My feeling the plugins and faders need multi-touch. I still didn't buy beacouse I'm just an "hobbist" composer/producer but if Reaper doesn't come up with a native/better touch (well multitouch) implementation, soon I will do the switch. I already have seen a couple of 24" acer multi touch monitor at around 250$ (each). Both in the mixer, in timeline and in editors. I'm considering moving to Studio One just for this reason, beacuse on Reaper has so many more plus in customization for me (from the screensets, to the themes, to overall tweakability) that I really have to force myself to move away but Studio One at the moment as a great native multitouch implementation that sets it above all the rest for this particular matter. I absolutely do love Reaper but after many research on external midi mixer/controllers, talbet apps and so on, I think a single/double multitouch monitor is the cheapest and best workflow enanchement we could have (and yes it's kool and girls love it). Setup was a bit of a hassle so if anyone wants further details let me know.
It's not perfect, but it's not bad either, especially for someone without a hardware control.Īndy is just an Android emulator, it supports multi touch and is free:Īlso on that page is a link to mnet/MIDIHub which is supposed to work to connect to your DAW but I couldn't figure it out so I used RTP Midi instead: I can us it as a Mackie Extender and have control of 16 tracks at once. Everything works pretty smoothly and where I prefer using my hardware MCU, this give me additional control. You get 8 faders and Transport controls, among other things. TouchDAW is layed out like an MCU or other similar hardware control surfaces. I am controlling reaper through Mackie Control and an android app called Touch DAW and a Android emulator for Windows called Andy. After a whole lot of trial and error and some experimenting, I came up with a decent compromise to direct reaper multitouch control.