Also, to the people in this thread who are considering the XR18, keep in mind that a normal laptop with an Ethernet port can control the XR18 via the X-Air app, and a concurrently attached USB port into the same laptop can record the multi-track. For redundancy of control, I primarily use a Lenovo laptop, but I also keep an iPad around just in case. I use it for remote recordings connected to a DL151. The X32 Core is the only product in the range that absolutely needs an external control box.

I have an X32 Core in addition to an full-size M32. As for the guy fumbling to get the aux sends working correctly, he didn't need the iPad or a laptop at all, because the control screen native to the X32 Rack, and all other models that have faders is enough to fully manage the box. Students range from age 70 down to age 12. I support lots of churches that use the X32/M32 family, and teach classes on usage. Hey Cactus Music, Don't let someone else's ineptitude set the standard for how difficult something is to do. I had my wireless so I could go out front and listen and I normally can do sound checks this way without stopping my bass line. I felt bad that I could not help, if it had been a regular board I would have fixed things in a 2 minutes.

We had to start playing and it was the worst stage experiance I have suffered in a long time. He was still fussing on his iPad and things sounded terrible! Plus he could not figure out how to send the Aux to the floor wedges. We had over an hour to set up and we are talking a simple 2 vocals, acoustic, electric guitar, bass and drums ( no mike either). He certainly seemed to know his way around the studio rig and had some very impressive tracks I'd listend to. This person had spent over $5,000 on a audio engineering course and has become pretty well educated in Pro Tools etc. He had owned this thing for a more than year but they hadn't really had to use it much as most of their gigs already had a system in place. And at the time I was shopping I did a bass gig with a group that owned both the x32 studio mixer and the rack version for live.

I guess I'm always gun shy of any devices that might go haywire at a gig.

Waves tracks live behringer x32