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Best way to start stop recording in PT via iPAD/iPhone
Hello all, I run windows 7 64bit, pt 8.04, and I just got a sweet digital piano that I use as a midi controller for Virtual Piano in PT. The digital piano is really far from my daw, and I was looking for a way to easily start and stop recording while sitting in front of it.
so... I have an iPad and an iPhone. I've seen ProRemote and AC-7 pro as good remote DAW's for PT on OSX, but I haven't seen any mention of these things working at ALL in Windows, let alone win 7 64 bit. There is another alternative, which is using Magic Mouse (formerly air mouse pro) to just hit the keyboard shortcut to start and stop recording... the downside to this is that i don't get a nice peak indicator from the the ipad screen. I dunno, I would really love to hear people's ideas and working setups for remote triggering/tracking. I would love, i repeat LOVE to use my iPAD to get some visual sweetness, so if someone has had any success with the aforementioned remote daw ipad apps and win7 64bit/pt 8.04, please post and share your rig setup and maybe a quick step by step on how you were able to get it all to function. I know i wouldn't be the only person to be grateful to hear how it was done. Thanks to all and god bless.
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NJ Soul PT LE 8.0.4 | Barebones Windows 7 x64 | Intel Core 2 Quad 2.4ghz OC'ed to 3.01ghz | ZALMAN CNPS9700 CPU Fan | Asus P5k Deluxe/wifi AP Mobo | 8gb 1066 ddr2 ram | PPC S61EPS 610W 12V power supply | 2x WD 300gb 10,000rpm Velociraptors | MBOX 2 | BCF2000 | MicroKONTROL | Radium 49 | POD X3 | iPAD | Mackie Studio Monitors | and my favorite new addition - Logitech Illuminated Keyboard (the greatest keyboard of all time) |
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Re: Best way to start stop recording in PT via iPAD/iPhone
HI
I think Avatron´s Air Display might be the right thing for you. It makes the iPad (even iPod) a 2nd Screen for your PC http://www.protoolerblog.com/2010/06...-for-your-mac/ and the new App Server also works on Windows now. http://avatron.com//page.php?q=support for ProRemote there is also Win7 support is the near future (it seems): http://apps.folabs.com/Forum/message...start=0&last=0 best
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Thank you for the quick response mindnoise I gave air display a try this afternoon and I have to say I was thoroughly impressed. I ran my test by first making sure I stopped any other devices from using any of the wifi bandwidth. A little background first... I have a 54mbps wrt54gs wifi router on the other side of my apartment, but I remedied signal problems a while back by purchasing two 15db antenna replacements and placing reflective tin foil behind the router to redirect the omni-directional wifi signal back towards my daw. I use a mobo that comes with a wifi ap attached by a generously long cable, allowing me to place the receiver as high as possible for better reception. I thought it might be helpful to point this out considering the performance of any of these wifi iPad apps are very much dependent on the quality and strength of the wifi signal. If you are thinking of using any of these apps, but find that the signal from your router is lacking, you can create an adhoc network connection between your daw and you iDevice. This basically circumvents the router and allows the two devices to communicate directly with one another. If your iDevice is jail broken, I highly recommend MyWi (available from cydia for 9.99) as it makes the process of creating an adhoc connection an instantaneous and painless task. Ok preamble over... Here is what I thought of air display
My ONLY beef with this software is that when I wanted to create a new playlist or anything else that has a popup window, the window would pop up on the LCD set as the main monitor and not on the iPad. Granted, I realize I would have this problem with all the other options i mentioned in my first post, so overall It's not a deal breaker. If there was a way to correct this somehow, i would whole heartedly recommend this as the BEST SOLUTION FOR REMOTE DAW CONTROL. The other packages are insanely expensive and don't offer nearly as much of the functionality as air display, because air display brings you the full daw experience right in the palm of your hand, no limited functionality, skins, or communication errors to think about. When i am recording in front of my daw, i have protools across my two 24" LCD's, when i am ready to track on my digital piano, i just drag the protools window into the air display monitor on my iPad. The 1024x768 display on the ipad is perfect to make all the buttons in the PT UI easy to hit with your finger. When done, I drag it back. No hiccup, no crash, no hui communication errors, no delay whatsoever. Like i said, if they could find a way to fix the popup window thing, i would be overjoyed. I'm not looking to mix using my iPad, I have two daisy chained bcf2000 units that kick ass for that. For something to let me comfortable track, start/stop recording, have my full transport, and have a visual for where i want to punch in or out, air display is the shiz. Wow that was a longer post than i had planned to make. So anyway, thank you mind noise for the heads up. Really happy with air display. I'm open to other thoughts though if anybody has more suggestions.
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NJ Soul PT LE 8.0.4 | Barebones Windows 7 x64 | Intel Core 2 Quad 2.4ghz OC'ed to 3.01ghz | ZALMAN CNPS9700 CPU Fan | Asus P5k Deluxe/wifi AP Mobo | 8gb 1066 ddr2 ram | PPC S61EPS 610W 12V power supply | 2x WD 300gb 10,000rpm Velociraptors | MBOX 2 | BCF2000 | MicroKONTROL | Radium 49 | POD X3 | iPAD | Mackie Studio Monitors | and my favorite new addition - Logitech Illuminated Keyboard (the greatest keyboard of all time) |
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Re: Best way to start stop recording in PT via iPAD/iPhone
Cool!
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Re: Best way to start stop recording in PT via iPAD/iPhone
A little Update regarding AirDisplay and ProTools... Introducing god's gift to the home studio, a program called Actual Multiple Monitors.
I posted on the AirDisplay forum and they responded right away, really nice guys. Didn't have anything concrete for me though, so I kept looking. FOUND THE WORKAROUND. NOW I HAVE THE ULTIMATE REMOTE DAW on my iPAD thanks to a combination of AirDisplay and this prog called Actual Multiple Monitors!!!!!! Hallelujah! i am posting the workaround here, so people can get in on this sweetness. Quote:
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NJ Soul PT LE 8.0.4 | Barebones Windows 7 x64 | Intel Core 2 Quad 2.4ghz OC'ed to 3.01ghz | ZALMAN CNPS9700 CPU Fan | Asus P5k Deluxe/wifi AP Mobo | 8gb 1066 ddr2 ram | PPC S61EPS 610W 12V power supply | 2x WD 300gb 10,000rpm Velociraptors | MBOX 2 | BCF2000 | MicroKONTROL | Radium 49 | POD X3 | iPAD | Mackie Studio Monitors | and my favorite new addition - Logitech Illuminated Keyboard (the greatest keyboard of all time) |
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