Hi everyone! Currently setting up a dLive system for a touring act, and one thing we’re struggling to figure out is if there’s a way to have a different User account for the in-ear monitor engineer in a way where they only have access to monitor levels and not the complete FOH mix?
Currently on the MixPad app we can’t find how to only change monitor settings, it seems very easy to accidentally change things that are going to FOH.
Have you tried the OneMix app? That is designed to be used for monitors and it restricts users to the aux busses.
There are other software choices as well. There is the DLive4You app that is designed to give each musician control over their own monitor aux send. You can also explore the use of the CustomControl software. The CustomControl software is not “plug and play” ready however. It requires some to built out the desired functionality in the app. While this takes some time, it also provides a very powerful tool to create custom interfaces. You could create a set of layouts that provides the needed monitor control and is branded with the band’s logo for example to give the band a totally custom and unique experience.
The advantages to the DLive4You and CustomControl software is that they are available on more platforms. The MixPad and OneMix apps are only available for the Apple iPad while the other options are available on phone and tablets in both iOS and Android variants.
Thanks for your reply! Yeah we just downloaded OneMix but I thought that was for the individual users to access only their mix, not for a monitor engineer to access all of the musicians’ mixes? If that could be for all monitors though that would be great!
Will check out that CustomControl too, appreciate the recommendation.
The OneMix app is designed to control one aux mix at a time, but a user can easily switch between the different aux mixes (assuming the user permissions are set up to allow it - which they probably are by default).
I will also say that you might also want to check out the third party app Mixing Station. While this is requires a paid license for each console you want to use it with, the Dlive license is very reasonable (something like $8) and it is well worth the cost. This app can also be customized and it would be pretty easy to design it so the monitor engineer could access all the monitor aux buss send levels of a selected input at the same time and on the same layout/page. They could also have another set of layouts where all of the individual channel send levels for a particular monitor buss send are all on one screen/layout.
Thanks! We were in fact able to use Mixing Station just so we had something to run with for rehearsal and a one-off where we didn’t have a monitor engineer, although I was warned by a friend who is an Allen and Heath rep that they don’t totally recommend using Mixing Station.
Our monitor engineer now has a custom setup for us on our communal iPad where I can do IEM mixes for people when she’s not around, and we’re going to use DLive4You for everyone’s individuals that they can access.
Thank you so much for your help!
Honestly that person either doesn’t know what they are talking about (ie they haven’t really used MS to know what it does), or they are told not to to recommend third party apps. Mixing Station is an incredible app that works extremely well and is actively being developed. This means when bugs or incompatibility issues do arise, they are quickly fixed.
Now Mixing Station will never be a direct replacement for something like the DLive Director software. There are times when I absolutely need to use the Director software over Mixing Station. But I would 1000% rather use Mixing Station than the other OEM DLive apps like OneMix and MixPad. Mixing Station has so many more features than either of those apps do and it is totally worth the price of the Mixing Station DLive license to not have to use those OEM iPad apps.
I would even say that mixing station is a game changer.
Mixing station is usually more stable than the 1st party apps…
Ideally this would be role-based rather than user-based, but unfortunately the dLive’s role system revolves around limiting scenes rather than actually dividing up what resources a surface can normally access.