ProX debuts with Neutron engine

Building on the legacy of its Pro3, Pro6 and Pro9 digital consoles, Midas’ latest offering, described by the manufacturer as ‘the touring engineer’s dream’, is now upon us. Named the ProX, the console is the first to benefit from the company’s new Neutron engine.

Measuring less than 1.5m across, the control surface provides 168 inputs and 99 mix or 103 output channels simultaneously. AES50 digital audio connectivity allows scalability for up to a total of 288 network inputs and 294 network outputs. Integration with IP-compliant third party audio networks can also be achieved via Dante, Cirrus Logic CobraNet, or using the Klark Technik DN9650 network bridge.

The console’s 99 mix busses can be simultaneously displayed as 24 mono or stereo mixes on the console surface. Each of the displayed mixes has its own LCD select switch with RGB colour coding and scribble strips – plus 11-segment LED bargraph metering.

In the Neutron core, FPGA and MIMD architecture delivers over 100 gigaflops of real-time audio processing, translating into 271 simultaneous processing channels at 96kHz in 40-bit floating point operation. According to the manufacturer, the Neutron engine is capable of up to 800 audio channels, which can be routed on a point-to-point basis – and that routing can be changed, even on individual automation scenes.

A new rack mounted multi-channel microphone preamp has also been unveiled by the Music Group-owned manufacturer. The XL48 packs eight XL4 preamps into a 1U format, along with high and low pass filters, XL8 A/D convertors, and a low-jitter 1ppm clock. Additional features include LED input meters, individually-switchable phantom power, invert polarity and -20dB pad switches.

The rack contains both analogue and digital inputs in ADAT and AES/EBU format, an external word clock, and an internal sample rate of 96, 88.2, 48 or 44.1kHz.

Shipping: End of 2014
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