I bought TouchDAW full as well. It works very well, some minor issues but I haven't tried to correct them yet. It requires rtpMidi (free) if you don't have it already. I was surprised how much functionality I got right away from it, and I installed on a Kindle Fire! I almost bought a nanocontrol for these features and my Fire does it already. Have to say I would prefer to see CW release an app of their own, they should put something out on IOS and Android, I always hear about all the CW "firsts" and that market is exploding.

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...

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

maximumpower


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

they are usually setup as mackie control..

Thanks. I tried all three Mackie panels but none of them worked. I selected Generic Cakewalk and went through each of the settings for channel 1 and got it mostly working. I was just hoping one of the defaults would work. I think TouchDaw worked with one of the defaults.

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

There's also TouchDAW. http://www.humatic.de/htools/touchdaw/  I have not had the time to try to use it though. 

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. 

+1

Works great here.

And btw, you DONT have to install nasty Apple Bonjour crap to get this working.

Muziekschuur at home


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 ----