TouchOSC

TouchOSC is a modular OSC and MIDI control surface for iPhone / iPod Touch / iPad.
It supports sending and receiving Open Sound Control messages over a Wi-Fi network using the UDP protocol and supports both CoreMIDI and the Line 6 MIDI Mobilizer interfaces for sending and receiving MIDI messages.

Description

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, Renoise, Pure Data, Max/MSP/Jitter, Max for Live, OSCulator, VDMX, Resolume Avenue 3, Modul8, Plogue Bidule, Reaktor, Quartz Composer, The Missing Link, Vixid VJX16-4, Supercollider, FAW Circle, vvvv, Derivative TouchDesigner, Isadora and many others.

The interface provides a number of different touch controls to send/receive messages:

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

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

TouchOSC Editor

Download the editor application for OS X, Windows and Linux to design and upload custom layouts for TouchOSC for iPhone/iPod Touch and iPad:

touchosc-editor-1.5.4-osx.zip OS X
touchosc-editor-1.5.4-win32.zip Windows
touchosc-editor-1.5.4-noarch.zip Linux/other

Default layouts shipping with TouchOSC:
touchosc-default-layouts.zip

 

TouchOSC Bridge

TouchOSC Bridge is a standalone tool application for Windows and Mac OS X that relays MIDI messages sent from TouchOSC to any MIDI capable application on your computer and vice versa. TouchOSC version 1.8 or higher is required to use this application.

Download:

• touchosc-bridge-1.0.1-osx.zip Mac OS X Intel 10.5+
• touchosc-bridge-1.0-win32.zip Windows XP/Vista/7

Videos

Logic 9 with TouchOSC on iPad	iPad / Traktor 2 Virtual Guitar & Wobble Synth	TouchOSC template for TwistedTools Scapes Reaktor ensemble	Little Phatty x iPad x TouchOSC	iPad MPC Style Drum Pads – TouchOSC with Propellerhead Record
Novation 25SL Compact iPod Touch TouchOSC MOD	Ableton Live + LiveControl	TouchOSC / iPad / Traktor	TouchOSC & VDMX	Touch Resolume

Support

There's complete online Documentation.

If you run into problems or have feature suggestions please visit the Forum and let us know!