This app is not worth $99. The problems are centered around it not talking to the iDR unit. Meaning sometimes I still see meter movement on the app when I know there is no signal in the fader (because the console signal meter's aren't moving). The compressor indicator on the input strips blink occasionally, at random, like christmas lights, on any input, regardless of whether you have actually engaged the compressor on that fader or any fader. Sometimes when I go into setup mode and pull another fader down to the custom surface it doesn't update to where the fader position is on the console. I restart the app FREQUENTLY because it is not talking to the iDR unit. When I'm working from the app then go and touch a fader on the console, the fader will snap back to where the fader is on the app. The console and the app do not talk to each other very well. We had version 1.8 and it did NOT do any of this. We also have an ETC ION board and we have their app as well and it works great with the ION console, and we have an AMX controller with their app running some hardware and it runs flawlessly, so I know it's not because of any wifi issues. This app is nice to eq and set monitor levels and to get a general house mix but that is it. Besides all of the above, I still for the life of me can't understand why Allen and Heath can't/won't have this app access the libraries that are stored in the iDR. Save yourself some money, use your laptop and use the iLive editor software that is a free download from their website. You can do EVERYTHING in that. I have mixed a few shows from my mac laptop with it. This app would be ok if it were free or .99 cents. For $99 I expect A LOT more from this app. The idea of mixing a show from your iPad is a lovely thought but not for $99 given it's limiting abilities.

Lemme start by saying the iLive is the Best digital board I have every used. I love it. This app. Well it leaves a lot to be desired.1. The user interface is not intuitive at all. This is the worst mixing app I have ever used. Look at the presonus app to see what a digital interface should look like. Especially how it changes when changing orientations. 2. There needs to be a way to save credentials and have the app automatically connect when I open it.3. The app needs to remember the last view you were in.4. The app needs to automatically reconnect if the wifi drops. Having to close the app and reopen it and log back in is too time consuming and ridiculous. Networks drop at times, especially wifi. We need to automatically reconnect. If number 2 was done this should be easier.5. The app lacks the ability to adjust effects. That is just plain dumb. Why can't I walk in an audience and actually adjust what the effects sound like? This is a must have feature.6. The app lacks the ability to do scene recall. Seriously, a digital board in this range with no scene recall. Note. The surface allows for scene recall. The app does not.That's all I can think of for now. I really hope AH fixes this.There are some other areas that the surface could be improved as well. AH please feel free to contact me to give you some real world expectations. This will likely be my last Allen Heath purchase due to the lack of response in fixing this. This was the flagship digital board when I purchased it. I was promised that these issues would be addressed. Now it is discontinued and I doubt any work will be done on it. I am so disgusted that this will likely be the last AH purchase or recommendation I ever make. So sad that a company ignores its once very loyal customers.

Please update this app for iOS 10 because it started losing connection once I upgraded. Also very complicated to use in real situation. Please make it like the one for the QU series.

This app has the potential to be one of the most useful tools developed for live sound events. I took it out last weekend without the iLive surface (only a laptop, mixrack and iPad) to an outdoor drama with lots of wireless body packs. The FOH had to be in a cabin behind the actors inside the fort. I setup the mixrack and laptop in the cabin and took the iPad outside in the audience and mixed where I could actually see and hear the actors. It worked beautifully...at first. The app is amazing as far as control and we had to do very little on the laptop itself. However, about 45 minutes into the first act, the app said "app out of memory" and shut down. It did fire right back up (after rebooting for about three minutes) and worked nearly flawlessly after that. All in all I think it is a very good and well thought out app that just has a few minor glitches. I hope the developers will fix those in an update soon. I am going to try it again at a large Christian Youth event again this weekend....we'll see how it goes!