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USB/MIDI Controller with 9 Touch-sensitive Motor Faders, 8 Rotary Encoders, and 92 Illuminated Buttons
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Amazing Controller for Studio or Live Sound

The Behringer X-Touch is the perfect way to control your DAW in your studio, and it's an amazing way to control your X32 digital mixer remotely, too. An integrated Ethernet interface lets you connect to and control any of Behringer's X32 series mixers. Engineers at Sweetwater know that nothing beats the fast workflow of a comprehensive control surface. With 100mm motorized faders, digital scribble strips, color-coded LEDs and displays, and much more, the Behringer X-Touch is simply an outstanding USB/MIDI control surface for practically any application.

Supports HUI and Mackie Control for near-universal compatibility

You need a control surface that allows you to make high-precision changes to your DAW, instruments, and effects with a minimum of hassle. The X-Touch supports HUI and Mackie Control protocols to work with virtually any professional audio production software imaginable. As soon as you take the X-Touch out of its box, you can plug into a spare USB port and start tweaking — no setup required!

Touch-sensitive motorized faders allow for precise, dynamic control

Getting your hands on faders has always been the preferred way to mix. That's why the X-Touch boasts nine fully automated and touch-sensitive 100mm motorized faders that respond to your every movement with amazing accuracy. With the X-Touch control surface, all the automation you write is reflected in the movements of each fader in real time, in perfect sync with your DAW. You'll never have to adjust faders to match their on-screen values in your DAW, giving you the feel of mixing through a real console.

Easy to find any parameter — and tweak it fast

The X-Touch's eight rotary controls with LED-collars, in addition to its 92 illuminated buttons and eight LCD scribble strips, give you immediate visual feedback of your parameters. Just by looking at the X-Touch, you'll know if a channel is muted or soloed or where your levels are as you make changes during recording or mixing. You'll be able to navigate to any track you need in seconds, even when you're working with high track counts. With the X-Touch, you'll be able to arm multiple tracks and adjust panning at the same time. Try doing that with a keyboard and mouse!

Behringer X-Touch Features:

  • Comprehensive control surface for your DAW or X32 series digital mixer
  • Touch-sensitive 100mm motorized faders allow for precise, dynamic control
  • Mackie Control and HUI modes for seamless integration with a plethora of music production software
  • Rotary controls with LED-collars and illuminated buttons for on-the-fly adjustments
  • Smooth jog wheel makes it easy to navigate your session or other creative control
  • Color-coded LCD scribble strips make it easy to identify any track
  • Ethernet interface for Real-time Protocol MIDI and X32 series remote control
  • Pre-configured control elements for instant operation out of the box
  • USB and 5-pin MIDI integration for interfacing with more devices
  • 2-port USB hub for connecting external devices such as keyboard controllers and dongles
  • Dual footswitch connectors and foot controller input provide external remote control

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Tech Specs

  • Type: DAW remote controller
  • Faders: 9 x 100mm (Motorized)
  • Transport Controls: Yes
  • Encoders/Pots: 8 x Rotary with LEDs
  • Soft Keys: 92 key function illuminated buttons
  • Analog Inputs: 2 x 1/4" (footswitch), 1 x 1/4" (external controller)
  • Computer Connectivity: 2 x USB Type A, 1 x USB Type B
  • MIDI I/O: In/Out/USB
  • Data I/O: 1 x Ethernet remote jack
  • OS Requirements - Mac: OS X 10.7 or later
  • OS Requirements - PC: Windows 7 or later
  • Height: 3.9"
  • Width: 17.8"
  • Depth: 11.9"
  • Manufacturer Part Number: 000-B1X02-00010

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Rated 5/5

Love this thing!

I love the X-Touch! I own a number of MIDI devices, but the X-Touch is my first control surface. I use this with my Behringer XR18 and Studio One, and it works brilliantly between both of them. I have 1 button access to switch between the DAW and the mixer, and I can control all the vital functions I need for either stage performance or working in the studio. I can also customize the buttons if I need to enable a function.

The faders are more quiet than I would have expected, and their resolution is awesome. The jog wheel is a very nice feature which lets me focus on a track at a detailed level. The buttons feel durable and of good quality. The unit is sturdy and has a solid feel. It is a little heavier than I expected.

When working with Studio One (my DAW of choice), I can navigate through my 40+ tracks, zoom in and out, change plug-in settings, change the mix, queue up specific areas that need work, begin recording, playback specific tracks (or everything), save my work, etc... without ever touching the mouse! This will speed up my workflow for sure.

When working with the XR18, I can set the gain on each channel, change mix volumes and panning (of course), change bus outputs for each channel, tweak EQ settings, assign effects to channels, ring out the monitors, etc... and my hands don't have to leave the X-Touch. I love using this much more than the iPad, the Android app, or X-Air Edit. I definitely like being able to control multiple fader values at the same time. And the visual feedback immediately lets me know what is where at a glance. Very nice.

All in all, I am very happy with Sweetwater and the X-Touch!
Music background: Musician and vocalist
Rated 5/5

Behringer X-Touch Works great With Sonar Platinum

After doing a lot of research on Control Surfaces I finally decided on the X-Touch and I wasn't
disappointed when I receive my Purchase from Sweetwater. The quality was much better than expected,
and it's size was perfect for the space in my home studio. The faders are very responsive and controls have a nice feel to them. You get a lot of functionality for the $.
Getting the X-Touch to work with Cakewalk Sonar was by watching the videos listed below, downloading the Overlay, printing and cutting it out (the mapping on the X-Touch is not laid out for Sonar so the overlay is essential). The key to getting the most functionality from the X-Touch is through the Mackie
Control plugin within Sonar.(see photo) With this dialog open press F1 for Help and there you will find detailed info on using the X-Touch to control EQ, and other plugins. This Help file can also be found at
C:Program Files/Cakewalk/Shared Surfaces/Mackie Control
After doing all this I can say that the X-Touch is working very well and I'm very happy that I decided to go for it, hope this helps other Sonar users.

YouTube videos:
X Touch One with Sonar or Cakewalk
Making the X-Touch work with Cakewalk Sonar Pt#1
Making the X-Touch work with Cakewalk Sonar Pt#2
Music background: Looking to get into music production for film and TV
Rated 5/5

DP11 w Behringer X-Touch integration general review

So far I've been pleasantly surprised with the X-Touch's (v 1.21) integration with Digital Performer 11. An overlay is still needed to correctly identify most of the deeper level button assignments. I haven't found one that accurately describes DP11's integration with X-Touch. I will attempt to explain the general functions and what works correctly and what is assigned to what general buttons on the board. Set up in DP is MCU compatible, Pin to Mixer, MCU main, X-Touch INT-1, X-Touch INT. Set up in X-Touch should be MC, USB. This should get you connected between DP and X-Touch. Turing on the X-Touch first and then starting up DP11 insures that you'll be connected.

As far as I can tell, all of the transport buttons work as they should. The exception is the RTZ function. It is the button labeled Marker.
Each individual channel's buttons and faders work as described, as well as the track names in the scribble windows. The rotatable pots on top of each channel has the Pan encoder assignment as being the normal state when the board starts up. Hitting Send will control the Send Ins on the audio channels. To switch to Send 2 you'll need to hit the bottom button on the button layout next to the jog wheel.

Pressing IO had some interesting responses, and goes fairly deep. Along the scribble script on top there are a list of choices that you can choose from by pressing the appropriate pot down. I haven't had time to find these deep operations practical. It is much easier when working from DP itself. The rest of the soft buttons on the top row didn't produce any practical results during my testing. That is not to say that they don't control anything. I just haven't had the time to dig deeper to discover them yet. They are EQ Plugin and Dyn.

I'm going to skip to the bottom of the board since this is the bread and butter operations of using the X-Touch. Starting with the Fader Bank buttons. These work as written. Pressing them shifts tracks 8 at a time according to the line up in DPs Tracks window. The Channel buttons shifts the channels in the X-Touch one track at a time instead of 8 tracks at a time, like the Fader Bank does.

Concerning the four arrow buttons arranged around a middle button. If you press the arrows while in Tracks, Sequence, or Midi windows, it will advance the information by one page. If you press the center button it will turn blue. Then you can resize the information in the Tracks, Sequence, and Midi windows either vertically or horizontally. Just be aware that the Pan button at the top needs to be lit, otherwise you will still be switching Send or Plugin inputs. When I pressed the middle button a second time the blue button started flashing, but I could not determine what that particular functionality did in DP11. (Maybe, time out for an espresso?)

And lastly, the jog wheel. It does work in DP11. It moves the sequence ahead by quarter notes. The scrub button moves the time line ahead at a snail's pace, sometimes... I haven't figured out how to increase/decrease the scrub speed on the wheel.

All in all, from my perspective, it does what I need it to do. Mainly, select tracks for recording, reposition and resizing for playing and midi editing and performing rough mixes on the fly while recording or editing. And most importantly, stops me from mousing around too much, while trying to get work done.

And don't forget, the Marker button is the RTZ, and is your friend. ;)
Music background: Hobbyist
Rated 5/5

Greatest thing since popcorn and a movie

real talk it is Amazing and Awesome and cool and I really enjoy it can't live without it !! Thanks Sweetwater! And my kids are the candy in box lol and I branded my toy with the sticker!! Get it and Keep on trucking baaaaby!!
Music background: Hobby , producer , engineer, fan
Rated 3.5/5

Poor documentation, Slightly false advertising, a few hiccups -- but it's a helpful device.

First things first, I bought this for Logic Pro X, so that's what my review is based off of. I'm going to list the Pros and Cons, starting with the Cons so you can get an idea of what you're getting into.

**VERY LIMITED DOCUMENTATION**

Right out of the box I realized that I'm pretty much on my own. There's a little starter's guide included but it's practically useless. You'll have to hop on Youtube and look up Behringer's videos. EXCEPT most of their videos cover X-Touch Compact and other variations, and not this one specifically (though there are a few). So just a warning, they'll give you the absolute basics on turning this on and getting it to show up in your DAW, and there are a couple quick ones about navigating your DAW using it... but after that you're pretty much on your own to figure things out.

For instance, I kept running into an issue where the channel strip names would disappear. Turning the device off and on didn't help. Restarting Logic didn't help. The only thing that worked was uninstalling/reinstalling the device. Due to that and a few other issues I packed this up and was ready to ship it back. Then I started looking at customizing MIDI controls (I'll get to that in a bit), and decided to see what I could do. So I unpacked it again. I ran into the track names disappearing again... and realized that I was in "plug-in" mode instead of "pan/surround" mode. That seems to be the theme of this device because of the lack of documentation. You're going to have to make a lot of frustrating mistakes and stumble onto the solutions yourself. If you do, maybe write it down on a forum somewhere for future users to find.

**PLUGIN CONTROL ISN'T AS GREAT AS YOU'D ASSUME**

Maybe the biggest deal-breaker for me was the plug-in controls. They're all over the place. Once I saw in one of the videos that you could control plugins like an analog console, I was sold. But the reality isn't that magical.

Say I open an EQ, and I want to control the parameters using the panning knobs. Logically, you'd expect the controls to be laid out like an analog EQ. > Low frequency position > low frequency gain > low frequency Q; >Low-mid frequency position > low-mid frequency gain > low-mid frequency Q... etc. That way when you're making adjustments you have the knobs next to each other and can fine tune everything at once. HOWEVER the way this is set up is > Low frequency position > low-mid frequency position > peak 1 frequency position > peak 2... you get the point.

So say I want to boost 2khz by 6dB. I have to move peak 2 frequency to 2khz... page over until I find peak 2 gain, change that... page over until I find peak 2 Q, change that... oops! I don't really like 6dB... so I have to page back to peak 2 gain and lower that... Doesn't sound great at 2khz, maybe I'll sweep over a bit... have to page back to peak 2 frequency... Q is too wide... scroll back 2 pages to get to that... It actually slows down the workflow instead of speeding it up.

With all of that said, this seems to be an issue with Logic's Mackie Control assignments and not the X-Touch itself. I was looking at some other controllers on the market and they look to be set up the same way whenever they're in plugin mode. But again, because of poor documentation I had this thing ready to return because I thought it was just a lousy setup on the unit side. The good news is you can control third-party plugins this way. But unless they have a very limited amount of options, they suffer the same problem of mixed up controls. For instance, Logic has a 3 band console EQ that works great because there's not many knobs on the plugin.

Again, that's not Behringer's fault, but these are things I wish I knew before I got this, and things none of the videos really tell you (because they're trying to sell products).

Now, you can try to program your own MIDI assignments, and if you know what you're doing you'll probably do that very good! I tried to fix the issues above by reassigning the parameters so things were next to each other. But it ended up only being able to control one EQ on track 1. So even if I added a different EQ, or switched to an EQ on a different track, it would always just control that one I assigned parameters too. That's an error on my end, obviously.

I also couldn't figure out how to make it dynamic. Right now if you select an EQ it will let you change the EQ parameters. And if you switch to a compressor, the setting will also switch to compressor parameters. I have no clue how to do that.

I also realized that if I wanted to go that route I'd have to do it for every plugin I use. So for now I'm just using the X-touch if my plugin has minimal options, otherwise it's quicker to just use a mouse.

**NOISY FADERS**

If you're doing research on this you'll probably see a lot of comments about noisy faders. Annnnnnnd... yes and no. I've only found them to be noisy in 2 scenarios so far:

1. Huge/Fast automation jumps. If you make any big or fast changes in automation then you'll get that terrible grindy sound that people are talking about. If the changes are slow or subtle, then you can barely hear them. There's also a way to temporarily disable fader movement... though I don't remember where I read that. If only there was some kind of document that came with the device that included things like that :P.

2. Grouping 2 faders together. Somehow I ended up grouping one of my tracks to the master fader. Whenever I would move one the other would move with a TERRIBLE grindy sound. In this case it didn't matter how slow or smooth I moved the fader, the other one would always grind. Technically it's not "grinding," it's jumping in very small increments... but it sounds terrible either way.

Speaking of faders! These have touch-sensitive faders. This means when you touch them they are activated, and it helps them move smoother (if you turn down the sensitivity you'll see that there's a lot more resistance when you try to move them). But you can also set it up so that when you touch a fader your DAW selects that track. It took me a few days to get that working and it was another thing I thought was either busted or non-existent. But there's a setting in your DAW that enables/disables that. For Logic I believe it was somewhere in the MIDI preferences.

**The deceptive/false advertising.**

We don't see it with this unit on this page, but if you look at the X-Touch extender you see beautiful colored scribble strips. I watched a couple Behringer videos using THIS device and they kept showing screenshots of it with colored scribble strips, even though the close-ups had monochrome strips. So I thought, "Okay. I must be missing something, or maybe I have an older mode... because mine as just monochrome..." But if you search, nobody can figure out how to get colored scribble strips on this one of the Extender. It seems to be a non-existent function. This is another thing that could be solved with documentation. Maybe it doesn't work on a MACKIE setup (according to some forums I've read)... so tell us that.


Okay. Enough complaining! What are the pros?

**BUILD QUALITY**

The unit as a whole feels really nice. It's kind of fat, and in that sense feels out of date... but the case feels nice and solid. The faders and the knobs themselves probably couldn't be any cheaper, so be careful with that. On my very first day with this thing I reached up quickly (not used to this new fat contraption on my desk) and my sleep caught one of the faders. I'm suprised it didn't snap it off, to be honest. So just be careful about that kind of thing. The case and the buttons all feel nice. The faders and the knobs feel like they're going to break off over the slightest clumsy mistake.

**WORK FLOW**

I've barely scratched the surface of everything you can do with this thing. It's going to take me a while to figure it all out... (maybe I'll write my own documentation book along the way lol). But seriously, from the moment I turned this on and fired up my first track, I was already making and executing decisions a lot faster than I was with just a keyboard and a mouse. For all the cons I just named, what you get out of it from a workflow experience makes it worth it to me.

I'll give you a good example, say I'm listening to a song and I hear a spot where the levels peak really loud. I want to loop that part so I can fix it. Normally I'd have to stop the song, find that place in the track... hit play... probably get frustrated as the cursor follows the play head... stop the track again... scroll back... make a highlight for that part with the mouse, and then listen to it on cycle. With the X-Touch, I just scroll back using the jog wheel, hold down the cycle button, scroll forward a bit and I have that section highlighted so I can loop it and focus on fixing that issue.

One of my favorite uses is buses/sends. I can set up a reverb send, and it will show up on the X-Touch. I can even select tracks from the X-Touch and send them to that reverb without having to do it with a mouse. And then I can use the faders on the X-Touch to adjust both the amount I'm sending to the reverb, and the level of the reverb itself. It makes LISTENING a whole lot easier.

Same thing with automation. Just select a track, hit write/touch, and use the faders to input the automation data. It's so stinking quick and easy.

That's just the basic, surface level stuff.

**CONCLUSION**

Do I recommend the X-Touch? Yes. I'm looking at it right now, and it looks like something out of 2005, it's so chunky on my desk. But once you get used to using it you realize it's not that big for all that it allows you to do. You are likely to run into some frustrations, and you'll have to figure things out on your own due to trial and error, but if you can make it over those humps I think you'll really enjoy this. Especially if you're coming from a keyboard and mouse. My friend told me on the first day I had it, "Give it a couple days and you'll be flying around that thing!" And I replied, "I already am, this is so easy to use!"

It's just those few little hiccups you run into along the way, and the lack of documentation so you don't know if it's user error or unit error. But if you're in a small bedroom studio and you want a good way to speed up your workflow, this will help you.
Music background: 18 years music, 15 years DIY production
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