Audio routing question

Lishy simply put, you have two options if you have an ipad with headphone jack output, using the headphone out gives you one stereo analog out which plugs in to normal channel input of any mixer.
The other option you can use digital output which gives you 4 stereo outputs using a single usb cable that needs to be plugged in to your digital device, if you dont have a mixer with digital input capability then you need a digital device in between your analog mixer and the ipad which converts the digital signal to analog.
Remember you have six stereo tracks in ST3 that you can place six stereo audio tracks in then you can rout these six tracks to the FOUR STEREO DIGITAL OUTPUTS.

You can also have a third option where you can use the headphone analog out as one anlog output and you can buy a cable that can have a usb analog out which gives you 2 outputs capability if you dont want to spend a lot of money on a larger interface.

The simplest way to use ST3 with a click track and no complicated digital crap at the output, is just record your tracks with one side being your main fronthouse audio and the other side being the click, take the headphone out and place the main audio in to one channel and centre your pan pot now you have mono fronthouse, plug the click in to another channel and make sure the channel fader is closed so no front house and place your click to any aux you need the click on.

This is the simplest and most reliable way to work the only drawback is you need to spend more time in editing to prepare your tracks but in my oppinion its well wort it as they say keep it simple stupid its never let me down and achieves the same result as the complicated method and the audiance will notice nothing different as long as you maintain your audio quality to the end.

Lishy i dont like the click on Left because in lots of mixers If you have a mono signal if you plug in to LEFT side the RIGHT side is joined to it so a mono signal plays on both left and right speakers then if you plug in the right side this then becomes a true stereo input, for that reason i preffer to place my main audio program on LEFT TRACK and my click track on the RIGHT TRACK, its not a disaster if you do it the other way but i am a bit padantic and like to have left track go in to left input and click than goes to another input.
Example is, all mixer line level inputs use left Chanel as the preferred mono input and this then automatically feeds the right side of that channel, so it makes more sense to have your main signal on the left track.

The pan idea in ST3 wont work as Peter pointed out.

If your mixer has digital inputs then you can use the multitrack , but this then limits your other options of not beeing able to speed up and slow down your tracks, this to me is more important so i use the headphone out with all my files being a 1 stereo track, and i use to use the click on right, but now i dont even use that, i just use feed the same signal to all performers and use visual click track on devices so if there is a 4 bar silence the musicians can visually sync to get back in time to the backup track, now that we have looping there is even a better way as all backing stops and the band is totally free running you stop play que up the next section required and hit start on the beat this allows the band to do whatever they want for how long we want yet come in on the beat with the loop that gets selected and were back on tight beat again.
This is what looping feature has alloud us to do plus manny more things that we never even thought about. So good luck with your setup.

Lishy thanks for all the info, much appreciated. I don’t use a daw and have been downloading ready made backing tracks.
So they are already mono.
I didn’t think it was possible to use the speed up/down when using multitracks though?

Sorry Lishy I misunderstood your operational need I thought you wanted a simple method of operation to get a signal to audience and a click track on stage.
The tempo change is not operational on multitrack and that’s a big reason I use stereo tracks as it’s more important to me to have that capability as it’s one thing a live band can do and most audio players can’t, the multitrack is great to have for other reasons which in my case is not worth using as it complicates things greatly for not much reward to the audience in the end.
So I keep things as simple as possible but as flexible as possible on stage cause that’s what it’s all about, the audience.

If the files you download are mono and make you use multitrack you need to use pan on the multitrack to create your stereo image like guitar left, guitar right and so on, its flexible and will sound great but it’s time consuming.
Good luck with it I’m sure ST3 will handle whatever you throw at it.
Damir