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Topic: Madiface XT - Remote

As longtime professional RME user who has recently bought a madiface xt (which is an awesome product as one has come to expect from RME) I cannot help but wonder about the problems I'm running into when trying to buy a hardware remote control for the unit.

Production of the ARC is discontinued without any units left in stock and ARC USB which should come this summer will be for UFX+ only. While the ARC is still listed as regular product on RMEs web page I just thought I should share this here since I myself was heavily relying on the ARC being available when buying the Madiface XT. It's not available anymore.

I'm guessing a lot of people run remote through the app solutions on ipad etc. but that might not be the appropriate way in a lot of setups, which probably was the reason to produce a hardware remote in the first place.

Maybe there just haven't been enough people looking for such a solution and I'm sure there are other good and solid reasons, in my position now of course it's just bad luck and a somewhat unexpected product strategy in the 'premium' line, too.

Someone with an ARC on sale?

Re: Madiface XT - Remote

I'm hoping the new ARC USB will eventually get ported over to ALL RME interfaces - but would always need to be connected to the PC to function (no standalone operation).  The ARC was indeed one of the selling points for my MADIface-XT purchase as well - but I was lucky enough to get an ARC when they were still available (would not want to run without it!).

The ARC-USB has more controls - and I really doubt RME will leave the MADIface-XT and other "ARC Capable" multi-thousand dollar interfaces without an available remote.  If nothing else, a custom MIDI or OSC driver for the ARC-USB should allow it to control TM-FX for any RME interface...

Does RME care to comment?  I already own an original ARC, but will gladly throw money at a new ARC-USB once this happens (I can imagine LOTS of RME users would buy one for interfaces that don't support the old ARC)...

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