Tiction was always meant to run on a multi-touch screen. It started as a prototype interface for a home-brewed multitouch display that I never completed. But since Apple was kind enough to build and distribute a fantastic multitouch pad for me, the decision to move Tiction to the iPad was a no-brainer.
And now Tiction AV is available on the App Store. As much as I love Tiction for the desktop, the iPad is where it really shines. Grabbing multiple nodes at a time with your fingers and flinging them around the screen is a lot of fun. In addition to the multitouch support that Tiction was originally designed for, I’ve made Tiction even more immediately accessible by adding a set of high-quality audio samples that play when nodes are triggered. OSC is still supported, of course.
I’ll be adding a video tutorial in the next couple days that will introduce Tiction to those who aren’t familiar with it.
So check it out here or on the App Store, and let me know what you think!
OSCHub (http://oschub.com) is a fun little tool I’ve built to help everyone share the awesome power of OpenSoundControl.
What is OSCHub? Let’s say Alice and Bob each have some way of generating OpenSoundControl – with TouchOSC, OSCulator, a Lemur, or whatever. They can send their OSC messages to OSCHub, and those messages will become part of the global OSCHub stream.
If Chris is looking for some inspiration for a track he’s working on or just wants to inject a little randomness or uncertainty into his music-making process, he can fire up the OSCHub application on his computer and get a real-time feed of the global OSCHub stream, which will include both Alice and Bob’s messages as well as the messages of anybody else sending to OSCHub at that moment.
Send any OpenSoundControl message to oschub.com:9000 and it will be inserted into the global OSCHub stream. You can subscribe to the OSCHub stream by downloading and running a small program for Mac OS X, Windows, or Linux.
Go play with it at http://oschub.com.
Apologies to everybody who came here looking for Tiction over the past few months and found a page full of dead links. In addition to moving this site to a different host, I’ve been occupied with a host of other projects, most notably GainStudio, a brand new way to manage your recording studio. More on that in a separate post.
The upshot is, all of the links to Tiction are back in place and working. Some people have been experiencing problems with Tiction and OS X 10.6, and I’ve started looking into that. Stay tuned.
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Check it out in the App Store here.
I just made Tiction v0.4.0 available for download.
Changes:
- MIDI Sync
- Full screen support
- Improved controller widgets (for number boxes, mostly)
- FIxed bugs where NOTE OFF messages weren’t being properly sent
Tiction v0.3.0 is now released!
Tiction v0.3.0 adds support for OpenSoundControl (OSC). Now you can trigger and move nodes, start and stop the sequencer, and sync to an external source, all over a network with OSC. This lets you control Tiction with practically anything, including the iPhone/iPod Touch (using TouchOSC, Mrmr, or OSCemote, for example), Pd, Max/MSP, or pretty much anything else you can dream of. The ability to send OSC messages from Tiction is coming soon
The ability to save files and open them later means you can hang on to that amazing patch you set up.
You can now globally disable the physical actions. This prevents nodes from moving around when triggered.
The background now subtly pulses to indicate which pitch was triggered. You can turn this off by setting the “bar brightness” slider to 0.
The Tiction window is no longer inverted, meaning the top of the window corresponds to higher pitch/velocity/CC values.
A number of other bugs were fixed, including one that didn’t preserve the source of a node’s note velocity.
You can get it here.
I’ve updated Tiction to use the excellent RWMidi library. This fixes problems some people were having with Tiction not starting up correctly.
I also added the ability to copy a node’s MIDI channel to all other connected nodes.
Get it here!
Tiction is now available for download.
Get it here!