iPad remote

Available since 0.2.0

The session grid and the transport on an iPad: pair it with the bridge over your local network and drive a running MusicStation from the sofa.

Illustration: iPad remote. A real screenshot of the application follows.

MusicStationRemote is the iPad app that drives a running MusicStation over the local network. It is a normal client of the same control protocol the desktop interface uses: the bridge (msh-bridge) runs next to the engine on the Mac, and the remote talks to the bridge - never to the engine, never to the audio path.

The remote finds bridges on the network over Bonjour and lists them with their host name, address and protocol version, or you type the address yourself - studio-mac, 192.168.1.20:47900 or a complete ws:// address. Pairing needs the pairing token of the bridge: 32 lower-case hexadecimal characters, printed when the bridge starts and reprintable with --print-token.

Once connected, the app shows the same 16 by 16 clip grid as the desktop and mirrors it live: tap a slot to launch it, tap a playing slot to stop it, tap a scene button to start its whole row, and pick the launch quantisation from the same seven values. The texts of the remote follow the language of the iPad and exist in English and German.

Limits of this version

This page names the limits that matter in practice instead of implying more. What a release changed - and what it did not - stands in its release notes.

The remote needs MusicStation, the engine and the bridge running on the Mac in the same network as the iPad. It cannot load files, because a file path belongs to the machine that runs the engine, and it has no loop switch in this version - a clip's loop flag is set on the desktop.
This release ships the remote for the iPad. The same package is built for the iPhone as well, but the phone layout follows in a later release.

Manual

Every control of this feature is documented in the manual - in English and in German, offline in the application and here on the site:

This feature arrived in MusicStation 0.2.0. Release notes for 0.2.0

Questions about this feature, or something that does not work as described here? Write to us: info@daw-musicstation.de