Anderton
I think Cakewalk would do best by pursuing touch control as opposed to hardware. Less investment for them, more longevity for users compared to a dedicated control surface.

I agree, but touch control in what format? Touchscreen monitors are dropping in price pretty quickly, but I think there's still a use for a remote touchscreen controller as well. A well integrated controller you can use anywhere within LAN reach of the DAW certainly has its uses whether you're a solo musician recording yourself or a studio engineer.

bapu
What the red headed stepchild called Android.


No one sees the irony of an ipad app for a Windows product?

Irony? Hardly, just a matter of picking the most appropriate tool for a particular job.

Anyone making a remote touch controller to run on a tablet would be mad to ignore the iPad. Of course, you do have to have the Windows DAW networked to the router via cable because Windows wireless networking/Bluetooth are the kiss of death to low latency. Whereas a Mac with a somewhat lower spec than the PC can handle wifi, Bluetooth and low latency audio without a single hiccup.

Until, of course, you run into the frankly strange way Apple handle cpu core usage in Logic while input monitoring. Which is to say Logic handles it very, very badly indeed.

Making the app for all 3 platforms would be the best way to go. It's really not that difficult to port.

What about a sonar keyboard with more futures like gaming keyboards? Macro and all. Even a touch screen

JarsveWhat about a sonar keyboard with more futures like gaming keyboards? Macro and all. Even a touch screen

I believe there is a company making a keyboard for Sonar and it's absurdly expensive. You can get stickers to put over your keys for a lot cheaper. http://www.amazon.com/dp/...;coliid=I1R5URWH06270Y

Blue Sky?  I would like every possible action in Sonar exposed and Lua inside.  The we could map what we want wherever we want it.
 
AHK is also promising and would be equally cool if more of the Sonar guts were exposed.
 
Touch?  No thanks.  After seeing the smudges on my tablet and the touch screen in my auto, I doubt I'll be going touch screen(s) any time soon.  I would have to reach over my MIDI controller to use them -

Native touch is the longer term answer.
 
The problem w/ custom hardware (like the 700) is it seems to go out sync as software progresses.  Generic hardware never gets everything right.  ipads are omnipresent but the screen is small.
 
A large touchscreen (I've got a 23 inch and the price is dropping) let's you just touch what you see.  Now, it ain't the best tactile surface since there is no real feedback (yet), but having a few physical controls under or off to the side of the screen that follow the touch highlighting would be perfect.  No need for 8 for 16 channels of expensive hardware - just a single channel strip controler where the screen maps the readback to the physical controllers.  One moving fader and a couple of knobs.  Touch the EQ panel on screen and the band control gets mapped to the knobs with readouts right beside (or over) the knobs.  Touch the next band and the knobs control it.  Insert a reverb and different controls get mapped to the knobs and wet mix mapped to the fader.
 
It is a different paradigm than the old mixing board, but could work.  And be a lot cheaper.  I'd prefer a vs-700 (constantly updated, of course) and new RND console, but I don't have $50,000 or room for all that at home.
 
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