I know that technically that idea of remote pc control would work, but on the reality side of the equation is the screen resolution to physical screen size of the i-pad or even an widows tablet isn’t friendly with the editor program. I have a 15″ screen on my laptop and it is as small as I would want to work with(for using editor) even with a mouse.
We borrowed an ipad(not a mini) to try the mixpad app to see if it would work, before we purchased one…. and like I suspected, it didn’t support the 2nd rack in a master/slave dual rack format. The app is good, the “layout to screen size” works when adjusting settings, just missing the ability to see the channels from the 2nd rack. Just like Editor not able to emulate the 2nd rack when using “off-line” mode.
Up until 2 years ago it would have been fine, but we were presented with an opportunity to expanded our system and design it the way it should have been done initially, now we are trying to work around these limitations.
We have tried a windows tablet with editor and we just couldn’t find a screen resolution that would allow us to see what we wanted to see and have decent touch screen control. Too much information and not enough screen to be useful as a touch interface, even with a fine tip stylus it didn’t work well. We experimented with different resolutions and by the time we found one that would work decent we were constantly moving the screen up/down and side/side to get were we wanted to go(we are using a T112 surface).
Thinking as I type this… one thing we didn’t try with editor, was custom strip layout with only the active channels. We were trying to work with the existing surface strip layout. That may be something we try, though I still have my reservations with the resolution. Even a custom strip will still have the same vertical limitations of the mirrored surface strips.
Sorry to ramble on… I guess I find it hard to believe that master/slave setups are that uncommon to not have support for them.
Scott.
