
Carl Cox employs TiMax 3D sound for matter's Birthday Celebrations
28 January 2010
As Carl Cox wowed the gathered revellers during his five-hour Room-One set at matter London’s first birthday party this Autumn, he made the most of the unique 3D room sound effects created by a TiMax audio delay matrix and triggered live via an M Audio Oxygen8 MIDI keyboard.
TiMax is intrinsic to the sound system design in the Thameside superclub and is the key to the ‘tight’ but spatial soundfield achieved in the very large and industrial, high-ceilinged Room One space. TiMax operates in two standard modes: one to optimise the DJ club night sound experience and the second to emphasise the stage focus for live band performance.
Subtle or extreme sound movement effects, such as mix elements spinning or zig-zagging around the room in different directions, are triggered in TiMax by the DJ using the MIDI keyboard. Always keen to assure his crowd of an ever-unique set, Cox incorporated these effects into Matter’s landmark birthday session.
matter’s head of sound, Roberto Pieroni, easily demonstrated the simplicity of the MIDI interface for driving TiMax as a creative performance tool. “I showed Carl the effects he could use and he loved it! He experimented a while and brought the effects into his set with amazing results - he really enjoyed it!”
It’s perhaps further testament both to the artists and also to matter’s groundbreaking immersive club environment that this ended up being a record night in terms crowd numbers and revenues.
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