During the last days I made a lot of patches to comuincate with a tablet. I use TouchOSC and everything works well.
But, it needs such a time and if you want to change something you feel how static such a solution is. The roundtrip between the TouchOSC Editor, the tablet, the OSC messages and their processing in Usine is annoying.
I tested a solution to use a remote console on my tablet. The windows internal remote console and VNC. Yes, this could be a solution. But I run into problems, cause the sizing of the windows display has problems, but the principle works.
So my idea was, why not mirroring the IB to send direct the VNC protocol or something similar, there are a lot of different solutions available, to mirror infos to a remote console?
I know this is not a simple task
An alternative idea:
A special "output" patch lib, which allows to define some simple controls and send this to an app, which know how to display it on a tablet. I tried something like that with a reveiver, developed in processing and a simple java host implementation and I was able to create dynamicly 2 simple controls a button and a led
This is not the "transfer the IB" idea, but it could also an idea for the next years. Cheap Android tablets < 100 Euro are very nice controllers. Not usable for all purposes, but for simple "control a parameter" tasks they work very well. I control my complete looper environment with such a tablet and this works very well.Please understand this post as a wish or a nice to have sometimes, in the future.
P.S.: In the next weeks I will reload my processing demo and try to transfer it to Usine. Could be a nice project and I see a realistic chance to get it running.
