Maybe I’m missing something here, but I’ve been trying to find just something that will let me control the remix decks with my android device. I don’t see what the issue is. I’m an android developer, and while I don’t know much about MIDI programming I know that there’s almost always a way to do something if you know how to code. Is there an app I don’t know about? I’m a college student, so I don’t have the money to blow on an F1, but I really want to incorporate the remix decks into my DJ sets. Can someone help me out?
Sadly you’re misinformed. There’s a layout out there for lemur and there’s an F1 hack project WRITTEN IN JAVA that supposedly allows you to fake the MIDI signals.
Android still has latency issues. I suspect it’s just that Android has no way for applications to establish real time priority but it could just be that their audio stack is really crappy. Either way it’s a poor platform for audio work atm, sadly. I did hear stories of a company making some low latency 3rd party audio drivers or something along those lines so maybe further down the line it’ll improve.
Personally I’m looking forward to Ubuntu on phones for portable music goodness
It’s not MIDI, it’s HID that you need to control the remix deck’s grid. Most of the hacks rely on mouse movement and clicking emulation which is by no means a viable solution unless you are desperate for it. I haven’t been following the recent development of the hacks but last time I checked they were clunky and buggy or simply needed to be set up each time. No one wants part of their controller rig to die mid set or take control of your mouse pointer and not release it upon crashing.
As far as I know, Android doesn’t do very good with low latency MIDI signals over wifi (iOS does way better at this) and that is the main reason most developers don’t even bother with it. Competition is always good so i’d love to see Google taking some time and fixing this.
