It's Just Data...
The long-term plan for Opus-Two ARM controllers has included ethernet since the conception. Today we are announcing some progress on that front.
The short term goals of the ethernet functionality include:
Direct iPad connectivity. Current iPad tuning or configuration setups are using a MIDI bridge. By making the Opus-Two controller a direct member of the ethernet network, third party components and bridges are no longer necessary. This significantly reduces cost and setup time for iPad interfaces. Future systems will have no additional charges from us to make this work - just plug in the ethernet network, connect an iPad, and apps like TouchOSC will simply work with the built in OSC libraries.
Remote configuration will allow a terminal program to connect to the controller over wifi or wired network, freeing the programmer from the USB link. This will allow folder renaming, track renaming, and any other things currently accomplished via the terminal to be done remotely.
MIDI over Ethernet will enable direct support of Hauptwerk without slow speed MIDI adapters. This feature is dependent upon further collaboration with the manufacturers of Hauptwerk.
The long term goals of the functionality are:
Backup and restore a piston, memory level, or entire folder directly to your computer.
Remote commanding via PC/iOS application including playback.
The prototypes are working on the benches today, and the CVA-M4 already has all the hardware on board to support these functions. Existing CVA and CVE sites will require an inexpensive hardware update kit from us and a software update. This will become a public feature very soon in the next Astrobe Toolset!