Changes:

• Made the “cap” option in the Scalings Page working again.
• Rounding for MIDI events is more reliable.

New features:

• Pressing the Control key in a MIDI CC values menu will display the corresponding General MIDI definitions.
• Pressing the Control key in a MIDI Note or Kyma Note values menu will display the corresponding note number (0 to 127).
• In the Presets menu, the current preset can now be set to send all its values when it is restored.

Changes:

• Fixed a name clashing problem between the Enable and Wiimote’s Enable events.
• Fixed a problem where messages in the main window would not be sorted naturally.
• When holding the Alt key while selecting certain types of Events now behaves as expected (for example, selects MIDI CC’s in incremental order).
• Made Wiimote’s settings correctly restored.
• Added some new Wiimote’s address definitions.

Changes:

• Fixed a bug where files with MIDI CC and MIDI CC Toggle events would not be restored properly.
• Temporarily disabled some animations on Leopard that were causing a crash until a proper fix is found (if any).

Changes:

• Fixed a serious bug that prevented running on Mac OS X Leopard.
• Added Copy/Paste to Parameter editors

Note: This version is not anymore compatible with Tiger or PowerPC computers.

OSC improvements:

• OSC routes are now independent of the target device.
• A table now shows the OSC devices detected on the network. This is useful for example to see if TouchOSC is correctly connected.
• It is possible to register manually an OSC message by typing its address. Check “Manually Create Message …” in the Routings menu.
• It is possible to edit a copy of a OSC routing that has been created automatically after back-mapping.

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Making music with the iPad is great, and I am planning to use this amazing device on stage, but there is one last thing holding me.

The iPad’s WiFI connection has the reputation of not being the most reliable, and I just don’t want to believe if it is okay to use it on stage, I need to be sure. The lack of an Ethernet port is indeed a strong selling point for Jazz-Mutant’s Lemur.

Six month ago, a friend told me that he was using TouchOSC and his iPhone 3GS plugged into the computer using a USB cable. A nice wired connection that he had, but it was only after he subscripbed to a tethering plan, and it sucks to pay big bucks if you don’t need to browse the internet.

There’s a solution if you are ready to jailbreak your iPad. I don’t use my iPad for critical applications, so, in case things go wrong, and since it is a WiFI only model, I will be able to merely restore the backed-up applications and settings using iTunes.

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Notes:

• This release will be the last version compatible with Mac OS X Tiger 10.4 and PowerPC based computers (G4 and G5).
• Next version (2.10) will be only compatible with Intel based computers on Mac OS X Leopard 10.5 and higher.

Changes:

• Fixed several stability problems related to MIDI input.
• Fixed some minor issues regarding the Wacom tablet daemon process stability.
• Fixed problems regarding the HID virtual joystick occurring in games part of the Humble Bundle. Virtual joysticks are also reset as they should when the application quits.
• Fixed a wrong count of clock ticks when receiving MIDI Clock data.
• Fixed a bug where Channel Velocity would be 0 for MIDI Notes using channel 16.
• The “Connect to Space Navigator” menu item is now working as expected.
• When searching for Bonjour enabled OSC services, limit the search to the local domain.

Tony Grund from Dubspot has made a 4 part video tutorial about TouchOSC and OSCulator. Not only the video is great, well explained and fun to watch, but also gives you all the resources you will need to get quickly started. It includes a sample Live set, TouchOSC layouts and preconfigured OSCulator documents.

Here is the first part of this tutorial. Highly recommended !

Here is a tutorial I have written that shows how to control TouchOSC LEDs with Ableton Live. The tutorial is rather long, but hopefully covers with enough detail this topic.

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.