I have looked on You Tube abd found a few videos showing some of the features of the Pro1,but would like to see somehting more in depth. Do any of you know of something a little more in depth? Also,can someone explain the Pop groups?
Midas Pro1 Tutorial
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Randy, here is a YouTube video of pro 2 which is pretty much the same thing... 45 minutes worth, it wasn't too bad, and I think they touch more on pop groups...~ 26 minutes in
Midas Pro2 Orientation Demo.mpeg - YouTube
Randy, here is a YouTube video of pro 2 which is pretty much the same thing... 45 minutes worth, it wasn't too bad, and I think they touch more on pop groups...~ 26 minutes in
Midas Pro2 Orientation Demo.mpeg - YouTube
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Shane,thanks. I have seen this one and it really doesn't show me what I want to know.If you watch the first few minutes,he starts out by saying "if I press this,then this shows up here".What is he pressing and what is showing up? It's hard to tell. While the video does show some features which is nice to know,what I am looking for is a video that shows you how to set up a channel.How to set up and aux.How to send channels to a group or VCA.How to send the groups to the main outs.How to add effects to a channel.How to save everything. Perhaps Midas includes such a video with the console,or hopefully their manual is better than most manuals at explaining all these things.
Shane,thanks. I have seen this one and it really doesn't show me what I want to know.If you watch the first few minutes,he starts out by saying "if I press this,then this shows up here".What is he pressing and what is showing up? It's hard to tell. While the video does show some features which is nice to know,what I am looking for is a video that shows you how to set up a channel.How to set up and aux.How to send channels to a group or VCA.How to send the groups to the main outs.How to add effects to a channel.How to save everything. Perhaps Midas includes such a video with the console,or hopefully their manual is better than most manuals at explaining all these things.
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Hi Randy,
We are currently in the middle of creating a new website, so we are a little in flux and running behind on posting video's of this kind for PRO1. But on the plus side many of the operations that you've mentioned are universal on our PRO Series consoles. VCA/POP groups, patching, working with effects etc all operate the same on every console. So I would advice to take a look at the PRO6 videos here: Midas Consoles | Video Guides
These are a little out of date and some newer features may be missing, but they will give you the basics. We'll be posting PRO1 specific videos as soon as we can.
I hope this helps,
Hi Randy,
We are currently in the middle of creating a new website, so we are a little in flux and running behind on posting video's of this kind for PRO1. But on the plus side many of the operations that you've mentioned are universal on our PRO Series consoles. VCA/POP groups, patching, working with effects etc all operate the same on every console. So I would advice to take a look at the PRO6 videos here: Midas Consoles | Video Guides
These are a little out of date and some newer features may be missing, but they will give you the basics. We'll be posting PRO1 specific videos as soon as we can.
I hope this helps,
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Jason,I will view these videos to see if they can help me. The rep said he will be out of town for a few days but will provide me with some training when he gets back.I find the quick start quide to be pretty useless.Some things on the board seem very common sense such as eq,compression etc.But what is lacking is understanding how to take say channel 1 and routing it to the main mono out or any other out.Perhaps one of the videos will be of some help with this. If not,I will contact you for some help.Thanks.
Jason,I will view these videos to see if they can help me. The rep said he will be out of town for a few days but will provide me with some training when he gets back.I find the quick start quide to be pretty useless.Some things on the board seem very common sense such as eq,compression etc.But what is lacking is understanding how to take say channel 1 and routing it to the main mono out or any other out.Perhaps one of the videos will be of some help with this. If not,I will contact you for some help.Thanks.
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Ok folks,I have plenty of questions. When I first picked up the board,I would get an input signal on the meter when I plugged a mic into channel 1. Now I get nothing. The LED lights on the back are lit on the output side,but not on the input ides.That makes me think that I have them sourced from the stage box.How do I get them back on the surface? Even when I had the input working,I was getting no out put.No meters,no sound. Once you let me know how to get the surface inputs working,then how do I route say channel 1 to the out puts? Evan had told me to go to automation and recall the safe scene.But I see no recall for safe scene.I see a recall slope.Where do I recall the safe scene? He also suggested going to patching then click the busses tab on the "from" side and the I/O tab on the "to" side which I did.Then he says to make sure the outputs are patched to the surface but I'm not seeing where to do this.He says click on the grey box below the L. I don't see an "L".
I'm obviously missing something or maybe the Pro 1 is a little different from the bigger ones.
A few more questions.At the top above the channel controls is a direct mute button.it seems to be lit and no matter what I try It doesn't go off.Maybe that's part of the problem.How does that work and what does it do? Also,on the screen,there is a status button that is red.What does that mean.Right now I'm just trying to get audio out of the board so any help would be appreciated.Just keep it simple.Thanks.
Ok folks,I have plenty of questions. When I first picked up the board,I would get an input signal on the meter when I plugged a mic into channel 1. Now I get nothing. The LED lights on the back are lit on the output side,but not on the input ides.That makes me think that I have them sourced from the stage box.How do I get them back on the surface? Even when I had the input working,I was getting no out put.No meters,no sound. Once you let me know how to get the surface inputs working,then how do I route say channel 1 to the out puts? Evan had told me to go to automation and recall the safe scene.But I see no recall for safe scene.I see a recall slope.Where do I recall the safe scene? He also suggested going to patching then click the busses tab on the "from" side and the I/O tab on the "to" side which I did.Then he says to make sure the outputs are patched to the surface but I'm not seeing where to do this.He says click on the grey box below the L. I don't see an "L".
I'm obviously missing something or maybe the Pro 1 is a little different from the bigger ones.
A few more questions.At the top above the channel controls is a direct mute button.it seems to be lit and no matter what I try It doesn't go off.Maybe that's part of the problem.How does that work and what does it do? Also,on the screen,there is a status button that is red.What does that mean.Right now I'm just trying to get audio out of the board so any help would be appreciated.Just keep it simple.Thanks.
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I had this long "did you try....." post. Then I spent some quality time with the manual.
I'm not sure where your problems are, but I think that starting over would be a Very Good Thing. Right now I'm trying to figure out how to do an "out of the box" reset. Stay tuned. RTFM, YMMV, etc.
From page 224
I had this long "did you try....." post. Then I spent some quality time with the manual.
I'm not sure where your problems are, but I think that starting over would be a Very Good Thing. Right now I'm trying to figure out how to do an "out of the box" reset. Stay tuned. RTFM, YMMV, etc.
From page 224
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Randy- A Red status light means that something isn't configured properly. Again, recalling your "safe" preset is the best way to start from scratch and make sure the basics are set properly.
Press the automation / filing button. You'll see one of 2 screens. The first screen will have a big white box on the left hand side, and nothing on the right hand side. You do not want this screen- you want the screen with the big black box in the top center displaying the time, and a list below it. In that list, scene 0 will be the "Safe" scene. Click on it, and hit the "now" button. It will prompt you that you're about to recall the safe scene, click ok. You have successfully recalled the "safe" scene with basic patching in place.
If your status light does not change to green after that, click on the status light. You'll see the console surface on the left hand side(Which should be green), and then 2 columns to the right of that: "configured" and "un-configured." If your stage box is in the "un-configured" slot, then that's your problem. We'll get into that after you recall the safe scene though- that should solve all of your issues.
Randy- A Red status light means that something isn't configured properly. Again, recalling your "safe" preset is the best way to start from scratch and make sure the basics are set properly.
Press the automation / filing button. You'll see one of 2 screens. The first screen will have a big white box on the left hand side, and nothing on the right hand side. You do not want this screen- you want the screen with the big black box in the top center displaying the time, and a list below it. In that list, scene 0 will be the "Safe" scene. Click on it, and hit the "now" button. It will prompt you that you're about to recall the safe scene, click ok. You have successfully recalled the "safe" scene with basic patching in place.
If your status light does not change to green after that, click on the status light. You'll see the console surface on the left hand side(Which should be green), and then 2 columns to the right of that: "configured" and "un-configured." If your stage box is in the "un-configured" slot, then that's your problem. We'll get into that after you recall the safe scene though- that should solve all of your issues.
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OK Evan,I got the safe scene.The step I was missing was hitting the NOW button.However,the statusd button is still red.I hit the status button and it shows the configurations.It looks like they are configured for the stage box and I need to get it on the surface.How do I get the status light to green and get the surface inputs working? Thanks.
OK Evan,I got the safe scene.The step I was missing was hitting the NOW button.However,the statusd button is still red.I hit the status button and it shows the configurations.It looks like they are configured for the stage box and I need to get it on the surface.How do I get the status light to green and get the surface inputs working? Thanks.
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OK,now I think I totally screwed up.I went to home- preferences -then saw the lock symbol and thought maybe that was the problem.I hit locked now I can't get anything other than the screen with the Midas logo.Now what?
OK,now I think I totally screwed up.I went to home- preferences -then saw the lock symbol and thought maybe that was the problem.I hit locked now I can't get anything other than the screen with the Midas logo.Now what?
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Lock screen - go to the lower left corner and very lightly shaded is 'UNLOCK'. Left click.
Lock screen - go to the lower left corner and very lightly shaded is 'UNLOCK'. Left click.
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Tim,the desk did not come with a manual.However,I did download one.It's 585 pages!
Tim,the desk did not come with a manual.However,I did download one.It's 585 pages!
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Brian- thanks.Got it unlocked. Still need to get the surface inputs happening.
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Yepper. I downloaded it, too. That's how I figured out how to unlock the desk and do a factory reset.
Unplug any external i/o. Follow the factory reset instructions on page 224.
Then work your way through the manual starting with Chapter 4 "Getting Started". I know it's fun to jump into a new piece of gear, but the Pro series aren't intuitive (and if you've got time on other brands, maybe even opposite). Start over and see if you make headway.
Yepper. I downloaded it, too. That's how I figured out how to unlock the desk and do a factory reset.
Unplug any external i/o. Follow the factory reset instructions on page 224.
Then work your way through the manual starting with Chapter 4 "Getting Started". I know it's fun to jump into a new piece of gear, but the Pro series aren't intuitive (and if you've got time on other brands, maybe even opposite). Start over and see if you make headway.
I went at a Pro1 without a manual - had to consult Google for 2-3 questions. Other than that, in my humble opinion anyway, I would consider them intuitive.
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Considering that I'm doing this "by the book" without a console in front of me, I think it's probably more a nomenclature issue... putting words into physical spaces on a work surface... that is my hang up. I'm about 150 pages in so far...
And Brits have silly ways of using English.
Maybe it's my age, but my days of gung-ho, jump in with both feet are declining as gear designers come up with new and better ways for me to not grok their concepts. The Fine Manual is a good place to start, even if to only affirm that one probably doesn't need it....
Carry on, soldiers.
Considering that I'm doing this "by the book" without a console in front of me, I think it's probably more a nomenclature issue... putting words into physical spaces on a work surface... that is my hang up. I'm about 150 pages in so far...
And Brits have silly ways of using English.
Maybe it's my age, but my days of gung-ho, jump in with both feet are declining as gear designers come up with new and better ways for me to not grok their concepts. The Fine Manual is a good place to start, even if to only affirm that one probably doesn't need it....
Carry on, soldiers.
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I'm with Tim.This console is not something that the average sound guy could jump in and set up with out help.Maybe if it was set up you could mix on it in a few minutes,but starting from scratch is tough.And I agree with Tim that the Brits have different ways of describing things which doesn't help me.Their quick start guide is useless.The videos on the website are helpful as is the manual.But at almost 600 pages there's alot to digest. If there's anyone in my area that is interested in providing me with training?I'd be willing to pay $50 an hour plus travel time.I'm west of Reading,Pa so it wouldn't be too much of a drive from someone fro Harrisburg, Lancaster or Pottstown.
I'm with Tim.This console is not something that the average sound guy could jump in and set up with out help.Maybe if it was set up you could mix on it in a few minutes,but starting from scratch is tough.And I agree with Tim that the Brits have different ways of describing things which doesn't help me.Their quick start guide is useless.The videos on the website are helpful as is the manual.But at almost 600 pages there's alot to digest. If there's anyone in my area that is interested in providing me with training?I'd be willing to pay $50 an hour plus travel time.I'm west of Reading,Pa so it wouldn't be too much of a drive from someone fro Harrisburg, Lancaster or Pottstown.
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Finally got audio. Yeah! Now I have to start preping for my colonostopy tommorow so I won't be playing with it much tonight!
Finally got audio. Yeah! Now I have to start preping for my colonostopy tommorow so I won't be playing with it much tonight!
