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Midas Launch PRO6 Digital Audio System
Following their highly successful XL8 console launch two years ago, Midas has announced the worldwide unveiling of its second networked digital audio system, the Midas PRO6 Live Audio System. Employing technologies developed from the groundbreaking XL8, the PRO6 offers the same sample-synchronised audio performance in a compact package.
Although the PRO6 standard system comprises a Control Centre with a footprint comparable to a 32 channel Verona and only two 7U 19" rack units, its diminutive size belies an ability to provide up to 80 simultaneous input processing channels and up to 32 (+3) discrete mixes, all of which feature EQ and dynamics processing options. By adding additional I/O hardware the PRO6's network can be expanded up to 264 inputs and 264 outputs. These connections can be patched and routed on a scene-by-scene basis, by use of the PRO6's powerful snapshot automation.
The PRO6's FX and dynamics algorithms are more than high quality, easy-to-use Linux-based FX processing. They are incorporated within the PRO6's automatic delay management system, so that wherever they are patched, the audio will be absolutely phase-coherent when summed into the mix. All FX and dynamics can also be re-patched scene by scene.
The Midas microphone pre amp has become the benchmark throughout the audio world, and its current expression in the PRO6 sounds better than ever.
The PRO6's Control Centre has been designed as the optimum size for its function. All controls are within easy reach, and the concept of "bringing the console to the engineer" is fully exploited, freeing the mix engineer from thinking in terms of "layers" or "pages". Instead, the PRO6 uses configurable colour-coded VCA and POPulation groups, which are deployed onto the control surface at the push of a button. Midas has designed the PRO6 Control Centre entirely around this concept, using different colours to navigate input channels in the same way that engineers have traditionally used coloured tape and fader knobs to aid in console navigation. PRO6 has its international launch on the first day of PLASA on stand J33.
1st September 2008
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