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Abildgard Droid-3: MIDI CC, NRPN and OSC map

The Abildgard Droid-3 as named OSC addresses — 32 CC — ready to use from Claude (MCP), SuperCollider, Sonic Pi, TouchDesigner or any OSC app via osc-bridge.

Device Abildgard Droid-3
Vendor Abildgard
OSC prefix /droid_3
Source 📦 Derived from MIDI Guide (community CC/NRPN data)
Firmware unknown
Revision per pencilresearch canonical CSV
Upstream pencilresearch
Data licence CC-BY-SA-4.0 — MIDI Guide (https://midi.guide) by Pencil Research and contributors
Driver file devices/abildgard/droid_3.json

Not tested on the device yet

This driver comes from documentation or community data and has not been checked on real hardware. If you own one, a quick test and a pull request promoting it helps everyone — see CONTRIBUTING.

How do you control it?

Find the MIDI ports, then start the bridge with this driver:

osc-bridge detect        # prints the ready-to-run line for what is plugged in
osc-bridge run --device devices/abildgard/droid_3.json --out-port <N> --in-port <M>

Then send OSC to 127.0.0.1:7777, for example:

osc-bridge osc-send /droid_3/general/value_interpreter_mode 1

From Claude or any MCP client, the osc-bridge mcp server exposes this driver as droid_3: ask “what can the Abildgard Droid-3 do?” and it reads this map with list_routes. See the MCP guide.

MIDI CC and NRPN parameters (32)

OSC address CC NRPN (MSB/LSB) Range Nature Section
/droid_3/general/value_interpreter_mode 16 0–3 continuous General
/droid_3/general/mixing_structure 20 0–127 continuous General
/droid_3/filters/filter_cutoff_1 21 0–127 continuous Filters
/droid_3/filters/filter_cutoff_2_filter_width 22 0–127 continuous Filters
/droid_3/arpeggiator/arpeggio_speed 23 0–127 continuous Arpeggiator
/droid_3/general/dco2_and_env2_step_amount 24 0–7 continuous General
/droid_3/general/various_modes 25 0–127 continuous General
/droid_3/oscillators/dco1_waveform 26 0–31 continuous Oscillators
/droid_3/oscillators/dco1_pw 27 0–127 continuous Oscillators
/droid_3/oscillators/dco1_offset 28 0–127 continuous Oscillators
/droid_3/oscillators/dco1_amplitude 29 0–127 continuous Oscillators
/droid_3/oscillators/dco1_octave 30 0–63 continuous Oscillators
/droid_3/oscillators/dco1_frequency 31 0–127 continuous Oscillators
/droid_3/oscillators/dco2_waveform 102 0–31 continuous Oscillators
/droid_3/oscillators/dco2_pw 103 0–127 continuous Oscillators
/droid_3/oscillators/dco2_offset 104 0–127 continuous Oscillators
/droid_3/oscillators/dco2_amplitude 105 0–127 continuous Oscillators
/droid_3/oscillators/dco2_octave 106 0–63 continuous Oscillators
/droid_3/oscillators/dco2_frequency 107 0–127 continuous Oscillators
/droid_3/envelopes/env1_attack 108 0–127 continuous Envelopes
/droid_3/envelopes/env1_attack_level 109 0–127 continuous Envelopes
/droid_3/envelopes/env1_decay 110 0–127 continuous Envelopes
/droid_3/envelopes/env1_sustain_level 111 0–127 continuous Envelopes
/droid_3/envelopes/env1_release 112 0–127 continuous Envelopes
/droid_3/envelopes/env1_offset 113 0–127 continuous Envelopes
/droid_3/envelopes/env2_attack 114 0–127 continuous Envelopes
/droid_3/envelopes/env2_attack_level 115 0–127 continuous Envelopes
/droid_3/envelopes/env2_decay 116 0–127 continuous Envelopes
/droid_3/envelopes/env2_sustain_level 117 0–127 continuous Envelopes
/droid_3/envelopes/env2_release 118 0–127 continuous Envelopes
/droid_3/envelopes/env2_offset 119 0–127 continuous Envelopes
/droid_3/general/midi_channel 120 0–15 continuous General

Performance MIDI

Notes, pitch bend and any CC are also available: /droid_3/note/on <note> <velocity>, /droid_3/cc/<number> <value>, /droid_3/pitchbend <0-16383>, /droid_3/program_change <n>.

Limitations

CC/NRPN only. SysEx (preset management, display control, bulk dump/load, vendor-proprietary opcodes) is NOT covered by pencilresearch. To extend this device with SysEx, sniff the vendor editor, add `sysex.header/footer` + `commands` blocks, and use `update_device.md` PR template.