dealing in staggering levels of I/O options and an expansive array of processing tools. The plug-ins and A-D/D-A architecture is a continuation of the iLive and GLD Chrome series, with the difference being the MixRack-housed XCVI Core, which allows for far more applications to be engaged in real time without slowing down the system.

In the dLive setup, it’s possible to run 160 x 64 channels of processing at 96kHz, not to mention 128 live inputs and 16 stereo effects returns, thanks in no small part to the six parallel mixing engines. The icing on the cake is the Harmony User interface, which fully embraces the benefits of touch screen technology to allow for increased control that can be geared towards the specific users needs. With its broad digital integration and flexibility with other hardware and applications, it seems there is a reason A&H are billing this their “fully developed ecosystem”.

A brief video for the dLive range can be viewed below whilst the official product website further outlines the range. So far no release date for the dLive range has been provided by Allen & Heath.