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TouchOSC Mk1 app for iPhone and iPad


4.0 ( 3680 ratings )
Utilities Music
Developer: Robert FISCHER
4.99 USD
Current version: 1.9.12, last update: 1 year ago
First release : 12 Feb 2019
App size: 1.78 Mb

TouchOSC is a modular OSC and MIDI control surface for iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad by hexler.

It supports sending and receiving Open Sound Control and MIDI messages over Wi-Fi and CoreMIDI inter-app communication and compatible hardware.

The application allows to remote control and receive feedback from software and hardware that implement the OSC or MIDI protocols such as Apple Logic Pro/Express, Ableton Live, Renoise, Pure Data, Max/MSP/Jitter, Max for Live, OSCulator, VDMX, Resolume Avenue/Arena, Modul8, Plogue Bidule, NI Traktor, NI Reaktor, Quartz Composer, Supercollider, vvvv, Isadora and many others.

The interface provides a number of customizable touch controls to send and receive messages:

Faders / Rotary controls / Encoder controls / Push buttons / Toggle buttons / XY pads / Multi-faders / Multi-push / Multi-toggles / Multi-xy pads / LEDs / Labels / Time & battery displays

Additionally the program can send Accelerometer data. The application comes with example layouts and completely custom layouts can be constructed using the free TouchOSC Editor application.

Please see https://hexler.net/touchosc for more information, video demonstrations and download the free layout editor application for macOS, Windows and Linux and the free TouchOSC Bridge utility to easily control any MIDI-capable application on your computer.

Pros and cons of TouchOSC Mk1 app for iPhone and iPad

TouchOSC Mk1 app good for

avec logic sur mac et touch osc sur ipad un musicien ou ingenieur de son peut pratiquement tout faire a distance ,absolument tout:mixage, edition de parametres ,enregistrement...vraiment BRAVO with logic on mac and touch osc on ipad a musician or sound ingenier can do any thing wirlessly:mix,recording,setting plug-in parameters...GOOD JOB
I use the TouchOSC to command some motors (& robots)... its really easy to use with linux-python Its a great deal!
Best OSC solution out there. With OSCulator becomes powerful.
Not to easy to setup but for this price no problem. Ive had some trouble with Ableton and the sequencer though.
simple but very powerful. a lock option for objects and duplicates objects with titles would be nice.
Thank you so much for this app. it is one of the most comfortable and fancy applications I have ever used, works wonderfully with osculator! - one thing only :) i dont know if it concerns power management problem, but osc has pretty decent battery appetite. I am not an expert of obj. C so maybe it cant function otherwise. I strongly recommend this app. Would even pay noticeably more for having it! Wish you, developers all the best and thank you once more!

Some bad moments

Yes it looks nice and the is ok. But compared to other Controller Apps you have to use a separate editor on your PC instead of designing your controller directly on your iPad. Despite the promise on the forums there is still no sign of NRPN and it seems like the developer canceled the support.
Please disable app Transport Security or make the Layout Editor Sync via https; currently you cannot Sync Layouts!
it doesnt connect to my wifi, runnin it from an iphone 3g 8g. i tried everything it just doesnt work, and this problem has happend with many ppl not just me. read the blogs...
and I work with computer systems everyday. Its my career and Im good at it. I cant get this MF figured out to save my life and im frustrated beyond frustrated.
I like the app but it is next to impossible to set this thing app You have to download at least 2 programs on your computer to sync it and if you want it to work with traktor you need to map the controls. Its just really hard.
perhaps its me but I got this to control Live and I cant seem to get the LiveControl to work with this. I try to download the Livecontrol for Mac and I cant get it open or running (Im on Mountain Lion), I know that its not this developers fault but it is listed as a feature and isnt working. I dont exactly have all of the time necessary to build a template from scratch so right now the app is just sitting thereā€¦ I love the idea but cant get it working right.