Hello everyone João here with Audient and today i'm going to show you how you
can use your iD44 in a live scenario
to route your backing tracks and metronome for your live show.
Let's get into it.
If you're lucky enough to own one of these
you have four outputs at your disposal this or the iD22 and I'm going to show
you how simple it is to make the most out of all of them so to make this work
you'll need your laptop, your DAW of choice and the iD44 you'll bring these
out with you and from the DAW you will play everything and route
everything out to the interface.
So it's a very simple setup I got a new session
here in Reaper you can do it in any DAW you're gonna need three tracks
Reaper doesn't distinguish but one should be stereo and the other two need to be mono
the first track is going to be our actual backing tracks
so all the instruments we're not playing live
the second one is going to be your metronome track
and the third one we have an output left
backing tracks are gonna take output 1 & 2
metronome is going to take output 3
and for 4 which we have extra I like to send bass drops
I play in a progressive metal band with lots of climactic explosion moments bass drop moments
and having the extra output to send those out to front-of-house can be a lifesaver
now that we have the three tracks created let's get to importing
I have my audios ready so first you import your backing tracks
this is going to be literally every instrument that you are not playing live and you need to accompany
your band
So this is my band Fifth Empire's song Euphoria we have
you can see organ, piano, we even have a speech in the background so everything you're not
performing you can either ask your mixing engineer for stems
for these parts you're not playing live or if you recorded yourself just go to the
recording session and you print it by muting the bass, drums, guitars or
whatever you're actually playing
then you're going to import your metronome
here it is looking nice and metronome-y
then you're going to import whatever you want to put on track 4 like I said I'm
gonna put the explosions and bass drops
very nice is there a bigger one? There's a bigger one
we have lots of fun
After that all you need is to correctly route them to the outputs on the interface
so this is how it's done in Reaper
you go to the routing of the track
you disable the master send so that you don't hear it twice
and then it's here audio Hardware outputs
backing tracks are going to be analog 1 & 2
metronome is going to be analog 3
and bass drop is going to be analog 4
disabling the master send once again
now the final piece of the puzzle is here in the iD Mixer page
you're going to open your iD Mixer, make sure that everything is
coming out of the correct outputs
looking good so the first thing we're gonna do is split DAW 3 & 4 into mono tracks
so that this is our click and this is our base drop in mono and then
we're gonna need to set up cue mixes for each of the outputs
so in Cue A you're gonna put the metronome up and in Cue B you're gonna put the bass
drops up now you have to open your system panel and correctly tell the iD44
to send those cues to those outputs so you'll split 3 & 4 again
watch out that you're not playing any audio through your DAW
and 3 is going to be Cue A
and 4 is going to be Cue B I have connected the outputs 3 & 4 to my
speakers so if everything is correct I should be hearing the backing tracks in
my headphones metronome on the Left speaker and bass drops on the right speaker
so there you go very simple if you're the lucky owner of one of these
you'll have an increase in the quality of your live show with this very simple setup
Thank you for watching