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<blockquote data-quote="Uli Behringer" data-source="post: 57657" data-attributes="member: 1604"><p>re: X32 Discussion</p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="font-family: 'verdana'">Dear all,</span></span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="font-family: 'verdana'">Someone had posted a great question:</span></span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="font-family: 'verdana'">“Can a pair of S16's provide simultaneous feeds to (and from!) 2 X 32s? (and would any extra hardware be required)?</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="font-family: 'verdana'">Also, are there any thoughts for a software package to optimize an X32 for Monitor mixing use?”</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="font-family: 'verdana'"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="font-family: 'verdana'"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="font-family: 'verdana'">This is in fact one of the coolest elements of the whole X32 system; the on-board AES50 networking that connects the X32 to the S16 stage box. AES50 is a deterministic network that has been designed expressly for use in a live sound environment where latency needs to be ultra-low and channel-count needs to be flexible and ample. For most people the details of how much power is in the AES50 network will come as a shock; especially when you consider that it is included at no extra cost!</span></span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="font-family: 'verdana'">The X32 has two AES50 ports to which you can connect any other X32 or S16. Each AES50 port carries 48 channels of input and output simultaneously, so you can potentially connect up to 96 inputs at one time. Plus, the two AES50 ports can act as a bridge, allowing remote inputs connected to one X32 to be shared with another X32 through the second port. Let me give you a couple of configurations as examples:</span></span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="font-family: 'verdana'">Let's say you are working a festival stage with a couple of different bands so you install 3x S16 stage boxes for a total of 48 input channels. The three stage boxes are looped together with Cat5 cable and then to an X32 in the monitor position off the side of the stage. Another single Cat5 cable connects the FOH X32 to the monitor console. Both consoles can select among the 48 available inputs and mix both house and monitors at the same time.</span></span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="font-family: 'verdana'">Here's another less obvious configuration that does the same thing at an even lower cost and dead-simple setup. Place one X32 at the monitor position and connect all stage mics into this console, then connect the FOH X32 with one Cat5 cable. Now you've got a stage mix and a house mix using only 2 X32 consoles and no stage boxes at all!</span></span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="font-family: 'verdana'">As for your question about monitor software, there really isn't anything extra needed. With full dynamics, processing and EQ on all inputs and outputs, as well as a "mix-bus" configuration, the X32 lends itself to monitor applications right out of the box. With typical consoles you might have a number of pre and post sends, subs and mix outputs. With the X32 you have 16 mix busses that can be individually assigned to pre or post operation so you can build a 16-channel monitor mix that works exactly as you would expect a dedicated monitor mixer to work.</span></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Uli Behringer, post: 57657, member: 1604"] re: X32 Discussion [SIZE=2][FONT=verdana]Dear all,[/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=2][FONT=verdana]Someone had posted a great question:[/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=2][FONT=verdana]“Can a pair of S16's provide simultaneous feeds to (and from!) 2 X 32s? (and would any extra hardware be required)?[/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=2][FONT=verdana]Also, are there any thoughts for a software package to optimize an X32 for Monitor mixing use?”[/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=2][FONT=verdana] [/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=2][FONT=verdana]This is in fact one of the coolest elements of the whole X32 system; the on-board AES50 networking that connects the X32 to the S16 stage box. AES50 is a deterministic network that has been designed expressly for use in a live sound environment where latency needs to be ultra-low and channel-count needs to be flexible and ample. For most people the details of how much power is in the AES50 network will come as a shock; especially when you consider that it is included at no extra cost![/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=2][FONT=verdana]The X32 has two AES50 ports to which you can connect any other X32 or S16. Each AES50 port carries 48 channels of input and output simultaneously, so you can potentially connect up to 96 inputs at one time. Plus, the two AES50 ports can act as a bridge, allowing remote inputs connected to one X32 to be shared with another X32 through the second port. Let me give you a couple of configurations as examples:[/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=2][FONT=verdana]Let's say you are working a festival stage with a couple of different bands so you install 3x S16 stage boxes for a total of 48 input channels. The three stage boxes are looped together with Cat5 cable and then to an X32 in the monitor position off the side of the stage. Another single Cat5 cable connects the FOH X32 to the monitor console. Both consoles can select among the 48 available inputs and mix both house and monitors at the same time.[/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=2][FONT=verdana]Here's another less obvious configuration that does the same thing at an even lower cost and dead-simple setup. Place one X32 at the monitor position and connect all stage mics into this console, then connect the FOH X32 with one Cat5 cable. Now you've got a stage mix and a house mix using only 2 X32 consoles and no stage boxes at all![/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=2][FONT=verdana]As for your question about monitor software, there really isn't anything extra needed. With full dynamics, processing and EQ on all inputs and outputs, as well as a "mix-bus" configuration, the X32 lends itself to monitor applications right out of the box. With typical consoles you might have a number of pre and post sends, subs and mix outputs. With the X32 you have 16 mix busses that can be individually assigned to pre or post operation so you can build a 16-channel monitor mix that works exactly as you would expect a dedicated monitor mixer to work.[/FONT][/SIZE] [/QUOTE]
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