I'm not even on Windows and I use a Slate Raven with Mac OS every day. Since it's MAC OS it's a proprietary tie in to what I would guess is the Mackie Control protocol that allows ten finger touch on faders in the Slate mixer? That and a hook for getting gestures to work in interesting ways, like a 5 finger pinching gesture over the plugin to close it etc. The rest is single touch control of plugins, Slates own macros and elements of the DAW that are large enough to be controlled by touch.
It's all pretty solid, which brings up my point, I don't think it's touch that's the issue on Windows, I think it's hardware developers not spending the money to get it right and applications not developed with touch in mind. There's a Windows version of the Slate Raven, and the latest v4 is late in coming, you see a big interest from a crowd who have access to 10 finger touch built in to the OS, but the experience using a mixer or messing with a plugin must be not so great to get them to want to use an iLok protected proprietary software that only works with Slates monitors.
It's all pretty solid, which brings up my point, I don't think it's touch that's the issue on Windows, I think it's hardware developers not spending the money to get it right and applications not developed with touch in mind. There's a Windows version of the Slate Raven, and the latest v4 is late in coming, you see a big interest from a crowd who have access to 10 finger touch built in to the OS, but the experience using a mixer or messing with a plugin must be not so great to get them to want to use an iLok protected proprietary software that only works with Slates monitors.
Statistics: Posted by machinesworking — Mon Dec 30, 2024 7:35 pm