Pro Sound Web: Midas has today announced the immediate availability of their new Mixtender 2 iPad App for the best-selling PRO Series and XL8 digital consoles. Loaded with new features, and delivering an unprecedented range of control and mobility, Mixtender 2 was designed and developed by Midas engineers for absolute best in class performance.
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Im not very familiar with the Midas system unfortunately but I have gotten to use the pro tools mobile platform for Ipad and I am a huge fan of the ability to free roam while mixing instead of being boxed into a singular space causing a singular perspective to the sound design. When ever I mix a show I try my damn hardest to set up my position as close to center as possible or at-least tech from the center and final rehearsals from what ever permanent position ill have. These mobile platforms allow for the permanent position to be where-ever with the shows board op at controls and the designer can have full control of what ever changes they may wish to make.
Yes!!! The most frustrating thing as a sound team of one is the fact that I am constantly running from the house to the board to adjust something tiny, then back out to the house to listen, over and over and over. The more makers developing apps, the more efficiently we can work with our equipment and balance our content/band/voices, as the case may be. And while this won't work on our analog Midas board, I am definitely going to try out some of these virtual apps as a way to "practice" mixing for the musical next semester.
I may not know much about working in sound, but from what I do know this sort of mobile platform is key to the future of sound technology. There is always a ton of things that the designer would love to make happen and there are always a ton of great ways to make that happen. The trick then becomes getting the designers idea's in the the tech. A control system that is more flexible with out limiting functionality is key to achieving this goal. We always do theatre in some sort of space and that means we need to be moving around. The design will always be better if the designer is able to freely move though the space that the design will fill. As we see more and more theatre that is site specific this sort of flexibility will become more and more important. It sounds like this app is supported by many of the high end Midas equipment. That's a great first step, but for this tool to be truly changing to the industry it is going to need to open up and make standards that all the sound equipment we use can one day use. If colleges (with less money than us) can't teach people to use this tech then it can't become big in the real world because no one will know how to use it.
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