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

• 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.

• 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).

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

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.

OSC routing improvements:

• The OSC route editor has been improved.
• use the asterisk character in a rewrite address to replace this character with the input address. For example, suppose you want to prefix every incoming messages with “/blue” type in the rewrite address “/blue*”. If the message “/1/fader1″ has this OSC route assigned as an event, its address will be rewritten as “/blue/1/fader1″.
• As an experimental feature, it is now possible to send OSC messages whose argument is a string selected from a list. This can be very useful to update labels in TouchOSC. Let’s consider a message named “/1/fader1″ sending values from 0.0 to 1.0. If you create an OSC route, and change the routing arguments to something like (Sine,Square,Tri,PWM) an OSC message will be sent with the argument being “Sine” for values going from 0 to 0.25, “Square” for values going from 0.25 to 0.5, “Tri” for values going from 0.5 to 0.75 and “PWM” for the rest.
• Import and export of a set of OSC Routes, the same way as Key Combos. You can also import a TouchOSC file, by using the Import menu or by dropping it on the OSC Routes table.

Back-mapping improvements:

(Back-mapping is the name given to the automatic configuration process that sets up the bi-directional communications between two devices. For example, let’s consider a message with address “/1/fader1″ that is configured to send a MIDI Control Change. If the same MIDI Control Change is received, it will be configured to send OSC messages back to “/1/fader1″.)

• if multiple events are configured with the same target, multiple back-mappings are created. For example, if you use TouchOSC and have two faders “/1/fader1″ and “/2/fader10″ that are configured to send events to MIDI CC 1, when this same control change is received, the two faders will be updated as they should.
• new MIDI back-mappings are supported :
• Control Changes (improved)
• Pitch Wheel
• Channel Pressure
• As a bugfix, the scalings are now taken in account properly. It allows for example allows to use the X/Y control of TouchOSC in vertical orientation.

MIDI Improvements:

• In the scalings window, Input and output scalings are displayed on a 0-127 range to match MIDI’s units.
• OSCulator can now send and receive MIDI from physical ports without the use of additional software.
• New Event: “Channel Pressure” located under the “MIDI Note” type. It corresponds to the MIDI message with status byte 0xD0. Note: on some programs like Live, it is mistakenly recognized as Aftertouch.
• Raw MIDI data registered in the main window can be routed to any available physical or virtual MIDI output.

Miscellaneous changes:

• The preference option “Start Wiimote discovery upon launch” is now set to off by default.
• Added a checkbox to enable sending of the Wiimote battery status.
• A list of pre-canned commonly used keyboard combos has been added to the “gear” menu in the Key Combo Parameters view.
• Renamed “Latched Enable” to “Enable”.
• Renamed “Toggled Enable” to “Enable Toggle”.
• Renamed “Latched Trigger” to “Enable Combine”.
• Renamed “Timbre” in MIDI Note w/ Params to “Aftertouch”.
• KeyCode Helper window now displays with keyboard shortcut Command-Shift-K.
• You can flip between Routings and Scalings pages with Command-F.
• Copy / Paste on the main window has been improved.
• Some care has been given to the table headers sorting.

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.

First of all you need to know that this recipes ultimately involves the purchase of the application MyWi 4. Hopefully you can try it out for a 15 days period. If you like this software you will be able to purchase it for $19.99, which is a nice deal I think.

Disclaimer: If you want to try, I will give in this post all the necessary steps to enable USB tethering on the iPad. Please note that this is just a report of a personal experience, and I won’t take any responsibility if you have forgotten to backup your data, or if anything goes wrong.

My iPad is a 16 GB, WiFI only model, and I believe this procedure will work on other 3G models as well. Now that you are warned, here are a few things to check and perform before actually starting:

1. check that your have iOS 3.2 on your iPad and no higher. If you have iOS 3.2.1, wait a few days or weeks that Spirit has been updated for your device.
2. check that your iPad is activated, meaning that it is not stuck on the “Connect to iTunes” black screen.
3. plug your iPad on a computer and wait for the syncing to complete.
4. did I said that your iPad needs to be properly backed-up ?

You have to jailbreak your iPad in order to use Cydia, an applications repository and installer.

1. Go to Spirit’s homepage, download the right version for you (Mac, Windows or Linux) and read the instructions.
2. Your iPad is still plugged into the Mac, so launch Spirit and click the button. It should take only a snap of a second, and your iPad will be ready to reboot.
3. It will display a funny looking background with a progress bar. When the process is complete, the device restarts again.
4. You should have Cydia now installed on your home screen (check the other pages if you don’t find it). Tap on the “Search” tab bar button and search for MyWi 4
5. Tap on the result of the search to display the page for this software, and tap on the blue “install” button on the upper right of the screen, then wait for things to complete.

At this point, Cydia and MyWi 4 have been installed.

Now is the time for configuration:

1. Open MyWi 4, it will ask you for a RockYourPhone ID. (RockYourPhone is like the AppStore for jailbroken applications.) So, create your own or use an existing one, then validate the form.
2. Restart the application, a demo license should have been installed automatically and you are ready to use the application. (NOTE: I had a strange behavior at this right moment, it seems that the application needed to restart again, but the message was unclear)
3. Activate USB tethering by turning on the button next to “MyWi USB”, there should be no other option. I would also recommend you scroll down the view, and change the display status. I personally prefer to use the Status Bar Icon instead of the big and intrusive blue bar, which I believe is handy if you are sharing an expansive 3G connection and you need to know how much time has been spent.
4. Your iPad will ask to reboot in order to activate this feature …

Once tethering has been configured and the iPad rebooted, you will notice that your Mac has detected a new Network port.

Click on “Network Preferences …” and click on the “Apply” button on the bottom right.

Now that your iPad and Mac are connected together, you can turn off WiFI on the iPad, and enjoy a wireless-free connection while your device is maintaining its battery charge.

Finally, start OSCulator, and you will be able to use any OSC enabled (e.g. TouchOSC) application with reliable performances. Not to mention, that no configuration is needed on the host computer. If you use another computer, just plug the USB cable and let’s rock!

• 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.

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

• 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.