Chapter 4: About The Control Surface - Midas HD96-24-CC-TP Quick Start Manual

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HD96-24-CC-TP
HD96-24 Basic Operation

Chapter 4: About the Control Surface

The HD96-24 has been designed from the ground up to give the operator easy-to-use touchscreen controls along with familiar analogue style controls. This clever
combining of working methods ensures any engineer can walk up to this console and instantly feel at home, but when required can delve deeper into the system to
achieve complex routing and detailed sonic manipulation.
The surface is constructed on a robust Midas steel frame chassis similar to those used in established Midas analogue products. All of the surface is controlled from two
processors. All associated power supplies, computer motherboards, Wi-Fi router, Bluetooth, memory, graphics cards etc. are housed within the surface, which also
contains a digital audio router box that supports local I/O connectors on the rear panel. Substantial forced air-cooling is provided by a bulkhead and large (but slow
moving) internal fans. The large capacitive touchscreen displays a large quantity of information and can be customised to match your workflow to make mixing a
pleasure. Using modern day gestures from mobile phone and tablet technology such as pinch and swipe makes parameter manipulation even faster and more
responsive with up to 10 simultaneous touch points.
The HD96-24 system is designed to be easy to see for colour blind people. Great care has been taken to make the system visible to as many types of colour blind people
as possible.
Control surface layout
The HD96-24 surface can be spilt in to 7 distinct areas making operation quick and precise with all controls close to hand. The areas are defined in the diagram below.
The HD96-24 has 4 fully assignable fader banks split into three banks of eight faders and one bank with four faders each with individual full colour ultra-bright LCD
displays. Any section can be assigned to any function, be it inputs, outputs, POPs, VCA, Matrices or Masters. This concept allows the user to fully customise the surface to
suit their mixing preferences.
The global assignable shortcuts area can be used to provide many simple and complex functions with macro style controls right at your fingertips. E.g. Pop group
selection, triggering macros or automation recall.
The assignable controls above the faders and to the side of the GUI can be fully customised to suit your workflow. Functions can be changed quickly with the cursor
arrow controls. For e.g. altering pan position, aux control or gain changes.
Quick Start Guide
Channel strip layout
Each channel strip within a bank provides:
(1) LCD Display - A high-resolution display providing metering,
channel information and flip status.
and local parameter values.
(2) Sel (Fader Channel Select) - This button selects the channel for a variety
of operations, including adjusting parameters from the GUI and assigning
to the channel detail area.
(3) COMP - Compressor gain reduction meter (GR).
(4) INPUT - Input metering.
(5) GATE - Gate gain attenuation meter (GA).
(6) MUTE - Press the MUTE button to mute (turn off) the channel.
(7) SOLO - Press SOLO to listen to the channel signal.
(8) LEVEL - The fader is touch sensitive providing gain control
from -∞ to +10dB (or +6dB if contributing to an output bus).
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