Fairlight Desktop Console

Fairlight Desktop Console is an audio mixing control surface that allows you to mix multiple tracks at once! You get a familiar mixer design with 12 motorized faders, touch sensitive encoder knobs and illuminated buttons. The faders are extremely smooth to move and provide the perfect amount of resistance, allowing subtle adjustments. The console’s controls can be used for functions including pan, solo, mute, dynamics, EQ, plug-in parameters and more. Each channel strip LCD displays meters, panning, track name and more. An HDMI output gives you instant graphic feedback for all channels, bus and effects from the desktop console.

Professional Audio Mixing and Editing Consoles

Although the Fairlight page includes a software based mixer that you can use with a mouse and keyboard, using it with a hardware console lets you work much faster! That’s because you can mix multiple sounds and adjust multiple parameters at the same time. The knobs and faders feature the perfect amount of resistance for making extremely subtle adjustments. Fairlight panels have been designed in collaboration with some of the world’s leading audio engineers so you get a streamlined workflow with logically placed controls that automatically adapt to the current task. Whether you’re using a desktop or a modular console, Fairlight lets you work faster and at a higher quality than any other system!

Desktop or Studio Console Models!

The Fairlight Desktop Console is a full audio control surface featuring a bank of 12 touch sensitive faders and pan knobs, built in LCDs above each channel strip, channel control buttons, automation transport and navigation controls, HDMI graphical interface output for connecting a monitor, and more.

Fairlight Studio Consoles

If you work on film, television, streaming content or commercials, the modular consoles make it easier and faster to mix larger projects with more channels and higher track counts. Modular components can be dropped into existing desks or you can purchase and customize a 2, 3, 4, or 5 bay chassis!

The Fairlight Desktop Console is a complete audio mixing control surface for mixing multiple tracks at once, automating a variety of parameters and plug-in settings, controlling channel functions, recording, monitoring, and navigating your project. It’s ideal for new users, smaller studios, commercials, online and independent work. You get a familiar mixer design with 12 motorized faders, precision control knobs and illuminated buttons for quickly identifying channels! You can use the knobs and buttons to control channel parameters, EQ, dynamics, plug-ins and more. The built in HDMI output lets you connect a display, giving you the same interactive graphical feedback as the larger consoles!

Compact and Professional

The Fairlight Desktop Console uses the same high quality faders as the full size modular consoles. The sculpted faders are smooth and provide the perfect amount of resistance for making subtle adjustments. The precision engineered encoder knobs ensure a long life of noiseless operation, and the console buttons are rated at a million presses. Individual LCDs display track information for each channel. The high quality search dial is extremely responsive and is much faster than a mouse. The soft front panel bumper makes long sessions more comfortable, the console can be installed flush in a custom desk, and there’s even a built in power supply, which means no power brick!

Channel Strips

The Fairlight Desktop Console features 12 channel strips that can be used in a variety of ways for mixing audio. Each channel strip has a motorized fader for adjusting levels, a series of buttons for solo, mute and other parameters, a multifunction pan knob, and an LCD that shows you information about the channel or track on which you are working. Channel strips can be used to control an individual track and any strip can be assigned to any track in the project. You can also use a single strip to control multiple tracks in a group, or you can use the channel strips to control buses. This gives you the speed and flexibility you need for total control over your recording and mixing sessions!

Channel Status Displays

There are independent high resolution LCD screens located above each of the 12 fader strips. These displays include track name, number, and color, along with panning status, channel level meters, automation state, bus routing and more.

Multifunction Pan Knob

The multifunction pan knob can be used for panning or assigned to control other Fairlight parameters. Hold control and tap to reset, or hold shift for refined control. As it’s a rotary encoder it won’t introduce signal noise like mechanical knobs.

Channel Strip Controls

Each of the 12 fader channel strips has its own dedicated solo and mute buttons for quickly isolating or temporarily turning tracks off. Multi function select buttons can be used to load track parameters, and activate automation and plug-in controls.

Motorized Faders

Twelve belt driven 100mm motorized faders offer precision volume control for adjusting levels. The bank control buttons let you switch between fader sets to control different channels. Faders can even be assigned to adjust send and record levels.

Navigation and Transport Controls

When you’re working on a tight deadline and have a large project with a lot of tracks, you don’t want to waste time scrolling through the timeline or hunting for a clip. The Fairlight Desktop Console helps you work faster because it includes transport buttons and a high quality jog shuttle wheel. That means you’ll be able to quickly move around the timeline and navigate clips, scrub, start or stop playback, or jump to a new position with incredible speed. The controls are logically grouped, allowing you to keep your hand in one position while navigating the timeline from end to end, or anywhere in between, in seconds. The search dial can also be used for timeline zooming, clip levels and more.

Task Based Controls

Control function selector buttons let you assign the buttons and knobs on the panel for different purposes. You can quickly select between master and channel controls, panning, plug‑in control, EQ, dynamics and more. By default, the console works in strip mode, giving you one channel strip per track. Focus mode lets you assign all of the select buttons and knobs on the console to work on the parameters or plug-ins for a single track. That means you can adjust the EQ, dynamics or any other plug-in parameter for a track using all of the select buttons and knobs on the console. For example, you can adjust multiple frequency ranges in the EQ at the same time, which is impossible to do with a mouse!

Recording Automation

Fairlight’s powerful automation lets you record parameter changes you make over time. For example, you can record level changes as you move the faders on the console. Fader adjustments are saved and can be edited later. Fairlight lets you automate anything from simple level changes to complex plug‑in, EQ and dynamics changes. That means you can use the console to create and save live adjustments. The faders and knobs are touch sensitive, activating the moment you touch them, so you don’t have to move them for the console to know you want to work on that parameter. Six automation buttons enable and disable automation, set recording method, and which automation curves show in the timeline tracks.