{"id":227865,"date":"2026-03-26T13:15:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T17:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/26\/elastic-osc-plaits-as-an-instrument-app-now-supports-android-mpe\/"},"modified":"2026-03-26T13:40:15","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T17:40:15","slug":"elastic-osc-plaits-as-an-instrument-app-now-supports-android-mpe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/26\/elastic-osc-plaits-as-an-instrument-app-now-supports-android-mpe\/","title":{"rendered":"Elastic OSC, Plaits as an instrument app, now supports Android, MPE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cdm.link\/elastic-osc-android-mpe\/\">Elastic OSC, Plaits as an instrument app, now supports Android, MPE<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cdm.link\/elastic-osc-android-mpe\/\">https:\/\/cdm.link\/elastic-osc-android-mpe\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-03-26 13:15:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"cdm.link\">cdm.link<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Oliver Greschke\u2019s Elastic OSC continues to blossom as a mobile instrument. Packed with open-source algorithms from Mutable Instruments\u2019 Plaits as oscillators, Elastic OSC has added powerful modulation and now supports Android and MIDI Polyphonic Expression.<\/p>\n<p>This could have all just been Plaits on an iPad, but it\u2019s become far more\u2014like a glimpse of an alternate timeline where Plaits had a mini-keyboard, full-synth version instead of just being a Eurorack macro oscillator. Oliver\u2019s mission when he set out was all about how you could take those now-popularized oscillator algorithms and build control around them. And to me, that\u2019s true to some of \u00c8milie Gille\u2019s own vision of, well, mutable instruments \u2014 from those simple control schemes that you\u2019d open up a spectrum of possibilities. (Elastic OSC is unaffiliated with Mutable Instruments, but adheres to the requirements of Plaits\u2019 open-source license; the code is MIT-licensed. See the Plaits GitHub repo.)<\/p>\n<p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Great! Elastic OSC Synth \/\/ MI Plaits for iPad\/iPhone\/Android \/\/ Walkthrough\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/HmzBZOi73wc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/p>\n<p>So, yes, you can mash around with your fingers on the on-screen keyboard and get some fun results and tweak Plaits in new ways. But then the 1.20 release added modulation, which is almost essential for a mobile app. Gavinski has some details on that, as well:<\/p>\n<p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Cool New Elastic Osc LFO Update Explained! (MI Plaits for iPad, iPhone, Android)\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/nJZb58P61Kc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/p>\n<p>Now you get MPE support. On the iPad itself, that means just using the two-axis touch control on the onscreen keyboard. But this also transforms the app into a useful voice for any MPE controllers you may have handy, as revealed here with the Erae 2 controller:<\/p>\n<p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Elastic OSC iOS MPE Update &amp; Android Release\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/u9r4wRMatmw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/p>\n<p>That opens up all kinds of fun mobile combinations, too, since you can quickly convert controllers into instruments even if they lack onboard sounds. <\/p>\n<p>And Android? There\u2019s not much to say! It\u2019s identical to the iOS version, though priced for Android customers \u2014 so&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cdm.link\/elastic-osc-android-mpe\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elastic OSC, Plaits as an instrument app, now supports Android, MPE https:\/\/cdm.link\/elastic-osc-android-mpe\/ Publish Date: 2026-03-26&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":227866,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdm.link\/app\/uploads\/2026\/03\/elastic-mpe.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-227865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-android"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227865"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=227865"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227865\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":227867,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227865\/revisions\/227867"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/227866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}