X32 Discussion

Re: Wiki Manual

Uli Behringer said:
Since we have such passionate users here, what do you think of the idea of creating a crowd-sourced manual? Perhaps someone here would like to moderate it?
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As I recall, I suggested this back in the days of yore (or was it yesteryear?) and you replied something along the lines of, "the product is always changing and it wouldn't work."

I still think it's a great idea to do a crowd sourced manual though. I say go for it.
 
Re: Updating Firmware

Kevin Hunter said:
Or two probes plugged into a potato :lol:

most of the products I work on that have RTCs use supercaps so there are no batteries , some RTCs only draw in the region of 100nA so can last a long time. On the few products that do use a battery it's rechargeable so it's likely to last longer than the product.

im sure there were pictures of the x32 opened up somewhere , maybe we would spot it in the pictures.

kev
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Look HERE for the only pictures of the inside of the X32 that I've been able to find.
 
Re: Updating Firmware

Henry Moreau said:
- So here is a question that I have asked around with no answer ...............

Not now but in the future the X32 will eventually need a new battery!

What is that battery that will be needed?
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Dear All,
There is in fact a small watch-type battery in the X32 that is used only for keeping the time on the clock. I would suspect it will be a few years before you would need to be concerned with this battery dying, and the console can operate without it. It does not have any affect on your saved scenes, presets, etc.

Best,
John DiNicola
Senior Specialist, Product Support
MUSIC Group
BEHRINGER
 
Re: How to setup for multitrack live recording?

John Chiara said:
If your recording live performances how is any latency affecting the recoding?
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Yep :blush: you are right! I would say ASIO buffer or things like HD speed write, just yesterday evening during the session it stop twice :mad::mad::(:( (son of a...:evil::evil::evil::evil:)
Iv'e disabled all the background function like wifi, antivirus......but nothing:(~:-(~:sad:
 
oscillator

Had an interesting user-error hangup today. At one point I was dialing in monitors and one of my mix busses wouldn't send any signal. I checked the routing, signal flow, everything, and it all checked out. It had worked earlier too. I brought up the oscillator to try to see if it would play noise, and I realized I had left the pink noise engaged on that channel earlier, but turned the volume all the way down. It seems outputs will not pass any signal if you do this. Whoops.
 
Re: X32 Discussion

Martin Zantingh said:
Are you sure you didn't select another set (i.e. set B or C) of user assignable buttons?
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Absolutely sure. No others changed unless you pressed them too.

After about 20 mins of this it suddenly reverted back to normal behaviour, I could assign the buttons to whatever I wanted and they stayed that way when pressed.

All very odd and rather annoying during a gig :D
 
Re: oscillator

Graham Tobias said:
Had an interesting user-error hangup today. At one point I was dialing in monitors and one of my mix busses wouldn't send any signal. I checked the routing, signal flow, everything, and it all checked out. It had worked earlier too. I brought up the oscillator to try to see if it would play noise, and I realized I had left the pink noise engaged on that channel earlier, but turned the volume all the way down. It seems outputs will not pass any signal if you do this. Whoops.
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:lol:
 
alternative uses for P16 / Ultranet port

Robert Lofgren said:
I've also mapped out the ultranet pin configuration and analyzed the protocol and hoping to build myself a simple ultranet-->adat gadget
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Guys, please slow down. I'm still way back on page 315. :-)

Anyway, I just read the above line in a post on page 315 and it got me thinking. Suppose you have an X32 and a couple of S16 stageboxes. Suppose you're not using the P16M mixers and hence you don't have anything plugged into that Ultranet port either on the console at FOH or on the stageboxes.

What else could we use that Ultranet port for? Specifically, if you could build a box to plug into that port, what would that box do?

I noticed that some of the new Behringer amps have Ultranet built into them so it's fairly obvious you could push audio all round a stage to different amps and speakers. But are there any other interesting ideas out there? Perhaps some kind of complicated monitor / cue system for musical theatre? Extra outputs for driving video / TV shoots? Might there be a market for a whole plethora of cheap add on boxes for Ultranet?
 
Re: alternative uses for P16 / Ultranet port

Andrew Prince said:
Guys, please slow down. I'm still way back on page 315. :-)

Anyway, I just read the above line in a post on page 315 and it got me thinking. Suppose you have an X32 and a couple of S16 stageboxes. Suppose you're not using the P16M mixers and hence you don't have anything plugged into that Ultranet port either on the console at FOH or on the stageboxes.

What else could we use that Ultranet port for? Specifically, if you could build a box to plug into that port, what would that box do?

I noticed that some of the new Behringer amps have Ultranet built into them so it's fairly obvious you could push audio all round a stage to different amps and speakers. But are there any other interesting ideas out there? Perhaps some kind of complicated monitor / cue system for musical theatre? Extra outputs for driving video / TV shoots? Might there be a market for a whole plethora of cheap add on boxes for Ultranet?
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Well, since I'm a hardware hacker and I don't know how far away the usb recording card is - Here is my thinking.

Today I got myself a beagleboard-black that I believe can natively understand aes3 that the ultranet builds upon.

Running some linux distro or some nice rtos it should be possible to extract those 16 channels of ultranet wisdom and store the audio stream in a proper format on a disk.

Only 16 channels? Yes, but if you have at least one s16 you get access to another 16 channels up to a total of 48 channels!

Can the BBB handle it? I don't know... Time will tell, unless I get bored.

Another cool feature would be to convert ultranet into digital outputs. I mentioned adat before but we can have spdif or aes3 instead. The mcu that BBB is based on have some really nice features for audio!

Just for fun I've also looked into aes50 and how its implementation is specified. Using that info it might be possible to decode the aes50 ethernet-alike frames. But this is probably not on my list of things to do.

However an interesting question comes to mind. Since aes3 and aes50 are non-properitary does this mean that 3'rd party implementations are licence/royalty free? The adat protocol isn't free as far as I can tell.
 
Re: Pop. crackle and feedback problems

Joseph Schuurman said:
Another benefit is, we're running in a fairly small room (not a large auditorium), so stage volume is a concern. If there is a solo, or an emphisis on this voice, it's nice to have the stage hear that emphasis too (in most cases the electric guitar can fade into the background, but sometimes, it's a more critical member), I don't want to have to turn up that aux send in all monitors, then have to remember to turn it back down, not to mention that I don't even know if I'm giving it too much or not, it's not practical.
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Why don't you just switch your foldback send to post fader? It's not the 'right' way to do it, but it will give you a FOH mix on stage.
 
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