hello and welcome to the channel. this episode will walk you through the steps to get your
xr18 ready to connect to reaper if you like this kind of info please subscribe and hit like below
you're going to need a computer for reaper a usb cable computer to run the x air edit software
which can be the same computer as reaper is on and i'm going to suggest a cat5 cable for
a hardwired hookup rather than wi-fi for this just to keep it simple you'll need
to hop on the web and head on over to the behringer website to download some software
you'll want to download the latest x air edit software currently that is version 1.5 while on
the behringer site i would go ahead and download the latest firmware that way you'll have it ready
to load if your x air is on older firmware pc users will have to download and install drivers
i installed the most recent driver first but then i needed to install the older driver as well to
make things work correctly so you might have to as well so download and install the drivers
and also install the x air edit software all right now we need to connect the hardware the usb cable
will be for reaper to talk to the xr18 and the cat5 cable will be for the x air edit software
to talk to the xr now you're ready to load the x air edit software and it should look like this
now the first thing you'll want to do is go to the setup button at the top right
click the setup button to bring up the setup window you should see the xr18 listed in the
left side of the window you'll want to click that if it is not there make sure your ethernet cable
is not connected to the alternet port it should be in the remote port and the switch by the port
should be in the ethernet position once you've highlighted the xr click connect you'll have to
choose mixer to pc or pc to mixer you'll want to choose mixer to pc the software will load
the last scene in the mixer in my case this is my show file scene from tracking a live band
you probably don't want to lose the last show you had in the console so at this point click
save save a scene come up with a name for the show and save it which will save it to this computer
if it's a new mixer there won't be a scene to save so you can skip this step
as soon as this part is completed we need to go back to setup for another setting change
click the setup button to bring up the setup window again
mouse over to the audio midi tab look at the clock rate line you have the two choices of 48k and 44.1
you can choose either one but reaper will need to have the same clock setting as this
so let's just use 48k and then after that we're ready to set up our routing
this time we'll want to mouse over to the in out button at the top right
let's first mouse over to the input tab and check everything here everything should be
patched one to one on the grid just as you see here now mouse over to the usb returns
everything should be one to one just like you see here except for the aux left and right
which will go to 17 and 18 in the same row
next we'll mouse over to the usb sends there are some options here which you can see the
legend at the bottom showing you what each one of these colors represent for recording purposes you
generally want the red ring and that's what's shown here once again it's all one to one
if for some reason yours doesn't have the red ring right click on each one of the graphs and that'll
give you an option to change that we can skip alternet and mouse over to aux out once again
you have a legend at the bottom to show you options and in this case you're going to want
the blue ring for post fader this is actually the typical default setup and it should be fine
and lastly on this page we need to mouse over to the main out tab
typically it should look just like this once you check these settings we can close out of this
and then we'll go back to the main mixer page i'm going to assume some of the ox hats you're going
to use for monitors whether in the studio for headphone amplifiers or actually live work on
stage so let's make sure they're set up for that mouse over on the mixer and choose any channel
then on the top of the screen mouse over to sends and choose that make sure the globe is
highlighted where it says changes affect all channel it should be blue and not grayed out
any of the six outputs that you want to be monitor sends can't be post fader or sub group they can be
pre-fader post eq or pre-eq i have all six buses set as monitor outs and i've made them all pre-eq
since the globe is blue that tells us that all those changes will be applied to every channel
now we can go back to the main mixer page and we're going to have to take one last look at the
routing so we need to click the in out again what we want to look at here is the usb returns and the
usb sends so we'll take a look at usb returns first behringer has given us some handy buttons
that we need to learn about when you're doing a band recording you want to click the off analog
button and load that preset that makes sure that all the mixer channels are getting their signal
from the preamp and not the usb input in the usb sends tab this gives you a couple quick options
this allows you to quickly send the left and right to track 17 and 18. for a live show this
would give you 16 channels of individual tracks plus a left and a right track of your complete mix
or with just the press of a button you can switch back to channels 1 through 18
all lean individual tracks if you want to show mix that's a quick way to do it
what we have at this point is we have everything ready in the xr to be able to send a signal to
your dog we also have it set up so you can bring a two-track mix back from the dawn
or you can bring individual tracks from the daw back into the behringer and even do a virtual
sound check please click the link for part two in part two we'll go through the setup for reaper
and we'll apply some of the things we learned on this video to put it all together
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