Need a remote controller for your BlackBox? There's an app for that. JoeCo announced the all-new BlackBox app, a dedicated iPad app that remotely controls and monitors the JoeCo line of BlackBox Recorders and Players.

Designed for use on the iPad, the BlackBox App will provide full high-resolution metering on all channels and a range of transport controls for remote operation. In addition, the app will enable the BlackBox menu and set-up options to be remotely controlled.

About the new app, JoeCo's Joe Bull commented, "We want to offer users a remote monitoring and control interface that allows them maximum flexibility with the positioning of the BlackBox hardware at a venue, or on location, and that also enables the BlackBox to be operated without moving from the FOH console. Providing high-resolution metering, especially for 64-channel versions of the BlackBox Recorder, is of great benefit to engineers who need to monitor critical levels during a recording and, as usual, we have had input from our professional users in order to deliver software that meets the needs of busy live engineers and sound recordists. We expect the BlackBox App itself will be free of charge, but it will require some chargeable hardware to transmit and receive the data between the BlackBox and the iPad."

So there you have it. JoeCo has not mentioned an official release date, but we do know that the BlackBox App will be available sometime in 2012. Until then, you can keep up with JoeCo news at www.joeco.co.uk.