iPad/ TouchOSC crew, if you aren’t using this beast you are missing out!
I figure if I’m willing to spend ~$30 for osculator and touchosc then I can afford $9 for the craziest mapping ever for the iPad. I think this is up there with the most comprehensive map I have seen for ANY controller complete with full control over beat grids and advanced functions.
I went out and ordered it and it has been blowing my mind for the past 3 hours. Whether you use it alone or with a mixer it’s nuts. I mean this thing is 13 pages/layouts all in one template. Worth every penny. Setup was totally painless and it works perfectly.
I’m sure I’m late to this and some of you have seen it but…
And a question: can you send any MIDI function when switching pages?
I would love that feature.
I currently have a page for trackbrowsing and other for grid functions on my mapping and I would love to change the Traktor layout when I change a page, can it be done?
I’ve been using this mapping at my last few gigs. Has gotten so e serious attention from crowd, other Djs, and the touring acts we’ve brought in. Thanks for the awesome mapping Noel!
+1 for a MIDI version. I have the Alesis IODock now, and the idea of needing to rebuild the TouchOSC template to xmit MIDI instead of OSC makes me want to drop it alltogether and move to MIDI Touch.
nem0, I’m experiencing some loss on midi notes send/recieved with touchosc and a ad-hoc wifi network created with connectify on a Windows 7 Dell Vostro laptop.
Do you know what I have to tweak to stop loosing those MIDI Notes?
It’s really anoying and makes me wanna use MidiTouch instead of TouchOSC because of the cable connection feature…
The cable connection feature is just CoreMIDI, and you can’t just run an iPad cable to your computer and get a MIDI interface. You still need some kind of software running to interpret the network data and turn it around to MIDI. So both programs work the same way in that regard.
I didn’t like using wireless or being on battery power either, so I picked up an Alesis IODock to use. It acts as a MIDI and audio interface, plus it powers the iPad. The IODock totally changes the experience of using the iPad for more professional applications. If you’re really wanting to go MIDI crazy, there is also the iConnect MIDI, which adds a LOT more MIDI I/O, but doesn’t have any audio.
I think as long as you’re wireless (in any form) you run the risk of dropping packets.
But with the rptMidi (on Windows) would be possible to send midi messages from TouchOSC to Traktor with the standard cable?
How does MidiTouch? What kind of software allows them to do it?
Really cool dock but a bit overkill to me, I think… I still don’t need all those features. I just want to have a reliable connection between my iPad and my dell notebook.
In my case is not a risk, it’s a fact I’m loosing cue drops, FXs releases, led feedback, etc… I’m loosing about 5% of the messages, I think…
[quote]But with the rptMidi (on Windows) would be possible to send midi messages from TouchOSC to Traktor with the standard cable?
How does MidiTouch? What kind of software allows them to do it?[/quote]
I don’t know of any way to make the iPad connect to the computer via the standard cable and show up as a MIDI device. They can both (through CoreMIDI) connect via the camera connection kit to hardware.
The problem is that the iPad isn’t recognized as a MIDI device by the computer it’s connected to. That’s why all of these wireless solutions involve some sort of virtual MIDI port (either built into the app or an additional app). The virtual port gives applications a MIDI port to attach to.
Honestly, you could go with a camera connection kit and something like an M-Audio Uno and it would work, but you’d need a MIDI capable interface to plug into (like an Audio 8 DJ). I used that same setup for a long time before I did the IODock.
I think it’s possible with a jailbroken iPad and cydia app usually used for wifi tethering via a USB connection altho I’m not sure whether you need a camera kit for that or not.
I’m using a camera kit, 2 USB to midi leads and a pair of midi to midi adapters
Do you use a midi feedback on faders?
This setup introduce a lot of latency from the moment you slide the fader to the moment the software send the position back to you?
Feedback on everything (sad as I am, I quite like the intricacies of mapping the outputs lol). I use multiple controllers with some functions duplicated so when I move a slider or activate something with my SCS3Ds or BCD2000 the iPad mapping updates to match.
I’m not noticing any latency or dropped messages.
The only problem I have is a known Traktor one, when selecting FX it sometimes slurs the audio.
For you S4 users, here is a great simple layout to utilize the sample decks. Sadly I can’t use it because it uses osculator and I use core midi but I really, really, really wish I could.
Really pleased you like it - it took a long time to design and map.
I’m loosing cue drops, FXs releases, led feedback, etc… I’m loosing about 5% of the messages, I think…