[Grayson]

I’m in Northern California. Current set-up when the band is in the same room: All musicians go into a digital external mixer (CQ18t) and then into a speaker in the room. This way, I adjust levels for each instrument and it sounds great.

Now, 2 of the band members are living in different locations (one is in London and one is in Alabama).

The whole band, minus the 2 distant members will still go through the digital mixer and into my macbook pro. Currently, on my macbook pro, I can see the external digital mixer through Logic. How do I get FarPlay to see the external mixer as the input so the remote musicians can hear the band mixed through the digital mixer?

[David Liao]

Dear Grayson,

Thank you for your post. To send a mix of your local band members’ audio from your CQ18T into FarPlay for the remote participants to hear, create a “mix-minus” mix and then go to FarPlay’s Preferences > General Options and change the Microphone to CQ18T – Audio and the channel layout to Stereo. Try setting the channels to channels 1-2. If channels 1-2 don’t work, try other channel pairs, if available (sorry, I don’t have a CQ to test).

Alternatively, use FarPlay’s Input Mixer to mix the individual input channels on the CQ18T using the steps in this other forum thread.

Note: Alabama and especially London are quite far from California, so latency will limit the styles you can play together. For samples of performance styles possible at different distances, see our blog post “How far apart can you play music together?”.

Thank you,
David Liao

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