Remote Control Cubase with Touch OSCDo you have an i. Pad / i. Phone or Android device and do you want to use it as a wireless remote controller for Cubase / Nuendo? If the answer is “Yes!”. Also there are other Apps that will do this job, some are in fact easier to set up than the one I am using here (Touch OSC). LiveControl – Complete control of Ableton Live using your iPad or iPod. Some actually may offer more comprehensive features. What I like about Touch OSC is that you can design your own panels and make them as simple or as complex as you want. For this guide, I am using Windows 7 and i. Pad / i. Phone. I am going to make a single panel with a few useful features, nothing too complicated. Certain areas will work slightly differently with other operating systems and remote devices, (MAC and Android for example). Finally, Android support for Touch OSC is a little lacking at the moment (it is possible but quite tricky to use your own custom panels), but it is getting there according to the developers. So let’s get started. On Windows 7 6. 4 bit, I’m using Hexler’s own Touch OSC Midi Bridge. Which is simple to set up and easy to stop and start when required: Touch. OSC Bridge. If you want to make your own Touch OSC panels you will need the Touch OSC Editor: Touch. OSC Editor. The first step is to start the Midi Bridge, start Cubase, start Touch OSC on your remote device and follow the instructions to get Touch OSC sending and receiving MIDI from Cubase. This is explained in detail here: Touch. OSC . For example, in my simple panel, I wanted to be able to select any Mixer channel and act on that (Solo, Mute, Volume etc.) The GR command for this is: GR Command for Selecting a Mixer Channel. It is then quite simple to perform an action on the selected channel. So if you want to use an existing panel the procedure goes like this: In the lower GR panel, find the command you want. In the upper GR panel, assign a MIDI message to this command. IPad + TouchOSC + iRig MIDI + Ableton Live. You could use Live + Touch OSC +Osculator on your laptop and you could use it just with wireless. You can use the Learn function by selecting the MIDI command in the upper panel and pressing the corresponding control on Touch OSC. Remember to have T/R selected to get data moving in both directions. GR Assign MID Message in Upper Panel. A selection of free TouchOSC & Lemur templates / layouts with MIDI mappings for. 6x12 Ableton MIDI Template An ableton live interface for trigger and. Numerology DrumSeq OSC Template for Numerology. TouchOSC is a modular OSC and MIDI control surface for Android. It supports sending and receiving Open Sound Control and MIDI messages over Wi-Fi. Osc Ableton TemplatesGrow your own or try mine. Assigning each control you make to a certain MIDI message or messages. There is some easy to follow information on using the editor here: Touch. OSC . In order to get this working you will need the Touch OSC editor up and running. Download this zip file which contains the Touch OSC Panels (one for i. Phone and one for i. Pad). You can use either or both. The zip file also contains the Generic Remote template that matches up all the commands with MIDI messages I chose to use. You may also want to consider using my Start. Skip. Kill. Run App which enables you to start other programs and kill tasks with one click. I have mine set to kill Media Player and start the Midi Bridge while starting Cubase for example. You can download the app in my application download section here: Applications. Extract the files from the zip file and upload the. This is a whole different subject though and I’m not going to go into it here. Now you have that working, you can take a look at my Touch OSC panel in the OSC editor and see how it works. You can also look at the corresponding Generic Remote setup and commands. I often find that the best way to learn something is by looking at examples. So I hope this example has given you something useful to experiment with. Wavelab. It is perfectly possible to use Touch OSC to control Wavelab. I have the same Touch OSC panel set up to send Transport / Volume / Master Section and Studio EQ to Wavelab 7, although some of the panel controls are redundant – It would be simple to make a Wavelab- specific panel. Within Wavelab there are two places to assign MIDI remote messages. Options > Customise Commands and mainly Options > Remote Control Devices. Remote Control Devices in Wavelab 7. If you have any questions, suggestions, feel there is something I have missed or could explain in more detail, please leave me a comment below. Thanks for reading.
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