It's Not For Everyone

I think I’ve written about it before, but I just want to reiterate that OSCulator is a fucking awesome piece of software and everyone who makes music that involves Macs should buy it. I’ve been fighting since last night trying to get osc from ableton live (which doesn’t speak OSC unless you get a $300 add-on and have programming experience) and out to another computer which is running VDMX, the software I use for live visuals. I remembered I had OSCulator, which is widely used for turning data from weird devices like Wii Remotes, phones, and guitar hero controllers into midi that you can use with music software. It’s free (reccomended donation of at least $19 dollars to remove the shareware nags) and it totally solved my problem. Now three computers are talking to one another over their shared wi-fi connection, midi data from ableton is now triggering video clips in VDMX on two machines.

Here’s how to do it.