Using the Behringer XR18 with a DAW for multitrack recording

okay so when you kind of open it up before you can uh do anything well there's a there's a power cable around the back and there's an ethernet cable and the usb but the the ethernet needs to be plugged in there we have that switch set to ethernet and then the usb needs to be plugged in here but they of course they don't fit with the uh with the front on so that's that's the thing you need to get started after that is just plugging the usb into your computer and somehow connecting to the network it's a little bit complicated um setting this mixer up because um it's not just an audio interface it's a mixer as well so there are two things you're going to need going on the first is your daw and the second is the x-air software which is how you manage it so i've started the xs software um and i've connected to um the wi-fi or there's a there's an ethernet cable in the back that you can plug into and i've connected the usb as well so the usb connects to my laptop and allows me to do the daw stuff like recording and then you need a network connection to do the managing so there's band wi-fi band wi-fi five connected to those i automatically see that it gets an ip address for me and it finds the mixer and so i can choose that and click connect and then you get to choose do you want to bring the settings from the mixer back to the pc or send the settings from the pc to the mixer generally i prefer to just make the pc match whatever the mixer has so i do mix it to pc so within the software you've got quite a few different modes so if you click mixer in the top left this is your kind of basic um mixer mode where you've got channels you can mute and you can see over here you're on main left and right you can switch to any of the monitor outs by choosing in here you can also see up here at a glance what channels are being sent to the monitors with these yellow bars so this yellow bar alters the amount of this channel is going to output number one auxiliary one and the other thing that you can do is go click channel here which gives you more input on whatever or more settings for whatever channel is selected so if i select the base channel you can see this is where i adjust the gain so i've got something plugged into the base channel and i can adjust the gain as needed and that will that will work inside or that will give us the right level inside the dow as well so and when you set up your daw if you've got the option you'll need to make sure that you get all of the inputs and outputs available to your daw and then you'll create a new track for each thing you want to record and mine the bases on innate so i'm just going to set up one track on in eight and when i arm it um you can see it's receiving on in eight now because like let's say you want the metronome as well what's going to happen is people are going to they're going to be playing singing and listening through the mixer through the auxiliaries so they need to hear the sound coming back from the daw into the mixer as well so my daw just sends on uh out on kind of output one so what i've done inside the mixer is i've kept a channel channel 17 which i've called daw return and at the top here on the left i've changed this to be usb return i think there's more options in input so this is picking up channel one and i guess two i think it may be stereo from the usb so when i play if i hit play on reaper which has got a metronome enabled and then go back to the xs software that's now flashing because the metronome and you can put that channel up or down in people's ears now there's something that you need to note which is that you will want what people hear in their monitors to be just the things that you've got selected in your monitors here but because you're monitoring what comes back from your daw as well they will automatically get this kind of mix back from your daw unless you turn it off somehow so the way i do that in reaper is i turn record monitoring to off and that means while i'm recording don't monitor what's being recorded and i don't need to do that because it's already being sent to the auxiliaries through what's happening here so i think that's the key bit there's there's kind of gate eq compression none of that has an effect on what's actually recorded um uh the other thing is that once you're happy if you click the snapshot button you can save a snapshot so i i saved a snapshot for daw recording which just sets that last channel to be usb and what have you and i saved that's 10 so you could click on that and load that snapshot or you could save one um and then it will automatically have the right stuff set up

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Length: 6min 32sec (392 seconds)

Published: Sat Mar 06 2021