This is a really nice feature and a great use of the 20 per-channel encoders that integrate so well with the on-screen display.
The S21 provides the usual aux sends on faders mode but can also assign aux sends to the rotary controls that sit just below the screen, thus providing a ‘one knob per send’ arrangement.
Getting control of aux sends is something that seems to be implemented differently by different digital mixer designers, and is sometimes one of the areas where I wish for a more analogue-type approach, with nice, comforting physical controls - rather than bringing auxes to faders and forgetting to return to the main mix, then wondering why (a) I don’t seem to have much control over a particular mic in the FOH mix and (b) the guys on stage suddenly look unhappy. This is another of the S21’s selection of really neat tricks! When the surface is displaying graphic EQ mode, the faders become magically endowed with a centre detent - a real mechanical one that gives clear tactile feedback with a precise ‘notch’ at the nil (centre-of-travel) point. The S21 has no fewer than 16 32-band graphic EQs that can be patched into any processing path. We all know that graphic EQs are just not glamorous or interesting but are nevertheless an important part of live-sound life. The screen display and fingertip control really has to be tried to appreciate just how good it is. Both dynamics sections display an RTA, helping to keep adjustments relevant and appropriate to the signal going through whatever channel is selected. The second dynamics section can be selected as a gate, a ducker (great for AV) or another single-band compressor with a side-chain input.
Working in the multiband compressor screen really shows how good the multi-touch screen is - pinch, swipe and drag actions are stable, smooth and reliable, and the generous screen size makes for a really good, clear and straightforward display and control experience even when making fine adjustments. The first dynamics section is by default a single-band compressor but there are a maximum of four multi-band compressors available, assignable to any input or bus, and DiGiCo have also provided four instances of excellent valve emulation. Published April 2018 Channel Setup & Signal ProcessingĪlmost every digital mixer will have some form of channel overview display, but this one is worth a mention because it’s particularly clear and comprehensive every main processing section or key parameter is accessible from this screen with one touch, there are handy routing arrows indicating the signal path, and from here you can copy channel parameters to paste elsewhere and gang/link channels together.Įvery channel, be it an input, aux, matrix or group, has permanently available processing, and that includes four-band parametric EQ with high-pass and low-pass filters (permanent ones, in addition to the four EQ bands), delay and two dynamics processors.
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