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Originally Posted by Uli Auer
By just opening the door a tiny bit for mapping MIDI notes to Eucon "commands" - and not the whole protocol of "live" data streams inside Eucon - it still would not be possible to setup a fully functional MIDI (for example fader-) controller that would be a full substitute for Avid's own controller units....it's just about custom remote controls for soft button applications...
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A tiny door is still a door.
And it's not just about the faders.
The Dock is 95% not about faders but buttons, for instance. Soft buttons.
And there's the free Control app.
A missed sale is a missed sale for something that is not charged separately for. They can't open that door.
Something like Stream Deck could eat a bunch of potential Dock sales if they made soft keys available via MIDI, for instance.
Think of it this way -- you are still using the Transport. So I'm also guessing you didn't but those Mix units recently either. So there's been many years of development work that you (nor I since my Mix, Dock, and S3 were bought years ago now) haven't contributed to paying for. Only those new sales have continued to pay in each time an S6 or Dock is sold, for instance. Cut off a fraction of those sales and development will be dead.
Maybe better to ask Avid to introduce a cheap 8 button softkey unit as a standalone Eucon remote. A high volume, low cost seller.
Or at least port a limited version of the Control app that could be used on phones or small tablets (and more than one could be added to a Eucon system as you can't do that with the Control.app) Could functionally be a remote with softkeys (and usable by multiple people in the room like managing headphone mixes for an artist)