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ProRemote Offers Wireless Multi-Touch Remote for ProTools and Logic

Friday August 8, 2008 7:30 am PDT by Arnold Kim
Far Out Labs has released their ProRemote Light [$39.99, App Store] and ProRemote [$149.99, App Store] applications to the iTunes App Store.

ProRemote is a product that runs on the iPhone and iPod Touch that uses your existing wireless network to control professional audio products such as Digidesigns ProTools and Apples Logic Music production systems.

The full version of ProRemote also includes a dedicated transport view that allows the user to do audio scrubbing/shuttling, set markers (memory locations) and control many advanced aspects of the transport as well as basic play, record, and return to zero.


The developer plans to provide many upgrades to the full version of ProRemote including enhanced support for other Digital Audio Workstations, custom commands, remote layouts and full macro support as well as support for Windows.

A comparison between the Full and Light editions are provided in this feature comparison chart. The developer also provides this demo video:



[via iLounge]
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rockinrocker
Posted: 50 months ago
this sounds sweet. i hope they add support for more DAW's as i'm a cubase user....
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SRSound
Posted: 50 months ago
That's amazing. Can't wait to try it!
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MacTheSpoon
Posted: 50 months ago
Excellent, excellent stuff!!
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aimfire
Posted: 50 months ago
What is up with the dates on the App Store??
I check it several times a day and always choose "Sort by Release Date" - this app is listed as being released on Aug 1st - NO WAY I missed that!

There is only 1 review for the app as well... apparently I'm not the only one who missed this "Aug 1st" release date either... :rolleyes:

They also did the same thing with Teleport... this is really starting to annoy me. If I didn't read the Mac blogs, I wouldn't know about some of these apps.

update: I'm backtracking through the App Store now, looking at all the apps that were released in the past week... I'm finding several that have been "pre-dated" and didn't appear on the actual days that they were suppposedly released on... WinAdmin, Scroll Me, iXboxLive, etc.... :rolleyes:
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Drumjim85
Posted: 50 months ago
seeing as "Frontier Design Group's TranzPort" is $200, this is a great deal...
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wonderbread57
Posted: 50 months ago
Pretty high price for something that can only control ProTools and is not a whole lot better than Free VNC.
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Felix Martinez
Posted: 50 months ago

That's amazing. Can't wait to try it!

See that's the thing. Looks fantastic, but day-to-day use is another thing. If an app is $5 I don't have a prob throwing that away, but for $50 or $150 I want to run this thing around the block a bit to see if it's ready for prime time.

I also have everyone turn off all cell phones in my studio b/c of the GSM noise, which crops up from time to time. Certainly not what you want to have creep into your recording when the red light is on.

Again, I'd love to test this out - looks amazing, but I'd love to see if it's right for me.
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longofest
Posted: 50 months ago
Would love it if it supported Digital Performer.

I also have everyone turn off all cell phones in my studio b/c of the GSM noise, which crops up from time to time. Certainly not what you want to have creep into your recording when the red light is on.


Turn on WiFi only to use this.
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lazyrighteye
Posted: 50 months ago

See that's the thing. Looks fantastic, but day-to-day use is another thing. If an app is $5 I don't have a prob throwing that away, but for $50 or $150 I want to run this thing around the block a bit to see if it's ready for prime time.

I also have everyone turn off all cell phones in my studio b/c of the GSM noise, which crops up from time to time. Certainly not what you want to have creep into your recording when the red light is on.

Again, I'd love to test this out - looks amazing, but I'd love to see if it's right for me.


Agreed. At those price points, I def think there should be some sort of free trial period or something. This is still a significantly missing piece of the App Store experience. Hopefulyl Apple & vendors can figure out a way to implement some sort of trial basis for apps. Tho I somehow doubt we'll see this concept implemented.

As far as GSM noise, I too require all cell phones off when recording.
That said, wouldn't Airplane Mode suffice when/if using ProRemote?

Maybe I missed it, but is there more info about supported configs and versions of PT? I'm running PTLE 6.4(?) on a G4/500 in OS 10.3.8 (the highest OS that still supports my Digi001). Curious if ProRemote Lite is even an option for my setup...

**heads over to Digidesign forums**
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fakiekid
Posted: 50 months ago
most expensive wireless mouse!

it's cool but not worth that kind of money to myself. I have a ProControl and a Mackie Control kicking around in the studio. If it was stretched over more DAW's like Cubase and Soundscape I would expect this to be that price but not now.

Still..very interesting and can't wait to see how that develops.
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