Specifications

This work ow approach is applied to every area of the control surface ensuring ease
of use and appropriately fast access to all controls.
To help further improve the “Mind Map” 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 VCA, MCA and POPulation groups with assignable colour-coding
and digital write on buttons.
Eects Processing
MIDAS digital consoles include an ever expanding library of eects processing
devices. The range includes:
A KLARK TEKNIK DN780 Multi FX processor
A MULTI-BAND COMPRESSOR
A STEREO PITCH SHIFTER
A KLARK TEKNIK Square ONE 8-channel dynamics processor
A KLARK TEKNIK DN370 Graphic EQ
A STEREO DELAY with precision tap tempo
A STEREO FLANGER
A STEREO PHASER
The latest MIDAS Generation-ll latency-compensated eects plug-ins includes:
AMBIENCE REVERB adds warmth and depth to source material without creating the
more obvious artefacts commonly associated with articial reverbs. The Ambience
reverb creates small room acoustic spaces using diuse early reections with the
additional exibility of separate reverb tail level and decay controls.
CHAMBER REVERB emulates the rich sound of echo chambers found in early
recording studios. This is characterised by a rapid build-up of reection density
within a small to medium sized space coupled with a relatively colourless and
smooth decay.
HALL REVERB simulates the response of a real concert hall, adding a sense of space to
the source material with less initial density than a chamber reverb. The slower build-
up of reections and generally longer decay times associated with this type of reverb
allows for increased clarity of the source whilst oering a richer, lusher overall sound
which is less dense in character.
PLATE REVERB simulates the actual plate reverb devices that were used in the classic
recording studios in the 1960’s and 1970’s. These were literally a plate of metal which
was suspended under tension with a transducer, to transmit audio to the plate whilst
two or more contact microphones were attached to the plate to pick up the results.
The plate reverb has a very rapid build-up of reections and as a result is very dense
initially with a fairly smooth decay characteristic, for this reason it is typically the rst
reverb choice for percussion instruments.
VINTAGE ROOM REVERB provides an incredibly natural sounding reverb in the style of
the earliest digital reverberators that became popular during the 1980’s. Its strength
is in recreating natural acoustic ambiences with a very warm and dense characteristic
without sounding particularly articial.
DUAL STEREO DELAY provides a simple, concise delay device, with the advantage
of having two stereo units in one eect device rack space. Delay times can be set
individually from the GUI, or by using the consoles GLOBAL TAP BUTTON.
DUAL STEREO CHORUS is an emulation of a classic chorus eect with the advantage
of having two separate stereo units in only one eect device rack space. This lush
chorus eect is achieved by taking the source signal and combining it with one or
more short delayed copies of the same signal that have slight deviations in pitch.
MATRIX MIXER allows any combination of the eight input signals to be routed to any
combination of the eight outputs. This provides a means of generating additional
outputs on any MIDAS digital console. Delay and Phase can be adjusted on both
inputs and outputs with an additional four band parametric EQ available on each
output.