Tascam New Sonicview 16 & 24 Digital Mixers With Multi-Environment Touch Screens

Tascam has a long history of high-quality recording products and digital mixers, culminating in the legendary DA-88 eight-track modular multi-track recorder and the DM-4800 digital mixer, a workhorse combination that once set a new standard. With Sonicview, Tascam has created an entirely new line of digital recording consoles that incorporate the latest technology and make it easy to view and control all of the parameters you want, when you want, with entirely customisable touchscreens and user-definable buttons, motorised faders and intuitive control software.
Sonicview recording consoles integrate beautifully with the rest of your system, thanks to built-in Dante networking, a 32-bit/96-kHz multi-channel USB audio interface and plenty of inputs and outputs. No-compromise audio quality and a 54-bit floating-point FPGA mixing engine combines with ample signal processing, an expansion slot for additional connectivity and wireless remote control to make Sonicview mixers the next-generation choice for recording studios, remote recording, touring, installed sound and broadcasting.

 

Two Sonicview models are available, which differ in frame size and the number of physical inputs, mic preamps, faders and touchscreens. Sonicview 16 offers 16 physical input channels with motorised faders and Tascam’s top-of-the-line Class 1 HDIA microphone preamps, while Sonicview 24 provides 24. Internally, the architecture of the two models is the same: generous 44 input channels (40 mono channels and 2 stereo channels), 22 flex output buses, the L/R main bus and an internal SD/USB stereo audio recorder.

The Tascam Sonicview 16 offers motorised channel faders in two banks of eight, plus a motorised fader for the main stereo bus. Above each bank of channel faders is a colour touch panel that allows you to view entire mixer channels, or get down to details, controlling each parameter with your fingertip. Save fader settings and instantly recall them later to continue where you left off. Check levels in a mix or submix at a glance and adjust them during mixdown with either the physical faders or the touchscreen. Your changes will be instantly updated in both.

Truly the next generation in mixer user interfaces for recording and live, the powerful intuitive Tascam Visual Interactive Ergonomic Workflow (VIEW) system lets you quickly and easily configure Sonicview’s touchscreens. Thanks to the VIEW user interface, there are three different ways to view your settings. Each touchscreen can be configured independently, so you can monitor and control any combination of settings you want, in whichever screens you want, whenever you want. For instance, you could monitor levels for eight channels of vocals on screen 1, while tweaking the parametric EQ on a drum submix or keeping an eye on the output bus level and compression curve on screen 2.

Monitor and control eight adjacent channels and view them as virtual channel strips like on an analogue mixer.

Monitor and control any three sets of parameters simultaneously for one single channel.

 

Individual View

Monitor and control a custom selection of functions for any channel or group of channels.

Thanks to a 54-bit floating-point FPGA mixing engine, Tascam Sonicview delivers the finest audio performance in its class with continuous, high-definition 32-bit/96-kHz sampling and 32-bit analogue-to-digital converters. The mixing engine’s float-point processing makes it possible to flexibly change levels without compromising resolution, while ensuring ultra-low latency, even in analogue-to-analogue connections. The result is no-compromises performance, including with Dante networks and in-line monitoring systems, for pristine tracking, mixing, and playback.

Sonicview 16 offers an array of versatile inputs for recording and mixing. 8 channels with XLR mic/line inputs and 8 channels with both XLR mic inputs and balanced 6.3-mm TRS line inputs allow maximum flexibility. You also get TRS insert points on two channels, two stereo pairs of RCA aux inputs, and an XLR input for a talkback microphone.

Sonicview 24 offers an array of versatile inputs for recording and mixing. 16 channels with XLR mic/line inputs and 8 channels with both XLR mic inputs and balanced 6.3-mm TRS line inputs allow maximum flexibility. You also get TRS insert points on two channels, two stereo pairs of RCA aux inputs, and an XLR input for a talkback microphone.

 

 

 

As you’d expect, Sonicview offers plenty of physical outputs, with 16 XLR line outputs, and two XLR monitor outputs. If that’s not enough, you can add more analogue, MADI, or AES/EBU I/O with an optional expansion card. To further expand the system, add one or more optional 16-in/16-out Dante-networked stage boxes (SB-16D). Microphone gain for all 16 inputs can be remotely controlled from Sonicview, and the SB-16D can be used as a floor box or rack-mounted. The combination of Dante networking and multiple stage boxes makes Sonicview a great recording and mixing solution for multi-room studios and capturing large ensembles.

 

The built-in 32-in/32-out USB audio interface makes Sonicview a first-rate front end for recording and broadcast studios, as well as for capturing live events. Record your choice of channel direct outs, flex buses and the L/R main bus to your favourite DAW at up to 96 kHz with the same 32-bit precision used throughout the console.
You can simultaneously capture the main mix directly to the onboard stereo SD recorder – handy when the band wants to listen to their performance at the hotel or on the bus. A top-panel port also lets you record in stereo to a USB flash drive.

Tascam Sonicview offers multiple ways to record. In addition to the integrated audio interface and stereo recorder, a multi-track recording card (IF-MTR32) can be installed as an option, enabling you to capture 32 audio tracks directly to an SDXC card. The SD recorder supports punch-in/punch-out for all 32 tracks simultaneously as well as pre-record, auto-record, and markers. Best of all, it automatically saves and closes the file every 60 seconds during recording to safeguard against data loss. So you can let the recorder do it’s job worry-free while you focus on mixing.