This has been out for about three weeks now, Andrew, have the free version working from day one just to test it.
It is the best virtual controller of them all, I've tried Touch Daw on Android and it worked great, except it looked like it had escaped from the 80's. I mean it was monochrome but hey it works.
AC7 Core really good, nice looking but confusing and not much usability, yea you could mix with it but little else. I own it but what do you expect for 7$. The other problem with this program is it's a little confusing with it's multiple screens. I own it''s cousin for the Iphone as well now this is cool because I can control my CUE mix software that comes with my MOTU ULTRA lite now if I was going to use my ULTRA LITE for a gig and it will probably happen, the the AC7 mini would be my go to solution.
Finally and this is a big call but it can and I think it will destroy the low end controller marker, Behringer and the like.
The thing that makes the V-Contol so special is the V-Window, for the first time a way to control effects and VST'i without the need of a 2nd controller. Amazing.
As I say I don't own the 50 buck version, just the free but I had the V-Window up and running, although I could't use it because you can't with the free version but this is revolutionary.
What V-Control have done, is combine a control surface with a splashback type program, I own Splashback too.
Disclaimer: I am not going to offer opinions of software I have not used or heard.
So all in all Cake good work in getting this done, nice to see you announce this Andrew, may be you could offer a couple as a prize
Finally for all those conspiracy theorist's, guess what there is no other tablet for music and music makeing, I have tried Android, I'm glad I was able to change from my Xoom to an IPad. I hate, hate having to say this but for this is sort of thing, there can only be on, ok that was Highlander but it's true. You can't: the permutations for different codes, slots (eg: slotting your I-Pad into a mixer, The Alesis I-Dock or Behringer I-Axe) is nigh on impossible, you need one device because the end user, you are going to benefit.
I can't see into the future maybe some other company will challange the dominance of the I-Pad, maybe the Windows tablet but I don't see this happening and in fact I am already hearing rumbles because how do you catch up with a company that has been making apps for three years.
It's like asking the tortise to catch the hare, now if the hare has a nap because we all know the story, it could happen but I don't see this hare doing that and in fact I see the hare only getting faster.
Final word on this, they're better tablets on the market than the Ipad and lets be clear the Ipad is not that good not even it's new one, it still lags behind a lot of the other offerings but as the music makeing tablet, it will dominate for some time to come or at least until Hadrian takes over Apple, as he has done at Avid.
Note: Hadrian was a Roman emperor, about 90 AD, he decided to stop conquest and consolidate the Roman empire because he could forsee that there were not enough men or soldiers to keep the empire under control.
So Andrew how about that prize
Neb