X Air Edit Control Program from Behringer

this is an introduction to the application ex-air edit which you can download from behringer com either for PC or Mac it allows you to control a Behringer XA ur mixer we're looking here at the setup for an XR 18 it's not plugged into the device so this is the offline mode but you can still get used to how everything works working in offline mode so you can download the app from behringer and get used to it and then be all set to go for the real thing looking at the layout here you can see that there are a number of broad areas here in the top left corner we've got all of our tabs to look at different ways in which you can view the settings down on the bottom left here we've got our sliders and those allow you to change the values for things like volume or the amount of signal going to a bus or to an effect in the top right corner we've got all of our settings you can go into setup and make changes there or save or load things and then in the bottom right corner we've got where you can select what it is that you're controlling and we'll get more into that in just a minute so let's go through all of the tabs that we have here across the top we start with mixer which gives you a view of all of the signals that are going out from a particular Channel so here we've got channel 1 and this image here represents the the pan left and right for that channel this represents the compression this represents the EQ this represents the noise gate and then each of these represent the sends going to either one of the six buses or one of the four effects channels and then at the top you've got the input settings and the overall level so if I come here and I mouse over one of these and move my scroll wheel up and down you're gonna see that the amount of send going to a particular bus goes up or down if I move the slider up and down then the amount of signal going to the main left/right is going to chain and if I come up here I can adjust the amount of gain and say that I want a unity gain zero instead of negative 12 which was started at so you can make any of those changes here and you can adjust these in a number of different ways so I'm using the scroll wheel to change my gain up and down or I can click and drag in the box and drag to the right to increase and the left decrease so any of these I can click on them and drag to the right and it's going to increase and once I've got it up I can drag to the left to have it go back down again so you see I've got my 16 main channels here plus the stereo line in channel and so I've got all my channels right here now let's say we want to have a different view we want channel 1 looking at the inputs so here I can do things like say whether I want phantom power whether I want the player to be to be reversed whether I want to link the stereo channel with the channel next to it I can see details of my noise gate my equalizer the compressor all of my sends all of my effects and then main out going to left right or not the pan left and right auto mix DCA groups and mute groups we're going to be talking more about what mute groups are in a few minutes input looks at a more detailed look at the input setting so here we've got a bit about gain USB trim if you're plugging into the USB to a computer and sending it to a DAW how much of that comes back and whether or not we're using USB or straight from the micro line so if you first want to send the signal into a computer process in the computer and then send it to the output you're going to put that on USB if you want to come it to come straight from the line then you're going to put it on mic line next we've got our noise gate this is a way for you to limit low sounds so essentially you're if the sound isn't high enough to get over a particular threshold there's going to be no sound coming through the sense through the signal so if I've got a little bit of histone the channel then I just raise the threshold and suddenly the hiss isn't tall enough to step over that gate and everything else is it's like you're if you're in the kitchen and you've got a pet in the kitchen and you don't want the pet to come into the dining room you put a low gate between the two rooms and then the pet can't get over the gate but people can or if you want that gate to be a little bit higher the pet can't get through and kids can't get through but adults can so the higher you raise that threshold the fewer things can get past that doorway then there's other controls and I'm not going to go into the details of that here equalization is a way to reshape the sound so you can use these to make particular parts of the spectrum more or less prominent and so you can use these to affect how the sound is shaped then we've got compression and instead of limiting the bottom end compression is going to allow it to us to limit the top end and the the most loud sounds now are going to be pressed down to be a lower volume so what we're looking at here is whenever there's a really loud sound like a pop or a snare hit instead of that being really really loud and blowing up the speakers that is going to be a more moderate sound so the sound is still going to come through but it limits how loud any sound on the channel can get and that can be very pleasant in terms of the difference that it has for the sound then we come into a more detailed look at the sends and so here we've got our six buses which you might use to go to a monitor or something like that and so for channel one I can say that I want ditch this much to go to the monitor channel one this much to go to monitor channel two this much to go to the hearing assist system and this much to go to the recording so you can set for each individual channel how much goes to each of those places other than the main left/right furthermore you can choose whether you want for that sound to come directly from the input whether you want it to pass through some signal processing but not go to the EQ after the EQ before the fader or after the fader or after the subgroup so each of these allows you to select where in the signal chain you want the sound to come from and for some channels you might want a very raw sound for some you might want for the EQ to be in the mix and for others you might want not only for the EQ to affect it but also for the slider to affect what happens to that to that channel sound then over here we've got our effects so I can say that I want effect number one to be a little bit in a little bit less of effect two and a whole lot of effect for we're gonna get more into effects in just a second so for each channel you can select how much of these things you want now we have our main tab and we've got main left right and a lot of these things you you'll notice are available on multiple tabs so different tabs have a different focus but a lot of these controls are available in multiple places so I can pan a hundred percent either way or just a little bit and I can select my DCA group a DCA group is a way of controlling a number of different channels together and so you can control the sound of particulars as a group so you might want to select all of the instruments you might select all of the vocalists and put each of those two groups into their own DCA group and then you can raise or lower that group as a whole furthermore you can add different channels to a mute group and that mute group is going to allow you to mute multiple channels at once so here I click on the mute group control down here and you can see that the first four channels are all being muted at the same time as I select or deselect that so you can have two different mute groups here of channels one through four and five through eight or you can very quickly decide which are going to be muted and which are going to be live and then we've got auto mix and auto mix is a way to have multiple microphones live at the same time have the computer decide which one is currently being used and mute all of the others so if you've got a panel discussion and you've got four or five people who are all upfront and any one of them might talk at any one time but you don't want very much sound to come through from those who aren't speaking directly into the mic automix is a way to select who's going to be who then we've got our effects and we've got for effect set here you can change which type of effect you want so let's go with a stereo de-esser and so this is a different way that you can modify the sound and using the effects ends you can control for each Channel how much of that signal goes to which particular effect and finally we've got our meter and you don't see anything here right now because there's no sound going through the system because we're not actually connected to the sound board but if there was an analog input coming through one of the one of the 18 channels here you would see something going on here you would see how much signal is going through the effect sends through the effects returns through the six bus outputs through the USB returns and personal monitoring system which is sold separately so looking at this one page you can see very quickly where the sound is and so if you've got sound coming through but you don't know where it's coming from go to the meter page and you'll be able to see very quickly that oh channel 11 is where I've got a problem so I need to bring that down and so those are all the tabs that you can use to control the sound coming back here to the mixer that the mixer tab you can see that we've changed a few things and that's reflected here in the mixer tab and so I've got a little bit of bus number three some effects some compression and some EQ going on on channel one and I can click on any of these to go directly to what it's looking at so if I want to change the compression on the mixer view I can just click on compression and there I am if I want to change the EQ I click on a cue and there I am if I want to change the noise gate I click on noise gate and there I am so very quickly and easily you can your way around next we're going to look at our sliders here now looking at our sliders there are a number of pieces of information packed into a very tight space here first of all we've got our scribble strip which if I right click on I can change the name of the instrument to bass not NACE and change the color of it so if I can have the green based tab on here it's very easy to see it I can select whether or not I want that to be solo so if I solo it nothing else will come through my headphones only that particular channel and so I can select multiple channels to solo or hit the clear solo button to clear those off or deselect them to clear them next I've got the control for direct input on the channel slider so if I want it to be right at zero at unity gain then I can just enter zero if I want it to be five I can bump it up just by typing five and hitting Enter or if I want it back down I can just slide it all the way to the bottom then we've got which DCA Channel and which auto mix channel this particular channel is assigned to so you see here one one one one I've got my first four channels all assigned to DCA group one we're going to be looking more at what those do in a few minutes I've also got all those four channels assigned to auto mix group X now we've got our slider move that up and down and then we've got four buttons along the bottom here which control which mute group this particular channel is in so if I use the mute groups I can mute multiple channels at the same time and because the first of the four boxes is checked on the first floor channels all those first four channels are in the first mute group and then we've got the channel number down at the bottom now we're gonna look at the controls in the bottom right corner and right now we've got main left-right selected main left-right are the main speakers what comes out that everybody in the room can hear and so I've got a slider here to control the master of the main left-right and I can override that by typing a number here I can solo the main left-right and I can pan it left and right I can control compression on it and I can adjust its EQ the EQ on this has better controls than what you've got on the individual channels we've got a six band parametric EQ a graphic equalizer where you can adjust the the controls using sliders and then a teq a true EQ which is the same thing as a graphic EQ but tweaked so that the curves that it produces are smoother with the graphic EQ if you move two channels down that are side-by-side you can get some unexpected effects because one channel might affect the other one with a t eq it smooths out some of those discrepancies so that you can get a very even curve similar to what you'd get in a parametric EQ but with a graphical user interface so coming back over here we're going to take a look at the other ways in which you can make adjustments so first of all we're going to select our DCA group so DCA one is selected and so you'll notice here that I no longer have controlled the compression EQ I only have a view of the main slider for the DCA group and so if I lower this then the sound is going to decrease for all of the channels that I've got in the DCA one group and so my first four channels will all lower in volume together if I draw down the DCA one slider this means that you know if all of the vocals are a little bit soft that I can just come to DCA one and bump them all up a little bit together without having to go into each individual channel and make adjustments separately which might take 30 seconds in one quick move I can raise or lower all of those sounds together and again I can override that by typing into this box next we've got our buses so if I click on bus one you'll notice that over here everything is gone yellow that's because I'm controlling bus 1 and again I've got equalizer and I've got compression for this as well as pan but for bus 1 I now have control using the sliders for each individual Channel so if I come back to the mixer view you can see that suddenly I'm getting mixer signal in each of those channels on buss 1 so I can go to bus 2 and again control for bus to where all the signal goes and then the same thing for effect so if I want to add some effect to a particular channel from a particular effect I can come here and mix all of the channels at the same time and decide where I want all of those effects signals to grow to go and then at the bottom I've got my mute groups and so I can click mute mute and I've got the first eight channels muted in two quick clicks so if the band is coming back up and the worship leader wants to say something you can quickly unmute all of the audio mics and be able to have that person be heard while keeping the instruments muted so that when someone's picking up their instrument and maybe drops it or touches the strings it's not going to come through the mains and then when they're ready to actually start playing just click that and everything is unmuted very handy to have those mute groups and it makes sense to combine the DCA groups and the mute groups so that the same group that I've got control over with this slider is the same group that I've got control over with those mutes and that way you can very quickly and easily have a look at what's going on there now finally we've got the top right corner where we've got a number of the settings that we can have so using this I can quickly resize this view that I've got here to fit whatever window that I'm in so if I'm in a very large screen I can hit ultra if I'm in a smaller screen like what I've got here I can hit standard and change the size of my view here I can also go into the setup and change the access point or the wireless LAN settings in order to be able to connect to the Wi-Fi in a place you have to put in the SSID and the appropriate security password if you don't get that right you're gonna have real problems and then local area network for when you're plugging in a direct cable audio and MIDI monitor and GUI preferences then you can control your ins and outs ordinarily you wouldn't do too much with this but you can control where your sins go and make sure that everything is exactly as you want it to be we've got some utilities to look at how to do those we'll probably have another video you can save and load information so I can save a scene or I can save a channel preset so the very first time that I set up a channel for somebody I might take some time to adjust their equalization adjust the compression adjust the noise gate and set all that up then I can save all the information so that next time they come to to play with the group I've got all their information preset and I can just load them into whatever situation I'm in then you can save everything that's happening here is a scene and so you can save all that information and so that later on you can come back to it simply loading it back in so when you've got two different churches that meet in one building each one can have their practice set everything up for that practice save all that information and is reloaded on Sunday morning or Sunday afternoon and all their information is going to be right there so the work that you do during the rehearsal you can simply recall it on Sunday morning then to load that you're going to load either a scene or a channel preset let's say that I've adjusted my channel one here and I want to copy it now you see the paste is lit up so I can select channel two and I'm going to say paste and I can choose which information that I want so let's say I want the EQ and the compression settings to paste the channel to now you see here that we've got all that information pasted over to channel two but let's say that I want all that information to go I paste and you'll see that everything including the inputs and the descends have all adjusted to be the same as what it is on channel 1 including the scribble strip so maybe I say that wants to be guitar instead of bass and then I can further go in and make some changes to the EQ to make it exactly what I want but if I've got it closed already on the other channel I can copy and paste what I want over to the second channel so there you have a very brief overview about how everything is laid out there's still lots of information to go into about how all of this is used but that will be for further videos

Channel: Andrew Bellous

Views: 84,555

Keywords: Baptist, church, x air, Behringer, XR18, XR 18, XR16, XR 16, XR12, XR 12, Mixer, Sound, Sound Reinforcement, EQ, Setup, Compression, Noise Gate

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Length: 20min 38sec (1238 seconds)

Published: Thu Jul 27 2017