X32 Firmware V4 | 101 - Surface Overview
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- Опубликовано: 15 окт 2024
- Behringer has released Firmware V4 for the X32. This update brings some amazing features like 1 to 1 patching but also changes the look of the menu structure. I am putting out a full new series of training videos specifically on version 4 firmware! This first video is an overview of the surface of the Behringer X32 showing you all of the different sections of the board.
Keep an eye out for more videos coming shortly and make sure to check out my blog at www.dbbaudio.com for more free training and tutorials.
Drew Brashler
Drew. Thank you so much for your years of support towards this product.
My church has had this mixer for 5 years now and its been such a Godsend for making the music sound better and for multitrack recording our worship sessions. All this from hours of research and studying your videos.
Bless you mate, you have helped me so SO much.
Thanks so much for the comment, I love hearing about this. Hope you and your church are doing well during these crazy times.
Quick note of thanks, we're new to the X32 party, but with the release of the firmware update just a few months ago and these videos, it's almost like we're day one adopters.
When I bought my X32 about 4 years a go it was your videos that got me going on this mixer. Thanks for the updates.
Yeah, the same goes for me. I have a X32 one year now and still learning every time I'm using it.
Drew, thank you for the great and helpful videos and nice to have you back on your channel.
Greetings from Black Forest, Germany!
Thanks so much Drew. I was waiting patiently for your video series. Welcome back!
You are very welcome!
Absolutely the best explanation of this board I've seen. Thank You !!
An excellent video, Drew! Clear and intelligible, as we should expect from any good sound engineer! Keep making videos, please.
Great start with firmware 4. I will watch all future videos. God bless you Drew.
Thank you so much!
That RTA view of this EQ is excellent for taking the harmonic ring out of a room or removing feedback from a fixed mic. When leveling a fixed position mic I like to push the fader/FOH until I begin to detect emerging feedback. The RTA view of the EX shows a sharp blue signal slowly growing on the display. Its as simple as your search and destroy to to put one of the eq selections on that frequency and attenuate that feedback frequency. WOrks great.
YES! I love using the RTA view for helping find frequencies. Especially using the spectrograph view of the RTA to show the time history!
Thanks for taking the time and making these X32 videos - they're very helpful and a great resource
You're very welcome!
Thanks drew ! Greetings from ATX. Your videos have helped me sm over the years thank you!!👍🏻
Great to hear! I always love hearing that these videos are helping people. Hope this new series is the same way!
Always doing something new...Thanks Sir Brashler....You are helping me a lot
Man this is great. Just got the X32 2 weeks ago. can't wait for the other videos.
I know you probably are so swamped that it is unlikely... but an updated version of "Case Study - Jerry" with firmware 4 would be exceptionally helpful to us newbies!
Drew Thanks for this video! Do have any videos or plans to do a video on 'Why' one would use a gate or a compressor or time the reverb manually etc. The reason I ask is, I see these functions but I don't know why I would use them or what sound I am looking for or what situation they are ideal for and also what was the thinking behind creating these functions in the first place. If this is sophomoric and basic information I apologize but I ask all the same due to the fact I have no formal classroom music theory just have an ear for sound. I have been using the board to 7 years and would like deeper understanding so I can choose when to use these features. Thanks!!!
We are just volunteers and no nothing about boards. When our church decided to buy the M32 and X32 we did not know what to do. It was your videos that gave us ideas what to do. 6 years later we still go back to your videos. Frankly we still have not use compression or DCAs and a lot more. Your videos as I have said gives us ideas of the power of the board can do. Someday we will fully utilize 50% of its functionality. LOL. We appreciate you. Keep making this videos so we can use our boards to its fullest. May God bless you more.
one of the best vids I've watch on this board! Great job!!!
Also. Since you are diving into the user patch. I have a scenario for you if you want to use this as a demonstration.
X32 is plugged into computer via the usb card.
Card inputs 1 and 2 are the stereo output from the computer going to faders 31 and 32, so you can play music and media and have its audio transfer digitally rather than through the pc's headphone port.
The tricky one for me that I eventually got working was getting reapers main output (after all its effects processing for broadcast) going into card input 3 and 4 to then come out of aux 5 and 6. The idea behind this is if you are using an external streaming device like the ATEM mini pro as it has a 1/8 jack for audio.
I will make sure to cover something like this! I can see churches using the X-USB card for getting backing tracks & click from a DAW for playing along to live. This would be a similar routing to what you are looking to do. But it sounds like you nailed the routing on this one! Great job!
Great overview!! Concise and very helpful. Thanks Drew. SUBSCRIBED!! Do you know if its possible to use the AUX INS / OUTS to run outbboard FX gear? I can't seem to route this with any success? Thanks!
Thanks so much for these videos! Will be using it to train church volunteers. Looking forward to more videos on x32
You're welcome, Edward! Glad this will help you with training your team!
6:30 the mute button can be used as an inverse, meaning, you can set it as an "on" button for the channels so you'd have to press them to get the channel working. some older consoles work like that by default.
Thanks from Germany Drew....It is always a great help for me as a technician in our church band. Thanks a lot for this. God's blessing.
You're welcome! Thanks for watching!
Thank you for these awesome videos Drew. These are so cool. Well done mate.
Hey Drew great post as usual..
Very informative. I have the X32 and LOVE, LOVE, LOVE IT! But sometimes I use it to track my stuff inside of Studio One software. I love the sound of the reverb and delays of the console but when I track to software I lose the effects and just have the bare audio. Do you know if there's anyway to track it inside of my DAW with the effects still on them?
Thanks again,
Mike
Thanks for the question, Mike! I also love the sound of the effects. I have a blog post about recording with effects, you can read about it here: dbbaudio.com/2016/behringer-x32-recording-with-effects/. Hopefully this helps you out with your setup!
Can you create a V4 playlist with this as first video? Then we not only get notified of new videos, but the playlist can be saved to our library for referencing 👍
I was going to wait to post a second video, but I'll go ahead and do that now! Thanks for the ask!
Great work mate.....you maintain my faith in the X32👍🏻
Thank you for the video. Your videos are helpful for me to handling the mixer at the Church... From Sri Lanka
Thanks brother. You're a powerful ministry! I've learned many things from your videos. Thanks and be blessed.
I even built more than a few Aurycle Mic kits😂😂👍👍👍 the 87 model isn't half bad. I love the tube Mic also
I appreciate that so much! Thank you for this comment. How do you like the 87 model? I have pondered making one.
@Drew Brashler The 87 is clean and pretty nice. The build is not too bad at all. Just have to plan your soldering carefully because it has 2 boards. They get connected by a few wires. I haven't modded anything yet. Just stock build for now. The sensitivity isn't bad at all. Low noise and definitely not so brittle a sound as those Bm800 cheap mics. The tube Mic single capsule definitely has more sensitivity than the Fet 87. I built 5 of each Mic. I use cardoid for Mic up and they sound great. Not bad capsules at all. I built the stock versions. I'll probably get to tweaking them with tubes and better transformers. TMI makes the replacement transformers for the Neumann U47 and the U87. The stock tube isn't bad for generic use. But the transformer could be swapped out. The turn ratio isn't bad. Sorry to ramble on lol. I want to use Mallory parts next build. I might build the dual diaphragm tube kit. Or i might just change the capsule and go with the CK style capsule. The Aurycle circuit board is already setup for the two extra cap and resistor i believe. I'll go with an aftermarket power supply for it. They're all pretty much neutral and can maybe grab a warm audio tube Mic supply unit. Just that mod alone would be awesome. Take care and I'll do some studio samples with the mics and give you a link.
Those circuit boards are not bad at all. They do the trick lol from point a to point b then out to point c lol. I've even done miracles with a bag of tricks with tracks recorded with those cheap China mics lol. Aurycle is beyond a cheap Chinese Mic. Real solid brass and not cheap aluminum casings. They definitely can be built into a $3k microphone.
Hi Drew, Thank you so very much as always for these tutorials. They are very helpful to many. May God continue to bless you, brother. Some of us are still using the good old snake connected to the local inputs. In your future videos, please do not forget to cover that in you routing lesson. The routing section of the X32 board is still a mystery to me. How can I route bus11 and 12 to the USB card for live streaming. Also I route my X-USB card to Garageband for multi-channel recording but not getting any sound into Garageband. My Mac/Garageband recognizes the usb card inputs from the X32. Could you this be a set up issue on the X32 board? Thank you and God bless
Thanks Drew, extremely helpful, thanks for you very detailed teachings
Drew, thanks for the videos. You've saved me many times as our church ramped up on our X32 Producer. Do you know if this upgrade works on the Producer form factor?
You're welcome, I'm always happy to help! Yes, the firmware works for all of the versions of the board. So you will be golden! Make sure to back up your data to a USB before you install any updates.
Drew! Thanks for these "basic" videos, but I will confess, I'm BRAND NEW to sound mixing. We just bought the x32 and haven't even set it up yet. My question is...do you have to have a degree in sound engineering before I watch these videos? I don't understand half of what you are saying! Where can I go to get concise lessons on what these terms are like compression, gain, matrix, and bus's? Thanks!
Remember to update your x32 Edit, too. It has to be updated or it won't connect to the console after the firmware update.
Hey Drew, haven't upgraded our X32 to v4 yet .... couple of questions 1) our environment doesn't change very often, are there features in v4 that makes it worth upgrading? 2) will the upgrade maintain all my settings or does it reset the board to zero? Thanks much - greatly appreciate your videos!
Great question, Darren! With every firmware release, Music improves various bugs and releases new features. You can always look in the firmware release text note which details all of the new features of each firmware.
As for updating your console, you would always want to back up your console to a USB drive before making any firmware update. I make it a regular task for me to make sure I have backups of every piece of gear I own. When I moved from version 3 to version 4, it did not reset everything to zero.
Thanks for watching and let me know if you have more questions in the future!
The 1:1 routing alone makes it worth the upgrade.
Be careful though when I updated my board I lost all my settings and I had to start over from scratch but now that it’s updated and I have everything set again I’d would wipe the board 10 times over if I could get the features of the update
When I updated my Compact & Rack they both re set all the options on the Setup screens including the Sample Rate (you can’t save them so I recommend taking a photo of the screens with a phone) and also all the User Presets for Channels, Fx, Routing, etc that are accessed from Library or Utility. They both kept all the Scenes tho. You can back up to a USB sick using the socket on the surface, or to a PC/MAC running X Edit.
Hey man welcome back to the planet.
Where ya been?
I was hired on as the Technical Director at Christ’s Church of the Valley in Peoria, AZ! So, I have been pretty busy over the last year or so with that. But it is good to post some videos again! Thanks for supporting me!
Mix bus can be set as : post fader or subgroup...whats the difference between these two ?
Hello, My name is nehemy Versailles, Your online video are very details about the X32, I have an online course can I use you content as a learning guide for a paid course?
Thanks Drew. Well done teaching video that was a tremendous help!
Thank you so much for doing this. You are such a blessing.✝
You are so welcome. Thanks for watching, Tim!
Do u have any videos on m32?
Definitely you are the best x32's GURU!!!
Blessings brother
I NEED a Rack version of the Behringer Wing. Because I NEED both a slot for Waves Soundgrid AND a built in USB for interface, not having to choose or lose throughput!!!
Thanks Drew... will you also be doing a video on matrix? I actually don't use them but would like to.. but need to understand it a bit more.. anything you can do to help would be much appreciated
Yes I will! I love using the Matrix section for routing the LR mix to multiple areas in my church. I end up sending my Main LR PA through matrix 1&2, then a subwoofer send through Matrix 3, typically a cry room/mothers lounge/lobby through matrix 4. It basically is a way to have a separate volume control, EQ, and dynamics for sending your mix through to various destinations. Thanks for watching!
@@DrewBrashler oh wow.. ok.. currently I just have all my inputs going through Main LR PA.. and use inserts of parametric eq to take out the bad frequencies.. also using the bus outs 1 and 2 for my subs... but I think I'm going to try the way you do it ... looking forward to the video.. thanks for all you do for us.. God bless you sir..
Thanks Drew for all you do!
My pleasure!
You could do 1for1 patching in older firmware, each channel had a selectible source. Used to do that all the time from edit on the computer, it was just no as easy as it is now.
Yeah before the 4.0 update I would do the same thing. Could never understand why more people didn't realize this.
You could pick what input each channel used but you could only select where the inputs came from in groups of 8. Example if you had a S32 on stage but you needed 4 inputs at the board for wireless you would have to select 8 inputs at the board leaving you with only 24 on stage. Now you can just use the 4 at the board giving you 28 on stage.
Much better sound Drew, cheers
Thanks for the feedback, Frank!
Drew! what's the best option in the USB configuration tab to record the audio ?
Drew, this is brilliant for my church. It's a well put together video and a great opportunity for refresher training for my team! We tend to know the things we regularly touch and totally forget the other stuff. :) I so appreciate your commitment to all mixers but particularly the church market. You are my go to resource for all things X32. God bless you.
Thank you so much! I love that this is going to help you and your team!
Hey,
Checking out V4 but not certain. Our church has the X32 Compact with 2 S16's. I have the first set to default (outputs 1-8) and the second one set to the +8 LED in order to get outputs 9-16 but it's still saying that outputs 9-16 "outputs are not connected to any physical...." you know the deal. In the routing menu there are only 2 columns under outputs instead of 4. I can only dial in outputs 1-4 and 9-16. What am I doing wrong or is this a firmware issue? We are not updated to V4 yet - I believe we're still at V3. HELP!
Awesome tutorial! Thank you very much
Greetings! Your videos are as always Useful for us .. This video focuses on the main things (I think you talked about them many years ago) .. I have a M32C model - I need to use Solo so that the sound comes out through Maine LR "-how to do it right? And the second question - how do I put the "MONO" button on ASSINGS A / B / C (on any button in them).? Thanks again for your videos - I put you "Like" as always!
Thank you so much for watching! I just released another video that might answer some of your questions. But the Solo would not work if you are wanting it to only come through the Main LR. It would however, come out of the Control Room/Monitor outputs on the back of the board.
Great job! Thank you so much!
Thank you so much man, this video really helped me❤️
I'm using the behinger x32 in my home studio, can I add two sets of monitors speakers directly to the x32 and switch from one set to the other without using a speaker switcher
Hey Drew I want to use the Full size X32 to do a manual studio mix with a 24 track count coming back from LPX. I need to change scenes from verse to chorus and such. Are the scene changes fast enough to print the mix in real time? Thought u might have some suggestions...Thanks Joe from Staten Island....
Needed to know ahead of time before I configure the console or even set up for a client.....
This is great brother definitely necessary...Joe from Staten Island
What does „REC/PLAY“ Switch on the input routing screen do? Can’t find any info about it…
Hello Drew,
I have a x32 compact going to a
Zenbook Duo runnuing OBS.
I'm trying to run a video with music on it as a backing track. I want to run just a guitar and vocal back to OBS for streaming along with the music (but not the music as it's already in OBS) from the video. The video has audio that hha sample rate of 44.1 k. How ever the x32 is only recieving from OBS at 48k. When I try to stream it, I get sample rate issues (popping and cracking noise) and out of sync video. I've tried to change the sample rate on the x32 and OBS to 44.1k but the board is not recieving it as such. Please advise. Thanks Drew...:-)
I’ve seen the compact and producer with fewer faders 🎚 what is the the difference with this particular model? Can you give me an advice am planning to upgrade our church mixer to digital which one is better Yamaha tf1 or this x32? Thank you, new sub here.
The only difference between the compact and producer is the faders. As he mentions, the left side of the board has 16 faders, while the right has 8. On the compact and producer, they have 8 on the left and right. You may need to get another piece of hardware to use all of the channels on the producer and compact.
Hey Drew,
have you had any issues using a PC with the x32 X Live card? Works fine on my mac but does not show up on my PC
Hello there thanks for this video. So much insight.... One question. If I update and load the new firmware. Would this wipe everything and I’ll lose all my current settings?
Thank you and God bless
Video request: Taps and Inserts. Everything I've seen states what these do but they have really gotten me in trouble. I think my failure to grasp the concepts is that some Insert a signal and some tap a signal to route elsewhere (I think. As I said I'm not grasping the concept). I proved it by changing the pre/post faders , mutes, etc on mix bus or channel settings and accidentally create a multiplexer of sorts that keeps sound going to FOH even if i pull the faders to bottom . Also I've changed a pre/post fader and instantly drove feedback to FOH that the Main fader wouldn't stop it. Had to kill the power amp to stop it. Since this was DURING A WORSHIP SERVICE i'm a bit skiddish about playing with them but it's only when the house is full that I can really dial in the mix. Any guidance made Barney-simple would be apprecioatred.
Great idea on the video request. I also agree this is one area that is easy to confuse! Take a look at this blog post on the signal taps, it might help clear up some of your confusion! dbbaudio.com/2017/x32-output-tap/
Excelente hermano !
Welcome back!
Thanks so much!
Hi Drew, I have the x32 compact (4.02) and X32 Edit running on windows (4.01) and have always struggled with most of it because I seem to be using it completely differently to how most engineers use it.
I want to run it specifically with my computer for both LIVE streaming of my ordained wife with vMix whereby I can EQ audio from online guests on the stream as well as connect to cubase for recording .
The reason I bought it was to also wanted to add local studio based guests in my stream via instrument or vocal and run my Native Instruments items (S88 keyboard & Maschine 3) through it.
I am not a sound engineer by any means, more video and editing and kinda know enough to get audio through ASIO to board and Cubase but I wonder if there are any others like me out there.
I have tried some X32 facebook groups but found them to be less than welcoming.
Would you have any video recommendations to look at that kinda lend themselves to this kind of setup.
Many Thanks
Wallasey Parishes I'm not entirely sure why you'd need to EQ the sound again to your live mix, I believe you can record on Cubase, apply EQ there and route Cubase's output to vMix.
Anyway, I'd recommend starting to EQ your mains to your room using pink noise beforehand, this way you could probably use the channel's EQ in your stream mix without a problem by routing it trough a mix bus.
I think I understand what you are trying to do with it. I don't personally use vMix, but a quick Google shows that the software only supports 6 channels of recording. I don't know if this is accurate for the software and if that translates to not being able to support 32 channels of audio. My recommendation is to separate your video streaming computer from your audio computer. You will most likely need to get another audio interface to bring multiple channels of audio out of the streaming computer, bring it into the X32 and then bring it as a stereo mix back into the streaming computer.
I wish there was more I could explain, but without having my head around all of the intricacies of your setup, it would be my best guess.
Thanks so much for watching!
Hi Drew, do you think you might be doing a video on the Midas DP48 in use with the Behringer/Midas boards?
I have thought about trying to track one down to make a video on! I'll keep my eyes out for one!
If the firmware update is intialized, will that cause the settings of the X32 board to go back to default ? Can’t find that info anywhere.
When I updated my Compact & Rack they both re set all the options on the Setup screens including the Sample Rate (you can’t save them so I recommend taking a photo of the screens with a phone) and also all the User Presets for Channels, Fx, Routing, etc that are accessed from Library or Utility. They both kept all the Scenes tho. You can back up to a USB sick using the socket on the surface, or to a PC/MAC running X Edit.
Update looks great I love the dark mode
Yeah, I agree! The 1 to 1 patching will be a game changer for some users!
Awesome and GREAT help! Thanks!!
Glad it helped! Have a great day!
Has the New firmware update fixed the DAW Remote function
Thanks for the overview. Quick question: Does anybody in x32 world have any idea why I cannot seem to unlink the gains for channel 1 and 2? I adjust channel 1 and it also adjusts chan 2 and visa versa. There are paired somehow with only the gain. These channels are not stereo linked together nor are they configured to each other in any way. I even tried reinstalling the firm ware 4.0. Anyone?
HI
You may well have already tried some of these solutions but perhaps they will help:
(When setting up for a new show I always have X-Edit running on a computer to give a clear overview of the Channel settings, Sends on Faders, and Routing and it is far easier to spot mis-settings than with the mixer screen.)
1/ On the Setup / Config / Link prefs: Does de-selecting ‘Delay+HA link’ solve the issue? If so re-select the ‘Delay+HA link, and go to 2/ & 3/
2/ Are any other Channels linked intentionally? If so unlink them, does that solve the issue?
3/ Check on the Routing / Input / Block patch. that you don’t have two Input block patches set to the same channels (even if you are not using them). Also check this on the new for Ver 4.0, Routing / Patch / User. page.
Something that has caught me out is on the Routing screen: The 6th encoder switches between Record & Play routing configurations, so it is possible to be editing the routing on the wrong table!
You could also try:
Loading a new un-modified scene on X-edit, then from it’s Setup page synchronize PC to Mixer.
Reset the mixer from the Setup / Global screen. Though the software up date resets many things back to ‘factory’, when I updated my X32s both kept the saved Scenes.
Let me know how you do
Cheers Dave.
I've been trying to get in touch with you, Drew. What's the best way, please?
Any advise for why the headphone jack is only come out of one side of headphones, regardless of which set of headphones are plugged in?
🤔 maybe it's the 6.3mm to 3.5mm adapter ?
HOW DO YOU SAFLY SHUTDOWN THE X32 ON THE NEW UPDATES??
+1 for mixing in house music :-)
Can you use this audio console for on-air radio broadcast to take calls off the air??
Does this apply to Midas versions?
So you're able to patch each input 1-1 instead of banks of 8, but there's no way (as far as I know) to rearrange the order the channels appear in the layers like input 16 in the first channel fader, like that in an allen and heath console
Oh of course.
Go to the channel. Home tab > config and then you have the option to select input.
UltraSamurai Oh cool
@@UltraSamurai Would like to see a video on that. Hopefully Drew makes one
@UltraSamurai got this one correct! I will talk about this in my upcoming video on Routing an Input to a Channel. Should be one of the next videos I release!
Thanks Drew
Absolutely! Thank you!
My band uses the x32 along with the p16 monitoring system, we seam to be having the problem with the p16’s in that we have the channel volume on the unit at full then the main mix volume on the unit at full also and still it’s not loud enough, Is there a way to boost the output from the board to the p16???
Christian Ham Peragine how are you setting gain on the X32?
number1rugby are you talking channel gains?
number1rugby I set the gains on channels around -12 sometimes I set them a little higher or lower depending on what it is I’m micing,
He's back! hahaha
Great teacher!
Thank you! 😃
Hi, is this new firmware also good for Midas M32R?
Yes it is! However, you would want to get the Midas version of the firmware for your console. Thanks for watching!
I want to send the signals in the input channels to the matrix.
For example, connect the first channel input signal to the second matrix channel.
sample :
The Matrix 1 output is the same as the main, but I want to hear the vocal sound more in matrix 1.
because matrix 1 rear speaker
Im thinking for that you would be using a stereo bus that is receiving all channels post fader.
So basically set all channels to 0db with vocals boosted to taste. So now when you mix for the main speakers it will reflect on the rear speakers with that boost to vocal channels.
@UltraSamurai hit this one on the nose! The mixbusses are the sends from the channels, and the matrix is a send from the mixbusses. There is no way to directly send a channel to a matrix without going through a mixbus first. Hope this helps!
@@DrewBrashler understood thanks
Thanks dude!!!
You bet!
great
can someone tell me how to send the EQ and effects of an input to computer? - its for our church livestream
If i understood correctly your request you want to send the sound of your mic with FX and treatments that you made included in the channel to your computer. To do that you can send a mixbus through thé card. To do that, go to thé routing section, block "card" and choose "Output 1-8", then bé sure that thé Mixbus 1 is sent to your output 1 (by default it is the case normaly in the section routing, patch points, "OUT") and you just have to send your mic in your Mixbus by thé sends on fader, don't forget to raise up thé Mixbus fader because thé sending is postfader. Hope i helped you (and sorry if i did mistakes, i'm french...)
@@samuelrazzano4684 Thank you so much for your help! God bless you.
I wish thy came up with a way to have custom layer on the console like the software,.
I wish this too! That would be a great feature. They did manage to add that to the Behringer Wing, which is a great upgrade if you ever find yourself with a maxed out X32! Videos to come on the Wing!
Thx
You're welcome!
The more I watch about the x32, the happier I am for my good old Roland M400. There's too many settings on the x32 in my opinion
behringer always use cheap materials ...
Um, no. That is just not true. They had a bad reputation, but they have a lot of great products, including this mixer.
You should change the title of the video. This is a complete run over the console not only the new features. So for me it is not interesting anymore. Sorry.
gotta laugh at these church "techs"
What would you call them?
lol John. what are your credentials? I would love to hear them
if you dare a hole
@@philosophiabme morons
@@cdubb9781 sorry chap, but i cant take a grown adult who uses this "lol" kiddy text seriously.
Great video! Thank you so much.
Glad it was helpful!
Great
Thanks!