Anyone see this??   Is this related to whats being discussed?
 
http://www.zdnet.com/arti...ie-for-the-third-time/

Yes. Well, the UWP part. Some cool stuff coming to SONAR this year...

kzmaier
Anyone see this??   Is this related to whats being discussed?
 
http://www.zdnet.com/arti...ie-for-the-third-time/

Interesting article!  Be sure to check out the comments section! 

Good luck, Noel. I know you will do great!

bitflipper
I know there are a few fellow bit-flippers among the forum members here. I suspect it'll only be you guys who can fully appreciate the brave thing that Noel's about to do: single-step SONAR code in front of a live audience of world-class bit jockeys. That takes supreme confidence in your code. And balls.
 
The reason Noel got invited by Microsoft is that SONAR is the only company out there on the bleeding edge of Windows 10's new audio paradigm. We are all trail-blazers and don't even know it, because for all our nit-picky gripes for the most part SONAR just works.
 
Noel thinks Microsoft will likely be taping the presentation, so with any luck we'll all get to see it at some point.

I really enjoyed meeting you and hanging out Dave, and thanks for making the trip to downtown Seattle and braving the traffic :) The first session was a little nerve wracking since I was running everything on just my surface pro with bluetooth, in a space where there were literally thousands of people with phones and other BT devices. On top of that I was running an alpha build of the 05 release. I like to live dangerously :)
 
Fortunately everything went really smooth - BT MIDI performed flawlessly and I was able to connect from onstage and run at a latency of less than 10 msec. It was very responsive. Pete let some people in the audience try playing the keyboard (a Korg Nanostudio) and everyone was impressed with how responsive playback was even like 20 feet away from the stage. Later in the solutions spotlight session I additionally paired the Jamstik controller and it showed up as a second MIDI device Both the keyboard and Jamstik were able to trigger different tracks without a problem. 
 
The second talk from Friday is now live on channel 9 here:
https://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Build/2017/T6100-R2
 

bitflipper
I know there are a few fellow bit-flippers among the forum members here. I suspect it'll only be you guys who can fully appreciate the brave thing that Noel's about to do: single-step SONAR code in front of a live audience of world-class bit jockeys. That takes supreme confidence in your code. And balls.
 
The reason Noel got invited by Microsoft is that SONAR is the only company out there on the bleeding edge of Windows 10's new audio paradigm. We are all trail-blazers and don't even know it, because for all our nit-picky gripes for the most part SONAR just works.
 
Noel thinks Microsoft will likely be taping the presentation, so with any luck we'll all get to see it at some point.

 I think Cakewalk has been doing this for a long time. When 64 bit started Cakewalk was on top of it. I don't freak out when a new OS is out wondering if Cakewalk hasn't dealt with it.
 

great to read this about Noel and Cakewalk, thanks for sharing.
looking forward to upgrading from X3/Windows 7 once Thunderbolt 3 technology is fully functional.
 

Noel Borthwick [Cakewalk]
I really enjoyed meeting you and hanging out Dave, and thanks for making the trip to downtown Seattle and braving the traffic :)

I'm a musician, Noel.  We will endure a great deal when someone else is buying supper!
 
Seattle weather was unusually cooperative that day as we enjoyed a particularly Northwest-flavored afternoon of salmon and Starbucks, all while geeking out like the nerds we are. 
 
I have historically not been a fan of pen-based data entry, so I'll have to try it out for myself before I am truly convinced it's the future of PRV programming. But Noel talks about it with such enthusiasm - and he's a guitarist, not a drop-in-the-dots MIDI guy - that I'm inclined to believe him when he says he's having a blast with it.
 
Equally intriguing is this Dial thing. All you guys who love analog synths for their knobs are gonna love this. Imagine all the benefits of low-cost soft synths combined with the tactile feel of real knobs. Yes, real knobs and no MIDI-learn. All I know about it at this point is what Noel told me while we were walking down Pike Street and avoiding being run over by rush-hour traffic, but from his description I gather that you just drop a knob onto a touch screen and go. I may have to get a Surface Pro before the year is out.

bitflipper
 I may have to get a Surface Pro before the year is out.

Or there is always this ...
 
I wonder if placing one of these down low on your workspace in front of you regular monitor would work out as a touchscreen mixer surface, a PRV editor, a pen surface, or a Dial?
 
How can I add a touchscreen to my desktop PC? 
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/askjack/2015/apr/16/how-to-add-touchscreen-desktop-pc
 
https://www.newegg.com/Touch-Screen-Monitors/SubCategory/ID-514
 
https://www.amazon.com/Monitors-Touchscreen-Computers-Accessories/s?ie=UTF8&page=1&rh=n%3A1292115011%2Cp_n_feature_keywords_browse-bin%3A8067199011
 

Yeah, I've been looking at touchscreen monitors lately, hoping to find a reasonably-priced small one to mount on a stand for stage use. But most are as expensive as a laptop!
 
What would be really cool is an app that would let me use my Android tablet as a touch interface to my laptop over USB. Then I could stash the laptop anywhere and not have it taking up valuable stage real estate.