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Cherry Audio Surrealistic MG-1 Plus: MIDI CC, NRPN and OSC map

The Cherry Audio Surrealistic MG-1 Plus as named OSC addresses — 36 CC — ready to use from Claude (MCP), SuperCollider, Sonic Pi, TouchDesigner or any OSC app via osc-bridge.

Device Cherry Audio Surrealistic MG-1 Plus
Vendor Cherry Audio
OSC prefix /surrealistic_mg_1_plus
Source 🎛️ Derived from an Electra One community preset
Revision per Electra preset
Upstream electra-preset
Driver file devices/cherry-audio/surrealistic_mg_1_plus.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/cherry-audio/surrealistic_mg_1_plus.json --out-port <N> --in-port <M>

Then send OSC to 127.0.0.1:7777, for example:

osc-bridge osc-send /surrealistic_mg_1_plus/sync_2_1 63

From Claude or any MCP client, the osc-bridge mcp server exposes this driver as surrealistic_mg_1_plus: ask “what can the Cherry Audio Surrealistic MG-1 Plus do?” and it reads this map with list_routes. See the MCP guide.

MIDI CC and NRPN parameters (36)

OSC address CC NRPN (MSB/LSB) Range Nature Section
/surrealistic_mg_1_plus/sync_2_1 14 0–127 continuous
/surrealistic_mg_1_plus/octave 35 0–127 continuous
/surrealistic_mg_1_plus/wave_shape 21 0–127 continuous
/surrealistic_mg_1_plus/tone_one 19 0–127 continuous
/surrealistic_mg_1_plus/noise 18 0–127 continuous
/surrealistic_mg_1_plus/bell_tone 17 0–127 continuous
/surrealistic_mg_1_plus/detune 113 0–127 continuous
/surrealistic_mg_1_plus/octave 27 0–127 continuous
/surrealistic_mg_1_plus/wave_shape 34 0–127 continuous
/surrealistic_mg_1_plus/tone_two 20 0–127 continuous
/surrealistic_mg_1_plus/poly 26 0–127 continuous
/surrealistic_mg_1_plus/keyboard_track 105 0–127 continuous
/surrealistic_mg_1_plus/cutoff_freq 74 0–127 continuous
/surrealistic_mg_1_plus/peak_emph 71 0–127 continuous
/surrealistic_mg_1_plus/contour_cutoff 23 0–127 continuous
/surrealistic_mg_1_plus/octave 22 0–127 continuous
/surrealistic_mg_1_plus/sustain 102 0–127 continuous
/surrealistic_mg_1_plus/tone_sources 110 0–127 continuous
/surrealistic_mg_1_plus/rise_time 73 0–127 continuous
/surrealistic_mg_1_plus/fall_time 72 0–127 continuous
/surrealistic_mg_1_plus/wave_shape 103 0–127 continuous
/surrealistic_mg_1_plus/tone_sources 24 0–127 continuous
/surrealistic_mg_1_plus/poly 82 0–127 continuous
/surrealistic_mg_1_plus/filter 104 0–127 continuous
/surrealistic_mg_1_plus/keyboard_glide 5 0–127 continuous
/surrealistic_mg_1_plus/ext_sync 16 0–127 continuous
/surrealistic_mg_1_plus/rate 85 0–127 continuous
/surrealistic_mg_1_plus/mode 107 0–127 continuous
/surrealistic_mg_1_plus/mod_wheel 81 0–127 continuous
/surrealistic_mg_1_plus/auto_cont_trig 112 0–127 continuous
/surrealistic_mg_1_plus/tone_sources 114 0–127 continuous
/surrealistic_mg_1_plus/polyphony 115 0–127 continuous
/surrealistic_mg_1_plus/note_priority 116 0–127 continuous
/surrealistic_mg_1_plus/trigger_mode 117 0–127 continuous
/surrealistic_mg_1_plus/transpose 118 0–127 continuous
/surrealistic_mg_1_plus/master_volume 7 0–127 continuous

Performance MIDI

Notes, pitch bend and any CC are also available: /surrealistic_mg_1_plus/note/on <note> <velocity>, /surrealistic_mg_1_plus/cc/<number> <value>, /surrealistic_mg_1_plus/pitchbend <0-16383>, /surrealistic_mg_1_plus/program_change <n>.

Limitations

Imported from an Electra One community preset. The mapping reflects the preset author's editorial choices: parameter naming, ranges, and which params are exposed. Untested on hardware in this repo.