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Allen & Heath

XONE:DB4 User Guide

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Summary of Contents for XONE:DB4

Page 1: ...Allen Heath XONE DB4 User Guide USER GUIDE Publication AP7977 ...

Page 2: ...efective unit to the place of purchase If this is not possible then please contact the authorised ALLEN HEATH distributor or agent in your country as soon as possible for repair under warranty subject to the following conditions Conditions of Warranty The equipment has been installed and operated in accordance with the instructions in this User Guide The equipment has not been subject to misuse ei...

Page 3: ...reference Type A B USB Lead To connect the XONE DB4 to your computer Mains Lead Check that the correct mains plug is fitted XONE DB4 mixer Spare knobs Carry Case Custom Allen Heath protec tive soft bag for the XONE DB4 NOTE Always pack the mixer with the rear connector at the handle end to prevent damage if the bag is dropped heavily USB XONE DB4 resource CD ROM ...

Page 4: ...Allen Heath 4 XONE DB4 User Guide PANEL DRAWINGS USB ...

Page 5: ...Allen Heath 5 XONE DB4 User Guide APPLICATION DIAGRAM ...

Page 6: ...ng software and laptops With the flexible input matrix any audio source can be selected on any or all of the channels this allows for different processing to be applied to the same track on separate channels or a phrase sampled in the looper on one channel can be added to the mix later in the track The XONE DB4 is more than a mixer with an effects unit many parameters of each effect can be altered...

Page 7: ...es 22 Mixer Setup Menu 23 Firmware Updating 26 USB Audio System 27 PC Driver Installation 30 Mac Driver Installation 33 MIDI Control 36 MIDI Control Messages 37 Digital In Out and X Link 40 Information on System Earthing 41 Specifications 42 Registration Card 43 CONTENTS To ensure that you get the maximum benefit from your XONE DB4 please spare a few minutes familiarising yourself with the control...

Page 8: ...LINE SELECTOR SWITCH Selects the channel source between MONO Microphone and STEREO Line input connectors 2 1 2 4 5 6 3 LINE INPUT CONNECTOR Dual RCA sockets for connecting an external line level source 3 GAIN CONTROL Sets the level of the source signal to the channel 4 MIC EQ Controls The MIC equaliser provides a tool to adjust the tonal quality of the sound to correct source problems such as micr...

Page 9: ... 7 8 10 CHANNEL ON SWITCH Turns the channel on allowing the channel signal to be routed to the main mix This feature is very useful if a microphone is being used as it can be switched in and out of the mix 9 MIX CH1 SWITCH Selects where the channel output will be routed MIX Routes the signal directly to the mix CH1 Routes the signal to the input of Channel 1 If the switch is set to CH1 the MIC LED...

Page 10: ...X e g regeneration if delay selected Please refer to Page 18 for further details on this feature 8 FX TYPE SELECT BUTTONS Selects one of the five basic effects types Each selection overrides the previous one Buttons will illuminate green to show effect selected or orange when channel is in focus Please refer to Page 18 for further details on this feature 6 FX WET DRY CONTROL The WET DRY control se...

Page 11: ...es and see its level on the main meters The button will illuminate when selected Press the switch to deselect cue The switches are interlocked pressing another one turns off the previous selection Multiple cueing may be achieved in one of two ways 1 Pressing two or more cues simultaneously 2 Holding down an active cue allows momentary activation of any other cue when pressed 12 CHANNEL METER Displ...

Page 12: ...ss cut filter slope The button will illuminate when selected 2 BPF Button Turns on the band pass bell shaped filter slope The button will illuminate when selected 3 LPF Button Turns on the low pass treble cut filter slope The button will illuminate when selected 4 Frequency Sweep Control This control sets the cut off frequency of the filter It ranges from very low frequency 20Hz to very high 20kHz...

Page 13: ...feeding the house sound system This does not affect the monitor output or the meter reading 3 BOOTH MASTER LEVEL CONTROL Adjusts the level of the signal to the stereo monitor RCA output This does not affect the headphones The monitor output could be used for a booth monitor recording or an additional zone feed 4 CUE ADD MIX CONTROL Pans between Cue signal and the Main Mix output Turned fully anti ...

Page 14: ...We recommend that you use high quality headphones rated between 30 to 100 ohms impedance 8 ohm headphones are not recom mended as their very low impedance may cause damage to the headphone amplifier 7 CHANNEL FADER CURVE SELECT Sets the response of the Channel Up faders Choose a setting that best suits the style of music you play 8 7 8 9 CROSSFADER CURVE SELECT Sets the response of the Crossfader ...

Page 15: ...ut 5 6 Channel 4 ASIO Soundcard Output 7 8 DIGITAL S PDIF Input 1 4 via RCA on rear panel Example Usage Using the matrix a CD player plugged into Analogue Input 4 of your mixer can be routed to Channel 1 by setting the Toggle Switch to ANA and the Input Select Rotary to 4 or can be assigned to all four channels simultaneously by repeating the process on all input channels Alternatively if you wish...

Page 16: ...quencies by 6dB and anticlockwise will attenuate them In FILTER mode this control becomes a high pass filter and must be rotated fully anticlockwise for a flat frequency response Rotating clockwise will progressively raise the cut off frequency of the filter 3 MODE SELECT SWITCH Use to select the desired EQ mode As each mode is selected the illuminated pointer on the control knobs will change colo...

Page 17: ...small L will also appear in the main mixer BPM display window when a loop is active 3 1 The LOOP section of the XONE DB4 provides automatic looping of the source audio for up to FOUR bars at 60BPM or above Even if the loop length is set to loop after one bar for instance the audio will continue to be recorded for the maximum four bars allowing you to ex pand the loop if desired The loop length is ...

Page 18: ... button 2 Press the SELECT button once to move the focus to that channel When the channel is in focus press the SELECT button to open up the effect library list on the display screen See page 19 for details To turn ON the selected effect press the relevant CH FX ON switch 5 This switch has two modes of operation latching and momentary To latch the switch ON tap once To briefly switch ON an effect ...

Page 19: ...d effects will be made available from time to time and can be added to the mixer via the firmware update see Page 26 for details on how to do this Check our website www XONE co uk db4 for in depth information on the effects types and their use DLY VRB RES MOD DMG Press the SELECT Button to open the selected effect liobrary Use the SEL ADJ encoder to scroll up or down through the effect library lis...

Page 20: ...used effect FX TIME TAP This encoder sets the beat fraction for each effect Rotating anticlockwise will decrease the time and rotating clockwise will increase it The time defaults to fractions of the detected BPM but for delays this can be switched to absolute time in milliseconds see Page 21 Pressing and holding this control for approximately second will lock or unlock the BPM at the cur rently d...

Page 21: ...ND AND BPM mS MODE KILL SEND INTERLOCK When an effect is in kill send mode and the Wet Dry control turned fully clockwise the effect ON OFF button changes colour from Green to Orange and the effected signal decays into the mix If the FX is turned OFF the button will change colour to RED to warn that the safety interlock is active The FX cannot be turned back ON until the Wet Dry control is moved a...

Page 22: ...ndcard you can use MIDI clock as the timing source for the DB4 this will override normal BPM detection and affects all channels If you select this mode make sure that your DAW supports sending MIDI clocks and that this feature is enabled TEMPO RESET The BPM detection system can be forced into a reset by holding down the FX TIME encoder until the tempo display changes to The BPM is automatically re...

Page 23: ... this function you will need to connect a 3 5mm TS jack plug from the deck start outputs on the DB4 to the remote inputs on the player Each Channel Fader and the Crossfader can be set to On or Off MIXER RESET Will force a hard reset of the mixer returning all user options to the default factory setting LOAD SETUP Enables you to load previously saved mixer settings via a USB key see SAVE SETUP belo...

Page 24: ...phones The trim ranges from 28 to 12 dB Mode Toggles between Split and Normal In Split mode a mono sum of the main mix is sent to the right headphone and the cue signal in the left Use the CUE MIX control to pan between the two The main meters will display cue level on the left and mix level on the right Normal mode will provide a stereo cue or main mix signal to the headphone output dependant of ...

Page 25: ...0dB Phase Allows you to reverse the signal Phase of the Booth output The DB4 is phase coherent i e the signal phase of the output is the same as the input however in some installations acoustic reflections can create a phase cancellation between the booth monitors and the main PA This often results in loss of bass frequencies so try reversing the Booth phase to see if it im proves the fidelity of ...

Page 26: ...UPDATING Use a good quality USB key of between 32MB and 4GB Copy any files that you need to keep then format the key using FAT32 Unzip the new firmware file to this key and plug the key into the USB socket on the mixers front panel Open the Menu and scroll down to FIRMWARE and select this option Select Load File and the screen will ask you to confirm that you want to con tinue Select YES and firmw...

Page 27: ...latency drivers must be installed before connecting the XONE DB4 to a computer see page 30 for PC installation or page 33 for Mac installation SOUNDCARD NOMENCLATURE Referencing the above diagram Soundcard Inputs are from the XONE DB4 to the PC MAC and Soundcard Outputs are from the PC MAC to the XONE DB4 SOUNDCARD OUTPUTS The XONE DB4 has eight four stereo soundcard outputs that will appear in yo...

Page 28: ... INPUTS The XONE DB4 provides eight four stereo soundcard inputs that will appear in your chosen DAW application The inputs are arranged as follows The block diagram above shows the different sources that can be mapped to each of the stereo soundcard inputs or Sends The sources are split into two groups MIXER and CHANNEL DAW XONE DB4 SOUNDCARD INPUT 1 2 SEND 1 SOUNDCARD INPUT 3 4 SEND 2 SOUNDCARD ...

Page 29: ...UT Routes the Mix Output to the chosen send For more information on Mix Output source options please refer to Page 25 PHONES OUTPUT Routes the Phones Output to the chosen send For more information on Phones Output source options please refer to Page 24 MAPPING A SOUNDCARD INPUT SEND For details on selecting Soundcard Input Send sources please see USB Routing on Page 24 The USB audio sends can also...

Page 30: ...WS ON THE LATEST DRIVER VERSIONS Software Installation Windows XP Vista and Windows 7 Follow the procedure described below to install the USB audio and MIDI drivers 1 Connect the XONE DB4 to your mains electricity supply Do not connect the DB4 to the PC at this time 2 Open the Drivers folder and run Setup exe 3 Select your preferred language 4 Select Install the driver 5 When prompted connect the ...

Page 31: ...n a MS Windows system the drivers will be associated with the USB port that you are currently plugged into If you attempt to use the DB4 with another USB port or without installing the drivers at all the system may work but with degraded performance XP Vista Windows 7 or may not work at all 2000 8 Select Install PC DRIVER INSTALLATION 7 The USB driver will now install 9 Select Install 10 Reboot to...

Page 32: ...d Connect the XONE DB4 to your PC laptop and then right click on My Computer and select Manage Next select Device Manager in the left hand window Expand the Sound Video and Game Controllers section to reveal the WDM audio and MIDI drivers for the XONE DB4 Expand the Universal Serial Bus Controllers section to reveal the XONE DB4 ASIO driver and its release version number in this case V2 9 15 ...

Page 33: ...C IS CORRECTLY SET UP TO BE USED WITH THE MIXER CHECK www XONE co uk db4 FOR NEWS ON THE LATEST DRIVER VERSIONS Mac OSX Open the XONE_DB4_Driver_x x x dmg to reveal the window shown MAC DRIVER INSTALLATION Click on the XONE DB4 mpkg file to launch the driver installation Click on Continue Select install location and then click Install ...

Page 34: ...Allen Heath 34 XONE DB4 User Guide MAC DRIVER INSTALLATION Enter your system password Click on Continue Installation Restart your Mac ...

Page 35: ...tilities Audio MIDI Setup The Audio Devices window will open automatically To open the MIDI Studio window from the File Menu select Window Show MIDI Window In the Audio Input section the number of channels should be seen as 8 running at 24 bit In the Audio Output section the number of channels should be seen as 8 running at 24 bit The sample rate is selectable from 44 1 to 96kHz Now select the MID...

Page 36: ...MODE The DB4 has a useful feature to enable easy remote control of DAWs without affecting the mixer this is called MIDI SHIFT MIDI shift is activated by pressing the button above the left Filter Resonance control and is confirmed by the display panel changing to MIDI SHIFT When MIDI shift is active the FX Type and Select buttons Loop encoders and Global encoders are disconnected from the Mixer and...

Page 37: ...C 27 CH 16 CC 29 CH 16 G 6 CH 16 OFF F 6 CH 16 2 CC 5 CH 16 CC 2 CH 16 CC 4 CH 16 B 4 CH 16 OFF Bb 4 CH 16 3 CC 23 CH 16 CC 19 CH 16 CC 21 CH 16 Eb 3 CH 16 OFF D 3 CH 16 4 CC 14 CH 16 CC 10 CH 16 CC 12 CH 16 G 1 CH 16 OFF F 1 CH 16 MODE SELECT DB4 CHANNEL EXP DRY WET FILTER CUE 1 OFF 2 X OFF Y 1 CC 9 CH 16 CC 33 CH 16 C 5 CH 16 OFF D 5 CH 16 Eb 5 CH 16 OFF E 5 CH 16 F 5 CH 16 2 CC 11 CH 16 CC 7 CH...

Page 38: ...CH 16 F 8 CH 16 4 CC 36 CH 16 G8 CH 16 FX ON CHANNEL FADER CURVE XFADER CURVE XFADER CHANNEL FADER CURVE XFADER CURVE G 1 CH 16 OFF G 1 CH 16 F 1 CH 16 OFF F 1 CH 16 CC 39 CH 16 XFADER FILTERS FILTER RES HPF BPF LPF FREQ ON 1 L CC 8 CH 16 B 6 CH 16 C 7 CH 16 C 7 CH 16 CC 34 CH 16 D 7 CH 16 2 R CC 1 CH 16 C 1 CH 16 D 1 CH 16 Eb 1 CH 16 CC 3 CH 16 E 1 CH 16 ...

Page 39: ...TCH DLY VRB RES MOD DMG 1 CC 112 CH 16 F 5 CH 16 G 5 CH 16 G 5 CH 16 A 5 CH 16 Bb 5 CH 16 B 5 CH 16 2 CC 113 CH 16 Bb 3 CH 16 B 3 CH 16 C 4 CH 16 C 4 CH 16 D 4 CH 16 Eb 4 CH 16 3 CC 114 CH 16 D 2 CH 16 Eb 2 CH 16 E 2 CH 16 F 2 CH 16 F 2 CH 16 G 2 CH 16 4 CC 115 CH 16 F 0 CH 16 G 0 CH 16 G 0 CH 16 A 0 CH 16 Bb 0 CH 16 B 0 CH 16 SELECT C 5 CH 16 E 3 CH 16 G 1 CH 16 C 0 CH 16 DLY VRB RES MOD DMG CC11...

Page 40: ... see page 24 for details DIGITAL OUTPUT X LINK X LINK X Link is a proprietary interface protocol to enable future Allen Heath accessories and controllers to be easily connected to the XONE DB4 Visit www XONE co uk for the latest news on X Link enabled products QUAD FX Core DSP engine 4 simultaneous FX engines with independent BPM calculation 4 stereo Loopers with BPM conscious looping 4 bars at 60...

Page 41: ...rack ear kit for the XONE DB4 please quote the part number X DB4 RK19 Operating levels Main outputs 0VU 4dBu Monitor 0VU 4dBu Record 0VU 4dBu Maximum output level 16dBu balanced Mic Sensitivity 20dB 50dB RIAA input sensitivity 1kHz 70mV 0VU 200mV max Frequency response Line in to Mix out 10Hz 20kHz 0 0 5dB Distortion at 1kHz Line in at 0Vu out 0 003 90dB un weighted Main Mix noise 22Hz 22KHz un we...

Page 42: ...Allen Heath 42 XONE DB4 User Guide NOTES ...

Page 43: ...r and your details By registering with us and becoming an official Registered User you will ensure that any warranty claim you might make is actioned quickly and with the minimum delay Alternatively you may either copy or cut off this section of the page fill in the details and return it by mail to Allen Heath Ltd Kernick Industrial Estate Penryn Cornwall TR10 9LU UK ...

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