PC Remote Control

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I'm curious what folks are doing when their PC based DAW resides in the control room but they want to control it from the live room.

I've seen solutions based around KVM switches, wireless networks, etc.
 
Frontier Electronics makes a $200 wirelss unit called the tranzport. It will allow transport control, and some basinc operations including track arming and scrolling etc...
 
I've seen both these solutions.

The problem with the notebook solution is the noise introduced by the fan. I've got a spare notebook I could use... guess I better break it out and see how loud it is.

Not sure about the Tranzport - I think I'd want to have more control than it offers.

I was hoping to find a way to only need a monitor, mouse and keyboard in the live room.
 
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I've got a spare notebook I could use... guess I better break it out and see how loud it is.
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You can put it to sleep after you hit "go".
 
My Toshiba laptop has a "quiet mode" which makes it pretty much silent. Great when I need it, but I rarely do. Its a quiet laptop to start with.

H2H
 
yeah i use a laptop. but the purpose is to make sure the pc hasn't hiccup'd, so I wouldn't really want to put it in sleep mode.
 
I use VNC. Do a google search. It allows you to see the screen of the remote computer from another computer, and control it. I use a laptop in the Live room. A quiet one. You have complete remote control of the master. There is a server program that runs on the master, and a client program that runs on your remote PC.

Works great! I use it on a Mac w/ Protools. Works just as well with PC.
 
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