Re: Worth getting iPod touch for Live Looping only?

[John Metzler <jarofjam@me.com>]

I haven't read this whole thread but I did want to mention the reason I bought an iPhone.  Pro Remote by Far Out Labs.  It is unbelievably incredible.  It sets up a Wireless MIDI server in AMS and connects to Pro Remote and uses the HUI protocol to control Pro Tools and Logic and Ableton Live and more.  I admit, it is a little pricy for an iPhone/iPad app, but it is priceless once you start using it.  Not only can I use a transport from the vocal booth to control my DAW and record myself with far less pain than before, even punch in/out and a SMPTE display.  But when an intern doesn't show up on time and you need to be setting levels on gear in the live room and simultaneously visually checking the meters in Pro Tools, the app starts to pay for it's self.  The point about this app that is most applicable to the topic is that it also has drum pads, an XY pad, and a cross fader that you can use to send wireless MIDI commands to plug-ins in your DAW.  

And now that I have an iPhone, I find that I actually love using some of the other music apps.  Like Nano Studio and Everyday Looper, they're a blast.  And Novation even made a decent and very affordable Automap iPhone app, that can wirelessly control quite a bit.

---John M.

On Jan 17, 2011, at 3:29 PM, mark francombe wrote:

YOou need a program between the OSC source and midi... unless the program does it... Bdule I think.

I use OSCulator. This picks up the signal from my iPhone and translates it into midi, that appears as a midi input in AudioMulch... In Touch OSC software youmake the controll surfae you need.. I have 4 volume sliders and pan controls for 4 channels of Mobius, and then on another page an XY controller for the patch morph function on the NI Kore Player. Works like a charm, almost everytime!

But wait, havent we had this conversation before... obviously Im missing something... just ignore me, have to go to bed...


M

On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 11:25 PM, Jeff Larson <jeff.larson@sailpoint.com> wrote:

What I can't figure out from the material available on the Intertubes is exactly what "receives OSC" means.

Since there are effectively no standards for what OSC messages look like, one of the challenges in

doing anything with OSC is translating the messages that one device sends into the messages

another device recognizes.   Can you use this with both TouchOSC and the monome for example

which have different OSC "vocabularies"?

Jeff

On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 3:25 PM, Sean Echevarria <fuckthespam@creepingfog.com> wrote:

Missing Link got a bit of a write up:
http://createdigitalmusic.com/2011/01/new-solutions-for-wireless-midi-midiosc-developers-answer-questions/

At 2011.01.17 01:20 PM, Rick Walker wrote:
I'm beta testing looper Hans Lindauer's invention,  'the Missing Link'

which is a wireless OSC to Midi converter designed, specifically
to allow an iTouch/Phone/Pad to control any midi instrument,
remotely and will solve, in one fell swoop, the problem Per mentions about support in
looping software (or hardware)

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