They are not cheap, but I've had the best luck with MS Surface Pro units.
Bad side is, it's Windows 8/10.

Cheers,
Randy Hyde

I just bought a Lenovo Flex 3 (15") 2-in-1 tablet/laptop.
It's running Windows 10.
When I loaded SAC 4.1 on it, I get strange behavior from the guy. when I open up the monitor F window (at least,...

Yes, after lots of experimentation, I've determined that the real culprit is running the 3 Mackie units. Without MIDI control, performance is fine. But with the three Mackie units, screen redraws...

Thanks.
Cheers,
Randy Hyde

Thanks, Bob.
Cheers,
Randy Hyde

XP Service Pack 3.
Also, I'm finding that video refresh of the F Mixer is horribly slow while I have the monitor F Mix up.
edit (after some more testing):
Actually, the screen redraw issue is...

I selected two channels, right-clicked on the bar, tried to select latch 02. The system froze up for a long time waiting for the text input. Never could create the latch.
Cheers,
Randy Hyde

Yet another problem:

The select button isn't synchronized well with the F Mixer (note: F mixer is selected in Navigation).

If I select a channel on the MCU via select button and press the EQ...

Bringing up a monitor view on my host adds about 20% to the load. Is this expected? This doesn't seem right (it's not like we're adding any additional audio processing, are we?)
Cheers,
Randy Hyde

Yet another problem:

If you cut the power to a Mackie unit, or unplug the MIDI cable, it crashes SAC.
Cheers,
Randy Hyde

Okay, I think I found the problem.

In the MIDI device selection, the Mackie MCU Pro shows four ports:

USB Audio
USB Audio [2]
USB Audio [3]
USB Audio [4]

If you plug in a second USB->MIDI...

So I hooked up two of my Mackie MCU XT units along with my Mackie MCU Pro. Here are some problems I've encountered:

1) Master fader doesn't seem to work.
2) Scribble strip info is being copied to...

Question: If I have a problem at a show and I need to downgrade, will the mix files created with 4.0 load and operate properly in 3.1?
Cheers,
Randy Hyde

I really want the ability to create layers and banks like you find on modern digital boards (e.g., iLive). Yes, support for more Mackies will be a great quick fix for problems I've endured for...

I've pretty much stayed out of the "suggesting a SAC API" mode and I stopped working on control surface modifications for SAC well over a year ago because of Bob's constant comments about how the...

Common false positive that virus scanners often return for *any* assembly code (I assume the reverb code was written in assembly?).

I have this problem all the time with applications I've written...

The device I'm using won't have a PC built into it. Providing USB host control on a micro controller is a *lot* of work (though it looks like the Teensy++ micro controller might be able to do this)....

Now all we need is a remote version....
Cheers,
Randy Hyde

The big problem I'm finding on my (admittedly old and dirty) BCF-2000 is the fact that the lowest speed I can run the faders at (without stalling them) is still too fast for a PID algorithm (which...

FWIW, I've come to understand just how *terrible* the BCF-2000 motorized faders really are by working on this project.

I take back what I said about purchasing a BCF-2000 being the cheapest way to...

And here is the code that drives the motors.
I really should have a PID algorithm, but my old BCF-2000 unit is so messed up (some faders are really slow, as in *really sloooooow*, so I kludged in...

For those who are interested in such things, I took apart an old Behringer BCF-2000 because I needed some motorized faders for a project (and buying a BCF-2000 is about the cheapest way to obtain 8...

Given that there is no standard, feel free to make something up.
As I would be writing the software at the other end, it really doesn't matter what you do as long as it is reasonably efficient,...

Mackie gives me nine channels. I want 102.

How hard would it be to create a generic midi template that provides the following:

1. 102 faders (i.e., all the general ins and outs on SAC).
2....

Add scribble strip support and that would be perfect; though if it had the possibility of a wide mixer control based on a "select" button, that would be fantastic, too.