Solid State Logic Scenaria
The integrated post-production workstation that launched SSL into digital
Description
Technical
Specifications
Processing
| Architecture | Integrated system: random-access digital recorder/editor (hard disk), fully automated digital mixer and random-access video playback in a single workstation |
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| Modularity and expansion | Scenaria's technologies were later scaled up to create the A-series digital consoles |
| Channels | Integrated mixer channel count to be verified (not confirmed by the sources consulted) |
| Sample rate | Exact sample rates and track count to be verified (not confirmed by the sources consulted) |
Surface
| Touchscreen | No |
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Recording
| Onboard recording | No |
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Networking
| Networking & protocols | Network |
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| Redundant PSU | No |
| Redundant networking | No |
Other
| Year / dates | First system to combine integrated multitrack recorder, editor, digital mixer and video playback (per SSL) |
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| Lineage | Derived from ScreenSound (8-track audio-for-picture workstation, 1989); SoundNet networking (1990); surround/film big brother OmniMix |
Editorial & artists
Our take
History & design
The SSL Scenaria is an integrated digital audio post-production workstation launched by Solid State Logic in 1992. It combines, in a single system, a random-access multitrack recorder and digital editor (hard disk based), a fully automated digital mixer and a random-access video player. SSL presents it as the first system to bring all these functions together in an integrated fashion.
The Scenaria descends from ScreenSound, an 8-track audio-for-picture workstation launched in 1989 that pioneered non-linear audio locked to video, and from the SoundNet network (1990). Its film-oriented, multi-format surround big brother is OmniMix. Aimed at film and television post-production, the Scenaria was a mainstay of high-end 1990s facilities, and the technologies it pioneered were later scaled up to create SSL's A-series digital consoles.
Detailed specifications (mixer channel count, track count and sample rates) remain to be verified against period documentation.
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