I was not aware of Avid's free eucon control software that forms a functional basis of s1 and dock. Downloaded it yesterday and initial testing with just that and ipad already show it is awesome for controlling cubase. Now I am having a strong gas for avid dock, as it seems it just implements a few tactile controls on top of this software making it even more awesome.

The downside of all this is still that eucon control is not available on many daws. Out of the ones I own I can get cubase under control with this, but my Reaper, Reason, Flstudio, Cakewalk and Live will not benefit from the investment.