I realize there's probably tons of different ways to go about doing this.....wanted to get advice from folks who've done it on a basic/efficient/simple way to do so:
For live music situations. Right now when I'm tweaking the EQ in the PA during setup, I run some of my standard music tracks and walk the room a bit and listen, doing adjustments via Ipad/VSL. My Ipod has the tracks, and I simply plug it into a channel (through a DI), and start one of the tracks. This works fine, and the VSL Remote on the Ipad of course lets me make EQ adjustments from anywhere in the room. What it can't do is switch to a different track....for that I need to walk back to FOH position and manually change on the Ipod. So, the question is: what's the most efficient/simple way to play tracks through the PA for soundchecking purposes, and have the ability to change tracks via VSL Remote on the Ipad? I'm assuming I should play music from the laptop (not via an Ipod), and use something like Splashtop to remotely control it, yes? The rig in question = StudioLive 16.0.2 basic Macbook AirportExpress router older Ipad2 (and at the moment, music stored on an Ipod Classic) thanks ahead of time for your help, d. |
davem801 wroteI'm assuming I should play music from the laptop (not via an Ipod), and use something like Splashtop to remotely control it, yes? This is what I do and it works great! "SplashTop Personal" app The other plus is that I can actually run UC Surface from the Laptop (through SplashTop on the iPad) and I then get the RTA/Spectrometer for every channel in and out of the mixer and I still use it as a touch app no problem (Windows 8.1), really sweet! There are settings and things to know to make it work for the first time without frustration (I believe that is what keeps people from using it), you need to use it on a network and not through the internet so there actually is no need to set up a spashtop account at all, also 1024/768 seems to work the best with no latency. Steve
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I'm using a 1602.....in this instance is my only option to use up input channels 1 and 2?
This seems to be what StudioLiveClassicSoftwareReferenceManual 2.8 Steps 7-9 is telling me. (under "Configuring StudioLive for Core Audio (Mac only)") I'd actually rather use a different input channel, and sum to mono at that. I have a Radial AV-DI which does this....via a standard 1/8" stereo audio cable from the headphones output on the laptop (or Ipod). But if can dispense with that cable and DI, and utilize the Firewire cable, I'd like to. d. |
You can definitely send the stereo audio from say iTunes for instance to any channel(s) on the mixer through FireWire. However I only know how to accomplish that on a Windows PC. For Mac it had something to do with the MIDI/Audio setup in the Mac (but I never had a Mac so I don't know any of the details).
If you can get the audio to come in on the FireWire input of the monitor section, you can use that instead of using up channels on the mixer. Which is great, but you may not have any FAT channel to use on it and you may not be able to mess with that input using SL Remote either. Steve
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Well that didn't quite work.
I just got back from messing around a bit with this. The method I chose was to play the music using ITunes on the laptop, and controlling it with Apple's own ITunes Remote app on the IPad. (using an Airport Express and a dedicated network). I did not try to use Firewire for the audio input, and just went with the simpler laptop headphone jack to DI to mixer channel input route. It did work.....sort of. I was able to change tracks, play/stop, and otherwise navigate around ITunes remotely with the IPad so that's good. But ITunes itself (on the laptop) kept freezing up.....the tracks still played so it didn't shut down, but all control kept getting locked out for up to 6-8 minutes (had the little spinning Apple icon the whole time). I couldn't stop/pause the track, adjust volume, or even shut ITunes down. As well, and much worse, my StudioLive Remote on the Ipad was also being wonky. It would freeze for a moment here and there, and sometimes the app would simply shut off and I had to relaunch it. And relaunching itself was sometimes sticky and troublesome. So it seems like the two apps.....ITunes Remote, and StudioLive Remote....don't get along and they bung each other up. Hmmmmm. SL Remote works just fine when IT Remote isn't active. d. |
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