Hello and welcome back to the channel.
with summer gigs on the horizon, a
question has been asked about how to use
usb to connect the xr18 or mr18 to a pc
for break music,
intro music, or backing tracks. So that's
what this video will explain.
you first need to go to the behringer or
midas download page and download the usb
driver for the mixer.
I will include those download links in
the text below.
once downloaded, extract and install the
driver.
in the previous video, i mentioned the
ethernet and usb connections.
ethernet, whether hardwired or using the
built-in wi-fi,
or external wi-fi with an external
router, is for mixer control only.
no audio passes through this connection.
usb is for audio.
even if you use the same laptop for
mixer control and music playback
you will still need both of these
connections on that computer.
you can, of course, use a dedicated pc for
playback
and not need the ethernet connection to
that computer in that case.
Only use the usb connection. once you've
installed the drivers,
and rebooted the computer for good
measure... when you connect the usb
cable to the computer and the xr18,
windows should detect it.
when you right-click the speaker icon in
the system tray, and then click
'open sound settings' you should have an
option to select-
'out one two behringer x air'.
you can also double click the speaker
icon...
bring up this window... and there should be
a drop down where the behringer x air
option is also available.
use either method. we now need to
configure the x
air mixer. we'll open the x air edit
software
and connect it with the mixer.
next, we'll open the routing tab, which is
marked in / out.
We want to click on the usb returns
tab.
most people are going to want to return
the music from the pc into the aux
return,
which is channel 17 and 18. behringer
actually gives us a quick setup option
for this.
this button, usb 1 2 to aux...
click that, then tell it okay.
for usb to channel 17 and 18 on the
behringer xr18,
that made all the changes we needed
automatically. Anything that your pc now
plays
will come up in the aux in channel, which
is (channel) 17 and 18 of the xr18.
on the other hand, you don't have to use
channel 17 and 18 if you prefer another
pair of channels for your stereo signal
from the computer.
you can set this manually. let's walk
through that.
let's reset the usb returns to
'off analog'.
i'll explain what the graph is showing
us. the channels on the left side of the
graph
are our mixer channels. we know the
computer is sending us the music down
usb
1 and 2. so we can pick the channel we
want that music to come to.
in this case, let's say channels 15 and
16.
we'll tell channel 15 to connect to usb1,
which is our left, and we'll tell channel
16 to connect to usb2
which is our right. since we're doing
this manually,
we have one further step. we need to go
to those channels
on the mixer. first select channel 15
and then click the 'channel' tab, like this.
in the channel input section, select usb
as our source.
And now we do these same steps for
channel 16.
select channel 16, select the 'channel tab'...
in the channel input section, select usb
as the source.
channels 15 and 16 are now getting their
signal from usb
1 and usb 2, and that is your computer's
audio.
You have a usb trim control on those
channels to bring the signal up or down
if you need to. you can also tweak the pc
level
on the pc itself
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if you're working with a daw like reaper
then you might want to click on this
link above
for info on connecting to that. leave me
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