Having begin life as a Pro Tools controller, Neyrinck software’s V-Control iPad application gained Logic Pro and Cubase support in its v1.2 update. A new release now adds dedicated control skins for a host of Mac and PC audio and video editing applications including Pro Tools, Logic Pro 9, Cubase/Nuendo, FL Studio, Tracktion, Studio One, Reaper, Reason, Ableton Live, Final Cut Pro (5, 6 and 7) and Sonar.

Each application skin in v1.5.1 includes a graphic iPad user interface for the application with faders, pans, transport control and dedicated edit keys that are specific to that application. Users can also control open windows such as plug-ins using touch-control from the iPad with the new V-Window feature.

The Cut Pro iPad interface includes eight bankable audio faders with pan, solo, and mute, and a full set of transport controls including jog and shuttle. Additionally, there are 80 soft keys organised as five sets of 16 touchscreen function keys that can be programmed with any of the hundreds of FCP commands including favourite effects such as adding a colour corrector to a clip. Each key can be labelled with text and the appropriate icon from the FCP commands list. The V-Window feature enables users to bring up any window in FCP, or any other application running on the Mac, to the iPad, opening new control possibilities from colour correction to I/O control.

‘Without doubt the majority of feedback I get from users are requests for V-Control to address their favorite application, and a lot of our users are on PC so we have taken that into consideration as well,’ says company founder, Paul Neyrinck. ‘We have also advanced V-Control into the video editing market with support for Final Cut Pro 7. Now that the V-Control software is mature it’s fairly easy for us to add new skins so you will see further development in the future.’

V-Control Pro can control a host of media applications on Macs or PCs from the iPad and is available for US$49.99 from the Apple App Store.

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