Midas PRO 3 Live Digital Console Control Centre

Midas PRO 3

PRO SERIES PRO3-CC-IP

The Midas PRO Series has become established as the industry standard on live concert tours and the road-proven PRO3 featuring 56 simultaneous input channels and 27 time-aligned and phase-coherent mix buses, shares the familiarity of a common user interface and workflow with PRO6 and PRO9. Like all PRO Series consoles, the PRO3 features managed latency and 40 bit floating point processing precision. PRO3 sets the standard of performance in high-profile live sound applications and is a truly impressive digital control surface for the engineer whose very livelihood depends on both unparalleled functionality and reliability.

HyperMAC and AES50 audio networking technologies allow the PRO3 to dynamically assign up to 288 inputs and 294 outputs at 96 kHz sampling rate to any of its input channels and bus outputs on a scene-by-scene basis. This high level of connectivity, coupled with the large channel and bus counts, makes the PRO3 equally at home in theatres and symphony halls as it is in live concert touring, outside broadcast and music festivals.

Digital Audio Networking

SuperMAC (AES50-Compliant) and HyperMAC digital audio networking technologies from Klark Teknik simultaneously provide high channel counts, ultra low and deterministic latencies, sample-synchronous and phase-aligned networked clock distribution, error detection, network redundancy, and ease of deployment and use – to meet the demanding requirements of live concert touring.

The PRO3 HyperMAC router provides a dual redundant snake connection to the DL371PRO3 Audio System Engine over optical fibre and copper with a bandwidth of 192 bidirectional channels of 96 kHz 24 bit digital audio, up to a distance of 500 m with optical fibre or 100 m with

PRO3 is compatible with all Midas PRO Series digital I/O units, as well as with any other 96 kHz-enabled AES50-equipped devices. Multiple PRO Series consoles can be connected together to create either larger mixing systems, or multiple discrete mixing consoles can share a common resource of networked and distributed I/O interfaces.

Advanced Navigation Flexibility

At the heart of Midas console navigation are the VCA and POPulation groups, which mirror the natural work flow used by mix engineers and encourages the development of a mental picture, or “Mind Map”, of the whole system. Only the required control elements and associated feedback are presented, allowing users to adopt structured task-based workflows, rather than being presented with an overwhelming ‘sea of knobs’.