[Ardour-Users] Ardour for iPad?

[Mark Knecht]

On Fri, Apr 2, 2010 at 1:00 PM, Paul Davis <paul at linuxaudiosystems.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 2, 2010 at 3:35 PM, Mark Knecht <markknecht at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Yeah, OK - I get that much - so we could investigate it. But wouldn't
>> we need a GUI designed for the iPad to look like the Ardour screen and
>> to respond to touches in the right locations mapping them back to
>> events in Ardour? I thought the mapping part was something (OSC?) but
>> still we want it to look like Ardour, right? I don't think we want to
>> do remote X display on the iPad.
>
> not at all. the AC7 is just a controller that uses various protocols
> to communicate with a DAW. Ardour understands at least 1 of those
> protocols (Logic Control) and so the AC7 will just work it, as-is.
> Now, our Logic Control Protocol support is not 100% but it does quite
> a lot already, including feedback and more.
>
> --p
>

Ah, OK. so the GUI looks like whatever they make it look like and it
acts like a hardware controller. I would prefer an Open Source design
that looked like Ardour, but this is an option.

Thanks,
Mark