With the Blackmagic Design Fairlight Console Channel Fader modular control surface at your fingertips, you can mix and automate your DaVinci Resolve 17 sessions with a fluid, hands-on workflow that helps you finish projects faster and more intuitively. It boasts 12 full-featured channels, each with a touch-sensitive motorized fader, a customizable pan knob, a crisp LCD screen, and more.

Below the LCDs and pan knobs, every channel has its own set of illuminated buttons for quick execution of solo, mute, call, and automation. Further enhancing your efficiency are the buttons to the left of the channels; these let you map tracks and buses to the faders. Ethernet connectivity and software configuration via USB Type-C ensure a straightforward setup.

For DaVinci Resolve 17 Systems    12 Touch-Sensitive Motorized Faders    12 Customizable Pan Knobs    Crisp LCD Screen per Channel    Solo, Mute, Call & Automation per Strip    Buttons to Map Tracks & Buses to Faders    Ethernet Connectivity    USB Type-C Port for Configuration    Internal Power Supply

The Fairlight Console Channel Fader gives you full mixing and automation control for your DaVinci Resolve 17 system.

Each of the 12 channels features a touch-sensitive 100mm belt-driven motorized fader, a customizable soft knob for panning, and buttons for solo, mute, call, and automation. Use the solo and mute buttons to quickly isolate tracks or temporarily turn them off. Call buttons can be used to load track parameters, set up fader banks, and spill bus tracks to adjoining faders. Auto buttons enable automation.

The faders are sculpted and weighted for comfort and feature smooth-gliding high-precision motors that provide the sensitivity and feedback you need for the most sophisticated mixing sessions. Bank control buttons switch and control 12 banks of 12 faders plus an additional 12 banks of user-defined channels. Assigned faders can also adjust send and record levels.

The multifunction pan knob features tap-to-reset functionality and can be used for panning or assigned to control other parameters. The pan knob is rotary encoder based, which means it won't introduce unwanted noise like mechanical knobs.

The integrated high-resolution LCD screens located above each fader strip let you see track color, name and number, along with pan status, level meters, and more. This information correlates directly with the track headers and mixer in the software.

The Fairlight Console Channel Fader also provides automation controls and bank buttons for mapping tracks and buses to the faders. The six bank and control buttons on the left side of the panel let you quickly switch your faders to work on 12 different sets of sequentially mapped channels. You can also manually map an additional 12 banks of channel faders for each fader panel.

The 10/100/1000 Base-T Ethernet port allows simple integration with your DaVinci Resolve 17 system. Additionally, a USB Type-C port is provided for software configuration (via Fairlight Studio and Console setup utility) and software updates.

The Fairlight Console Channel Fader utilizes an internal software upgrade function via an updater application.

Equipped with an internal power supply, the Fairlight Console Channel Fader bypasses the need for an unsightly and cumbersome wall wart.

Related Questions and Answers

Q: 1. Can you playback multiple hyper decks simultaneously synced with timecode?

A: Yes, the Blackmagic Design HyperDeck Extreme Control will allow you to sync multiple units simultaneously for playback or recording.

Q: 2. Can anyone reccomend a capture software that works with this card allowing all 8 inputs to be captured at once? My PC is plenty powerful (64 cores, 128GB RAM, 6TB RAID0 SSD). Thanks!

A: DeckLink cards support common streaming software such as Flash Media Encoder, Wirecast, Livestream Producer and Resolume Avenue 4. On Mac, stream live video with Flash Media Encoder, Wirecast and Livestream Producer. When streaming on Windows, you get compatibility with Flash Media Encoder, Xsplit Broadcaster, Wirecast and Livestream Producer. Resolume software supports all DeckLink capture and playback products straight out of the box! With DeckLink and Resolume you can capture and play back any QuickTime and AVI video files, as well as Flash animations and text overlays with your WAV and AIFF audio files. With Resolume Arena you can even use SMPTE timecode captured by DeckLink to synchronize clips with lasers, lights, fireworks displays or anything you can imagine for the most mind blowing VJ performances!

Q: 3. can you save and playback individual clips with this device along with the recorder?

A: Blackmagic Design HyperDeck Extreme Control BH #BLHDEC can record up to 8K H.265 on CFast cards or 8K ProRes files via external disks. If you install the optional cache feature, media speed doesn’t matter so you can record 8K video to any Cfast card or even connect an external HDD dock via USB-C and record to an external hard drive! A variety of video and audio sources can be connected including decks, monitors, routers and cameras, or legacy broadcast decks via composite analog inputs, which is especially useful for archival workflows converting from tape to file

Q: 4. Well this card seems more usable to me because of its 8 input, and If I have to use it with EGPU(External Graphic processing unit) with thunderbolt, will it work? Like in other question I don't like to travel with PC but will always travel with Laptop to use with ATEM. In this case I can use a gaming laptop and a EGPU with this card in it.

A: As long as the bus the card is connected to is capable of the bandwidth, then it should work.

Q: 5. Will I be able to use this to start/stop recording on several hyperdeck mini recorders at the same time?

A: Yes, the HyperDeck Extreme Control can control up to 8 HyperDeck Studio Mini recorders simultaneously or independent. All Blackmagic HyperDeck devices support the same Sony broadcast RS-422 serial deck control standard.

Q: 6. I see this card uses PCIe 2.0 8x. Will it work if used in a PCIe 3.0 4x slot (8x mechanical)? Will there be any bandwidth limitations?

A: It will not properly work in anything less than an 8 lane generation 2 slot.

Q: 7. Could I hit record, then stop + play, and have all eight decks play back in sync?

A: There is the potential to have multiple decks play back and start clips at the same time with the Blackmagic Design HyperDeck Extreme Control. The decks and controller must have the same reference, the media should be the same type, and the clips must be positioned at the same start point before playing.

Q: 8. I wanted to get this for a instant replay device as well as recording. Does the hyperdeck extreme control have the same capabilities as the Roland P-20HD Video Instant Replayer?

A: Yes. Major difference is the hyper deck allows you to control up to eight decks at a time.

Q: 9. Can this control other recorders such as the Atomos Shogun Studio II that accepts RS-422 control?

A: Any device that accepts the Sony RS-422 protocol will work.

Q: 10. Will this cars work in any one of these slots3x PCI-Express 3.0 x16 Slots (run single at x16 or dual at x8/x8 or triple at x8/x8/x4), 3x PCI-Express 3.0 x1 Slots (Flexible PCI-Express)And is is compatible with livestream studio software.

A: This card is compatible with 8 and 16 lane PCIe slots. It is also compatible with Livestream Studio Software.