First impressions after some “nights with ” First of all I have to mention that the findings I will tell about are all “6 months old”. This means -the DD3216I had for testing was one of the first ones built -the firmware was (still is at the time I’m writing this, July 2002) V 1.05 -I kept “quiet” for 6 months J.

I kept quiet because I visited Behringer, with the DDX3216, 3 months ago. Told them everything I liked, what I disliked, what I think was “faulty” and what I think “could be improved via new firmware”. Until now however, I got no answers from them. Rapt software crack version. So I decided it’s time to share my findings, hoping some other people with a DDX3216 could help me out on some issues, or perhaps some other people would let Behringer know what they think “could be better”.

So here I go: I’ll start with “the really negatives” J: -there was a loose screw in my unit J -in the first built DDX3216s there seems to be a problem with the signal-LED-driving circuitryWhen one connects a headphone and “pumps up the volume” a bit, there will be signal-LEDS lighting up on channels where there is NO input signal present. Seems to be a “cosmetic only” problem (no influence on sound whatsoever) but IMHO this should NOT have passed QC. (Nor R&D) -when one switches on the compressor on a channel with a “soft, sustained” signal (piano is the best source to test IMHO) and one chooses 0 attack time, and all other settings “around 12 o’clock”, one will here distortion in the sound (takes a little fiddling with the settings perhaps, but nothing too extravagant IMHO). Sounds to me as if one “hears every calculation made”. Of course, the settings used are perhaps not “musically” or even “technically correct”, but I’ve never heard another compressor sound like that with similar settings.

-when I connect a Fostex VC08 (20-bit Analog / ADAT convertor) to the ADAT1616 interface on the DDX3216, plain “line-level” signals are way to “loud” and are overdriving the inputs. Since, in the digital path, there is no “gain” the only solution is to lower the output signal on the gear (synths etc). But even a CD-player (no output-pot there) is “too loud”. Could be it’s the Fostex. Could be it’s not. I don’t know (yet). -when one applies a “constant signal” (or whatever signal, but a constant one is easier to see and listenOne can use the built-in OSC.) to a channel at 0 dB, sets an FX-send on that channel at 0 dB and then goes to the “FX and AUX” fader-page, one will see the FX-input is “in overdrive”.

The red LED on the meterbar is ON. Where, IMHO, a 0dB signal with a 0 dB FX-send should give a 0dB input on that FX input, no?

View and Download Behringer Ddx3216 instructions manual online. “DDX3216 File Exchange” PC software (WINDOWS ) or load it in using a PC card. DDX3216 was manufactured in compliance with the ISO9000 certified management system. 1.2.3 Open architecture As the operating system (firmware) of your DDX3216 is stored in a flash ROM, you can update the OS at any time from a personal computer or PC card.