New Features:

• New Wiimote driver. Supports Nunchuk, Classic Controller, Balance Boards, Guitar Hero World Tour Guitar and Drums, and Guitar Hero 3 Guitar.
• Flexible Wiimote LED control (includes a sample document in the Sample Patches folder)
• You can now change the scalings for each individual messages. Just click the page curl icon on the top right to edit the input and output min / max ranges.
• Key Combo Import / Export (click on the gear icon in the Key Combo tab view), with sample Key Combo sets in the Sample Patches folder.
• New ‘Jump to Preset’ events. Allows you to dynamically jump to a preset from an OSC control, instead of just Next/Previous Preset.
• MIDI Clock support (on input only)
• New ‘Global Velocity’ event that allows for velocity control on MIDI Notes with fixed pitch.
• New ‘Variable’ event that enables building of composite OSC messages.
• New ‘Timed Log’ event that logs events to the console only once in every seconds.
• New Kyma driver
• License file can now be installed with a double-click.

Changes:

• Changed how Wiimotes discovery is restarted. Now OSCulator should not stop searching as long as the user has not manually stopped the discovery process.
• A small lock icon is now displayed in the title bar when the document is locked
• Better Wacom Bamboo support
• GM Control Changes names are now added to the MIDI CC list (can be disabled with an Advanced Preference)
• MIDI Note names now match Live and Logic naming.
• Advanced preference for enabling MIDI Note logging (useful for OSC developers).
• Advanced preference for disabling repetitions when using Key Combos or Keycode events.
• Fixed a bug where an invalid DNS configuration would hang OSCulator startup.
• Bugs fixes in general and specifically lots of bug fixes for Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger

This is not something I often publicize, but outside of working on OSCulator, I am also the guitar player in the band Neïmo. We are releasing a second single, alongside the album launch in Germany.

For this occasion, we are teaming with the website Fairtilizer to invite creative musicians for a remix contest of the song Lines. By the way, we just shot a video for this song:

The winner of this contest will get his track digitally released, and some nice goodies, like a t-shirt, a 7 inch of the song Johnny Five, and super fashionable soft bag.

But there’s something more:

If the winner is also showing himself performing a part of the remix while using OSCulator on a small video (there’s no need to be a registered user), I would like to offer him a $100 iTunes gift certificate, and 5 free licenses to use on all his computers, or to share with his friends.

You can download the stems here, there is also some other important informations about how you submit the track. Deadline is set to April 15th.

Philipp Van Allen, professor at the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, is offering a Flash based framework that allow the user to create interactive installations based on various inputs and outputs like DMX, MIDI, Audio I/O, microcontrollers, etc.

Quoted from his website:

The NETLab Toolkit is for designers who want to create working projects that incorporate various sensors (touch, proximity, motion, light etc.), motors, LEDs, imagery, video, text and audio, engaging their audience in the physical world. The system provides these capabilities without requiring any code or management of the more complex technical details (such as communication protocols or data smoothing), much as blogging software enables writers to create dynamic websites without being experts in HTML or databases.

This is a very good alternative for users that need power and flexibility, but don’t want to go the Max/MSP route. Support for OSCulator is included, and should be no-brainer if you know how to forward OSC messages.

NETLab Toolkit Project Page

This one is rather cool.

OSCulator has been featured in the EMusician magazine. You can read the article here.

Dear OSCulator users,

I have been working this last few months on a new design for the application and the website. As I said in the forum, I would like to make osculator.net a better website, with a better look.

OSCulator 2.8 is also being released at the same time with a set of cool new features, including a totally new Wiimote driver.

I hope you will continue to enjoy using OSCulator, and I am looking forward to speaking with you all on the forum.

Cam