Archive for April, 2010

New Features:

• New commands allow to control the Wiimote drawer directly from OSC messages. This is useful for Max and Pd users that want a tighter integration of OSCulator with their own patchers. See the file General Command Syntax.maxpat in the Samples Library for more information.

Changes:

• Fixed a problem affecting Space Navigators.
• Fixed a problem where some Nunchuk models would not connect.
• Fixed a problem affecting emulators like BSNES, Nestopia, Sixtyforce under Mac OS X 10.6.3, where the synthesized keycode events would not be received.
• Changed the Bonjour service publishing name to avoid a problem happening when the computer was directly connected to the Internet.
• In the OSC Editor, allow to set a destination port to a value under 1024.
• Fixed a condition when two notes with the same pitch were configured on different MIDI Channels. This problem affected the following events: MIDI Note, Kyma Note, MIDI CC Toggle, MIDI Program Change, and Kyma Program Change.

TouchOSC on the iPhone was just a preview of things to come. Thanks to the bigger screen of the iPad, we begin to see much more usable, really nice looking interfaces. Folks on the Internet were wondering what the iPad would be for, but artists have a clear idea of what they can do with such a pretty device.

(here is a really nice looking video made by Ernesto Aello as known as VJ Pr4.)

Granted, Apple’s capacitive multitouch technology is not as musician friendly as Stantum’s (JazzMutant) resistive coating. In an interview with Peter Kirn of Create Digital Music, Guillaume Largillier (JazzMutant co-founder) shares his thoughts of what makes a great controller, and gives us hints of what we may expect from the future.

But for me the future is already there. With something that is not too expensive, we can create, interact, and perform in a new way. The most spirited of us can even write their own programs for the iPad.

From Ryan Noise:

How to use APPLE IPAD to control Ableton Live wireless using “OSC, OSCulator, Touchosc and Python script ”