Subject: Re: [linux-audio-dev] Remote control is important
From: Steve Harris (S.W.Harris_AT_ecs.soton.ac.uk)
Date: Fri Nov 17 2000 - 21:43:17 EET
On Fri, Nov 17, 2000 at 02:02:08PM -0500, Paul Winkler wrote:
> Another good reason to support this: Remote control. Very useful in a
> studio, and very useful in live situations too. I could bring the
> laptop into another room in my studio (er, house) and use it as a
> remote control for Ardour and anything else I want to run. This would
> be essential for many situations like mine where the engineer is also
> a player.... and I don't want to have to put the PC and everything
> it's connected to in the same room as the band. In fact the PC should
> eventually go in a "tape closet".
I've been thinking about a minimal form of this, I intend it to run on a
palmtop (possibly using the MIDI protocol* to communicate). One thing I
would want ardour for is recording gigs, and I don't want to lug a
monitor around. Plus in the studio its often convienient to have a remote
control, without peering at the monitor across the room.
Paul said that he though connecting a new non X interface to ardour would
be easy enough, but I have to confess I havn't looked at the code
properly yet. I want to wait for it to settle anyway.
I was thinking of using MMC to control the transport, and CC's for the
meters. With a backlit touchscreen palmtop it would be quite cool,
and you could write a laptop version with larger graphics easily enough.
- Steve
* Running at 115kbps or whatever the control machine can support. most
palmtops can't do MIDI directly.
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