New Avid Pro Tools Control for iPad

[nst7]

This flew in under the radar. It's based on Eucon, and it's free!

http://connect.avid.com/PT-iOS-Contr...ification.html

[guitardom]

This is a big deal! More than surprised it's free!

[Darryl Ramm]

That is a very nice move. And an interesting one, it will hopefully give many of us a chance to see if EUCON, at least in this simplified form, works reliably and is well supported. It's not been pretty at times seeing all the problems (and my early play with an Artist series was not impressive, cheap plasticky and fader problems, which I believe were long ago addressed).

[thewiz]

Cool

[Righty27]

Now we're talking - been hoping for an 'official' controller for some time. I wonder if this will be similar to 3P apps ... or if Avid will/can take advantage of their control of AAX and deliver decent plugin GUI control also (which could also work alongside the Artist range) ... or S6-like displays, scrolling waveforms, etc. ... or even more e.g. full touchscreen editing?

[8dB.co.uk]

What's the betting it only works with 12? That way it's not "free"..

[mesaone]

Originally Posted by 8dB.co.uk

What's the betting it only works with 12? That way it's not "free"..

The page says "Take wireless remote control of Pro Tools, Media Composer, and other popular audio and video tools right from your iPad"

Which seems to imply that this controller will work with any Eucon-enabled app.

[CygnusX-1Bk2]

I bet this is 12 only. I have both V Control and ProTransport and pretty much use them as remote transports not so much for mixing or plugin control. Having the graphic window in V Control is a nice idea but I still find I move faster with a mouse and keyboard personally.

[Carl Kolchak]

Originally Posted by mesaone

The page says "Take wireless remote control of Pro Tools, Media Composer, and other popular audio and video tools right from your iPad"

Which seems to imply that this controller will work with any Eucon-enabled app.

Unfortunately it also says "Pro Tools | Control can be used to enhance your S3 and Artist Series workflows".

Reading between the lines, I get the impression that whilst this may be free, it will only be of use in conjunction with an Avid / Euphonix control surface.

I really hope I'm wrong about that.

If it can be used independently, and has the facility for controlling plug-ins, that would be superb, because that's one thing that the Slate Raven really can't be beat on.

I find plug-in control a bit of a hassle with a regular control surface, because you can end up having to page through literally dozens of parameters, in order to manipulate a few parameters, that the manufacturer has had to map in a certain way.

Call up a VI like Xpand, a Multi-band Limiter like ML4000, or a Channel Strip, and you could be looking at about 20 pages of parameters to have to skip back and forth between, all with oblique, appended names appearing on the control surface (don't even get me started on something like Amplitube).

With the Raven, and hopefully this app from Avid, just grabbing the plug-in control itself cuts out so many layers of interference.

[Emcha_audio]

Hopefully they will make an android version too.