Sending PC Audio Over USB To The Behringer XR18 & Midas MR18 - Break Music, Intros, Backing Trax USB

hello and welcome back to the channel with summer gigs on the horizon a question has been asked about how to use usb to connect the xr18 or mr18 to a pc for brake music intro music or backing tracks so that's what this video will explain you first need to go to the behringer or midas download page and download the usb driver for the mixer i will include those download links in the text below once downloaded extract and install the driver in the previous video i mentioned the ethernet and usb connections ethernet whether hardwired or using the built-in wi-fi or external wi-fi with an external router is for mixer control only no audio passes through this connection usb is for audio even if you use the same laptop for mixer control and music playback you will still need both of these connections on that computer you can of course use a dedicated pc for playback and not need the ethernet connection to that computer in that case only use the usb connection once you've installed the drivers and rebooted the computer for good measure when you connect the usb cable to the computer and the xr18 windows should detect it when you right-click the speaker icon in the system tray and then click open sound options you should have an option to select out one two behringer x air you can also double click the speaker icon bring up this window and there should be a drop down where the behringer x air option is also available use either method we now need to configure the x air mixer we'll open the x air edit software and connect it with the mixer next we'll open the routing tab which is marked in out we want to click on the usb returns tab most people are going to want to return the music from the pc into the aux return which is channel 17 and 18. behringer actually gives us a quick setup option for this this button usb 1 2 to aux click that then tell it okay for usb to channel 17 and 18 on the behringer xr18 that made all the changes we needed automatically anything that your pc now plays will come up in the aux in channel which is 17 and 18 of the xr18 on the other hand you don't have to use channel 17 and 18 if you prefer another pair of channels for your stereo signal from the computer you can set this manually let's walk through that let's reset the usb returns to off analog i'll explain what the graph is showing us the channels on the left side of the graph are our mixer channels we know the computer is sending us the music down usb 1 and 2. so we can pick the channel we want that music to come to in this case let's say channels 15 and 16. we'll tell channel 15 to connect to usb1 which is our left and we'll tell channel 16 to connect to usb2 which is our right since we're doing this manually we have one further step we need to go to those channels on the mixer first select channel 15 and then click the channel tab like this in the channel input section select usb has our source and now we do these same steps for channel 16. select channel 16 select the channel tab in the channel input section select usb as the source channels 15 and 16 are now getting their signal from usb 1 and usb 2 and that is your computer's audio you have a usb trim control on those channels to bring the signal up or down if you need to you can also tweak the pc level on the pc itself [Music] if you're working with a daw like reaper then you might want to click on this link above for info on connecting to that leave me any questions or comments below if you like info like this then please like and subscribe to the channel click the affiliate links for the patreon link to support the channel click the bell for notifications check out the other videos and i will see you next time [Music]

Channel: Alan Hamilton Audio

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Id: v0MC76qB0j8

Length: 4min 47sec (287 seconds)

Published: Mon Apr 12 2021