CueAir · Monitor-only click

Method A: Mac USB audio

2026-11-06 updated

Connect the Mac to the mixer's computer USB-audio port or a separate interface. For X32, verify the installed USB audio card. A USB-stick recording port is not the same connection.
Select that audio device in macOS or the metronome/DAW. Assign dedicated playback outputs where supported. This selection is outside CueAir.
Check which X32 inputs receive those USB playback channels. In CueAir's menu-bar In/Out… → Inputs, distinguish Record (IN) and Play (PLAY) and inspect the necessary CARD block. A block change can replace several channels at once. Do not overwrite working vocals or instruments. Ask the console operator if uncertain.
On the click channel's Input → Source, select/check the corresponding patched IN source. The two USB source entries in X32's source list are not names for every expansion-card playback channel.
Supported X AIR models instead expose channel USB / USB Return controls. Do not copy that procedure to X32 or assume XR12/XR16 has the same returns.
Keep alerts and unrelated app audio away from the click output. Focus/Do Not Disturb alone is not a guarantee that every system sound is excluded.

In/Out… → Inputs. Choose Record (IN) or Play (PLAY) at the top, then pick the input block (Local, AES50, Card, or User In) for each group of eight channels. One cell changes eight channels at once.

The Input tab of the click channel (CH 31). Check the incoming input under Source (here 31 : IN 31).