TiMax R64-DANTE

TiMax creates full-saturation immersive audio to engage and excite Performance, Presentation and Experience audiences‍. Enriched focus and emotion with stunningly authentic and enveloping dynamic soundfields.

Model: SoundHub-R64,64x64,64 tracks,including DANTE64.

Features:

• Total|Immersion
  • Intimate immersion for the entire audience, no sweet-spot
  • Authentic spatial mix at every seat
  • Any size and shape of venue or audience
  • Any speaker brand, flexible and minimal system design
• Total|Control
  • Real object-based 3D spatial mix localisation, beyond level-panning
  • Total spatialisation flexibility, free from restrictive algorithms
  • Smooth and transparent dynamic delay spatial morphing
  • Visual layered spatial audio programming and rendering
  • Uniquely embedded Cueing and show control
• Total|Package
  • On-board system DSP, presets and audio playback
  • Future-proofed proprietary FPGA hardware platform
  • Fully in-house concept, design and build
  • Integrated TiMax TrackerD4 Precision Stage tracking

USPs in a nutshell

• Immersive audio
• Localisation
• Spatial mix engine
• Routing
• Mixing
• Equalisation
• Delay-matrix
• Playback
• Zone control
• Mix groups
• Presets
• Remote control
• MADI or Dante
• Analogue & AES
• 48/96KHz
• PanSpace
• TimeLine
• MIDI
• MTC
• GPIO
• FollowOn
• OSC
• UDP/XML
• DateTime

Multi-client Mac and PC workflow
TiMax PanSpace spatially maps a venue in 3D with auto-rendered virtual Image Definitions; multiple PanSpace layers let you plot and edit spatial positions and movements of voices, music atmospheres, soundscapes and effects.

The object-based workflow is child's play. The holistic FPGA spatial processing behind it uniquely morphs dynamic delay-matrix parameters to ensure full immersion and localisation for the whole audience.Integrates with TiMax TrackerD4 stagetracking.

TiMax TimeLine uniquely integrates with PanSpace to schedule and manage timings for your immersive spatialisation and pan Cues, with intuitive DAW-style visual workflows. Spatialisation and mix automation work both with external audio or with the built-in 32- and 64-track playback, which also features sound-file offset, editing, and looping.

TimeLine also assigns incoming Cue triggers and sends synchronised showcontrol events, including MIDI, MTC, Follow-On, XML/UDP, DateTime.

TiMax Mixer control centre gives you complete input, output and matrix processing control and visibility, with faders, matrix, meters, EQ, Link, Solo, Mute and nested DCA Groups for multiple source and system zone control.

The Mixer also hosts the Cue List to manage spatialisation and playback events, plus live system and Cue parameter snapshots. It also handles Show File and Archive open/save, show data library export/import and Utilities.

TiMax OSC window allows simplified remote control of input and output levels, Cues, mutes, DCA groups and 2D or 3D spatialisation. Makes it simple to connect TiMax to QLab and other showcontrol systems.

TouchOSC offers an inexpensive and simple third-party option for touchscreen tablet control, with XY panners scaled to spatialise across defined areas of PanSpace.

OSC is also how TiMax TrackerD4 stagetracking drives live TiMax SoundHub 3D vocal localisation.

Specifications

• 2U 19” Rack mount steel chassis, 450mm / 17.5” deep, 10kg / 22lbs approx weight.
• Internal FPGA 48KHz / 96KHz selectable, CPU, SSD, MADI or Dante 32x32 (32-Track); 64x64 (64-Track); OPTIONAL AES or Analogue 16x16 I/O modules
• Forced air-cooled, low fan noise, OPTIONAL extra redundant fan.
• EMC shielded to conform to CE / UKCA interference emission and susceptibility requirements.
• OPTIONAL S-Version licence for PanSpace and TimeLine spatial rendering, showcontrol and tracking
• OPTIONAL extra redundant PSU with additional IEC connector
• OPTIONAL TiMax Portal bespoke touchscreens, custom GUI design service.
• STANDARD: Dante64: 64-in & 64-out, 48KHz interface module
  • Or
  • OPTIONAL: Dante64X: 64-in & 64-out, 96KHz / 48KHz interface module
  • Or
  • STANDARD: MADI64: 64-in & 64-out 48KHz / 32-in & 32-out 96KHz interface module on BNC and Optical, plus BNC Word Clock in/out
• OPTIONAL AIO Analogue I/O card: 16-in & 16-out line-level in groups of 8 balanced signals on female DB25’s (Yamaha analogue pinout)
• OPTIONAL MIO AES Digital MIO I/O card: 16-in & 16-out AES3 on separate DB25’s plus 16 analogue outs on two DB25’s. (Yamaha analogue pinout for both Analogue and AES). Sync selectable from internal 48KHz or 96KHz clocks, external Word Clock source via BNC, or selected AES3 input(s). Input and output SRC’s allow multiple sample-rates across different AES inputs and outputs.
Headroom: +22dBu; Dynamic Range: 114dB; THD+Noise:
• Two MIDI in/out DIN socket pairs, MIDI Prog / Note / MTC on both; also on Port1-In: MIDI Controllers can control Group faders 1-32; also on Port2-In: MIDI Controllers can control PanSpace Zone input object changes.
• RJ45 Ethernet (UDP) for PC/Mac control and XML/UDP remotes or showcontrollers. Up to four client computers, auto-config plug ‘n play default with DHCP, static IP and forced IP modes.
• Power Supply: 130W universal voltage 80-265VAC at 50/60Hz. OPTIONAL Dual redundant Inlet on fused IEC connector(s) Conforms to European LVD, UL, CSA, Nemco safety requirements, filtered to conform to CE requirements. Conforms to UKCA requirements
• Routing/level/delay-matrix FPGA spatial audio processor core in configurations 32x32 or 64x64. Field upgradeable from 32 to 64 with license key
• 8-band parametric EQ on inputs, 8-band parametric EQ on outputs, linkable
• 32 assignable and nestable input and output DCA Group level controls, also on front panel LCD
• Input Source Submixer for Analogue (or AES) / Playback Track / Network on each input channel
• Live cross-fadeable Cue Snapshots between Submix sources, I/O levels, level/delay matrix routings. Also EQ without crossfade.
• Cue Snapshots assignable to selectable individual or groups of I/O channels and parameters
• Dynamic delay-matrix spatialisation controllable by PanSpace, TiMaxTrackerD4 and external OSC
• Advanced holistic FPGA smooth delay-panning algorithms for ultimate transparency
• Image Definitions, EQ's, Groups, Channel Labels, System Preset exportable between shows.
• Multi-channel random-access 16-bit/48KHz audio playback 32- or 64-track on 250Gb(min) SSD
• Multiple TiMax units accessible from up to four Mac or PC control software clients
• 256 GPIO input trigger ports matrixed on DB25
• OSC input control of PC/Mac software: levels, mutes, groups, cues, Panspace spatialisation, 3D stagetracking control
• Front panel Menu: I/O Meters/Solo/Mute, Group Levels/Solo/Mute, Show select, Cue select, Utility, IP. Password protected.
• AES Input SRC’s allow different 44.1 / 48 / 96KHz incoming sample rates on any AES3 input pair.
• AES Output SRC’s allow different 48 / 96KHz sample rates and clock source on any AES3 output pair.
• SoundHub-S licence:
  • PanSpace adaptive auto-rendering of Image Definition localisation and spatialisation objects. Embedded TiMax TrackerD4 functionality, per-channel tracking Enable/Disable within Cues.
  • Integrated PanSpace and Time Line automated immersive spatial rendering on multiple SubSpace layers, scheduling and timing of input object panning across level/delay Image Definition objects.
  • TimeLine comprehensive audio playback editing, mix automation, advanced audio showcontrol, Cue input Triggers (FollowOn, MIDI/MTC, Show Clock, OSC) and output Events (MIDI/MTC, UDP, ShowClock) programming. Timing and scheduling of PanSpace programmed trajectories.