Hightlights:

• More than a hundred bugs eradicated and small enhancements everywhere in the application.
• Lion compatibility.
• New user’s manual in PDF format accessible from the Help menu of the application.
• The goal is to make this version the most stable and best documented to date.

New features:

• Preset import from another file. Use the “import Preset from another file” menu item in the Presets menu, or hit Command-Option-I.
• User Interface: added a menu item to quickly invert output min and output max scalings or selected message, hit Command-I.
• Following a suggestion from Lenny (Somascape), the scaling of the input is dependent of the type of the value received: floats usually expect a normalized range [0.0 1.0], and integers, where applicable, are used in the native range of the Event (see first appendix of the new manual). For example, this is particularly useful when dealing with MIDI data from other OSC applications: When using a float number with a MIDI CC, the expected input range is normalized to [0.0 1.0], but when using an integer, the input range is [0 127].
• User Interface: the activity monitor can now be trigger multiple selected messages at once.
• User Interface: allow sorting of the messages using the Value column.
• OSC: timestamps of OSC bundles are now honored.
• MIDI: Channel Change event: change the channel value of another message or of every messages in the current preset.
• Wiimote: Classic Controller Pro support (warning: joysticks are not precisely calibrated)
• Wacom: qualified support for the Wacom Intuos 4 Wireless.
• Samples: added two new examples for TouchOSC “Radio Toggle” and “Selective Result”.
• Samples: added one example for ThumbJam
• Samples: added a PureData example where 4 Wiimotes are used to increment or decrement program changes on 4 MIDI channels.
• Open a PDF version of the new manual in the Help menu.

Changes:

• Compatibility: fixed two issues related to Mac OS X Lion:
• fixed a problem when opening old files.
• fixed a connection problem (incidently also makes Balance Board connection process more robust).
• OSC: when routing a float number as a string, formatting is done with two decimals.
• Engine: enhanced the /osculator/preset message so it can be used with more events, like a MIDI Note or a Key Combo.
• Engine: Fix OSC pattern matching so multiple messages can be triggered from one message (e.g. sending the message “/1/fader*” will trigger /1/fader1, /1/fader2, etc)
• MIDI: MIDI CC Toggle now honors output scaling values.
• Keyboard: Keycode or Key Combo events now fail if the specified target application is not launched.
• Wiimote: enhanced DJ Hero extension support. No more spurious messages from the crossfader button when the platter is turning.
• Wiimote: fixed a problem where smoothing settings would not be properly restored after saving the document to a file.
• User Interface: many fixes related to copy / paste
• User Interface: fixed various problems in the OSC Editor.
• User Interface: fixed a long standing problem when creating a new event from the value menu (eg. OSC Routing, Key Combo, AppleScripts)
• User Interface: fixed a long standing bug when choosing an item in the Event Value menu.

From Alexander Schubert:

“Your Fox’s A Dirty Gold” is an interactive performance piece for a singer with motion sensors, electric guitar, live-electronics and lights. “Fox” is what you could describe as a modern pop song (a love song actually). It incorporates elements of contemporary and experimental electronic music in the domain of pop music.

I like this piece, it reminds me the sounds of the No Wave style, and some early Zappa, but in a more contemporary form.

This is only the trailer, but you can watch the whole piece by visiting Alexander’s website.

The concept is to link all involved elements to the movement and gestures of the performer. This allows the singer to control, trigger and shape in time all technical and musical parts of the composition in real time. The software MAX/MSP is used to control the live electronics and the DMX lights. They are driven by the upper body movement of the singer and the electric guitar interface. The aim of this technical concept is to establish an embodiment of the involved electronic apexes of the piece in order to make it perceivable and controllable like a regular acoustic instrument.

Many thanks to Kyle MacDonald for the code that helped us getting started and Jason Mora Saragih for the Tracking algorithms.

Untitled from FreeKa Tet on Vimeo.

There are plenty of videos in this post, check them out!

This is the first release of a series of apps that will send OSC. I think it will work great with Osculator given its speed and functionality. For what I tested works faster than Max/MSP.

It’s also worth mentionning that there is a good PDF documentation and a forum making this application more than worth the 1,50 €.

Find OSC Physics on the App Store.

Like the author, I am not totally sure whether KP is the perfect tool for the DJs, but it is undoubtely an incredible multi-touch / futuristic / creative instrument.

• Fixed a compatibility problem affecting Mac OS X 10.5.