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Post by popmann on Sept 26, 2015 20:15:36 GMT -6
I was talking to a friend the other night on the phone....he's new to Cubase so he was asking me about how I set the monitors (and windowing views) up....how I used the MCUs and AI knob....and I was telling him how I wished they'd make an iPad app that simply showed the VST Channel of whatever selected channel on the screen--maybe also opened child plug in windows on the same touch screen...."yeah, that WOULD be cool"....
....and so, I was thinking about it--and you can buy little 10-13" touchscreens (using basically the same tech)....and since Windows7 supports touch to some degree (right?)...I was thinking I really could make that happen now--albeit once per project I'd have to drag the VST Channel window onto the second monitor.
While I know no DAW is REALLY multitouch ready for the primary screen--like to replace a mouse/keyboard all together....I was wondering if any of you have incorporated touchscreens in any capacity in a DAW?
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Post by sopwith on Sept 26, 2015 23:04:34 GMT -6
I find my surface pro indispensable for tracking myself and mixing. I can run all of my audio software right on the surface, or control my main rig via rtpmidi - although few real audio applications support multitouch, I set up custom interfaces using Emulator Pro to control all of my faders, sends, and vst instruments and effects. Couldn't work or play without it.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 27, 2015 5:46:20 GMT -6
Using automation/control surface on a cheap tablet via rtpmidi, using touchDAW for Android. Great for "recording everywhere" in the studio.
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Post by rocinante on Sept 27, 2015 10:03:56 GMT -6
There is a few cool articles online (I believe wired and pcmag) on diy'ing a multitouch screen using led's, a projector and a ps3 camera with the infrared lens removed. All for under $400. You could make your own and it doesn't have to be regulated to any size. I debated building a coffee table sized screen with a wood trim wide enough for... well coffee cups. I dumpster dove a 48 inch flat screen that im planning to use.
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Post by svart on Sept 28, 2015 7:07:40 GMT -6
I used to work for a company that utilized touch screens for installations. I was one of the lucky few to have a large touchscreen in the studio back in the early 2000's.
It lasted about a week.
It sucked so bad trying to use it. It slowed me down to a crawl when trying to make adjustments and all kinds of things like that.
I thought it would be cool as hell, but it was a real hindrance. I removed it and went back to a trackball.
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Post by mrholmes on Sept 28, 2015 9:33:06 GMT -6
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Post by popmann on Sept 28, 2015 12:59:39 GMT -6
I think we have some non Cubase users. The VST channel is effectively every setting, sends, send routing, inserts, EQ, fader, pan, mute, automation buttons, input and output buss routing...,all in a frankly iPad sized landscape window. If you leave it open, as I do, it changes to whatever channel/track/bus is selected in the project. I know that DAWs are not ready for full on "touchscreen as control for everything"....I'm simply saying that what is my secondary monitor NOW--the VST channel window, and a big input meter I can see from wherever....well, could just be the VST channel window on a 10-13" touchscreen, and I mean iPad style--not the lousy old style touchscreen....and if you can get the plug in windows to open on it, too, you can open an EQ/comp/what've insert, adjust and close all right there. There would be large amounts of the time you wouldn't need to even ever look at the big project window. Since I do so little editing--yes that stuff is built for a mouse, but if I mix for 8hours, there's no 15min of editing involved--at the beginning--top and tail tracks.
Anyway-the little things are only like $250-350....it just occurred to me that it would effectively do what I wished they'd do with an iPad without actually having to network it all together.
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Post by brucerothwell on Oct 10, 2015 2:24:21 GMT -6
FL Studio 12 offers full multitouch native, but with Windows only. OSX is coming,I think. Also, the GUI is vector-based, and scalable. Promising, but I found it "sluggish", using the Windows-to-OSX version beta they have.
Now, I actually use a 42" multi-touchscreen, based on DTouch, on Pro Tools, on OSX.
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Post by NoFilterChuck on Oct 13, 2015 11:22:26 GMT -6
VControl piggybacks on the VNC protocol. there are a bunch of free VNC clients you can use to control your computer from your phone/tablet/another VNC client such as a laptop.
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