[ATTACH=CONFIG]194394.vB5-legacyid=981[/ATTACH]Since the launch of Apple’s category-defining iPad tablet computer, many audio professionals have been looking for a way to run Lake’s ubiquitous Lake Controller software on this small, cost-effective, and remarkably ingenious hardware platform. Unfortunately, the full Lake Controller software application is designed to run only on a Windows OS and so this looked like an unlikely vision.
However, not to be put off by a challenge, the engineers at Lake in Sweden conceived a work-around and set about testing various Virtual Network Computing (VNC) remote desktop solutions. As a result of this work, Lake are delighted to present a solution allowing remote access of Lake Controller using iPad, retaining full functionality of all touchscreen controllable features – via the wireless tablet screen.
Lake Controller on iPad utilizes VNC, a graphical desktop sharing and remote control system based on the RFB (remote frame buffer) protocol. A VNC system consists of a client (the iPad), a server (in this case, the Windows host computer running Lake Controller software), and a communication protocol. VNC Server is a software program that enables the Windows computer running Lake Controller (server) to share its screen, and for a remote client to take control of it, in this case the handy solution that is Apple’s iPad.
Setting up the system requires a few software components – one for the Windows machine running Lake Controller, the other for the iPad (downloaded from the app store) – and then it takes less than 5 minutes to configure. It’s really quite straight-forward. Lake has published a simple step-by-step guide detailing what’s involved, available to [URL=”http://labgruppen.com/products/documentation/”]download from the Lake documentation area on the website[/URL].
Lake Controller software is already a proven performer, but the ability to control it remotely via iPad now takes it to a new level of convenience and user-experience.
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I have never been so excited and so disappointed in such a short period of time. Not a native app, do it via VNC and have to deal with the associated lag and networking and server setup. Might as well just keep using a tablet PC like I have been. Bummer.
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I got the email from Lake and thought the same thing. Excitement until I read the email and thought – duh – people have been doing this for a while already. Make an app!
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The lag is not what bothers me about VNC’s its the screen darting around and the inability to grab and drag targets. This seems like it might be cool, if they made a VNC app specific to Lake.