L-Acoustics Is Now in the Truck Packer Manufacturer Library

Last week we published the math on how a full arena PA now fits in half a 53-foot trailer, driven by L-Acoustics' new L1 line source. The number that landed for a lot of readers was 256 kg per L1 cabinet, 1500 by 1005 by 750 mm, twenty individual drivers in one box, ten boxes per side replacing the work of thirty K1.

The natural next question we got back, several times in the first 24 hours: where can I model that pack myself?

The answer, as of today, is the Truck Packer Manufacturer Library. L-Acoustics is now in it.

What is in the library

Every cabinet, cart, and amplifier rack across the touring L-Acoustics catalogue is now pre-modeled in Truck Packer's manufacturer library, with the exact dimensions and weights L-Acoustics publishes. No measuring, no remapping, no spreadsheet munging. You browse the case list on a sortable web page, or download the CSV and import the whole package into Truck Packer in one click.

Specifically, the L-Acoustics library now includes:

• L1 and L1D line source cabinets, the new flagship
• K1, K2, and K3 line source carts (the global touring reference for the last 15+ years)
• CS1, the L1's purpose-built cardioid subwoofer
• KS28, KS21, and SB18 subwoofers
• A10 and A15 wide and focus enclosures from the A Series
• LA-RAK III touring amp rack (3x LA7.16)

Each entry carries length, width, height, packed weight, category, and a flip flag indicating whether the case is symmetric end-to-end. The columns map directly to Truck Packer's case schema, so importing is a single click.

Why this matters

A typical international touring production rents from several vendors and the loadmaster ends up with three or four different case lists in different formats: a PDF from one rental house, an XLSX from another, a Word document from somewhere unfortunate. Before the case can show up in a 3D pack plan, someone has to retype it, or at least clean it up. That work has historically been the silent tax on every load planning attempt that did not happen.

The Manufacturer Library is meant to remove that tax for the brands touring productions actually use. L-Acoustics joins Christie Lites (around 140 lighting and rigging cases), EAW (Anya, Anna, and Otto line-array carts), Pelican (Storm and Protector waterproof cases), Spectrum Sound (Nashville-based touring audio for d&b, Yamaha, DiGiCo, Avid, SSL, Allen & Heath, and Midas), and Fiasco Cases (80+ road case formats including L-Acoustics, Ayrton, Chauvet, Astera, Robe, Yamaha, and d&b inserts).

For load planning specifically, what this enables is concrete:

• A production manager building an L1 arena rig drops 20 main cabinets, 12 subs, and 12 amp racks into a pack from a dropdown instead of typing them in.
• A loadmaster comparing a 53-foot dry van vs. two 40-foot containers can run both scenarios in under five minutes because the case data is identical between runs.
• A carnet manifest gets the right line weights and origin countries on the first pass, because the source case data was right the first time.
• The same cases flow into the Carnet Manifest Merger when the tour goes international, with no second round of data entry.

How it works

Three workflows, depending on what you are trying to do.

Browse and look up dimensions on the web. Click into the L-Acoustics library page and you get a sortable web table of every case. Search by name, sort by weight, filter by category. The pages are server-rendered with structured data, so they show up directly in Google when you search for, for instance, "K1 cart dimensions" or "LA-RAK III rack size."

Download the CSV. One click pulls down a clean CSV of the whole L-Acoustics library, formatted for direct import into Truck Packer. The columns (Name, Length, Width, Height, Weight, Category, Flip) need no remapping; they are the same shape Truck Packer's importer expects.

Drop cases into a pack. Inside any Truck Packer pack, the Universal Manifest Importer in the Case Library section reads the CSV directly. Hit import, run AutoPack against any trailer size, and the rig lays itself out. The 3D view is now showing actual L1 cabinets at actual dimensions instead of placeholder boxes.

All dimensions in the libraries are published in inches and pounds, matching how North American touring stage managers expect to see case data at a glance. Truck Packer itself supports both metric and imperial; the conversion happens on import.

How this fits with what we have been publishing

The L1 trailer math we ran last week was a model in Truck Packer, built against the exact L1 dimensions L-Acoustics released in May. That pack is still public if you want to look at it. Until today, building that kind of pack required you to type the cabinet dimensions in by hand. Going forward, the L-Acoustics library is in the dropdown and you can build it from scratch in under a minute.

This is the same pattern we have been pushing on every other tool we have shipped:

The Carnet Manifest Merger takes the pull sheets you already have and outputs a Boomerang General List, no retyping.

The manufacturer library takes the case catalogues the rental houses already publish and outputs Truck Packer-importable data, no retyping.

Every step removes a layer of manual data entry between the dimensions on the case and the diagram the crew loads from. The math we have been running on PA shrinkage, dimension limits, weight limits, and oversize permits is only useful if the gear you are loading is actually modeled correctly. The Manufacturer Library is the data layer that makes the rest of the math run.

What is coming next

The library is being expanded. d&b audiotechnik, Adamson, Meyer Sound, Sennheiser, Shure, and Yamaha touring case data is on the active roadmap. If you run a rental house or you are a production manager with a clean case list for any of these brands and you would be open to sharing, email help@backlinelogic.com. Contributors are credited on the brand's library page; data shared with us stays confidential beyond the published case catalogue.

Try it

The L-Acoustics library is live at truckpacker.com/manufacturer-library. Browse the case list, download the CSV, or open a pack and import the whole catalogue. The next L1 arena rig you model should take less time to build than it took you to read this post.

If you want to see what the pack looks like with real L-Acoustics dimensions in it, the 10-box L1 arena pack from last week's post is public and editable. Duplicate it, swap in your venue's trailer size, and you have a starting point. That is the whole point of putting the library in place.