I’ve had TouchOSC on my phones and tablets since 2012, but to be honest with you, I never used it for more than a few minutes outside of the videos I made on it. Too many steps to get setup, WAY TOO complicated and time consuming to build my own custom layouts. Its one of the reasons we tried to pack so much into the editor for REAPERWRB2 (now open source), but it was still limited to maybe half of what TouchOSC was capable of.
It looks like with the latest mk2 version of TouchOSC they’ve really worked on simplifying things for users by making a better editor, and making it available on all platforms.
TouchOSC runs EVERYWHERE! From the phone in your pocket to your iTablet Pro™. From a Raspberry Pi to a Windows touch-screen workstation. We support all major operating systems and architectures and the full feature set is available across all versions. We support Windows / macOS / Linux / iOS / Android natively on multiple chips and bits.
https://hexler.net/touchosc
But what is TouchOSC ?
TouchOSC is an app for mobile devices to remotely control your DAW with custom UI and low latency using the OSC (open sound control) protocol. You can use OSC to send MIDI Notes and CCs, Control Surface commands, Reaper Command IDS and more, plus it can feedback information from the project to the remote device.
In addition to the manual on the website, Tim Corpus has a new video series on setting up TouchOSC with REAPER and various other daws.
I’ve embedded two of the videos below that are REAPER specific, and you can see them all and more resources on his website.
The Ultimate Touch OSC Guide – Pt 1 (Setting up Touch OSC & Integrating with Reaper)
The Ultimate Touch OSC Guide – Pt 6 (Sending & Receiving OSC Messages in Reaper)
Tim’s doing great work with his TouchOSC series. Give his channel a sub.
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