Remokon4.0 - App Store

Remokon is a wireless controller for OSC (Open Sound Control). Use it with Max, Processing, SuperCollider, or anything else that speaks OSC. Press a button to play a sound, move a slider to change a lighting color - from your iPhone or iPad.

Remokon does nothing on its own: you need a program on the receiving side. Samples for Max and Processing are bundled with the app (Settings > Max Sample Patch / Processing Sample Code). Use the share button to send one to your computer over AirDrop.

■ Controls (102 across four pages)

- Mix: 4 vertical sliders, 1 horizontal slider, 4 toggles
- Pad: 16 push buttons, 4 toggles
- XY: 1 XY slider, 4 toggles
- Grid: 64 mini toggles, 4 toggles

Every control is multi-touch, so you can work several at once. Sliding a finger across toggles and buttons presses each one it passes over.

■ Sensors

The accelerometer (x, y and z at 50 Hz) and shake gestures are sent as OSC.

■ Connection

- Host address, output and input ports, and Device ID
- Find the receiving host over Bonjour
- Save destinations as presets and switch between them
- Send to the whole LAN at once (subnet broadcast)
- Connection status always visible at the top of the screen (indicator color, destination, message counts)
- Tell several iPhones and iPads apart by Device ID

■ Built-in OSC reference

The messages Remokon sends and receives are documented inside the app. Select and copy just the part you need, or export the whole thing as a Markdown file, while you write the receiving side.

■ iPad

Open several windows. Send from each window to a different host, or lay out different pages side by side for the same destination to widen your playing surface.

■ Compatibility

The message format is unchanged from 3.0.3 and earlier. Patches and programs you have already written work as they are.

Version History Version 4.0 is a complete rewrite. The message format is unchanged from 3.0.3 and earlier, so your existing programs keep working.

■ Added

- A built-in OSC reference, with copy and file export
- Sample code for Max and Processing, bundled with the app
- Connection status at the top of the screen (indicator color, destination, message counts)
- Finding the receiving host over Bonjour
- Saving destinations as presets
- Haptic feedback
- Several windows on iPad, each able to send to a different host
- Japanese and English

■ Changes

- Settings open as a sheet rather than a page (still page 4 over OSC)
- Pages are switched from the tab bar at the bottom. Swiping sideways works only where there are no controls
- Sliding a finger across toggles and buttons presses each one it passes over (sliders and the XY pad still follow the finger that grabbed them)
- Settings take effect immediately
- Losing Wi-Fi no longer shows an alert; the indicator at the top reports it

■ Fixed

- Changing pages from the host with /set works again (it had been broken since iOS 5)
- Malformed OSC messages no longer crash the app

■ Please note

- OSC address pattern matching (/s* and the like) is not supported. The address must be exactly /set
- iOS cannot send to 255.255.255.255. Use the subnet broadcast address that the settings screen offers (192.168.1.255, for example) 4.0 Aug 13 - Fixed a bug on entering numbers. 3.0.3 02/10/2012 - Fixed a bug that the app can't start on iPhone 3G/iOS4.2. 3.0.2 02/22/2011 - Improved to keep Wi-Fi connection for a long time usage.
- Added the sleep disabled option 3.0.1 01/14/2010 3.0 11/30/2009