{"id":2701,"date":"2025-12-01T04:09:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-01T04:09:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nilamox.com\/mancave21\/?page_id=2701"},"modified":"2025-12-01T04:09:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-01T04:09:07","slug":"behringer-u-phoria-umg1820","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/nilamox.com\/mancave21\/behringer-u-phoria-umg1820\/","title":{"rendered":"Behringer U-Phoria UMG1820"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

A long time ago I bought a Behringer mixing desk, which I can actually still see sitting on a shelf, gathering dust. It failed quite quickly, the power supply constantly overheating. I don’t have a car and the idea of riding on the bus to some service facility with a mixing desk on my lap pissed me off no end, which led me to go with multiple patch bays and multiple stereo Steinberg sound cards instead. Much later on I found a Roland MX-1 <\/a>which kind of worked, especially as I have a bunch of Roland instruments that connect to it over USB.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But to cut the story short – I’ve spent years<\/em> working with a bunch of small stereo ASIO sound interfaces and magical incantations <\/a>to get instruments to and from Nuendo<\/em>. The cards that handle multi audio connections seemed expensive but … then I saw that Behringer had 18 in \/ 20 out for about $300. It’s cheap! But it’s Behringer! But I have some new Behringer stuff and it works! Ah bugger it lets try it…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

… and suddenly I have all my hardware instruments, connected, visible on Nuendo<\/em>, all working as one would desire… and I wonder how many years of my life I have wrongfully wasted. It’s WONDERFUL. IT WORKS.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"\"
It’s test bench time!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

It says 18 in. At the front you’ll see input channels 1+2, around the back there’s 3+4, 5+6, 7+8, a SDIF input (which works with the Roland Integra7<\/a> or the V-Synth<\/a>) so that’s 9+10. The other 8 inputs are ADAT format, which at this stage I’m not thinking about but there’s an adaptor<\/a> available. Some machines (across the other end of the studio) still have to be heard through sub-mixer racks but it’s vastly simpler than a mechanical patch bay.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There’s audio lines out at the back which I don’t use just yet – and two headphones outlets at the front which they count as 4 channels out (that’s OK I guess). I’m mixing down to stereo at the moment but ATMOS is a plausible goal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For the first time I’m able to have multiple hardware synthesisers running at once and be able to adjust things in respect to each other. I say first time because I started in an era long ago where you only owned a keyboard and a 4 track tape recorder, so I kind of have held low expectations of hardware, and more reliance on software. When I did have a big mixer and a 16 track tape machine it was still all very overdub.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Usually I report on things that are new or a bit obscure. Here I’m just letting out a big ‘why did you take so long?’. You should not wait so long.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A long time ago I bought a Behringer mixing desk, which I can actually still see sitting on a shelf, gathering dust. It failed quite quickly, the power supply constantly overheating. I don’t have a car and the idea of riding on the bus to some service facility with a mixing desk on my lap […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2701","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nilamox.com\/mancave21\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2701","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nilamox.com\/mancave21\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nilamox.com\/mancave21\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nilamox.com\/mancave21\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nilamox.com\/mancave21\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2701"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/nilamox.com\/mancave21\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2701\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2714,"href":"https:\/\/nilamox.com\/mancave21\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2701\/revisions\/2714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nilamox.com\/mancave21\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nilamox.com\/mancave21\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}