Scenario 1: You’re in a home studio, recording with your AudioBox 1818VSL interface. The guitarist is in the hall, where the natural reverb is great for his amp. The drummer is in a back room. And you need to be there with them at times, yet stay in control of your system.

Scenario 2: You want to mix an event where there’s no room for a mixing station, and you need to hear the front-of-house and monitor mixes perfectly. The band doesn’t need a huge mixer, but you do want dynamics processing, EQ, and effects on the monitors.

What if you could do the whole job with the AudioBox 1818VSL and control the system from anywhere in the house? Ah, now we have your full attention!

With free AB1818VSL Remote, you can control your recording rig wirelessly, from an iPad^®. Go ahead and work with the drummer in the back room; with AB1818VSL Remote, you can control all features of AudioBox VSL software (except Solo and Channel Link) from anywhere your Wi-Fi network can reach.

In our second scenario, stash an AudioBox 1818VSL and a USB-connected Mac^® or Windows^® PC backstage or at the side of the stage. Then mix the entire show, controlling the system wirelessly from anywhere in the house using the iPad!

Presto zoomo! Instant wireless mixing surface!

Armed with your trusty iPad, you can walk around the studio or live venue and adjust levels and processing on an AudioBox 1818VSL in real time, just as you can with StudioLive Remote and a StudioLive mixer.

↓ Read more: How the system works

The view from the top

AB1818VSL Remote provides multiple views of the key AudioBox VSL mixer and processing controls.

The Overview displays the most-used parameters, such as channel levels, mutes, panning, EQ curves, and more for multiple channels at once. The Aux view shows the levels, panning, and Fat Channel processing for the Aux sends and internal FX buses.

As with AudioBox VSL software for Mac and Windows, the Fat Channel processors are displayed as microviews; tap a microview to zoom in on the Fat Channel processing, then navigate between the processors with the flick of a fingertip.

Did we mention it’s free?

Load settings and scenes, control the reverbs and delays—with AB1818VSL Remote for iPad, the power of AudioBox VSL software and the AudioBox 1818VSL interface is literally at your fingertips! To top it off, the app is a free download from the Apple App Store.

• Provides wireless control over AudioBox VSL software

• Overview displays levels, mutes, panning, EQ curves, and Fat Channel processing for multiple channels at once

• Fat Channel processors are displayed as microviews; tap a microview to zoom in, then navigate between the processors with the flick of a fingertip

• Aux view shows the levels, panning, and Fat Channel processing for the Aux sends and internal FX buses

• Portrait view shows every parameter for a single channel

• Free from the Apple App Store

Computer-system requirements:


Below are the minimum computer-system requirements for AB1818VSL Remote.

Apple iPad^®

• Apple iPad 1, 2 or 3
• iOS 4.3 or later
• iPad must be networked to a computer running AudioBox VSL v1.2
• AudioBox VSL 1.2 must be connected and synced to an AudioBox 1818VSL interface via a USB 2.0 connection
• Only one AudioBox 1818VSL can be connected to the network at a time.