Olivier Does the XR18 app work with your iPad Pro 10.5? I read (on the Apple store and elsewhere) that this poses a problem for iPads with iOS higher than 15…
If you have no problem I wonder if I will not buy the same version of iPad as you … (10.5 with mini jack socket before if they remove it on the following versions…)
Hi Oliver, yes XR18 control works on my iPad, but i don't recommend if you plan to use ST3 and XR18 at the same time, for a number of reasons that are important to me.
When i perform solo i like to have real knobs to tweak at an instant so i have a small yamaha mixer on a stand close to me so i don't need to bring down ST3 window to get XR18 control, this is a big reason, i never like to loose my lyrics screen or my ST3 controls and i like it all to be there at all times on the same window in landscape mode.
When i use my XR18 its normally as a sound engineer for a band, so in that case i use my Acer laptop for XR18 and ST3 for playback music, reason, laptop has ethernet connector and a direct usb to usb connection to XR18, this allows me to run a DAW to record the whole band and a nice solid ethernet connection to XR18 , which runs on a power supply but has battery backup as well, recorder once setup and running can be in background and the XR18 software is always present to control the audio, ST3 on ipad is always there as well , so no mucking around screens and unreliable wifi connections , i don't believe an iPad can do all that reliably and easily.
I have sucessfully used the ipad and xr18 on ipad for small gigs but i did not feel comfortable with the system having a lot of electronic and sound engineering background , i did not feel warm a fuzzy when using it that way, now i feel more confident with a small powerful mixer my guitar foot pedal which has my microphone input in to it and great vocal control and a great harmoniser that uses my guitar to change harmonies to suit, so my setup is very powerful yet simple and now with great power of ST3 which has become the heart of my system i can setup in 10 minutes and hit start , before it took ages to setup cause something always went wrong and needed tweaking.
I would recommend you get the last of iPad pros with headset with at least 250gb , you will nor regret it like i did buying the latest ipad to find i really missed the headset out and the home button, but al least my wife is happy she can play her puzzle games on an ipad pro 11 , she also drives the better car 😂 ahh ! happy wife happy life !
Cheers Damir