[LAU] android 5.1 tablet klipad smart i745

[Len Ovens]

On Sun, 14 Feb 2016, Joe Hartley wrote:

> On Sun, 14 Feb 2016 16:31:10 +0100
> fred <f.rech at yahoo.fr> wrote:
>
>> have had this android 5.1 tablet klipad smart i745 as a gift, and it
>> will be fun to use it to do the fader automation in Ardour.
>
> I did this at one time and set up a webpage about it:
> http://swampyankeesound.com/touchdaw.html

Interesting. I am surprised at the use of the BCF2000 Device type. 
TouchDAW seems to map closer to the Mackie Control (there has been rather 
a lot of changes in the MCP code in Ardour in the last little while). 
Also, Ardour should be able to connect directly to touchDAW without 
qmidinet as it has the same code in it. However, it may be that neither 
touchDAW or Ardour operates in server mode and that may be why qmidinet is 
needed. (I have used qmidinet on a different machine to connect controller 
software direct to Ardour)

>> At this point, am always searching a way to communicate between the
>> tablet and the pc, and am not sure at all if it's via USB or thru the
>> router that it have to be done..
>
> When I did this I was using a laptop and a table, both through a wifi router.

WIFI is what I have used, but in a noisy wifi environment, a USB MIDI port 
may be more reliable.

The other options are ardroid or ardouvy. Ardouvy works well for me, but I 
have heard others have not been so lucky. TouchDAW has an OSC mode, but it 
is quite broken. Ardour has a hack to make TouchDAW (or is it 
TouchOSC?) work with the buttons but not the faders. There is an Android 
applet called Control that seems like it would be able to control Ardour's 
faders as it can send any number/type of OSC parameters. (TouchOSC/DAW is 
limited to one float parameter making it unsuitable for many OSC uses) 
Control is not easy to set up. The simple control creation does not seem 
to send variable parameternumber/types but rather a script needs to be 
used. The control template needs to be created (in json) on a pc and 
up/downloaded to the android to make this work.

In all honesty, Ardour's OSC code is not up to the functionality of the 
it's mackie control code at this time.

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Len Ovens
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