In this video, Bill Van Loo demonstrates using TouchOSC, OSCulator, Ableton Live and AudioDamage's BigSeq plugin. TouchOSC is an interactive control surface that outputs OSC messages, which can then be converted to MIDI notes and CC data by OSCulator and other programs.

Check out how much fun it is to control BigSeq with TouchOSC!

For more music in this vein, check out chromedecay:

chromedecay.org

Product Links:

TouchOSC
hexler.net/touchosc

OSCulator (for converting OSC to MIDI)
osculator.net/

Ableton Live
ableton.com

AudioDamage BigSeq
audiodamage.com/effects/product.php?pid=AD009

Technical Information:

Screen recording was done with iShowU HD. This is my first time using it, and I'm quite pleased so far.

shinywhitebox.com/ishowuhd/main.html

The audio recording during the screen recording wasn't so good because I was using the MacBook's built-in mic. Attempts to get my external Firewire audio interface routed into iShowU HD through Soundflower were unsuccessful at first, but I'll make sure I get that working for future videos.

The iPod Touch was recorded with the Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ18 camera.

Credits

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  • Jyant 11 months ago
    amazing... I'm missing an x/y controller for ableton - how cool will it be to use my itouch.

    thanks for effort on putting this video together.
  • chromedecay 11 months ago
    Glad to hear it was useful! It really is a lot of fun to play with...I spent 2 or 3 hours just playing with everything the first night I hooked up TouchOSC to BigSeq.
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  • res ident 11 months ago
    just found this vid - looks/sounds very cool/interesting. Just to a touch so I'm looking into such options... thanks!!
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  • Axiom Crux plus 10 months ago
    hey bill, I am a ccs alumni. I met up with you several years ago when I was first learning max/msp/jitter. Id love to show you some of the stuff im working on, Ive been using it alot. message me through my website axiom-crux.net
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  • jm3 10 months ago
    bill: this is fresh! nice tutorial, thanks for sharing this. pheezy turned me onto this.
  • chromedecay 10 months ago
    Thanks man! I'm really enjoying the flexibility of OSC; looking forward to integrating it into some Processing sketches at some point in the future.
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  • Brian Biggs plus 2 months ago
    Hi there Bill, have you tried this on BigSeq2? I'm not familiar with the first version of BigSeq, but BS2 doesn't have assignable faders on the sequencers. That seems to disallow assigning these sequencers to TouchOSC the way you've done here.
  • chromedecay 2 months ago
    I haven't tried BigSeq2 yet - I'm eligible for the cheap upgrade, but I know I won't be able to use TouchOSC with it in the same way, so a lot of the appeal is lost. I'm sure it's a great plugin, though...

    There's a thread about it on the Analog Industries site:

    analogindustries.com/blog/entry.jsp?msgid=1233189206085&page=4#replies
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