Section 1: Channel Strip; Section 2: Input Channel Banks - Behringer X32 Quick Start Manual

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X32 DIGITAL MIXER
X32 DIGITAL MIXER Getting Started
Getting Started
(EN)
Mixer Operational Overview
Welcome to the X32 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 user interface is divided into five major sections:
(1) Channel Strip
(2) Input Channels
(3) Display and Monitoring
(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 talkback signal is being routed, simply press the
View button next to the Talk button and the main
display will show the details.
(1) (3)
VIEW
VIEW
VIEW VIEW VIEW VIEW VIEW VIEW VIEW
VIEW
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10 10 10
5 5 5
VIEW
0 0 0
– 5 – 5 – 5
–10 –10 –10
– 20 – 20 – 20
– 30 – 30 – 30
– 40 – 40 – 40
– 50 – 50 – 50
– 60 – 60 – 60
– 0 0 – 0 0 – 0 0
(2) (4) (5)
With the View button approach of the X32 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 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
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console channel, pressing the Utility button
will offer copying, pasting, loading or saving of
equalizer settings
Pressing the Utility button while holding a
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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
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will offer loading or saving different presets of
routing scenarios
In the Scenes menu, pressing the Utility button
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offers copying, loading, saving or naming
console scenes
Sometimes there is more to say
Some of the individual pages
on the main display contain
Dir 05
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.
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Quick Start Guide
VIEW
VIEW VIEW VIEW

Section 1: Channel Strip

Certain sections of the channel strip (such as the
low cut filter, noise gate, EQ and compressor)
The X32's channel strip offers dedicated controls for
contain a respectively labeled button that can be
the most important processing parameters of the
pressed to switch the specific effect on and off.
currently selected channel. To adjust controls for a
The button illuminates to show the effect is active,
given channel strip, simply press the Select button
and goes dark when bypassed.
on the desired input or output channel.
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5
0
– 5
–10
– 20
– 30
– 40
– 50
– 60
– 0 0

Section 2: Input Channel Banks

The Input Channels section of the console is
located on the left hand side, and offers 16 separate
You will find a select button on top of every
input channel strips. These 16 channel strips
channel that is used to direct the control focus of
represent three separate layers of inputs for the
the user interface, including all channel related
console, including:
parameters (channel strip and main display), to that
channel. Please note that at any time, there is Input Channels 1-16
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exactly one channel selected (either Input Ch 1-32,
Input Channels 17-32
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Aux 1-8, FX Returns 1L-4R, Mix Bus 1-16, Main LR/C,
or Matrix 1-6). DCA Groups (digitally controlled Auxiliary Inputs 1-6/USB playback/FX Returns
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amplifier) cannot be selected because they control 1L-4R
a number of assigned channels rather than one
Press any of the correspondingly labeled layer
specific channel.
buttons on the left side of the console to switch the
input channel bank to any of the three layers listed
above. The button will illuminate, reminding you
which layer is active.
Within the channel strip, the rotary control knobs
are surrounded by an amber LED collar that
indicates the parameter's value. Whenever this
backlit knob is turned off, it indicates that this
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specific control/parameter is not available for the
selected channel type. For example, if an output
bus is currently selected, the LED collar and the
gain knob are turned off, because there is no input
gain to be controlled on an output bus.
The channel strip consists of the following
sub-sections:
VIEW VIEW
Config/Preamp
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Gate, Dynamics
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Equalizer
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Bus Sends, Main Bus
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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.
A fourth layer (Bus Masters) is also offered,
allowing you to adjust the levels of the 16 Mix Bus
Masters, which is useful when you wish to include
Bus Masters into DCA Group assignments.
On each fader strip you will find a motorized
100 mm level fader, Mute and Solo buttons,
a Gate indicator, an input level meter,
Compressor indicator, and the channel
select button.
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5 5
Each of the 16 input channels has an individual
0 0
– 5 – 5
(and customizable) color LCD screen that can
–10 –10
display a channel number, nickname, and even a
– 20 – 20
– 30 – 30 graphical channel icon. In the event that a channel's
– 40 – 40
– 50 – 50
input source has been changed to an input signal
– 60 – 60
– 0 0 – 0 0
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.