Solid State Logic releases System T V4.1 update with advanced immersive tools
Solid State Logic (SSL) has released the latest System T V4.1 software update, delivering a range of tools and features that set a new benchmark for immersive audio production. With support for 9.1.6 channel paths, an expanded FX Rack including Fusion, Blitzer and Sourcerer, alongside the dual channel view mode in the Tempest Control app (TCA), V4.1 further establishes System T as a comprehensive immersive-capable digital audio console.
System T V4.1 expands its immersive audio capabilities with new 9.1.2, 9.1.4 and 9.1.6 channel path and bus formats, enabling enhanced workflows for object bed mixing and content creation for fixed auditorium installations with advanced speaker configurations. These formats include dedicated metering, with separated height channels for added clarity. Advanced folddown controls simplify downmixing, while the dedicated Spill function provides precise access to individual path elements. The FX Rack includes support for the new immersive formats, offering delay, dynamics, EQ, modulation and more to enhance creative possibilities. System T’s sophisticated ‘Link Bus’ architecture is also expanded to include the new formats, allowing for cohesive dynamics processing across objects and beds.
System T V4.1 adds to the wealth of built-in FX, now comprising over 60 tools as standard, including the additions of Fusion, Blitzer and Sourcerer. Fusion emulates the five iconic colour circuits of SSL’s Fusion hardware: Vintage Drive, Violet EQ, HF Compressor, Stereo Image and Transformer. These provide versatile tonal shaping options for mix and stem busses.
Blitzer is a flexible compressor offering everything from soft saturation to explosive limiting, while Sourcerer enhances primary source isolation by removing ambient noise in real time. In addition to the FX Rack additions, every processing path now benefits from a compressor Mix control, simplifying parallel compression by blending compressed and uncompressed signals directly within the path dynamics section, eliminating the need for additional processing paths or DSP.
TCA delivers the full System T feature set and interface, offering flexible installation options provided by the separation of the control elements. With V4.1, a new dual-screen Channel View allows simultaneous control of 32 paths, while adding two Desktop Fader Tiles enables compact configurations to be built into portable, remote or desktop installations.
Frank Grønbæk, FOH engineer for Lukas Graham, who has been working with the new System T V4.1 software update ahead of its official release, said: “TCA allows me to travel with an SSL console,” says Grønbæk. “I am doing fly-ins with the system all over the world. I extensively using the onboard dynamics and EQ, and the new plug-ins are great.”
Grønbæk has even made the most of Dual Channel View from his single screen setup: “I can have all my VCAs on the tile, but then switch the app and get simultaneous access to all the other layers on screen. Everything you need for immersive is already integrated into the console. The bus architecture is made for this, especially for live broadcast applications. This means I no longer have to do workarounds by creating a bunch of stereo groups – it’s all native to System T.”
The new V4.1 software update is available now as a free download for the entire System T broadcast production platform.