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The PRO X Control Centre

The same engineering expertise that has seen the

rugged and roadworthy performance of MIDAS

consoles through the bumps and knocks of four

decades of world touring ensure that the PRO X

control surface is as solid as a rock, night after night.

Daylight Viewable Screens

While some consoles claim daylight visibility, they

can easily become di cult or even impossible to

operate in high ambient lighting.

PRO X’s visual support is engineered to

remainexceptional.

Tested in the sweltering glare of the Nevada desert,

our daylight viewable screens are peerless when it

comes to providing visual, as well as audio clarity.

29 Precision, 100 mm MIDAS PRO Faders

The PRO X employs 29 of our world famous MIDAS

PRO Faders, rated for up to 1,000,000 cycles - three

times that of other leading manufacturers.

PRO X strikes the perfect balance in every design direction.

It mirrors the natural work  ow of mix engineers to provide

e ortless control and crystal clear feedback of system status at all

levels, from the highest overview to the  nest detail.

LCD Channel Displays With Colour Coding

Live sound engineers have typically used colour

when navigating mixing consoles by applying

di erent-coloured adhesive tape and swapping

coloured fader knobs to help make console

navigation faster and more intuitive.

MIDAS have taken this established principle of

channel recognition and applied it to the control

surface. Channels and VCA/POP groups are easily

identi ed with assignable LED colour coding and

digital write-on buttons.

New Output Section

The PRO X control surface features an entirely new

output section that makes handling the potentially

huge number of buses a breeze. A page of 24 of the

possible 96 bus masters is displayed across three

rows of eight, each position easily identi ed by the

same kind of select switch as the channel bay.

The digital write-on name and RGB backlight colour

means ‘can’t miss’ selection. Pressing ‘to faders’ on

any row drops the master fader for those buses onto

the mix bay.

All of the buses can be scrolled through, in pages of

24, and when an output is added to a POP group, it

will unfold to the dedicated output section, making

it even easier to organise your work ow.

Legendary Sound

PRO X feels, as well as sounds superb. All the

variable controls on the console are genuine

analogue high precision potentiometers, not

mechanical encoders.

These access NEUTRON through precision

instrumentation A-D converters and MIDAS’s

custom interpolation algorithms. This means

that as well as all audio, all operator input is fully

interpolated to ensure a linear, analogue-style, silky

smooth ‘feel’ to your mix.

VCAs, POP Groups and Channel Navigation

At the heart of MIDAS console navigation are the

VCA and POPulation groups, which provide primary

access to multiple channels (typically grouped into

related clusters by mix engineers).

To access all the channels belonging to any of the

VCA or POP groups, merely press the select switch

and those channels unfold to the control surface.

If you think of the VCA faders as if they were each

containers for all the channels they control then

 nding channels becomes a natural and easy task.

This method is further expanded through the

provision of user customised POP (POPulation)

groups, which can contain any combination of

channels that you want to access instantly, at the

press of a switch.

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