X AIR

I’m a pro gigging musicians and sound tech with 30 yrs experience. I’ve been using XR18 with this app for about 8 yrs(? Since they first came out). I’ve used it and it’s worked great…UNTIL NOW! Since I updated my iPad to iOS 16 the app crashes if you try to access anything other than the fader sections, rendering my XR18 nearly useless. This happened a few years ago and Behringer was so slow to address the issue that I was forced to purchase an Allen & Heath analog mixer, so I could work! I avoided using my XR18 for a year or more, until I had a job that was beyond the capabilities of my analog mixer. Fortunately Behringer had fixed the issue by then. So, I took a chance and started using it again because my band mates wanted to use IEMs and have control over their own monitor mixes. All was good until this last IOS update! ITs been about a month now Behringer! This is behind unacceptable! There are prob millions of XR18 in use - thats a lot of customers to lose! FIX IT ALREADY! Do the right thing!

I’ve been using the Behringer X Air 18 for several years now. I even have the Behringer X Air 12, both have been my favorite piece of gear live for a long time. Is it perfect? No. I’ve found the work around... (ie: using a external router always, etc) but it has always come through. The fact that I can multi track record a live show has made it a cool touch. The fact that I can have up to six mono monitors out and the routing capabilities are awesome. But then I switch and updated to iOS 16 and everything crumbled. Now at first I thought it was my “old” iPad mini 2, maybe it wasn’t working right. Got a new iPad and same thing. I can move the faders and recall shows (thank God for that feature cause basically that’s what I’ve been doing) but if I need a new input setting I’m screwed. And I’ve been screwed a few times. This is frustrating!!! I’ve been seeing that I’m not the only one, and I saw the post when they said not to update to iOS 16, which frankly was a bit too late. Please, please, please, please fix this. Why have a product for daily working musicians if you’re not gonna be on top of it??? If you are reading this and haven’t updated to iOS 16 on your iPad, DONT! I use this almost daily, I had to pull my wife’s old iPad that hadn’t been updated to have the full access. This shouldn’t be the case. Take it from a working musician. I hope you read this!

I have used this app for years as well as the other Behringer apps for their other boards. This is the only one that no longer works, and frankly wasn’t ever as nice as the M32 and M16 level apps. This is an even bigger issue with the X18 because it was zero control without the app/digital control. So with a crashing app, you are left to the desktop app to make your way around and that is even worse than the iPad app. So having this app crash makes the whole board not worth owning or using. Since the board is still for sale, I can only imagine how many upset customers they get on the regular because of this. Too bad. Don’t buy the board. I doubt they care to make this app useable again.