TiMax SoundHub
Unrivalled Immersive Audio
TiMax SoundHub offers unrivalled versatility and control to create total immersion, engagement and impact for any space, any audience.
And it’s easy to spot the difference.
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, fully customisable.
Smooth and transparent dynamic delay spatial morphing.
Uniquely embedded Cueing and showcontrol.
No other spatial audio platform delivers all this in a single box
- immersive audio
- spatialisation
- localisation
- system processing
- showcontrol
- audio playback and editing works with any pro-audio loudspeaker brand
- offers greater versatility in sound system design
What’s more is that individual or multiple TiMax SoundHub units will sit and run shows or immersive installations without any computers attached, day after day and even automatically after powering off overnight and back on next day.
Stage Panorama Spatial System – Beyond Stereo with TiMax High Resolution Localisation
Wherever the performers are positioned or move on stage, the placement of sound can match the visual experience, with enhanced intelligibility and fidelity for the entire audience.
Additional performer tracking can automate localisation as they move about stage, leaving the sound engineer free to concentrate on the subtleties and dynamics of the mix.
360 Spatial System – The Full TiMax Experience
Adding more loudspeakers, with optional overhead speakers, to build a full 360 TiMax system will provide all of the benefits of a panoramic frontal spatial system with the opportunity for a richer, three-dimensional experience, with sound effects and reverb mixes that can spread or move in real time throughout a venue.
Performer tracking will again ease the more complex production by automating localisation.
The benefits of a TiMax SoundHub system for the audience
- Ears will guide eyes, significantly improving intelligibility.
- Improved realism, immersion, engagement.
- Hear the actor, instrument and space, not the loudspeaker.
- Maintain willing suspension of disbelief.
- The same great experience in every seat.
The TiMax SoundHub Approach to Immersive Sound
Object Based Audio
TiMax SoundHub gives you flexible object-based tools to render complex spatial mixes and intimate immersive soundscapes.
It does this by first converting live inputs and audio content – e.g. from mics, console, playback servers – into audio objects, which define individual audio sources. Then it also maps the stage, space and loudspeaker system to automatically render multiple level and delay reference points called ‘Image Definitions’.
Pin Point Positioning and Movement
Users can then position and move the audio objects amongst the Image Definition reference points with their unique level and delay spatial routing, thus ensuring the primary source always appears in the correct 3D space, typically matched to the natural visual source of the sound.
Rather than simply panning between speakers, think of it like adjusting the volume and timing of sounds for different speakers with pin point accuracy. TiMax does this automatically, making performers’ voices and instruments sound like they’re coming from exactly where they are on stage, creating a more natural, realistic and engaging experience.
Full control and flexibility
This spatial audio processing happens in real-time, no matter the size or shape of the space, and the intuitive task-based Mac and PC software makes for a rapid and straightforward workflow with full user control.
With full visibility and control over every spatial audio parameter, users can easily and quickly meet extreme sound design challenges or particularly creative spatial immersion demands.
This depth of control is another reason why TiMax SoundHub stands apart from other solutions on the market.
WorkFlow
TiMax PanSpace
TiMax PanSpace spatially maps a venue in 3D with auto-rendered Image Definition reference points which lets the user plot and edit spatial positions and movements of voices, music atmospheres, soundscapes and effects.
The 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
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
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
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.
Can’t wait to try it out?
Seriously, what's in the Box?
Firstly, no ugly surprises. Quite the opposite in fact.
Each TiMax SoundHub spatial audio processor is a true hardware platform solution incorporating a scaleable, object-based, dynamic delay-matrix and proprietary FPGA DSP engine to manage multiple sources and multiple zones. No packaged PC for us.
The compact 2U chassis comes licensed in 32×32 or 64×64 standard configurations with Dante or MADI I/O. Optional on-board premium quality analogue or SRC AES3 I/O is available in blocks of 16 inputs and 16 outputs. You can also specify reassuring dual failsafe PSU’s and fans.
Comprehensive functionality includes a 3-source submixer per input channel, input and output parametric EQ for source sweetening and room tuning, Image Definition and EQ libraries you can transfer between shows, 32 nest-able DCA groups for flexible source and zone management, showcontrol Cue List including per-channel snapshots for source/fader/EQ/routing, TimeLine with real-time mix automation, built-in editable and loop-able 32- or 64-track audio playback, plus a massive range of uniquely embedded showcontrol hooks.
Having all this in one integrated package avoids extra cost and logistics involved in interfacing and synchronising together with external third-party devices. With its comprehensive Cue List and on-board ports and protocols like Dante, MADI, MIDI, MTC, OSC, UDP/XML and GPIO, TiMax is also quick and easy to hook up to the likes of QLab, Ableton, Medialon, TouchOSC, AMX, Crestron, Q-SYS, and most mixing consoles or other showcontrol and performer tracking systems, including TiMax TrackerD4 precision stagetracking.
When we say it’s the only complete show-in-a-box solution, it’s easy to see why.
- 2U 19” Rack mount steel chassis, 450mm / 17.5” deep, 10kg / 22lbs approx weight.
- Internal FPGA 48KHz / 96KHz selectable, CPU, SSD, MADI or Dante 32×32 (32-Track); 64×64 (64-Track); OPTIONAL AES or Analogue 16×16 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 extra redundant PSU with additional IEC connector.
- 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: <0.002%, 20-20KHz; Fixed latency: <2ms.
- 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 32×32 or 64×64. 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.
- PanSpace adaptive auto-rendering of Image Definition localisation and spatialisation objects. Embedded TiMax TrackerD4 stagetracking 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.
Elements of TiMax processes are mentioned in our US Patent.
TiMax reserves the right to change specifications without notice.
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