8X32 PRODUCER DIGITAL MIXER
X32 PRODUCER DIGITAL MIXER Getting Started
9Quick Start Guide
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Section 1: Channel Strip and Monitoring
The X32 PRODUCER’s channel strip offers dedicated controls for the most important processing parameters of the currently selected channel.
Certain sections of the channel strip (such as the low cut filter, noise gate, EQ and compressor) contain a respectively labeled button that can be pressed to switch the specific effect on and off. The button illuminates to show the effect is active, and goes dark when bypassed.
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 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:
• Config/Preamp |
•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 output located at the front 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
Mixer Operational Overview
Welcome to the X32 PRODUCER digital mixing console Quick Start Guide! This document will give you an overview of the basic operations of the
With the View button approach of the X32 PRODUCER 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.
To adjust controls for a given channel strip, simply press the Select button on the desired input or output channel.
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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.
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 PRODUCER user interface is divided into five major sections:
(1)Channel Strip and Monitoring
(2)Input Channels
(3)Display
(4)Group/Bus/Main Channels
(5)Various Assignments
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.
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 PRODUCER through the Utilities page
Press the Utility button, located to the right of the main display, to bring up useful functions in a
•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
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Some of the individual pages on the main display contain more adjustable parameters
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number indication, e.g. “1/2”. Simply press the Layer Up/Down buttons to switch between layers.
Section 2: Input Channel Banks
You will find a select button on top of every channel that is used to direct the control focus of the user interface, including all channel related parameters (channel strip and main display), to that channel. Please note that at any time, there is exactly one channel selected (either Input Ch
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
•Input Channels
•Input Channels
•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.
Two more layers (Bus Master
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.