Section 1: Channel Strip And Monitoring; Sound Card; Section 2: Input Channel Banks - Behringer X32 Quick Start Manual

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X32 COMPACT DIGITAL MIXER
X32 COMPACT DIGITAL MIXER Getting started
(EN) Getting started
Mixer Operational Overview
Welcome to the X32 COMPACT digital mixing
console Quick Start Guide! This document will give
you an overview of the basic operations of the
mixer, allowing you to get up and running quickly.
While reading through the information in this
document, we encourage you to experiment with the
console's different screens and controls. The console's
user interface was designed to be extremely easy
to navigate through and learn. In addition to this
Quick Start Guide, there is an English user manual
available as a PDF download from behringer.com.
General user interface operation
The X32 COMPACT user interface is divided into five
major sections:
(1) Channel Strip and Monitoring
(2) Input Channels
(3) Display
(4) Group/Bus/Main Channels
(5) Scenes/Assign/Mute Groups
View buttons rule
Throughout the top panel of the console,
you will find small buttons labeled View. Press these
buttons to immediately switch the console's large
color display (known as the Main Display) to show
information related to the section whose View
button you have just pressed.
For example, if you are editing the equalizer
and feel like seeing a large display of the EQ
frequency response curve or corresponding EQ
parameter value, simply press the adjacent View
button in the EQ section. If you need to check where
the monitor signal is being routed, simply press the
View button next to the Phones Level knob and the
main display will show the details.
(1) (3)
(2) (4) (5)
With the View button approach of the X32 COMPACT
console, there is almost never a need to drill down
through multiple menu pages, since the View buttons
will always take you directly to the relevant screen.
Tip: The Setup/Global tab on the main display allows
preferences for the behavior of View and Select
buttons to be adjusted.
Customizing the X32 COMPACT through the
Utilities page
Press the Utility button, located to the right of
the main display, to bring up useful functions in a
"context-sensitive" manner. For example:
• When you are adjusting the equalizer of a
console channel, pressing the Utility button
will offer copying, pasting, loading or saving of
equalizer settings
• Pressing the Utility button while holding a
channel select button depressed will present
a naming screen where you can customize the
channel's appearance on both the main display as
well as the small channel display
• On the Routing pages, pressing the Utility button
will offer loading or saving different presets of
routing scenarios
• In the Scenes menu, pressing the Utility button offers
copying, loading, saving or naming console scenes
Sometimes there is more to say
Some of the individual pages
Dir 05 on the main display contain
Dir 06
more adjustable parameters
1 2
than can be controlled by
Key In
Source the 6 rotary push encoders
Select
located beneath it. In these
cases there is a small page
number indication, e.g. "1/2". Simply press the Layer
Up/Down buttons to switch between layers.

Section 1: Channel Strip and Monitoring

Within the channel strip, the rotary control knobs
are surrounded by an amber LED collar that indicates
The X32 COMPACT's channel strip offers dedicated
the parameter's value. Whenever this backlit knob
controls for the most important processing
is turned off, it indicates that this specific control/
parameters of the currently selected channel.
parameter is not available for the selected channel
To adjust controls for a given channel strip,
type. For example, if an output bus is currently
simply press the Select button on the desired
selected, the LED collar and the gain knob are turned
input or output channel.
off, because there is no input gain to be controlled
Certain sections of the channel strip (such as the low on an output bus.
cut filter, noise gate, EQ and compressor) contain
The channel strip consists of the following
a respectively labeled button that can be pressed
sub-sections:
to switch the specific effect on and off. The button
illuminates to show the effect is active, and goes • Config/Preamp
dark when bypassed.
• Gate, Dynamics
The Input Channels section of the console is located on
the left hand side, and offers 8 separate input channel
strips. These 8 channel strips represent six separate
layers of inputs for the console, including:
• Input Channels 1-8
• Input Channels 9-16
• Input Channels 17-24
• Input Channels 25-32
• Aux Inputs 1-6/USB playback
• Effects Returns
Press any of the correspondingly labeled layer
buttons on the left side of the console to switch the
input channel bank to any of the six layers listed
above. The button will illuminate, reminding you
which layer is active.

Section 2: Input Channel Banks

Two more layers (Bus Master 1-8 and 9-16)
You will find a select button on top of every channel
are also offered, allowing you to adjust the
that is used to direct the control focus of the user
levels of the 16 Mix Bus Masters, which is useful
interface, including all channel related parameters
when you wish to include Bus Masters into
(channel strip and main display), to that channel.
DCA Group assignments.
Please note that at any time, there is exactly
one channel selected (either Input Ch 1-32,
On each fader strip you will find a motorized 100 mm
Aux 1-6/USB, FX Returns 1L-4R, Mix Bus 1-16,
level fader, Mute and Solo buttons, a Gate indicator,
Main LR/C, or Matrix 1-6). DCA Groups
an input level meter, Compressor indicator, and the
(digitally controlled amplifier) cannot be selected
channel select button.
because they control a number of assigned channels
rather than one specific channel.
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• Equalizer
• Main Bus
Each of these subsections correspond to the
processing steps of the currently selected channel,
and they each have their own View button that,
when pressed, switches the Main Display to a page
displaying all related parameters for that subsection.
Monitoring and Talkback
There are two separate Level controls in this section,
one for the headphone outputs located on either
side of the console, and a second one for the monitor
outputs located on the rear panel.
Press the section's View button to edit various
monitoring preferences, such as the input source
for the phones bus and the monitor outputs.
This section also contains independent Talkback
buttons (A and B). Press the View button next to
the Phones Level knob, then press Page Select
right to access the Talkback A and B edit pages.
These screens also contain settings for the optional
goose-neck lamp and the console's internal
test-tone generator.
Each of the 8 input channels has an individual
(and customizable) color LCD screen that can display
a channel number, nickname, and even a graphical
channel icon. In the event that a channel's input source
has been changed to an input signal that differs from
the default setup, the LCD display will also indicate the
name of the actual input source.
Ch01
PC
Aux5
Soundcard
Example: Channel 01 has the nickname Soundcard and is fed
from Aux input 5.