[Rich S]

Hi David

Thanks very much for your amazingly prompt response. Brilliant customer service which will lead me to become a farplay subscriber.
Basically there are three of our band in one location rehearsing with one other in a different place.
We all have access to an Xair18. The main body of the group uses the Xair for rehearsals.
I’m sure that you already know how this works, but each one of us has a tablet/Ipad which is connected to the Xair on it’s internal wifi. The various aux outs are connected to our in-ear monitors. This allows us to adjust our personal mixes using the mixing station app on the tablets. We also use this system for live performance.

The first attempt to use the Farplay system involved me at the band end. I had our Xair connected digitally to a MacBook Pro, assuming that it would act as our interface, and the Mac connected directly to the internet router. I used the in ears monitor that was linked to my personal aux out.
There were no obvious problems with the initial remote link to the second location, but there were a few connection issues with the band member in the second location. He also rehearses remotely using Farplay with another band and told me that because of this he uses a different interface instead of the Xair. Following his advice I connected a separate 4 channel Behringer interface digitally to the mac and ran a stereo feed out of a pair of aux outs of the Xair into the first two inputs of the other interface. I then connected my in ear monitors to the headphone socket. I was then able to use the connection to my tablet to adjust the mix that was coming out of the specific pair of aux outs that were connected to the two channels on the other interface Everything then worked well.

The setback in using it this way however is that it seems that the other two members of the band at the main location will not be able to hear the guy at the second connection since there is no digital connection to the Xair. I can get around this by using a headphone splitter out of the 4 channel interface, but although I can still control a mix of the three of us with my Ipad, the other two in the band have to use the same mix for their in ears.
This seems to negate one of the main advantages of using the Xair18, and I am so far at a loss as to why (if there really is one) there is a reason why I can’t get the correct result without using a second interface in the way described above.
I hope this makes some sort of sense.
Thanks again for your support.
Best
Rich