Click and cue tracks

Naming your click and cue tracks so the level of each can be changed from the iPad mid-set.

"More click." "Less cues." Those are the two things someone asks for in the middle of a set, so they are the two faders Downstage puts on the iPad.

It is deliberately not a full mixer. A mixer on a touchscreen is the one feature that could silence the band with a stray thumb.

Name the tracks

Downstage finds the two tracks by name. Nothing needs configuring, and nothing in your set is changed.

• Capitals do not matter, and the word can be part of a longer name: Click 4-4, Guide Vox and Metronome +CLICK all match.
• It has to be a whole word. A track called Clicker Loop is not the click.
• The first match wins, counting down the track list. Live lists a group before the tracks inside it, so if you have a group called Clicks holding several click tracks, the group is used — and its fader moves every click at once, which is what "more click" means.

If a set has no matching track, that fader is simply greyed out. The Click & cues tab in Backstage shows which tracks were found.

The panel

The top of the show screen shows the click's level: Click 85%. Tap it to open the panel.

• Slider. Moves that track's fader in Live straight away. The number is a percentage of the fader's travel, not decibels.
• Mute. While Live is playing, muting asks for a press and hold, the same as Stop — taking the click away from a drummer mid-song should never be an accident. While stopped, a tap does it.

Changes show on every connected screen. If someone moves the fader in Live instead, the iPad follows.