The Behringer Wing is positioned as the successor to the X/M32, but it’s so much more! There’s just nothing like it on the market.
First off: 40 fully processed stereo channels, each with a selectable gate, EQ and dynamics emulation, which since the 3.1 update (released in November 2025) has made it so any model of dynamics is available on both slots simultaneously. Also, since the 3.1 update the 8 stereo Aux channels have one freely selectable dynamics models (in stead of the PSE/LA2 combo that was previously only available on these channels), making them absolutely usable for things like keys, backingtracks, digital guitar amp modellers etc. Basically 48 stereo(!) channels, making it essentially a 96 inputs console.
Those 96 inputs can come from a whole slew of different sources; you’ve got 3 AES50 ports, each capable of 48 in/48 out, a Stageconnect port (32 channels of low latency audio over a single 110 ohm DMX cable), the build-in 48/48 USB interface, the external module (which by default holds the Wing-Live module, serving as a 48 channel multitrack SD recorder/player) as well as an internal module port which can host a Dante or Waves Soundgrid, giving way to a 64/64 channel stream over the 2 built-in Ethernet jacks.
Besides having absolutely killer sounding gate/EQ/dynamics emulation, it has insanely good on-board FX engine, with 16 slots of freely assignable effects which can be freely assigned to any channel, bus, matrix or mains bus.
Speaking of which, this insane beast has 28(!) stereo busses available ánd supports bus to bus routing. You can send any channel to any of the 16 busses, 8 matrixes or 4 mains busses, send busses to mains and matrixes and vice versa. Essentially you could have 16 stereo IEMs, 8 FX sends and still have a mains, subs, infill and delay feed available. As far as I know, the next priced console to have this sheer amount of inputs and busses available is the Waves LV1 which clocks in at a whopping 4 times the price of this Behringer. The consoles that are even remotely similarly priced like the A&H QU or SQ series can’t hold a candle to the sheer processing power of the Wing!
Does it have 96 kHz? No. Will you actually miss it? Absolutely not. The room, the engineer and the band will have MUCH more of an impact on the mix than the samplerate will ever have. And fact is that it’s simply easier to get a good mix from this Wing than it is from the direct competitors. It’s simply that good.
