Hello,
Great solution of yours!
TouchOSC (for iPad) + OSCulator is potentially a large commercial hit to:
- sound designers
- producers
- DJs
- etc...
But...
MIDI has been around for many years, and implemented in hundreds of hardware / software synths, FX devices, etc... that implemented other MIDI protocols than CC; like NRPN, Sysex, etc... to offer real-time control of their parameters.
Ex:
- Roland mid-80s to ... uses Sysex
- Waldorf still uses Sysex
- DSI uses NPRN and Sysex (and limited CC)
- Arturia uses NRPN (and limited CC)
- Oberheim used Sysex
- Yamaha mid-80s to ... uses Sysex
- etc...
That's already more than 100 machines ! Each machine was sold on average 2,000 units (min couple of hundreds like Waldorf Wave - Max 200,000 like Yamaha DX7)
Those machines are still used by thousands of pro-musicians (and non-pro musicians), everyday...
Those people are looking for a modern, workflow efficient and simple install (not time-consuming, not tech-y)) solution that would control all those legacy machines.
I have been trying to bring such solution (with a certain success) to musicians on a dedicated control surface (Mackie Control C4), but the machine is discontinued, and the template editor is using Roseta... (Rumored soon to be not supported by Apple), you can check my work here:
http://www.mackiecontrolc4truelayoutsdesign.com/
The average musician is willing to pay $300 / $500 dollars for a control surface; but it should control all their legacy synth. that seems to be the price range of iPad / TouchOSC / OSCulator.
So my question is simple.
Is OSCulator going to support NPRN and Sysex?
Note that Sysex implementation is quite different from one vendor to another, like Sysex string length, parameter byte position in the string, parameter byte can be split in 2 bytes (MSB, LSB) and range from 0-127 or 0-255 (ex: Octave, Kenton), etc...
Note that NPRN can also be implemented differently from one vendor to anther (Sequential Circuit Inc, is different from DSI), etc...
I should say the feature set of Mackie C4 Commander software (free download on Mackie website) is rich enough to support all those; so if OSCulator would map OSC messages to MIDI messages with the feature set of C4 Commander; OSCulator should be safe.
Let me know if you needs more specifics on NRPN and Sysex for those vendors.
What I'm considering if you have not guessed yet is porting my work to TouchOSC / OSCulator !
Regards
Michael
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