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multi-channel audio files

I've been researching online and understand that the ipad is able to play mutlichannel-audio files (ie 5.1, or more than regular 2-channel stereo files) by means of "pass-through", which means the ipad doesn't actually output more than L+R but can pass on this data to a device that can then de-code it to the various channels.

There seem to be endless file-types for audio and video files but i'm wondering if anyone has successfully managed to get more than 2 channels of audio playback from an ipad perhaps by using some external hardware such as a surround-sound de-coder? Ultimately it would be great to be able to play at least 3 channels of audio from the iMix app, as a few others have suggested in other posts.

So, i'm interested to hear of anyone else who may be (or already) playing back multichannel audio from their ipad.

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I have the same question! As a band I would like to have one track as a click track, and still have stereo tracks for our backup tracks. 

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You can achive this with combination of iMiX16 Band, Audiobus and for example Cubasis or AUM audio mixer apps. iMiX16 Band can route each section of audio channels (1-16, 17-32, 33-47 and 48-64) to different Audiobus input which means you can route click and stereo tracks to separate hardware outputs. For example i am using iMiX16 Band, Cubasis and Steinberg UR44 hardware device.

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