TouchOSC is out already for iPhone/iPod Touch, but can you imagine how much easier it’s going to be to operate when it come to iPad shortly!!
TouchOSC is an iPhone/iPod Touch/iPad application that lets you send and receive Open Sound Control messages over a Wi-Fi network using the UDP protocol. (http://opensoundcontrol.org)
The application allows to remote control and receive feedback from software and hardware that implements the OSC protocol such as Pure Data, Max/MSP/Jitter, OSCulator, VDMX, Resolume Avenue 3, Modul8, Plogue Bidule, Reaktor, Quartz Composer, Vixid VJX16-4, Supercollider, FAW Circle, vvvv, Derivative TouchDesigner and others.
The interface provides a number of different touch controls to send and receive messages:
- Faders
- Rotary controls
- Push buttons
- Toggle buttons
- XY pads
- Multi-faders
- Multi-toggles
- LEDs
- Labels (New!)
It supports full multi-touch operation, five controls can be used at the same time. Additionally the program can send Accelerometer data. The application comes with five iPhone/iPod Touch layouts and one example iPad layout, each organized in multiple pages. Custom layouts for iPhone/iPod Touch/iPad can be constructed using the free TouchOSC Editor application.
Please go to http://hexler.net/touchosc for more information, video demonstrations and the free editor application for Windows and OS X.
