Mixing Station Pro is a good one and is available from the app store-I think it's $6 or $8 but it's well worth it and well supported.   Many users here have this and are very happy with it. Read more

@ProTechUniTech Hello, probably the best in general advice I could give you is....use another program besides XAir-Mix. IMO It is not particularly user friendly for someone jumping into this line of mixers. Slick as it is. Now that Mixing Station Pro is ported to ipads and Iphones (was an android program forever) it is the program to use-again my opinion. Some learning involved for sure, but well worth it. For following the sends and tap options it would also help if you had a good look at XAir-Edit on a pc or mac. It allows a more global view for learning, and shows the tap view steps more clearly, my opinion again.   Anyway if I understand your question, When you select the Effect 1 tab on the right you are essentially selecting a bus that's hard wired to that fx and it's really a 'sends on fader' view you see on the left side to that effect bus. All the ch's on the left are fader controls to send the ch to that particular fx bus. No different than sending to bus 1-6, or really Main either. You could look at the main tab as a sends on fader view to your FOH/Mains, bus 1-4 as SOF view to buses 1-4. You might look at the mixer as having 11 buses: main, bus 1-6 and fx 1-4, only the 4 fx busses have no physical xlr out socket, each one hard wired to an FX. The "other" Effect 1 fader on the left side is the send fader for effect 1 itself-a no no btw as it will cause a feedback loop, If you look at every bus, fx and main tab view you will see that same Effect 1 ch (and 2-4 as well) Think of them as the fx returns (sending the fx) to that selected right side bus tab. You want Fx 1 in bus 1 or FOH etc, that fader must be up. Just not to itself! The relationship of those 4 effects ch's to each bus view is, all 4 can have an independent return level for every bus, from mains to monitors to other fx-you CAN send an fx to another fx-again just not to itself.   Each input ch can send to each bus at a specified tap (as long as you have it set to "changes effect selected ch's". Usually monitors are set (bus 1-6) as pre eq so as changes made to FOH on the fly don't effect the musicians monitor feeds. But you could send pre eq to bus 1 and post eq to bus 2 etc etc.   I would suggest trying a static ip for the ipad, it seems to like that better.   Using a bus for an 'aux fed sub' set up will work well if you have the luxury of the extra bus to dedicate to it.     Read more

@OlaGlansOh Ok, Sorry I thought there were 2, one on the X-Live card and one for updates...but I now see just one, I was speaking out of turn here as I don't have mine yet . I agree about not having to disconnect. Have not seen that complaint anywhere else yet though-not saying it isn't an issue of which they are already aware. Hope the upcoming firmware update perhaps fixes a lot of things including your issue. Read more

@OlaGlansHello. I may be wrong but isn't the only thing that port can do is update firmware at this point?... so unless you are doing that, why would it need to be connected? Not that it should cause a shut down being plugged in mind you, but it seems like unplugging it may be the easy fix.... Read more

@djserjik14It may not be compatible. You can try Mixing Staion Pro which should work, it is much better supported and frequently updated. I would check into that for compatibility with iPad 4 as well. My guess is it will work ok. Read more

@riverbendYour mixer should still be under warranty-they are covered for 10 years. I guess there's that "away" time doing the repairs-BUT you will proably void the warranty if you do it yourself... Read more

Guess I'll be forking over some cash pretty soon, ouch! Read more