musicroom
I use iPad apps with digital mixers and also have used one to control studio one. Remote control - what's not to like? I find it very useful when recording alone, a few steps away from the PC. It can also work as a controller and / or another viewing screen when editing. Not being a programmer, I have no idea what I'm asking for in terms of time and effort to develop an app. But I would appreciate one. Hopefully the cake staff is already working on one along side with the Apple Sonar project.
With apps controlling mixers, with DAWs mimicking mixers and with apps controlling DAWs and mimicking mixers there can be some confusion what can do which operations...
The reality at the moment is not following logic but marketing. Instead of integrating all these things (such effort could be seen a while ago) companies splitting them! Mixers have motor faders, can be controlled by apps but... for no technical reason do not control DAWs or do this on unexpectedly bad level (f.e. "low resolution" with no touch signal, coming from touch sensitive hi resolution hardware). Common "protocols" for communication between DAW and an audio interface define nothing to control the interface, not even input gain.
There WAS approaches to integrate things, using MIDI. Cakewalk had StudioWare, Roland had MIDI controllable VS. With OSC it could be finally possible to make integrated remote controllers to "glue" audio devices and DAWs. But these technologies was abandoned.
I am slowly integrating my VS-20 into Sonar (I know I am several years "too late" with that). And some parts are working! For example, when I focus some track in Sonar and arm it, the gain, input selector and direct monitor level are restored for that track (when the track is disarmed, direct monitor is muted), if then something is changed (on device or in Sonar), new settings are "remembered". Since I can control Sonar also from my phone with OSC, I can effectively recall/control the gain of VS-20 from the same app! I wish the preset inside VS-20 is also restored (and I know how to do this). For me, all that looks logical. But unfortunately not for hardware nor software producers...