Pylades Module User Guide - rjsmith/rsbatech-modules GitHub Wiki

This is the user guide of the Pylades VCV Rack module.

Pylades enables two-way remote control of a VCVRack patch using OSC protocol messages together with a TouchOSC preset.

The operation of this module is almost identical to that of Orestes-One, apart from setting up the OSC connection to TouchOSC. Please refer to the documentation for Orestes-One. Any major differences are described below.

[!NOTE] Orestes-One is a customised version of the excellent MIDI-CAT module from stoermelder. Please see the MIDI-CAT documentation for more details on its basic mapping operations, per-parameter settings and so on. This guide focuses on the changes made on top of the MIDI-CAT module that makes it work with the Electra-One controller.

[!IMPORTANT] A large proportion of Pylades code was directly copied from the Stoermelder plugin-one codebase. Please do not contact stoermelder for support of this module. Any issues or bugs should be reported on this repo, thanks.

OSC Connections

Pylades needs send (to TouchOSC) and receive (from TouchOSC) OSC connections on your local computer network. You will need to find out the current IPv4 network addresses of both the computer running VCVRack and the device running TouchOSC.

  • OSC Sender address = the IPv4 address of the TouchOSC device (use the (i) button on the TouchOSC connections tab to find out what that is)
  • OSC Sender port = the port set as the "Receive Port" in the TouchOSC connections page
  • OSC Receiver = the port on the VCVRack computer that will be used to receive remote OSC messages from TouchOSC. Try something like 8887. This port will need to be set as the "Send Port" in the TouchOSC connections tab.

For further help, see the Getting started - OSC guide on the TouchOSC website.

You can set up and use multiple Pylades modules in the same Rack, to connect to and use multiple TouchOSC devices at the same time, as long as you bind to different "OSC Receiver" ports on the VCVRack host computer. If you are lucky enough to own an Electra-One, you could use that too!

Multiple modules

Context Menu

The available commands and features in the Pylades context menu and mapping table are identical to that of Orestes-One, please see its module documentation for details.