Blackmagic Fairlight Live Audio Panel 40

The Fairlight Live Audio Panel 40 is the top of the Fairlight Live panel family — and the surface built for engineers who cannot afford to bank, layer, or lose their place during a live broadcast. Forty full-travel motorized faders. Four independent 11.6-inch 1920x1080 touchscreens. Every critical routing control on the surface — layers, bus, matrix, aux, VCA, sub-masters, talkback, snapshots, cue player, on-air lock — all hardware, always reachable.

At this scale, the four touchscreens keep every bank of 10 channels confirmed simultaneously. You are never flying blind. All 40 faders move on snapshot recall — when you transition from pre-game to commentary to halftime, the surface follows instantly. No manual resets, no scrambling.

Dual 10G RJ45 Ethernet for SMPTE-2110 IP connectivity. Dual IEC C14 mains inputs with two internal 100–240V power supplies for full redundancy. This panel is built to run all day, every day, in the world's most demanding broadcast environments.

On a major sports broadcast — NBA, NFL, Olympics — the audio signal list is enormous. Play-by-play commentary, color commentary, sideline reporters, crowd mics, broadcast music, graphics stingers, sponsor audio, IFB returns for every on-air talent, mix-minus feeds for remote guests, international program buses. That is not a 10- or 20-fader show.

With 40 faders, a complex show fits on the surface in a single view. Four touchscreens confirm every channel in every bank at the same time. When the halftime whistle blows and you fire the halftime snapshot, all 40 faders jump to position simultaneously. The transition is clean. You are already listening to the next mix before the director has finished the cut.

Paired with Fairlight Live, the Panel 40 gives you access to thousands of channels, SMPTE-2110 IP routing, spatial audio, full redundancy operation, and remote operator support — all from a surface that speaks the same physical language as the traditional broadcast consoles engineers have used for decades. The muscle memory transfers. The capability multiplies.