by gmint » Fri Jun 11, 2010 7:06 am
I'm trying to do much the same thing and also I don't really like the idea of having another layer of translation (e.g. OSCulator) Unfortunately, my experience thusfar hasn't been good.
Although it seems like Modul8 supports a pretty robust set of OSC commands, I'm finding that something (I'm not sure if it's TouchOSC or Modul8 or the OSC protocol itself) seems to be lacking in some pretty major areas. Even simple things like creating a bank of buttons to control the layersets is a PITA...
It just seems to me that even simple concepts are not well executed at this point. I mean is there seriously no way to do radio buttons (only one button of several can be on at one point)? I've tried to do a Multi-Toggle bank of buttons for that purpose and despite the fact that this looks to be EXACTLY what's needed, the buttons work like independent latching buttons instead of radio type buttons. Same goes for the push buttons. From what I can ascertain, every time a button is released, it sends an off (0) value which, while is probably the logical behavior, seems to cause M8 to switch back to the first layerset...
All in all, I'm just having a heck of a time getting anything even remotely complex working. I'm pretty well versed in MIDI, but my lack of experience in OSC is really frustrating me at this point. I mean, I THINK I understand what's going on, and I just can't imagine that simple issues like the ones I'm encountering haven't been addressed in some way, but unfortunately, I just can't see how at this point.
Is there anyone out there that could possibly shed some light on this subject? Is it just that TouchOSC doesn't support the right options (seems possible to me)? Is it a shortcoming in Modul8? What's the deal?
At this point, all I know is that if I had ever purchased a Lemur and it worked like this, that unit would have been returned to the distributor by now...