Control Sonar with your android phone

Nice! I have to check this out.

The transport buttons dont work because it seems to send randomly changing values for those. Most likely a bug. In landscape mode it sends one thing and in portrait mode it sends somethign else. If you record the the MIDI input port its sending to via MIDI yoke you will see the incorrect values.

For basic transport control (app mimics keyboard) Remote Droid works quite well.

hm, touchdaw worked perfectly with Nuendo :) fun. this will be awesome when i get my motorola xoom. Couldnt get it to work with sonar (yet)

I bought the full version of touchdaw. Seems to work really nice...

I have used TouchDAW on Android and AC-7 on ipad for a while.. usually ok, though sometimes Sonar hangs up at "connecting" to the control surface..  so you have to go and delete ctrlsurface.dat and ttseq.ini and start again...

maximumpower


When using these tools, such as Wireless mixer, which control surface do you configure in Sonar?

they are usually setup as mackie control..

I just tried the free version of TouchDaw and got it working in X1 this morning, after a bit of tinkering. You have to: 

• make sure Apple's Bonjour service is running
• enable two sessions in rtpMIDI -  they both appear in rtpMIDI's 'Directory panel
• enable TouchDaw as a control surface in Sonar as Mackie Control (not XT or C4)

First impression is that it seems to work well. 

Hope this helps

Dave, I have that setup with X2 on Win8. Works nice. I use a new phone. The Samsung Galaxy S2. This phone can handle 5 fingers. So I can play multiple drums, multiple fader movements and multiples keys.

For people who do not know Touchdaw. It is a Mackie controll on a set of midi channels. It has a second MIDI I/O for either a keyboard or touchpads. Works well. It's nice when you do not want to grab all your gear... Or when you have your laptop and soundcard setup with mics and you are behind a synth or piano somewhere in the room and now you can use the phone for remote controll. 

I purchased TouchDAW and was working with it over the weekend. It has a cool, semi-documented feature that allows you to "misuse" it as a wired-to-wireless MIDI router. With an OTG adapter and a class-compliant USB MIDI device (I used an ION mini MIDI keyboard) you can plug the MIDI device into your Droid device and route the USB MIDI IN to wireless MIDI out. I did have to provide external power for the keyboard as my tablet can't power it but I could probably rig up a small battery to be completely wireless. 

Here's how to do this (assuming you already have a working wireless config with TouchDAW):

1) connect your class-compliant MIDI USB device to your Droid device with an OTG (host-mode) adapter. This should cause an OS pop-up to appear.
2) select TouchDaw from the pop-up. This assures that no other app grabs the USB device.
3) Launch TouchDAW and make sure the (General Settings/MIDI) MIDI RELAY option is checked
4) TouchDAW allows for 2 MIDI connections, one for the TouchDAW control surface and one for MIDI Utils. For one of them, set the MIDI connection to a working wireless (rtp/multicast/bluetooth) MIDI connection and the other to USB from your wired device. 

That's it! Note that the function (TouchDAW or MIDI Utils) you set to use USB will not work as MIDI is now being generated my your USB-connected h/w. I have hotten this to work with rtp and multicast connections. I hope it works via bluetooth but I haven't been able to get that type of connection working yet as my laptops can't seem to connect using the TouchDAW Thru PC client. 


After all my playing with wired-to-wireless MIDI, I barely had time to try TouchDAW as a control surface to X2. When I did get it connected, I found while the faders worked, the transport controls didn't. Not only didn't they work, but it seemed like TouchDaw was continually sending out a stop/pause message and I couldn't even start playback from the PC without it stopping immediately as long as the MACKIE-1 control surface was active.

I see some here mention having transport issues yet others seem to have it working?


Oh, one other thing I've learned: If you use rtpMIDI and Bonjour, turn the services off from SERVICES.MSC whe you don't need them. I found that on my laptop DAW, rtpMIDI will occasionally hog the CPU when the PC resumes out of sleep mode. 

See my dialog with "humanic" here.  I'm using Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 7" and Galaxy Nexus phone.


UPDATE: Was able to get a successful connection via Bluetooth. Best $5 I ever spent...

---- Gary ----

I can't get it working as a surface in X2 or 8.5. It never connects and I get a "no response" message on the tablet. I know the MIDI is getting through because I can bring up MIDIOx and see it so it seems to be a Sonar problem. I tried deleting ctrlsurface.dat and ttseq.ini but that didn't do anything to help. Any ideas?

I have it working on my laptop with rtpMIDI and SP8.5 but not with TouchDAWthru and LoopBE. I was hoping to not have to install rtpMIDI and Bonjour on my DAW but it looks like I'll probably have to.

UPDATE: After much testing, I have at least gotten TDAW to work with X2 but only via rtpMIDI. I've posted a Q on the humanic forum. I'd really like to get it working with TDAWThru so a Bluetooth connection would be an option....

ok, i must profess my incompetence here and request some clues.
 
I used to use a Tranzport but a recent alkaline battery incident left the unit a total loss.  sigh.
 
All i need is something to remotely stop, start, record, and rewind SONAR so that i don't have to race back and forth between the drums to the computer.  I do not wish to control keyboards or anything with the TouchDAW
 
i have done the following:

• installed rtpMIDI on my PC
• i have (allegedly) created sessions and directories in rtpMIDI such that they point to the PC, are enabled, and are connected
• Set SONAR control surface "ACT MIDI Controller - 1" to the 5004 rtpMIDI session.  This leads me to believe that rtpMIDI is functioning
• installed the full version of TouchDAW on my kindlefire, set the "DAW controller" to "SONAR", and the MIDI port to the the 5004 RTP session.  I presume the kindle must be able to connect to it since TouchDAW sees the rtpMIDI session names i made up
• After pressing <OK> for the last time in TouchDAW i sat patiently waiting for some signal that TouchDAW was communicating with SONAR but no signal was visible.  Periodically i see a message about "initializing DAW" at the top of TouchDAW but there is no eureka moment

Any thoughts on what i missed?
 
Thanks!

For TouchDAW you should use MackieControl ("ACT MIDI Controller" should also work, but you will need to "teach" it and there will be no feedback). Check that rtpMIDI is really working (you can see what is going on in the interface).
 
Alternatively, you can try http://www.azslow.com/index.php?topic=295.0 (TouchOSC is not free but not too expensive).
 
Or a transport "toy"  http://www.azslow.com/index.php/topic,288.0.html
 
 

I would be interested. I use a bit simpler version of the template. Best thing that we added last year was the ‘Undo’ button. Saved me numerous 5 meter walks to the computer. Can you post it on Alexy’s site under The TouchOSC topic? Or whatever is convenient. Thanks!!