Pro Tools Daw Controller

If you have windows 7 or 10 pro and an ipad you can use microsoft remote desktop to drive your daw with wifi.

Pro tools daw controller.

Icon digital qcon lite. The dock can be used as a single device of course with an ipad inserted into its base or as part of a larger system. This protocol was created by mackie and digidesign in 1997 for mackie hui the first control surface for pro tools. While most control surface manufacturers take the one size fits all approach to accommodate all major daw s.

Maintain maximum flexibility and integrate pro tools and other popular daws as well as media composer with our control surfaces. And featuring software dsp acceleration and hardware i o perfectly joined together as one system. Avid s pro tools dock is the cheapest entry into a hardware based eucon control surface. This is called a control protocol and there are three main control protocols.

Behringer b control fader bcf2000. Quicklook here s the top daw control surfaces on the market. Those touch sensitive faders make life so much easier with a larger desk like this. This means it works very nicely with daws like logic performer cakewalk and pro tools.

Avid pro tools s3. Without the correct port or protocol the midi device and daw won t be able to communicate with each other. Daw controllers control surfaces must be configured in pro tools before their control features will work. Avid digidesign icon d command control will always remain the best control surface for any daw pro tools only of course.

Behringer digital mixer x32. As soon as you touch the fader the software automatically highlights the channel on screen. Solid state logic nucleus. Fine tune your mixes and set yourself apart from amateur producers with precise control over volume panning eq dynamics plugins playback and more.

Actually it might well be the best control surface for logic pro x. It s features extend into the free ios pro tools control app which is a necessary component to the system. I drive my laptop with an ipad and my fingers next stop is the daw but it needs windows pro first. The steinberg cc121 is the only control surface on this list tailored to work seamlessly with a single daw.

24 faders minimum the guy above s cons of icon seem a bit weird to me most people using icon won t care one bit about other controllers or protocols. In order to control features and parameters inside pro tools a language must exist that both the daw and the controlling device use. So i suspect that there are several ways to get away from a mouse just based on ipad apps. You ll need to select the controller s protocol and ports in the daw settings.

Even the newer s6 has drawbacks compared to the sweet spot of icon. Mackie mcu pro 8 channel control surface with usb. In recording studios and on soundstages pro tools hdx systems make the world s biggest productions possible.