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Topic: TouchOSC rotary knobs - solution on the way

For those who are interested in using TouchOSC but are concerned about the "jumpy" behavior of the rotary knobs, a solution appears near.  On the Hexler.net forums several of us asked for a safer version of the rotary knobs, and Hexler wrote a few days ago:

"Sorry for the late reply. I’ll add an option to prevent this so that it’s still possible to get the “jumpy” behavior as well as I myself and some users actually make use of this to be able to “cut” from full to off and vice versa. I’ll see if I can squeeze this into the next update which is ready to go right now, so it won’t be long (depending on Apple review times of course)."

http://hexler.net/forum/viewthread/575/

The iTunes app store does not have the most recent update for TouchOSC yet, but it is good to know it is on the way.

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Re: TouchOSC rotary knobs - solution on the way

Now all we need are level meters...

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Matthias Carstens
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Re: TouchOSC rotary knobs - solution on the way

Got the update notice on my ipad yesterday and installed it.  I can confirm the rotary knobs now work without the dangerous jumping behavior

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Re: TouchOSC rotary knobs - solution on the way

About the level meters:

I talked to the guys at hexler and thats what they said:

Quote:
"You can achieve this by placing additional Fader controls behind a
Fader and displacing them a bit to "stick out" from behind that Fader.
That's the way the LiveControl templates do this, have a look:
http://hexler.net/gfx/_software/touchosc-11.png "

and Me:
"So the unit has to send the meters via midi commands to to the programmed
fader, right?

Quote Hexler:
"Yes, it's possible using either MIDI and OSC (or both).
The LiveControl layout uses OSC while the Traktor layout
does the same using MIDI."

and finally

Quote:
"And again a video demonstrating the same but with
Native Instruments Traktor, notice the two faders in
the upper part of the layout showing the output levels
of both channels:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V5K-0GcA5pw

Check this video at about 0:20 to see what I mean:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3xwLO2lErNA"

RME, please update your wonderful TouchOSC template so we can see the level meters in each block (input/playback/Outs).

Thank you very much.

MB

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Re: TouchOSC rotary knobs - solution on the way

Unfortunately it seems there is no combined RMS/Peak meter display possible, as one is used to from most level meters (also TotalMix). That means one is forced to use a peak level meter only when implementing this 'workaround'. A dedicated level meter element still seems to be missing.

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Matthias Carstens
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