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Using 2 iPads to control one playback system with feedback? - MIDI Designer Q&A

Using 2 iPads to control one playback system with feedback?

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Greetings!

I use 2 ipads with MD Pro to control our show. 1 ipad is located at the drum platform and 1 is located in the video control room. I send midi locate commands along with transport commands to our playback system that runs Cubase which in turn provides the backing tracks and video for the show.

Is there a way to 'sync' the 2 ipads together so that when the drummer presses a button on his ipad, it will 'light up' the same button on my ipad in the control room and vice-versa?

I am guessing that I would need to have 2-way midi between the ipads and some fancy feedback programming?
in Advanced by glenadamslv (220 points)
The iPads will naturally mirror each other and NOT echo what  they receive if you just connect them directly over Wi-Fi (or any other medium). Perhaps I'm missing the point of the question, but the simplest case is completely covered. Let me know what's missing, or what I've missed, please!
by MIDI Designer Team (Dan)
Finally got back to re-visiting this issue. I have 2 iPads connected each to an IconnectMIDI2. I have them in turn connected out to in from each. I have a sample page with 8 MIDI buttons that are sub controls of a slider, making them part of a button group. As I press a button on one iPad, the same button on the other iPad lights up as expected, but I am now getting double MIDI commands to my playback system - like the button on the receiving iPad is echoing the command... am I missing a setting somewhere?
by glenadamslv (220 points)
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