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.
