[Ardour-Users] Ardour for iPad?

[Mark Knecht]

On Fri, Apr 2, 2010 at 11:37 AM, Paul Davis <paul at linuxaudiosystems.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 2, 2010 at 2:25 PM, Mark Knecht <markknecht at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Certainly not to replace the whole DAW in a studio. However if I was
>> running Ardour on a laptop doing sound reinforcement and used it as a
>> wireless controller then I could walk around the house and change
>> settings back on the PC remotely. Or even in a studio where players
>> were able to control their own monitor mixes, etc.
>
> mark, you seem (to me) oddly confused.
>
> "if i was running ardour on a laptop doing sound reinforcement and
> used it as a wireless controller"
>
> what is "it"? when you later refer to "the PC" do you mean "the
> laptop" ? if "it" is the iPad, then nothing need be done already -
> just establish
> the MIDI connection and ardour will interact with the AC7 and other
> similar controllers. if "it" is ardour or the laptop, then i'm
> confused what you mean ...
>
> the ipad is likely to function as a very nice controller, no question.
> but actually using it to record/play audio? its not impossible,
> certainly, but its far from clear that its a properly designed
> platform for this at present.
>

Not the least bit confused. Always odd though. (Or maybe the 'oddly'
was a complement for most of the time I post here? I'll hope it's true
so don't break my heart Paul!) ;-)

Server/client. Ardour on the laptop as the server. iPad is as a remote
controller showing the Ardour mixer (or some portion of it) that's
back on the laptop. iPad's a client.

I set up the laptop with an 8 channel mixer with maybe a couple of
send/returns, and a master volume. Nothing very complicated. As I sit
at the laptop, pushing a mouse around to change volumes, etc., I see
the changes on the both the laptop's screen as well as on the iPad's
screen. I walk away from the laptop and out into the house with my
iPad to take a listen. The iPad is running some sort of light client
app. I want a change in the sound  - more reverb, or less volume
because the guy is singing louder and I see some clipping visually -
so I use the iPad touch screen to communicate back to the laptop what
the change is. The laptop receives it, the laptop changes the level,
job done.

It doesn't change where the computing is done. It changes my options
for how to control the computing.

- Mark