QSC TouchMix Series, TouchMix-30 Pro Quick Start Manual

TouchMix Series

Quick Start Guide

Setting up TouchMix-30 Pro with a computer: Windows driver installation, iOS Core Audio configuration, iTunes playback, and DAW setup

This quick start guide is to help you set up a computer with the QSC TouchMix-30 Pro digital mixer—for example, to use it as a digital audio workstation (DAW).

If your computer runs on the Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 8.1, or Windows 10 operating systems, you must first install the Windows driver before using the mixer
and computer together, including setting up the DAW. If your computer is a Mac, you may proceed and set up the DAW.

Non-DAW audio playback from computer

Stereo audio from Windows comes into the mixer on the stereo channel

2-Trk PB

(audio channels 31 and 32).

TouchMix-30 Pro settings

To receive audio from the computer, press the mixer's
and from the

2-Trk Record

output (channels 31 and 32) is always sent to the computer regardless of the mixer's Record Mode setting.

Rec/Play

button, touch

Record Mode

, and select

Multitrack DAW

. Audio from input channels 1 through 30

Installing the Windows Driver

The TouchMix-30Pro Windows Driver creates an interface between a TouchMix-30 Pro mixer and a computer running the Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 8.1, or
Windows 10 operating system (recommended). The program supports up to 32 × 32 channels of digital audio between the mixer and the computer.

Installation

1. Extract the compressed folder to a new location.

2. Open the new uncompressed folder and run

3. The Windows operating system will ask if you want to allow the program to
make changes to your device. Click

4. The

Setup Welcome

continue.

window (Figure 1) will appear. Click

Yes

Setup

.

.

Next >

to

— Figure 1 —–

— Figure 2 —–

5. Accept the default location for the driver folder or browse to another location
(Figure 2). Click

Install

.

1

— Figure 3 —–

6. The installer will copy the files to the selected location. When it is done it
will present a message that the driver has been installed on your computer
(Figure 3). Click

Finish

.

Connection

— Figure 4 —–

Configuring iOS Core Audio

— Figure 5 —–

1. Use a Type B USB cable (Figure 4) to connect the mixer's
USB port on your computer.

1. To connect a TouchMix-30 Pro to a Mac DAW, start by connecting a Type B
USB cable (Figure 4) to the
other end to your computer’s USB jack.

2. On the TouchMix, push

Multitrack DAW

3. Open the Audio MIDI Setup utility on the Mac (

Utilities > Audio MIDI Setup

to the Window tab and select

4.

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the mixer and make sure the sample rate on the computer matches that of the
mixer. The TouchMix sample rate may be set from its

.

will appear in the Audio Devices window (Figure 5). Select

USB DAW

Rec/Play > Recording Mode >

port on the mixer. Then connect the

Finder > Applications >

). If the audio window isn’t already visible, go

Show Audio Devices

USB DAW

and select

.

Rec/Play

port to a

screen.

Configuring Apple iTunes Playback

— Figure 6 —–

— Figure 7 —–

1. In the list of audio output devices, select
MIDI Setup list. Then right click on it and select

output

. See Figure 6.

2. Click

Output

; then click

3. Verify that

Front
2-Trk PB

mixer would need to be in DAW mode, with Track selected as their input
source.

4. Click

Stereo

and select

channel. Any other pair of channels may be used instead, but the

Done

.

Configure Speakers…

is selected. Click

Q 32

(Figure 7). This will route iTunes music to the mixer’s

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Left Front

device in the Audio

Use this device for sound

at the lower right.

and select

Q 31

2

. Click

Right