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This is a very complex and difficult mixer to learn. It's not like you can power it on and go, like a hardware based mixer with actual faders and knobs. It's all done via an iPad. Granted you can used the onboard knobs to make changes but you wouldn't want to because it's a lot of pushing, turning, and clicking, besides the knobs not being inline with the menus makes it very difficult to use at first. But that's the initial "Hump" if you will, that you need to get over. Once you get a grasp of this amazing audio mixer, it is really pretty incredible. You'll spend some time watching YouTube videos and doing research since the manual it comes with may as well be taken out of the box and used to start a fire. I've never understood these companies (DAW's included) that send you these complex devices with very little instruction. You have to buy books, watch videos etc to even begin to use them. I made the mistake of trying to figure this out a week before our first gig. That was the most stressful week of my life. I did get through it and I did figure out enough to get the mains and monitor mixes working but it was no easy task. This IS NOT user friendly by any stretch of the imagination. But take your time, give yourself ample time to learn this and you will be overly satisfied with its features and abilities. Clean and quiet, and very very powerful. This thing has built in effects racks, you can use it to crossover your frequencies, there are eq's built in etc. You'll really dig this thing. Once you learn it. Believe me I almost said forget it and bought a normal hardware mixer with faders and knobs. But I stayed the course and figured it out. I'm glad I did. Love it now.

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Yes, per other reviews, the complexity of this unit could be a challenge to someone who's not already familiar with the X32 Digital Mixer platform, but even the consoles with complete button features have a more demanding learning curve because they're DIGITAL instead of simple WYSIWYG ANALOG control. So, the configuration programming can be nearly as challenging as it is powerful. But, it is certainly worth it, if you need it.If. like me, you've long ago cut your teeth on X32 Consoles, the X32 Rack is a cinch. I actually did the configuration programming via X32 Edit before my X32 Rack arrived. I just popped in the USB Scene File, loaded it, and BINGO. One should always ensure that the latest 4.x firmware is installed, too.Here's one of the (many) beauties about this beast: since it's complete with the USB/XF card, you can swap that with a Waves SoundGrid card, and with its other related server/software accessories, create an enormously powerful live sound environment that really rocks.For smaller gigs, the 16 Midas mic inputs gets it done. For larger gigs, just add an SD16-type device for instant expansion via Ethernet. This unit delivers, and at a pretty good price, too. AND, it virtually eliminates perhaps the biggest frailties of the consoles, which is that the buttons seem to be the first thing to go (sticking, etc.,), as well as the encoder controls. Now you hardly ever need to use them, and instead just use your PC or iPad.