Remote Control

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This isn't to do with midibox but I thought you may all find it usefull.

I have noticed a few forums the subject of having transport controls at the mic stand, etc. and the few midi surfaces have been over priced, under speced and have problems with routing cabling to the device.

I recently started using a program called girder, http://www.girder.nl , this is a remote control software I found for controlling my media system for winamp and zoomplayer so I can remote control the computer from my room.

What I found was that you can translate any standard infra-red remote control so any button can output any mouse command,any combination of key strokes, several os instructions and even has plugins to output midi/sysex commands.

This means a remote can easily control any keyboard shortcuts, ie. all transport controls for easily starting recording playback and navigation from your micor with the use of some output plugins could probably, I haven'e tried this yet but will soon, be setup as a generic remote to control channel settings also.

With the use a multi link remote boxes this can even be done from entirely different rooms.

I currently have a audigy platinum installed with my rme which I used for midi, and now thanks to a girder plugin use to remote control my daw.

If you don't have an audigy/live, (you saved £150 and were a wiser man than me :) ), there is a guide to making a very cheap serial ir reciever here, http://divxstation.com/article.asp?aId=62 , so anyone can easily have this facility for around £5.