Setting up mic and guitar on an iPad Pro for live performing

[jrees]

I'm trying to set up an acoustic guitar and a dynamic microphone for 2-channel live performing. The idea is to have a very portable rig I can play through my combo acoustic amp, or take to an open mic and plug into their sound system. I am hoping if I list my hardware and software some of you bright folks can recommend the best way to utilize them.

Here's what I've got:
* Guitar and Mic
* iRig Pro DUO
* iPad Pro 12.9"
* IK BlueBoard
Apps:
* IK Amplitube for iPad 4.11.0
* IK Vocal Live - Ver 3.0.3
* nTrack Studio 9 - Ver 9.2.13
* ToneBridge
* Bias FX2

I had initially set up a 2-track song in nTracks and was able to isolate my guitar on one channel and vocals on a second channel, allowing me to assign separate effects chains to each - Amplitube to the guitar and Vocal Live to the mic. That kinda worked but had some problems such as being very finicky about which order things were turned on - it would take up to 5 minutes of button crunching and screen changes to get all the effects to engage right - then it would often hang after a couple minutes and emit a low pitch howl that would require switching back through the settings again to clear itself. This obviously wouldn't be cool in a live situation so I'm hoping for a more streamlined setup that I can just plug-in and go.

I reasoned that a simpler setup would be to use Amplitube's own built-in multi-tracker as my starting point instead of nTracks but could only seem to get effects out of one track at a time...that's when I realized I have no clue what I'm doing and decided to ask for help...obviously, I'm missing very fundamental concepts. This should be dead simple no?

Once I get past the fundamental setup issues I'd love to get into the finer points of making a killer acoustic patch for Amplitube and learning how to use the BlueBoard to switch between tones and control the looper - there's a whole lot of learning ahead!

[jrees]

In case that was too much writing, I'll simplify the question - I guess my primary confusion is which app to start with as my multi-tracker. I'm familiar with nTracks from previous DAW use on a PC but it's been clunky on the iPad so maybe I should ditch that and use Amplitube as my starting point? When I tried that I was only able to activate effects on one track at a time...both tracks were armed and set to record but only the highlighted track would engage effects...as soon as I switched a track's focus the effects would shut off...what would cause such a thing? Have I set something up wrong or am I trying to use Amplitube in a way it can't be used?

I'm only trying to set it up for 2 live tracks at this time, but want to do it in the most streamlined, STABLE, and portable way possible. If there's some other piece of gear I need to accomplish my needs that's fine too, just enlighten me please. Stomp? Axe? Ditch it all and get a 2 channel mixer with DSP effects? ...confused...

[jrees]

I've just spent another hour with my head under the hood of this setup and think I've located one source of my roadblocks but I don't know if there's a way around it. Amplitube is only recognizing one input of the Pro-Duo. With only Amplitube running, when I plug in the Pro-Duo, Amplitube sees it as a single channel of "digital audio" and I don't see anywhere to specify differently. I didn't have such limitation when I'd tried to use nTracks as my multi-tracker - from the very first time I plugged in the Pro-Duo nTracks asked me to specify my input device and allowed me to split the Duo to 2 discrete tracks. Does Amplitube's multitracking utility not allow this? ...still confused...

[Peter_IK]

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