Absolutely amazing app for connecting your DAW with your touchscreen devices. This will change the way that you use your DAW. I'm a template maker and the depth of what I can do to build custom layouts for Reason (my DAW) is mind blowing but, even if you aren't intersted in building templates there is a growing community of people who are making theirs available and what you have then is a controller for midi that is with you all of the time.
Reviews for TouchOSC
← Back to TouchOSCCould be awesome, but it feels like the dev is completely out of their depth. By the time I realized how lackluster mkII was, it was too late for a return. Save your money, time, and sanity.
The definitive MIDI/OSC solution for Android. Incredibly powerful and flexible. I've been able to create some really fluid and powerful multi-page controllers for Bitwig using OSC. Being able to add scripts on top has allowed some very interesting possibilities. Well executed application!
When the new version is a downgrade. Overcomplicated. No USB connection between PC and Android Tablet, even with Debugging enabled. And no refund option. Worst app that I bought for audio applications.
Installed this on a brand new Andr 10 tablet, installed the PC desktop editor & created a simple 4 fader layout w/ the desktop editor. Could not load a layout created on the desktop--crashed. UPDATE 11-20-2022 Finally had time to use Editor Network feature--it works! Enabled wifi, opened desktop edit app, then opened tablet app & linked to desktop. All layout edits made on desktop displayed in real time on the tablet. Nice! Now have 8 fader layout working in Cubase. Thx support for the help!
The addition of the desktop application with the server functionality has really made this a outstanding application. Having more fine grain control with things like osc addressing creates many more possible combinations for creative setups. The fact that you can route to multiple osc hosts from a single device is another really great feature addition.
Hi,I'm absolutely impressed with this app and how easy it's made my plugin setups on my Daw. One problem though,the pager has this glitch where when I move a specific fader,it changes the page and when I go back to the original page,it moves the fader to zero. Done all I could,the fader has no local messages. Everything else about this app is amazing though (Follow up) So I contacted the team and they helped solve this issue. I'm all good now and having fun with the app
PAID £9.99 for this app and it does not work properly. CRASHES the daw constantly. Does not send any midi data majority of the time despite being set up EXACTLY as instructed. Also the interface is terribly cumbersome. Seems set up also references obvious previous versions if the app because the pics shown are not the current horrid version. The whole set up is convoluted. Have not been able to successfully use it as intended. I would like a refund. Also they favour apple and android is secondary. You can not use just a usb connection.
Great app. Works so much better than earlier version. Horrible documentation. You spend 10 minutes installing it and connecting to your computer, and hours trying to figure out how to create custom layouts. The online help seems to take you in circles, never really answering your questions. I messaged customer support, been 2 days waiting for a reply. With the earlier version, the reverse was true - hard to setup, but once you got it to work, the documentation made it a breeze to get up and running with creating custom layouts quickly. I'm giving 4 stars. Would be 5 if the support was better.
Great tool to control your DAW. It took a while to figure out all the connections and the settings that need to be made in Cubase but once that was done, I've used it every day. Super powerful to launch macros and speed up workflow.
no bluetooth MIDI ! ✖️ what's the problem with the 'location' permission? The same rule applies to any BT device! And the MIDI BLE app is no more developed or updated since years! It's just a matter of time and it will end up being thrown out of the Store like it happens to a hundred old apps every month!
This app (plus the desktop app) was so frustrating to use. Open Stage Control is much better. I started out with TouchOSC because I didn't realize I could use Open Stage Control on a tablet via browser and now I will be using it instead, plus it is open source so I know it will continue to receive updates or I can fork it myself. As for TouchOSC...the desktop app for building UIs is (at least on windows) very clunky to use, limited, not to mention buggy (I can reliably crash it or make it silently fail to send OSC messages by using OSC Connection 2 rather than 1). Even with disabling windows firewall, the MIDI capabilities did not work reliably for me (worked on one computer but not another). When you first start working with it the capabilities seem deep, but are in actuality rather shallow when it comes to the MOST IMPORTANT PART, I.E. sending and receiving OSC messages. It wants you to use a very specific mechanism in order to have 2-way controls, and if your receiver deviates from it, you are SOL. For example, my receiver wants encoders to send a "delta" value but I cannot configure TouchOSC to do that (at least not without custom scripting). It brags about its "Scripting API" but it is severely limited, for example if I wanted to customize how messages are sent/received I would have to copy paste a script block between every single control. Why not have a basic input/output function I can override to intercept all messages? Even just basic things like moving around the document tree is a PITA. You apparently cannot even do a simple thing like move a document from one location in the tree to another. You have to cut and paste, and when you do so, the name of the control is changed. So don't even think about bulk actions like moving a bunch of controls into a panel. I have too much negative to say about it to fit here. I think they've made some fundamentally bad design decisions about it from a UX as well as a technical perspective (seriously why not just run in a browser?) so I have little hope it will improve.
Ran into a ton of issues trying to import .touchosc files into the app. I downloaded a .touchosc file onto my Android device and tried to import it via the app, but the app must not be requesting the right mime types because the Files app then doesn't make the .touchosc file available for selection. Also tried to install the TouchOSC editor and sync the layout over wifi, but just can't figure out how to do that on the Android app the the documentation online is really lacking. Want a refund.
Easily customizable once you get how the options work. Works even without WiFi network if you use your Android phone as a hotspot for your laptop. Customizability is endless. However, the mobile editor app must have a gesture to pan the view (my AutoCAD habits, I'd say). Having center zoom only makes it tricky to move stuff around the interface.
The controls are pretty finicky and difficult to use on my phone (s21 ultra). The UI feels like a repurposed desktop design, so it's not a smooth experience. The scrolling toolbar is a bad design and results in misclicks or clicks not registering. There is a similar problem with some menus, where clicks do not register due to UI quirks. Unfortunatley this app overall feels flakey and is a poorly thought out UI for touch.
1. Editor doesn't work for me - I am not able to add any controllers. 2. I searched for an app to use my Android as a midi controller and wasn't able to find TouchOSC, I found it from a friend who read about it on some forum. You need to add some tags to make it Googleable. 5 stars because I was able to build a preset on Windows, send it to my phone, and use my phone as a midi controller over USB.
The app's functions is 10x better than the mk1. For android users to avoid latency and use it without WiFi connection, use USB tethering and set your phone as a hotspot and connect your laptop to it, or Bluetooth tethering which also has low latency and you can get rid of the usb wire. Support is also awesome!
Like the app, same as the previous one. I think most people wanting to use this are musicians, not programmers. Better documentation is essential, use-case examples, etcetera. Same problem with previous version. Maybe you could get people to share video tutorials instead of just the one from 9 years ago.
Love this app, incredibly versatile tool with style. Getting into it at first can be somewhat challenging, but luckily there is tons of documentation out there (on youtube as well) to help you get started. Once you understand the basics, there isn't much you can't do concerning slick looking custom remotes.
Yes, it's only one scriptable osc app on market, after Lemur died. I bought it thrice: mk1, this version, desktop version. I wrote a ton of sequencers using it, it was fun. But Lord is my witness, script editor is abomination. Unusable on android tablet -- small non-resizable editor, wireless keyboard behaves weird (cursor keys don't work). Painful to use on desktop: no search, really? No external editor support? Why? Why?