TouchOSC

This app basically lets you build your dream keyboard. I put my Novation Launchkey Mini straight on eBay after buying this app. It’s more pleasant to play than hardware, no clacky keys, and you can even play over wifi from your sofa. So far I’ve built free controllers for synthesizers such as Omnisphere, Serum, Diva, Vital, Massive and Analog Lab that are all proving popular. Just Google them. The developers are also very friendly and helpful so if you are confused by the rather technical manual, stick with it and email them, they will help you out as they did with me.

This app basically lets you build your dream keyboard. I put my Novation Launchkey Mini straight on eBay after buying this app. It’s more pleasant to play than hardware, no clacky keys, and you can even play over wifi from your sofa. So far I’ve built free controllers for Arturia’s Analog Lab, Native Instruments’ Massive and Xfer Records’ Serum synthesizers that are all proving popular. Just Google them. The developers are also very friendly and helpful so if you are confused by the rather technical manual, stick with it and email them, they will help you out as they did with me.

Most MIDI controllers on the AppStore that were good now seem to be 6+ years old, tired, clunky, and barely maintained. It makes you feel like MIDI is dying. This is a breath of fresh air - new, slick, incredibly powerful, with a beautiful editor. MIDI has a future!

Love the team and all the utilities, we use it with Unreal Engine for live shows !!

There’s a lot of freedom in the way you can set up your layouts. If you know Lua, you can add even more functionality and control. On top of this, their support team regularly pushes out updates, implementing user requests where it makes sense. I use TouchOSC every day. My layout is largely geared toward composing, but I use it to create buttons that trigger shortcuts and run macros in many other apps, too.

If you dream of building a custom interface to control a piece of software or hardware, this is the platform you can do it on. Mind you it’s going to take some patience but all the tools are there. excellent support as well.

It’s definitely not as rich as Lemur in nearly every regard. But, some data editing is much easier in touchosc. It’s definitely not the sort-of-an app it was back in, say, 2011.

I’ve been using mk1 for 10+ years. I’ve purchased mk2 doubtful I will use the LUA editor. The editor is the greatest feature of the tool IMHO. There are so many online ressources to help you learn LUA (I am not a developer). The LUA Editor has helped me built some unique (and impossible to do before) synthetizer templates. I only wish Hexler will bring a VST / AU DAW plug-in soon (a-la ctrlr) and this toll will be perfect.

I can’t bust the devs for iOS idiosyncrasies, and the app is, as others have mentioned, almost there. But… I struggled for a couple of afternoons with a 2021 iPad and Windows 11. For whatever reason, usb wired or wireless the app would work, and suddenly stop transmitting. I never got the mirror editing from desktop to work. Which doesn’t matter and the desktop nag screen is a pain. I got fed up, plugged a MIO MIDI interface into the iPad and into the DAW of choice, not a single glitch. So if you’re cussing this app on iPad or phone, or playing a real gig where wireless and BT aren’t options and wired maybe works for you, maybe doesn’t, pick up a cheap used iOS MIDI interface.

This app saves me huge amounts of time creating custom user interfaces on iOS devices. You can connect the app on the iOS device to the app on your computer and see/ test your interface in real time while you’re making it. This feature makes it painless to tweak your interface to perfection. It’s very stable and dependable, a must for any software I’d consider using in live production. I highly recommend this app to anyone that needs custom MIDI/ osc interfaces.