Allen and Heath dLive Stage Plot Guide for Director CSV

About the dLive

Allen & Heath's dLive shows up on theater, house of worship, and mid to large touring rigs where engineers want a large surface, deep routing, and DEEP processing per channel. It is a common desk to prep for when a production hands your band's stage plot to a resident or touring engineer ahead of a show.

What Stageplot Pro exports for the dLive today

Stageplot Pro exports a Director channel CSV built for the community dlive-midi-tools workflow, which pushes channel names and 48V phantom power settings into the dLive over MIDI through Director. The export carries:

• Channel numbers and names, truncated to the desk's 8 character limit
• 48V phantom power, on or off, for every input that needs it

This export runs entirely in your browser with no AI step, so it downloads in seconds. Like the X32 scene export, it requires a free Stageplot Pro account; you can build your whole plot as a guest and sign in only when you are ready to export.

What it deliberately does not touch: physical patch, socket assignment, gain, and pad. Those stay unassigned so your engineer patches inputs to physical stage boxes on purpose, rather than trusting a guessed routing on a live console. One thing to know about colours: the CSV writes an explicit Off for every channel's colour, so if your engineer keeps a house colour scheme on the desk, plan to reapply it after the import rather than assuming it survives.

How to export

1. Build your stage plot and input list with clear, short names, since dLive channel names truncate to 8 characters.
2. Mark phantom power on any input that needs 48V.
3. Sign in, or create a free account, then open the export menu in the toolbar and choose "dLive / Avantis channel CSV."
4. Hand the CSV to your engineer, or import it yourself through Director following the dlive-midi-tools workflow, to pre-label channel names and phantom power on the desk before your line check starts.

Why this beats a blank desk

A dLive session that starts with real channel names and correct phantom power settings saves real time when a house engineer is resetting between several acts in one night. Pair this export with our phantom power guide so you know exactly which inputs need 48V before you build your plot.

Common dLive stage plot setups

dLive turns up often behind larger, mixed acoustic and electric line ups. The metal five piece stage plot and worship full seven piece stage plot templates both reflect the input counts and phantom power needs that a dLive session commonly carries.

Why the file format matters

The Director CSV import is a documented, community-verified workflow, not a guess at dLive's internal file structure. That distinction matters on a live console: an emitter built against undocumented assumptions can load cleanly and still assign the wrong name to the wrong strip, which is worse than no import at all. Every single field this export writes traces back to a verified, citable source in the community project itself.

Try it

Open the editor, build your input list, and export a Director CSV that pre-labels your dLive channels before you ever touch the desk.