Considering hexler is a pretty gloomy project run by a pretty gloomy guy it's a bit strange that this website has always been rather brightly lit. This has hereby been corrected!
Today is the day that TouchOSC v1.7 is being released into the wild. So much has happened and months of work have gone into this release and I would sure like to go on and on about it, but I'll keep it short and sweet right now as I seriously have to go catch up on many many many hours of missed sleep.
Only a minor update, I think version 1.6.3 still warrants a blog post as it eliminates one of the biggest gripes people were having with TouchOSC: Transferring layouts from the editor to the device.
Friends of hand-held devices not sporting the omnipresent "i" prefix take note: TouchOSC for Android has been published on the Android Market! And it's free. Free as in beer.
I received a lot of messages from TouchOSC users on Windows systems asking how to use custom layouts with Pure Data to translate OSC messages to MIDI. My answer was usually that you'd have to roll your own, using the example PD MIDI patches for the default layouts as a starting point, but that obviously didn't make a lot of people very happy as PD is probably not the most accessible tool to many.