Manual

19 PRO X User Manual
Key features
Please remember, the PRO X is not just a console, it’s a LIVE AUDIO SYSTEM!
• High channel count — up to 168 mixed primary inputs (sourced from up
500+ input locations) and up to 99 output channels.
• Control centre — Small and very compact with an exciting but familiar
and ergonomic control surface, enhanced by a two-screen GUI.
• Performance — Reduced price, scale and features, but still with
XL8 audio performance.
• Operation — Easy to use with responsive interpolated controls and fast,
intuitive human interfaces that combine to produce that familiar analogue feel.
• User interface (speed and feel) — VCA groups (console comes
to you!); POP groups (console comes to you!); muscle memory
(E-zone and D-zone on channel strips, which have paged controls that
do not change function); input and output fast zones; electronic colour
coding; and dedicated motorised master output faders.
• User interface (status visibility) — Dual daylight-visible screens
and integral surface illumination; metering (23 discrete 20-segment
LED meters), discrete metering for dynamics, and all meters all of
the time; “ST” assign switch; and eight channels of key data plus a single
channel strip on both GUI screens.
• Traditional MIDAS and KLARK TEKNIK audio quality:
• Headroom — High headroom, which is well behaved, even when
pushed a little too hard.
• Mic amps — High quality, overload tolerant microphone amplier
per input.
• Dynamics — High quality dynamic processing with traditional
analogue artefacts. MIDAS dynamics has four styles on the inputs and
ve on the outputs.
• EQ — Fully interpolated phase shifting EQ for that “MIDAS” sound.
• PEQ — High quality EQ with the “MIDAS” sound. Each output has a
six-band parametric EQ, while the inputs have four bands each. MIDAS
sound quality and ‘feel’ on the EQ’s four lters.
• GEQ — Up to 36 KLARK TEKNIK-quality GEQs with unique on-board
fast access controller and control from RapidE.
• Eects — High quality eects processing with traditional artefacts.
Up to eight stereo eects units.
• Patching — Unique simple-to-use routing system that lets you carry
out all your routing needs and also configure any attached devices via
the GUI.
• Navigation — VCA-based and other advanced intuitive paging/
navigation methods.
• Automation:
• Snapshots — Flexible snapshot style save and recall of control
settings global edit capability.
• Showles — USB connectors for show archiving.
• Metering — Comprehensive metering. The GUI can show all of the meters
all of the time.
• Dual operation — Capable of supporting two-man operation, which is
ideal for festival situations.
• Storable preferences — Storable user operational preferences to suit
specic applications, for example, FOH/MON.
• Broadcasting — 5.1 surround panning for broadcast markets.
• Latency — Low and managed latency through the system. Minimal
latency and fully time aligned.
• Cabling — Cat 5e or bre optic snakes. Standard system has reduced
cabling as compared to any other available solution.
• System design and network:
• Integrated open-architecture AES50 digital audio distribution.
• Up to 100 metres (Cat 5e) or up to 500 metres (optical bre) of dual
redundant connectivity between hardware elements.
• Automatic integral delay management system — audio outputs time
and phase coherent.
• Flexible, expandible hardware system includes analogue and digital I/O
options for exible system integration.
• Ethernet TCP-IP and USB tunnelling for third parties.
• KVM (keyboard, video and mouse) switching on control centre.
• Fast exible audio and control system architecture.
• Modular digital and analogue I/O options.
• Advanced automation and system operating preferences.
• PRO X is exible and the system can be customised with the needs of
the install.
• Outputs for additional screens.
• Reliability — High reliability with some redundancy and other
back-up contingencies.
• Failure-tolerant of any single failure of hardware or software.
• Proven, stable Linux operating system.
• Dual redundant control surface master controllers and N+1
redundant PSUs.
• Duplicated (N+1) network for redundancy.
• Control centre has triple redundant power supplies.
• DL251 Audio System I/O (stage box) has dual redundant power supplies.
• DL351 Modular I/O (stage box) has dual redundant power supplies
and N+1 redundant AES50 connections at the digital interface.
• Neutron Audio System Engine (stage box) has N+1 modules with
three (N+1) power supply units (PSUs).
• DL15x series has N+1 redundant AES50 connections
• DL231 Mic Splitter has N+1 AES50 connections and dual-redundant
power supplies.
• Support — 24/7 global telephone support.