VENUE | On-Stage

No longer have access to my console (not shown, demo only) after IOS update yesterday (10/29/20)

Engineers looking to use this app are simply in the wrong place looking at the wrong thing. This is designed for MUSICIANS to fail in their own levels. The engineer should do eq and dynamic work on the desk. Great work avid. Ignore all the other reviews who are clearly misinformed.

How many musicians set their own mix on a show using these desks? I loaded this app to set up off stage mixes and video feeds with the matrixes. Nope, those don’t exist. Can’t even get to groups. Where’s the app that is actually useful to mix and system engineers?

Yes, the S6L is way better than it’s predecessor in all the ways. But this iPad app is crazy limited. To point that it’s not usable…. I’ve been touring FOH engineer for over 25 years and I have used all of the mixing boards. All of them… I’ve also used just about every iPad app for all of those many different mixing boards. The fact that Avid made an app that has no EQ or processing control is unacceptable. Mixing boards that cost 90% less can do it. What happened Avid?! Let’s fix this! The mixer is just about amazing. Why make the iPad app so limited?

In my brief experience using it, it seems to work well for what it offers. While I had some issues connecting to the monitor console initially, that seems to have resolved itself. However, I’ve seen apps from other companies with much better functionality. Our church moved from Yahama CL series consoles, and Yamaha’s MonitorMix app is a lot quicker to operate. It mainly comes down to being able to create grouping templates, where channels can be grouped and color-coded. This makes finding the channel you need to adjust way faster than with Venue On-Stage, which has no groups and no color coding, requiring you to swipe through every channel looking for what you need, and having little visual indication to assist you. It does have a leg up over Yamaha’s app in that it features live metering on each channel, making it easy to identify channels that are clipping for example. If Avid were to make those changes to allow for grouping and color coding, that alone would make the app a 5/5 so long as stability remains intact.

Needs IOS 15.5 support

This app is completely broken on iOS14. All of our musician’s have already updated their phones as most people do. They cannot use this app to adjust their ears.

This app does not connect when using iOS 14.2 Please fix ASAP!

Contact Avid directly about update and said something was in the work. Waiting to see if with the release of the Venue software for the S6L series of console they will also release the fix for the iPhone/iPad application. It just blows my mind that Apple can break a developers app with no warning and a developer can take months if not longer to fix the issue once notified about the issue.

Apple gives developer previews to new iOS. Not sure why this was broken by the time 14 came out. Please update and take care of your software.