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What do you stand to gain, albeit with possible additional investment of time and resources.
https://mackie.com/img/file_resources/Master%20Fader_V5_1_RG.pdf
Point to consider, if had there been no MF5.1 or the recent iPad, then no dilemma. If Not Broke, Do not Fix, presuming operational to date.

Personally, I would migrate to MF5.1, aware that I would want to acquire the Lightning dock kit, for an additional (used) iOS 11 minimum iPad for docking, the current minimum iOS required by MF5.1.
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT209574
Its a relatively minor investment for continued and enhanced operational feature set, with additional choices in UI device control other than an iPad.
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The obvious source for all your questions even if Mackie Tech support can't read is the MF manual. Appendix E. has a list of all the changes from 4.62 to 5.2. As they say RTFM. Mackie has always been great with documentation on this product. If anything strikes your fancy you can also get the details there.
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Is there a difference between 5.0 and 5.1 or are they one in the same?

By the way, that thread didn't really get into what the differences are between V4 and V5 (whether 5.0 if it exists, or 5.1). My only goal here is to decide whether or not V5 is a worthwhile enough upgrade from V4 to sacrifice being able to use one older, docked iPad and my brand, spanking new one on WiFi on the same mixer and/or show. All I know now, is Mackie tech support couldn't even tell me what the differences are between the V4 and and of the V5's. LMAO The tech support guy admitting he had no clue about it actually suggested I make a thread in this forum to find out, as he didn't know. 

By the way, I didn't know that V5 wasn't designed for the DL1608 and has been made "compatible," again, none of which helps me clearly define what V5 does that V4 doesn't.

So what are the changes from V4 to V5?

Hey everyone, I have a question about upgrading from version 4 to version 5. Normally this would be a non-issue, and I would use the latest version of the app. However I just ordered a new iPad, eighth GEN, which does not dock with my DL1608. Now I have been using a third generation iPad, literally from about 10 years ago lol to run my mixer, and it has served me well as a decent work surface. Problem, of course, is that it only supports master fader 4.

Now, other than the fact that my old unit is, well really old, it functions fine still. And I like the fact that I can leave it docked. Now that I have a new iPad that can only run from the Wi-Fi, my dilemma is a trade-off of sorts. My real question then becomes, what am I losing if I just stay with master theater 4? You may be asking why I would need to do that, and the reason is because I spoke to Mackie tech support, and they told me that I cannot run the mixer with two different units using two different versions of the app, which does make sense.

I just like the idea of being able to control the mixer with two different iPads, which means I guess I could leave the iPad 3 docked while running the 8th GEN model on Wi-Fi only.

So what, exactly am I losing if I stick with the last version of master fader?