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Mixing Desk Screens
Screen layouts and designs for the HD96 mixing desk
OVERVIEW
Midas create high end audio products known for their sound quality and low latency. Moving from analog mixing desks the company moved into digital desks with the pro-series in 2006, a suite of positively received digital desks with the famous Midas sound quality and convenience of digital audio.
ROLE
Senior UX Designer
UX Design, Interaction Design, UI Design, Web Design, Brand Design, Product Strategy, Front-End XML Code.
RESPONSIBILITY
Design and implementation of front-end designs and code for the innovative flagship HD96 mixing desk.
Designing bespoke touch-enabled pages and clear interfaces for high end audio engineers across an innovative new flagship mixing desk
EXAMPLE LAYOUTS
The primary widget displayed options for each channel, ranging from inputs, effects and individual set up controls. Sound engineers require some information to be presented at all times and these critical areas were added to the top of the widget.
I was tasked with designing the HD96 patching page. It was important to ensure that the user had easy touch targets but was also able to interact and set up a show of potentially 144 inputs/outputs quickly and easily.
An innovative feature of the HD96 was the Manchino page (named after a setting on the Midas office coffee machine) which allowed for the user to change values of multiple channels at one time. This innovative approach to channel management improved the speed in which engineers can set up shows.
One of the most complex aspects of digital mixing desks is the automation system, allowing users to fire trigger events and change channel set ups by creating patches/presets across scenes.
The scoping matrix allowed users the ability to edit and update the automation system by scoping in and out channels by scene. This allows the user to rewrite show files quickly, copy and paste presets/patches that could be transferred across the entire show. This could range from updating equalisers across a whole channel for a single show because the performer is wearing a hat that would reflect their voice differently into the mic.
An internal file manager to allow users the ability to manage files across the onboard memory, online and via USB.