Note that changing a channel's input to a different source (the first method) only works when that source (eg Local27) is part of your 38 inputs you've selected on the Routing>Home\Inputs tab.   If instead Local27 was *not* part of your inputs set on the Routing>Home\Input tab (eg you were using remote preamps over AES50 instead of local ones, so Routing>Home\Inputs was filled with AES50 signals instead of local ones,) but you still wanted a signal from Local27 to be one of your channels, then you'd need to get creative with the User Input tabs. Read more

If by "front monitor port" you mean the phones socket, this is tied to the console's solo bus.  You can stereo-link a pair of buses for the drummer to use, he can mix them how he likes, then you can solo those buses and use the phones socket on the front.  However this essentially sacrifices the console's solo functionality, and the built in headphone amp might not be loud enough for a drummer. Read more

I count 370+ 48 - AES50A 48 - AES50B 48 - AES50C 48- USB-B 64 - External Expansion Card (SD) 64 - Internal Expansion Card (Dante) 32 - StageConnect 8 - Analogue XLR 8 - Analogue TRS 2 - AES\EBU (stereo) =370   2 - Phones (stereo, but not freely patchable) 2 - USB-A (front of console for 2-track, but AFAIK not yet enabled in firmware.)   As Paul said, the S32 (and DL32) are unique in that instead of just passing on the AES50 stream from the console, instead they will insert their own preamps' singals into the 1-32 section of the AES50 signal coming out of their B socket, meaning that only signals in the 33-48 section of the AES50 stream coming out of the console and into the S32's A socket will actually make it through to the S32's B socket. Whatever is in AES50 1-32 coming from the console into the S32's A socket will end up on the S32's XLR\ADAT sockets, but then get replaced by the signals from the S32's own preamps in the AES50 1-32 part of the AES50 stream coming out of the S32's B socket.   Daisy-chaining S\DL32s is a pain.   If you need 48 analogue outs over 3 S32s, you're going to need to plug one S32 into the console's A socket, another S32 into the console's B socket, and the last S32 into the console's C socket.   If you have other stageboxes (eg S16, SD8 etc) that you want to include in the chain for more outputs, you'll need to take advantage of their output switching (which is only good for the 1-24 section of the AES50 stream.) Given that the S32s' analogue outs are fixed to the 1-16 section of the AES50 stream, you'd need to set the other stageboxes to output the 17-24 section of the AES50 streams before that part of the signal gets replaced by the S32s' preamp signals. To get these signals to XLR outputs before they get replaced by the S32's own preamps, you'd need to connect Console>Other Stagebox (set to output 17-24)>S32(fixed to output 1-16.)   This means that although the console can route 48 signals down the AES50 cable, the way the stageboxes work means that only 24 of them will end up on analogue output sockets.  The other 24 signals only end up on digital outputs (eg ADAT and ultranet.)   Edit: Actually, if you got a Hub4 (or 3) you can go Wing>S32>Hub4, and get AES50 1-16 from the console onto the analogue outs of the S32, and AES50 33-48 from the console onto the analogue outs of the Hub4, which means 32 unique analogue outs per console AES50 socket.  Include the other stageboxes as previously mentioned and you're up to 40 unique analouge outs per console AES50 socket. Read more