Alex Cooper
Console designer, Midas and Klark Teknik
Major contribution
Alex Cooper designed the Midas XL4 and contributed circuitry and control concepts to subsequent analogue and digital live mixing consoles.
Alex Cooper joined Klark Teknik in 1979 and progressed from testing into console development. He helped build and debug the XL3 prototype, which incorporated some of his circuits, and went on to design the Midas XL4.
For the XL4, Cooper reworked the microphone amplifier and equalization circuitry with particular attention to overload behavior. His later work included the Heritage consoles and contributions to the XL8 and PRO6 digital systems, extending his involvement from analogue signal paths into digital live-sound control.
Key work
- Midas XL4 (1995)
- Heritage 3000 (1999)
- Midas XL8 (2006)
- Midas PRO6 (2008)
In the chronology
Selected sources
- Midas XL4: Ten Years After · Mix
- Midas and Klark Teknik’s Alex Cooper picks up 2009 Gottelier Award · Klark Teknik / AV-iQ
- Midas Consoles Japan · Pro AVL Central