Fully customizable, Fairlight Live has a range of built-in effects and professional features such as a cue player, talkback busses, and snapshots, and makes it easy to design a custom mixer with flexible audio workflows that are perfect for any project from stereo to 5.1 surround or immersive formats. Users can add, modify or move inputs and busses at any time, and can easily change a four host panel show into a remote guest setup, or route a stereo input to an ambisonics bus in seconds. Audio channels can be managed in the tracks index to show, hide or rearrange inputs and busses.

All productions are saved as a complete show including the mixer layout, routing, processing, cue player, snapshots and more. The file menu lets customers quickly open existing shows or create a new one. To accelerate setup, factory templates for common workflows are included plus there are layouts to match supported ATEM live production switchers. Unique productions can be custom built in the new show dialog. Shows also include virtual soundcheck setups and media, plus key system settings such as solo mode.

Fairlight Live public beta is available immediately from the Blackmagic Design website free of charge.

Fairlight Live features:

• Full featured software based broadcast mixer for high end live audio.
• Supports hundreds of channels with wide format and complex mixes.
• Supports mono, stereo, LCR, 5.1 surround, immersive and ASAF.
• Optimized low latency operation on both macOS and Windows.
• Flexible redundancy with user configurable multiple fail safe levels.
• Direct ATEM connectivity via USB with automatic template support.
• Supports standalone use, Fairlight Live panels, or MCU consoles.
• Compatible with Core Audio, ASIO and 2110 interfaces.
• Native support for surround, immersive and spatial audio workflows.
• Snapshots save mixer state for recall during live performances.
• Virtual Sound Check ISO recording for rehearsal and calibration.
• Dedicated Cue Player for sound effects and stingers.
• Dedicated Cue Player for MIDI cues to external hardware.
• Extensive integration for Native, AU and VST plug-ins.
• Dedicated support for remote iOS and Android tablet controllers.