New TouchOSC Tutorial #5: More TouchOSC Advance Functions

Partical Weng
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3 min readMar 2, 2022

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There are many more Advance Functions in TouchOSC.

Default Poll

Default Poll is a unique function, it’s like Force + Filter.

You can setup a Default Poll (Force) and Default value.

When you drag the elements to some other value, it will automatically pull it back to default.

  • Default: default value.
  • Default Poll: the value higher than the force stronger.

Messages LOCAL: Control Other Element

You can use TouchOSC control other software or device.

Also, you can use it to control itself (elements).

Click the “+” beside the “Messages”

In the LOCAL channel, click “dropper” icon and click the element you would like to control.

In the example, I chose the red box.

After that, you can click the dropdown list, showing many property you can control.

Especially notice, some of elements which have 2 value input.

Like XY you have x and y, 2 values input individually.

So, in the panel → “Source”, you will choose which one you want to use.

Also, there’s a parameter — “Scale”, it just like Math (CHOP) range function in TouchDesigenr. Can setup a start value and end value. It will calculate when you control it between these two.

Messages: Change OSC Address

You can change the OSC Address as well.

There are many property & value can use for address.

And you can use constant to customized any text you want.

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