Hi there

I want to use Stage Traxx for my backing tracks for my live show next week. I’ll be multi-track songs with one backing track going out to the audience speakers, and vocals and keys monitors and one track going to my drummer’s headphones

I will be playing this through my iPhone. I wanted to know what equipment I need for this so I can pan 2 different tracks

    JHW I want to use Stage Traxx for my backing tracks for my live show next week. I’ll be multi-track songs with one backing track going out to the audience speakers, and vocals and keys monitors and one track going to my drummer’s headphones

    I will be playing this through my iPhone. I wanted to know what equipment I need for this so I can pan 2 different tracks

    Hi JHW, what you need is a usb device that has multiple track usb inputs, ST3 has six stereo audio tracks that can be outputted in to 4 stereo physical usb outputs, these six stereo tracks can be panned in ST3 or you can pan them on your external device, I use a digital mixer Xair18 which allows me to bring in the four stereo outputs from ST3, then I can do with those signals whatever I need on stage, send one output directly to front house, second output to keyboard player monitor third out to Drummer in ear and fourth to vocalist fold-back, the control is all done by the external mixer not by ST3.
    I personally think that is not a good way to go if you are using one same signal source, but if you have all different instruments on all six audio tracks than it is a good idea to group them to the 4 outs as this gives you maximum flexibility in the external mixer to do whatever you need.
    Cheers Damir

        Very important: Please stick to 44.1k for the sample rate. The current version has an issue with keeping your tracks playing in sync when you use a different sample rate.

        Like Damir wrote you need an interface with at least 2 seperate stereo outputs. I also think that digital mixers are the best option. The cheapest and smallest mixer option would be the Behringer Flow 8 which can act as a multichannel audio interface.

        Keep in mind that iOS is very picky with bus powered interfaces. So any interface without its own power supply can be hit and miss when connecting to iOS.

            4 days later

            peter
            Hello there. Looks like after the last update the problem with the sync in multitrack audio songs is resolved. My backing tracks ( all of them 48khz ) now playing synchronized ( after choosing the right audio resolution in ‘playback settings’)

              Great to hear. Thanks for letting me know.

              7 days later

              If you only need two tracks then mix your front of house left and the other one right. Route the iPad or phone left to the FOH and the right to your holdback. That's what I do - so the FOH/audience don't hear the click track.

              You can do this easily on any decent software - I use Cubase. You can probably do it with Stage Traxx multi-track capability. I've never tried that.

              JHW I would suggest the new Evo 16 ! Just bought it. Just amazing ang great price !! It gives you EVERYTHING!!

                The smaller Evo 8 might also work for anyone who just needs a seperate clicktrack output.

                Edit: Just see that the Evo 8 does not have official iOS support. So it will most likely not work without an active usb hub.