Behringer X32 Snippets, Scenes, and Cues

What in the world is a Snippet? What is a Cue?! And, how does this actually relate to me and how I use my Behringer X32 in MY venue?!!
Behringer X32 Snippets, Scenes, and Cues are a commonly overlooked and misunderstood feature of the Behringer X32 and Midas M32 console. Not only do the three work together but getting a firm grasp on how to use these three things can improve your workflow on the sound board!
Make sure to check out the blog post on this at dbbaudio.com/2016/behringer-x...

[@MarcEverettProductions]

Thank you so much for the in-depth information that you put into every video. Between you and the Behringer Webinars, I felt so competent with the X32 family well before I had the opportunity to intergrate an X32 compact into a local church's system. Keep it coming!!!

[@toddfolie1728]

Another first class presentation. I really appreciate how you relate your instructions to real world applications. Extremely helpful!-Thank you

[@DrewBrashler]

Thanks so much Todd!

[@Houstonmom1000]

Thanks for taking the time to make this video. You are a great teacher!!!

[@adantzlerdantzler]

Great Drew you have the most informative directions of the x32 I love this board and I need to see these functions described and you do great keep putting out videos please ...

[@615blue]

Thanks for clearing up my biggest immediate question upon unboxing our church's new x32 :-). Keep up the good work!

[@dompre301]

it's now time to comment. me and my band got an x32 producer some days ago and since i knew we'll buy it, i literally watched hours of your videos about it and you helped me so much! i have never used a digital console before and the x32 producer first seemed way to complex for me, but you really helped me to understand much of it and now i can hope that someday i'll even have a nice workflow :-D thank you v e r y much! it helped me a lot

[@philippebaudoin5803]

Thank's guy ! very clear when you explain Scènes , Snippets & Cues.

[@ljwoollett]

another great video drew I've learnt so much from them keep them coming

[@DrewBrashler]

Thanks so much!

[@TJF97]

@@DrewBrashler You ever reply to the questions people have or just the compliments?

[@billkingsbury4667]

Started watching you a couple years ago when my former school was looking at getting new soundboard. We use it for theatrical production and musicals, but the knowledge is all the same. I have to say, very impressive presentation and explanation, along with examples or what you are doing. I may be teaching some students on the board and will probably incorporate your videos into the class. I hope Behringer knows how good a job you are doing breaking down the digital barrier for a lot of newbies. Keep up the good work!

[@DrewBrashler]

Thanks so much, Bill. I really appreciate it!

[@learj25]

Awesome job! Thanks for the knowledge.

[@user-tf1oo9rj6u]

Sweet! I'm thinking *I'll try out using snippets to load individual singer tunings to specific mics.* We have a few leads and the rest of the singers change a lot. This will let me pull up a general profile, load premade eqs for the main singer to the main vocal mic, then load the individual backup singers to a mic they've been tuned on before. *We color code our mics, so this will mean that when I'm gone the other sound booth helpers can use my eq's (which they don't understand how to make).*

[@talismantheatre5575]

Excellent presentation!

[@DJBOBKAT64]

Very Clear explanations ! Thx very much from France ! I was in LA last October ;)

[@stevendierkes6028]

Thank you. I finally understand the differences between these!

[@soumya2309]

It Worked perfectly after trying other methods this one was the best one, Thanks.

[@absolude]

thanks saved me a lot of time and pain for my show coming later this evening!

[@clearwavepro100]

Super helpful! I have a church that utilizes this board, but I don't believe they have yet to explore these helpful features, (I'll help them with this) and thanks to you for the great work, it is appreciated!!!

[@DrewBrashler]

Glad to hear it!

[@edtsch]

Thanks so much for this! I was wondering some typical use cases for the snippets. I was also wondering why you didn't use the Next button in the Show section.

[@tonyredukan]

Really informative! Thanks 🙏🏼

[@geekzone1]

THANK YOU. Cues are going to be super useful for service ordering.

[@DrewBrashler]

Very good! Thanks Ben!

[@dennislarson4960]

Thanks for another great video. There is lots to absorb here, maybe a bit more detail in explanation [slowly!] as to exactly what you are doing, and how (on the board) you are doing it, but also the situations in which you would use each of these powerful features. The idea of using snippets for specific songs (rather than a full scene) was very helpful. More on how one might use "cues" (and just how to do that) would also be helpful. As a newbie coming from the analog world, there is a much more to wrap my head around. ;-)

[@mickeymiguel2726]

Good show 👏

[@Anton-wc7lb]

Fabulous, thank you so much!

[@paulmorrey4298]

Great Video best explanation of Cue`s etc that I have seen. Thanks

[@DrewBrashler]

Thanks Paul!

[@jcschild6321]

I'm kind of new to the Behringer X32 but I need to know how to copy and save single channel settings from one scene to another scene. Thank you Drew for all your shared info and knowledge!

[@jonahguerndt6214]

JCs Child don't know if you have the info by now, but you hold the select button of the channel you want to copy, while holding select, also click the utility button. There is a copy feature and you can choose what to copy. Then you would hold select for the channel you want o paste to, then while holding select click on utility again, then paste.

[@ibam5068]

thanks, downloaded, all works!

[@rendellfrunk8457]

Drew, great video. 2 questions. How do you unmute channels in snippets and how do you overwrite a snippet? Thanks!

[@angeljimenez3737]

When do you have group trainings for the X32

[@scullytr]

Thanks for the great videos on the X32 Drew! One question, is there somewhere that documents what each line in the .scn file maps to on the X32? A good portion of them are pretty self explanatory, but for the more obscure ones this would be extremely helpful. Thanks!

[@rovenchas]

Watching it now in 2023 already and find all the answers, thank you.

[@vilaclan]

Thanks for this Drew, super helpful. A quick question, if I was doing sound for a festival and each band requested a sound check before hand. I would save the sound checks in Snippets right?

[@RobertsPianosHouston]

I would do it as scenes

[@suhailk9342]

Oh bro awsom presentation I don't getting borred 😊

[@AdautoAraujo]

I gave up on asking the question I had. Reading the comments, he answered just compliments post.

[@RY3G]

What headset + head mic are you wearing by the way? I'm looking to buy some and need some advice on what is the best purchase!

[@jeanfrancoisnolin340]

Drew, is it possible to save all the internal memories of the X32 on external backup device?

[@mountains889]

Yep

[@mayumigrasso9614]

Thanks for all the videos! I learn a lot from them. I have one question - can you control scenes remotely on PC? I have the app installed and I've used it but I don't see where to control them. Thanks!

[@stephenbrown952]

Great info, thanks! Question please, can I save just a single channel to a snippet?

[@unworthyServant08]

Hi Drew. Thank you for this explanation. Can these scenes and snippets be triggered by markers in the case where you're doing playback from an SD card?

[@l34music]

How to save the position of the faders? For eg. I would like to use snippet to change the volume of the click and the loop for IEM for different songs.

[@MattyDemello]

how do you delete an old cue?? When I first got the X32 I wasn't sure what I was doing and save a cue instead of a scene. Now my "go" light is always lit no matter what scene I go to.

[@jsmojica4gmail]

I enjoyed the video. I do have a question/concern. I have recently noticed that when I recall a scene, the "Main" fader on the far most right end of the console does not return to its saved position. Is this a normal thing or is the recall feature on the fader broken?

[@paleeese]

Hi Javier, there is a setting to include the main fader in the recall. Hit "Setup" and go to the "Config" tab. There is a check box that says "Safe Main Levels". Make that box not orange. Why they don't make the boxes show an X or check or something is beyond me! They forgot to ask or I would have told them! LOL

[@mcnMedia]

At this moment we have marked Routing I / O. Output Path. Unchecked Preamp HA. Marked Configuration. Chan process. Mix Bus. Unchecked effect and marked Talkback

[@hubbyjose]

i love the video presentation. can you do more of this in your next? thank you

[@DrewBrashler]

Glad to hear it, Hubert! Thanks!

[@angellruiz6646]

Can snippets be applied to the user assignable buttons or is there a streamlined way to get to the snippets?

[@AntonioRockGP]

ok, crazy idea here, If I'm running backing tracks from a DAW, can I use a MIDI track along the backing tracks to load snippets to activate effects and stuff during the song? Like, raising a vocal delay fx during the chorus?

[@mjklein]

What you are looking for is mix automaton. X32 Reaper is the place to start.

[@chornet7]

I am new to digital mixers, however, I have the basics down. I would like to know how I could use my scenes setup, to program my singers, mucisians, etc... onto the scenes portion. For example, I would like to take all 8 of my background singers, and program their individual settings in the scenes setup, 1-8.How would I do that?God Bless.

[@volod88]

Great Demo But the Utility Button is key. It would be super useful.

[@alexfacer2093]

Can you use the go button to go to the next cue?

[@plmediatech]

So I am doing a theatre show 27 mics I want to get the mics I am using to the dcas for Rachel scene of the show but still keep the routing I was trying to use snippets but the dca assignments do not stay. Do you know what that falls under to keep them assigned.

[@victortavarez11]

So I have a bus channel that sends audio to the lobby at my church but during rehearsal we have to individually mute channels can a cue or snippet mute and unmute bus channels?

[@MicahPounders]

Is it possible to control snippets from a program like Ableton Live? Seems like there is some way of doing it

[@Cookie21monster]

Hey thanks for the help but I’m trying to figure out how to delete one or two of the hundred scenes can you help ??

[@flaviogleison1069]

Hi, how can I save only the specific bus send configuration as snippets?

[@radulica]

I've got a question: For my touring band's live set, each song has different levels for the instruments, and so I save individual snippets while selecting only the fader parameter. All good. Now, what do I do if I need a different EQ on only -one- of the channels, for one song? I wanna keep the other EQ's, but have one pre-saved. Selecting the EQ as a parameter would also save the other channel's eq. Is there any workaround?

[@DrewBrashler]

Hey, thanks for reaching out with your question. You would need to make two extra snippets. Select the channel you need the EQ to change and select eq for the parameter filter. Then save the two snippets, one with the new EQ and one with the old EQ. You can then use the Home tab of the scenes to load your snippets in the correct order, but you would just have to load the song snippet and then the EQ snippet right after. Then after the song, load the old eq snippet along with the next song. A bit of a workaround, but it would work!

[@radulica]

Ohhhhh, Right! Makes sense. First load the general fader snippet, then overwrite it with the channel EQ, then afterwards overwrite it back. Thanks so much for actually replying! :) Great videos by the way!

[@johnvdl]

I like!

[@allenbaumbachii2464]

Thanks Drew. At our church we have a worship band that use 3 wireless mics EQd specifically for each singer. Sometimes we will have special music in between our worship singers like a men's quartet. They will use the same mics but need a different EQ. I was going to use a scene for this but a snippet seems like the better use?

[@theycallmefilip]

If it's only for channel strip EQ, I use the channel presets by pressing the utility button on the channel's home screen. I saved a preset with eq and dynamics for every singer.

[@DrewBrashler]

Hey Allen! Thanks for the question! You could use scenes for that or you could use snippets for that. Additionally, you could use the library section of the board, but you would have to load one by one the library setting on each of those three channels. With the snippets, you would select the three channels, then select EQ then save the snippet for the Worship Singers. Then make a new snippet with the same things selected and save that once you have the men's quartet dialed in. Then, when it is time for the men's quartet, you can load that snippet, once they are finished, load the worship singers snippet!

[@TotoTitus]

Thanks bro

[@scottmims]

How do you build the unmute snippet? I figured out mute, but not unmute.

[@gregreynolds6728]

If I want to store the eq, gate, and compressor for all of my singer, and then be able to apply them to a channel for the singers that are on stage that week ( and can't garentee they will be using the exact same mic each week, all my mic are the same). Would I use Snippets to do that?

[@MusicalNotes1986]

You can do this with copy and paste. Unfortunately, with Snippets, it will load those parameters but only on the channels they were saved to.

[@drewhardy5257]

If I wanted to use snippets to change my FX 1 slot and the sends for that FX how would I go about doing that? Seems like I would have to save all settings besides the effect then change from there but I'm not really sure exactly how to program this.

[@gijsvanlombeek100]

Hey Drew, I have a question about the scenes and the snippets. What would you do in the following situation. I have to do a PA for a few bands. I have the patchlists, and I would like to prepare my desk with the software at home, but how do I save this? When I come at the concert, I can plug a USB in the desk, but then what? Channel 1 to 8 are always drums, with every band, but the rest not.so I come at the concert, instal my desk, turn it on, load the scene for the first band, connect my computer and play some music through the PA, maybe put some EQ is an insert on my main out. Then we do the soundcheck, put some EQ, compression, gate and effects on the drums, vocals, delay, reverb...How do I save everything I've put on the drums, my FX like reverb, delay (in the effect section)..., so I can use it all for the next band, but still be able to load their patchlist, so I don't have to rename alls the channels and routing? Should I save the first band as a scene and all the other bands as a snippet, and select the first 8 tracks with all the effects? hope hearing from you soon thank you very much Gijs

[@MusicalNotes1986]

This would be accomplished if you're using the X32 Edit App on PC. You could simply copy whatever parameters you want from one channel to the desired channel

[@SinkOdeMayo]

Thank you, Drew, for this series. In setting up scenes for a theater production, once you have the scene tab open, is it possible to set the parameters using the faders or does everything need to be programmed via the scroll knobs? It's a bit tedious for simple things like naming channels, so going scene by scene would seem to be rather nerve-wracking.

[@petruciucur]

Is it possible to see when a scene was loaded? Is there some kind of log of the uploads of different scenes, snippets etc.?

[@MusicalNotes1986]

Unless you are loading them yourself, there is no way to tell if one was loaded or which one was.

[@TheWinndizzle]

When you load a scene using the load key will it overwrite the current scene that is loaded and its parameters. IE I have Sunday AM (pre 1) loaded and I load Sunday PM (pre 2) from the board. Would it not load and overwrite over Sunday AM with Sunday PM preset in that preset number 1 and now Sunday AM Preset 1 retains that name but is actually preset 2 Sunday PM. I am asking if I should pick the Go command it actually goes to Preset 2 and loads that. Thanks as always

[@normpresley1288]

Hey Drew, when I load a scene the screen drops down to the next scene after it loads. How do I correct this?

[@nobertpajek4578]

Can I define a time in sec which will take a board to do changes between snippets? What I mean is that I recall snippet 1 with fader of ch1 on -10db and snippet 2 is fader on - 30db and I would like to make a fader go from -10db to -30db lets say in 2 seconds?

[@smp9992]

I wish you would have demonstrated the < > Undo Go buttons. - But very good otherwise

[@pacificdrummer1988]

Whatever cues you set up, you are able to scroll through those with the "PREV", "NEXT", "GO" buttons. You still have to press the yes button to load the scene though.

[@sjaakiedecock]

@@pacificdrummer1988 Doesn't have to if you De-confirm the Scene Load Pop-Up in the Config Setting!

[@donmiller-robinson1378]

Just discovered that Snippets don't seem to save FX delay timing. Saving the whole console setup to a Scene will save the delay timing but it's very annoying that Snippets won't do this.

[@MrGhiebernardo]

How can i control all may output speakers or faders in main mix fader? so if i pull down the main fader all outputs channel also going to down. tnx

[@Sivim]

thank you

[@DrewBrashler]

Thank you!

[@twsteever]

I have been wondering what the snippets are practically used for. In your opinion, if we were setup for a festival where different bands are playing with different head amp/aux sends/and fader positions are needed, would you use scenes or snippets? I ask cause my main mix EQ and aux send (monitors) EQs will change as the day progresses and I don't want them to change as I load a new act.

[@jameshiltonbarber]

Better to use scenes but use "safe scenes" to leave your sends unaffected maybe. Depends how much your configuration per channel will change as it can be quite a lengthy process to put in all the changes with snippets

[@DrewBrashler]

Hey Todd, check out my video tomorrow on Scene Safes! We can use the scene safe, parameter safe, and channel safes to keep your main EQ and mixbus EQ's safe from being overwritten by the scenes. In this case though, I would be using Scenes rather than snippets.

[@nealrhodes5002]

repeating what others have said - this is a terrific video, and you have clearly spent a chunk of time in recording and editing it to put the little windows of board info, and thinking through how to present it. The effort really shows. Behringer ought to be compensating you. We all appreciate it. That whole topic of where to use scene, snippet and queue raises all kinds of philosophical questions. I tend to agree with you that the more one uses snippets, and the less one uses scenes, the less you tend to clobber prior fixes. we might want to mention that whole matter of Scene 0 resetting everything, but other scenes using the defined safes. So, in general, scene 0 should reflect the hardware setup, where the S16s are, where the amps are, the hardware routing. So, if things go truly South, load scene 0, then load the worship scene. The festival situation presents a variety of challenges. We do an Oktoberfest with 5 groups, three of which do repeat sets. In a tent. In the back of the church property. With beer. And four different volunteers working with sound. Each of which is also drinking some beer. Thus far we have been able to acomodate all the groups with 32 channels without sharing input channels. We have thus far attempted to have only one scene. IMHO, snippets would be ever so much more useful if the tablet apps supported saving them. Noodling around with the 6 knobs in real-time is IMHO a bit too awkward. We are using an X-32 rack, which is even less fun. A discipline which has been hard to adopt is to remember to save the scene at the end of each set. It's hard to stop musicians from pulling instrument cables, banging around, etc. Given how cumbersome snippets are, it would be even harder to save a snippet. As you note above, a strategy to save the BIG stuff to scene 0, and set the scene safes to avoid it getting overwritten would be optimal. Thanks again for the thought that went into your videos. The price point of the X-32 has allowed it to be placed into churches that would never before had access to this level of sophistication.

[@DJKoren]

How do I use like one of the user assigned button to go from cue to cue? Without the warning label.

[@christopherwilkinson215]

You can turn off the 'warning on loading scenes' somewhere in the main settings, then you can just use the large 'Go' button to load in the next cues... (I think it will work, I don't have the desk in front of me!)

[@DJKoren]

Thanks! I figured it out.

[@BrunoMorisetti]

Hey, what's happen if you change scene while you are recording with the audio card on a external cpu ?

[@colinhough5664]

You may have a little pop, and you will have no sound for maybe a second

[@TimmyP1955]

I'd like to see the building of a cue from scratch.

[@redlionrock]

Please help! I try to load mute snippets on my X32 Compact and it allows me to save them, but it doesn't apply it to the channels that are supposed to be muted. What am I doing wrong? I'm following the video..

[@mikeathaome1]

How do I make a pink noise snippet?

[@albertom.suarez6334]

Hello Drew, My name is Alberto I have been following your videos for sometime now. I was wondering if you would be able to help with triggering cues, scenes, snippets via midi from Ableton, or another software. I am trying to figure out a way to have snippets triggered automatically from Ableton via midi once I place my cursor on top of my song in Ableton, in order to enhance my workflow. So far I have scene other videos where the X32R is changing parameters in Qlab, Ableton, but haven't found anything going from DAW to X32R. I have a bunch of friends wondering about this, with whom I would be very happy to share your video if you ever make one. Please help? Thanks and have a nice day, Alberto.

[@DrewBrashler]

Because MIDI is such a configurable system, I haven't jumped down that road and I probably won't plan to in the future. Thanks so much for reaching out!

[@hannahbissegger5575]

How can I load an empty scene?

[@WhiteCatStudio-recordingstudio]

How can I backup my snippets? If I want to export my scenes to another board I just have to save it on a usb stick but what about snippets?

[@DrewBrashler]

Hey! On the Snippets screen, hit Utility>Export Snippets and that should do the trick

[@WhiteCatStudio-recordingstudio]

Hi Drew, Thanks a lot. I will try that!! Cheers.

[@hypernikomen]

This was really helpful. Great video. As a suggestion, I think you should look directly into the camera. You seem to be looking at a screen that's on the left side of the camera. I found it a bit distracting that you weren't looking at me, especially when saying Hi. But that's just a small suggestion.

[@markulrich3861]

DREW, GREAT VIDEO. I HAVE SET UP ALL MY SNIPITS (52) FOR A PLAY AND THE CUES IN M32 EDIT. WHEN I EXPORT THE SCENE INTO THE M32 CONSOLE, THE CUES DO NOT EXPORT. THE SNIPITS DO LOAD INTO THE CONSOLE. PLEASE HELP

[@MusicalNotes1986]

You should be able to export a "Show" which would have the Cues as well

[@saulrodriguez2933]

Am in the only one here where at 7:34, when his reflection moved across the screen, i saw it and looked immediately behind me?

[@FallenStarFeatures]

This is where the X32 excels - totally automated, hands-off operation. Of course, it's not entirely seamless or synchronous...

[@88omarz]

Can I just save the EQ settings from a scene?

[@international2015]

Sounds better, now just the camera

[@DrewBrashler]

Thanks! Yes I agree, the camera angle was terrible for this video, chopped off half my hair!

[@theoccidental2847]

Well spoken!

[@rafaelroca3759]

Hi I was search this video in spanish, but I dont find. Can you make the same video in spanish please?

[@Safehousestudios]

Hey Drew can you control cues via midi ? My daughter's theatre teacher wants to have a lighting mixer with midi out, to control mutes and faders by midi. Thanks!

[@alexisbourlierorchestra3531]

When a French version please ?

[@angeljimenez3737]

Hey Drew do you a number where o can call you for questions

[@angrykawata8993]

I recommend this crack

[@mikemasters4248]

It's been a lot of S'es lol!

[@mcnMedia]

Good information, but a little bit too quickly, not really crystal clear. We have a Behringer X32 and a MIDI pedal connected to the mixer. 1-8 on the MIDI pedal we only want to change the effects. Nothing more, how do we do? Christer

[@riffism]

Christer Nyström create separate snippets or scenes for each FX change and then use your MIDI device to change scenes during a song or set.

[@MYKEDANGER]

It has been a lot of "S"es.

[@Gam3rs41ife]

maybe put your script behind the camera so you are looking into it it looks like your talking to someone else

[@_a.z]

Gam3rs4Life I think the guy has a slight astigmatism

[@DramaticalyEffective]

It would have been helpful if you didn’t jump back and forth between scenes and snippets. You also spend a lot of time giving way to many examples and very little time actually showing what you are talking about.

[@st.georgemusicaltheater2974]

Too much talking...not enough demonstrating -- especially for the novice