How to install touchosc2midi

Organelle Hacking
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hey there!

I was trying to find a way to use my iphone as a midi controller and/or screen for parameters overview using TouchOsc especially for Orac where the parameters involved are a lot, but discovered isn’t so obvious…it needs the TouchOsc Bridge installed on the Organelle to be connected to…only available on mac/windows
luckily after a little search I’ve found [touchosc2midi] that does that but going a little deeper into the installation I have to say my expertise on Linux isn’t enough to do it…so need help

tried to follow the instructions velolala gave on github but I’ve not been able to install any library needed through the terminal on the organelle nor the script itself, the system was constantly rejecting any command I gave…saying “read only system directory” or “library not found” etc.
felt very stupid…

could you please help me maybe giving a step by step guide on how to do that (with commands and stuff) if doable on an Organelle M running 4.1 Os?

thanks in advance

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The OS is on a partition that is set to Read-Only. To make any changes, you must remount that partition as Read-Write. There is a script for doing this named remount-rw.sh which is located in
/home/music/fw_dir/scripts/ . Be sure to type sudo to your command line before calling the script.

When you’re done with your changes remount the partition as Read-Only with the remount-ro.sh script.

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thanks chrisk but unfortunately I’m still not able to get anything working
I’m really at a basic understanding of how to use the terminal…don’t even know what the commands mean…
I know it’s absurd and I’m sorry for that but I really need to know the sequence of commands to type in the terminal starting from the real beginning:

music@organellem:~$

tried also the remount you suggested but I’ve been not able to execute it through the terminal…

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Hi @vins - there many tutorial pages and videos out there that could explain using the terminal better than I could.

I’m also not sure you need to use the terminal at all. Have you seen this post about using TouchOSC?

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ok thanks chrisk
yes I’ve seen that post
going to have a try again

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Hi @vins @chrisk - wondering if ether of you ever have had this working.
I saw the other thread where someone had it working from pd on mac to organelle, but I’m interested in whether it can work from ipad (or iphone) directly. I also am pretty stumped on the proper way to set this up, even though I understand on a basic level how to run commands in the terminal.

This would be a great addition to the organelle if there was some more details on the forum on how to set it up, so more users could utilize it :slight_smile:

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hi @TheDeadFarmer
well honestly I tried for a while but at the end I’ve not been able to do install anything on the organelle…I still would like to have an external visual controller so if you get it working please post the process here :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye:

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I have not tried to install touchosc2midi on the Organelle. Sorry!

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there is a free app called mrmr and somewhere there is a nice pd template to get slider / button and accelerometer data directly in pd. Ping me if you dont find it.

since pd supports OSC, you don’t need to install any 3rd party apps stealing resources… Also. Midi has less resolution than OSC so for some audio parameters you are going to hear an annoying stepping of the audio.

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Hey thanks! I got the app, but still unclear how to get it working with the organelle? I found this thread but none of the links are taking me anywhere to get the template: PdiPod - Mrmr to Pd from iPhone & iPod Touch | PURE DATA forum~

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this one?

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Here it is: PdiPod 0.01 — Pd Community Site
Although the more future-proof way is to use native vanilla-OSC objects, Mrpeach externals are more beginner-friendly (I think). & anyway, Mrpeach library will always work in Organelle. :slight_smile: