Hey, I’ve decided to make the jump back to Ribbons after today’s announcement of a new pink batch. One of the things I’ve been exploring with my looper is TouchOSC. A quick search of the forum brought up this old topic.
So, has anyone else explored making TouchOSC interfaces for Ribbons?
Just a rough sketch at this point - note that these are default colors, except for the blue radial in the top left, and all my alignments are wacky. I just wanted to get a sense for what all I might want to control. Of course, nothing’s labeled, either.
And once I get happier with layout I need to actually assign the MIDI values to each of the visual controls. Once the new pedal arrives and I have a chance to use this for a while, I’ll also get a better idea if any of the radials should be sliders, for example, and which radials should default to being centered at noon, etc.
It turns out I might want to control a LOT. So on the left side I have fourteen radials; essentially tape effects. I will probably have Mix and Compression at the top, followed by Reverb Mix/Placement and Reverb Decay. Then the two filters, followed by the Wow & Flutter and then Degradation. I will play with the size and color so the grouping is a little more visual.
On the top right I have a radio selector for the seven touch modes, plus two radials. I made them a little larger. On the left one (T1) I segmented the radial into twelve sections, to make it easier to dial in Magnetic Dance settings.
The 16 radials in the lower right are for the four loop tracks, plus a radio selector above them to select which loop is the active one. I haven’t decided whether I want the loop controls vertical or horizontal.
I added a few buttons and radios to control Loop Mode or Tape Effect mode, Loop Erase/All Loop Erase.
Any feedback would be welcome.
Here’s a more refined draft. At this point I really need the pedal in hand to make sure what I’m intending to happen actually happens. I think I’ve covered pretty much everything that can be controlled by a MIDI command, except for the synth controls and actually pressing a footswitch.
Cool project. Do you like TouchOSC? I was planning to do something similar for a couple pedals, but with MIDI Designer.
Could you share the TouchOSC file?
Kudos for this!!
I’ve been looking to do something similar… as I’ve posted before, these deep-function pedals (not only KT, also CBA, for example…) really shine when MIDI is involved.
How difficult is it to build w/ TouchOSC?
Sure - let’s try this link:
It’s pretty easy - at least, what I’ve done has been pretty easy. But what I’ve put together is all one-way communication. So this interface doesn’t get feedback from the pedal and reflect changes. So you might think, “hey, this interface shows mix is at 100%, but it sounds like it’s at 50%.” Well, if you changed the knob on the pedal to 50%, this TouchOSC interface doesn’t know it.
So what I do with it is once I fire up the pedal and my iPad, I change the settings on TouchOSC to match what I want, and only use TouchOSC to control (aside from hitting the footswitches).
I do know that it’s possible to have two-way communication, so the display on TouchOSC will show changes made on the pedal, but I’m not that advanced.
So it’s not a super-duper be-all, end-all controller for the pedal. But it solves a lot of problems for me.
Last question: how are you sending MIDI from your tablet to the boxes on the floor? 
